Rebirth of the Tech Madman

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Ted Turner's wedding is the second time Tang Huan attended such an event this year after Jobs' wedding.

After finishing his work, the richest man immediately returned to Cupertino in Silicon Valley, where he received visiting members of Congress including Al Gore.

Although Al Gore is a congressman representing Tennessee, he is also a member of the Congressional Science and Technology Committee. This time he came to Silicon Valley to conduct investigations in this capacity.

Al Gore was born in a political family. His father, Gore Sr., once represented Tennessee and served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1939 to 1953 and a U.S. Senator from 1953 to 1971. His childhood was naturally random. He lives in the political center of Washington.

Naturally, when Al Gore grew up, he chose his son to inherit his father's career - to enter Harvard University and study political science, paving the way for his future political career.

Al Gore graduated from Harvard University in 1969. Just in time for the Vietnam War, he joined the army in the same year and entered the Vietnam battlefield as an army reporter.

After returning from the battlefield, Al Gore entered the Divinity School and Law School of Vanderbilt University, and also won the Rockefeller Foundation Scholarship.

At the age of 28, Al Gore joined the U.S. Congress, serving as a representative from 1977 to 1985 and a senator from 1985 to the present.

In addition, Al Gore participated in the Democratic Party's primary election in the presidential election of that year in 1988. When he ran, he sold the youngest candidate -- only 40 years old -- and a centrist stance, and he won the presidential nomination in the American South. Although the primary election was ultimately defeated, it won 13.68% of the vote, ranking third among the five candidates.

Therefore, Al Gore, who has a bright resume, is definitely a veritable Washington elite, and Tang Huan naturally attaches great importance to this investigation led by him, not to mention that the other party is preparing to submit a report closely related to the IT industry to the US Congress. Very interesting bill the_high_performance_computing_act_of_1991 - 1991 High Performance Computing Act, ie hpca.

In the spacious conference room, Al Gore talked about his original intention of drafting the High Performance Computing Act of 1991 with great enthusiasm, In 1988, Professor of Computer Science, Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of California, Los Angeles Leonard Claylock, a report to Congress, let me understand the significance of the Internet, which is equivalent to the highway of the information world.

Leonardo Klelock is one of the important developers of today's Internet—the prototype of the Internet. He can be called the founder of the Internet. His reports are naturally so important that politicians flock to them.

Tang Huan, who also expressed his admiration for the computer scientist, noticed that Al Gore repeatedly used a word -information superhighway in his conversation.

To be honest, this concept is not new. It has been in various academic discussions for at least ten years, but it is unavoidably rare to be repeatedly quoted by a politician.

Therefore, Tang Huan intentionally pulled out the concept of information superhighway and made it a separate topic, tentatively discussing: Mr. Congressman is not an IT professional, but his insights are very clever. The roadbed of the information superhighway, before It is a telecommunications network, and now it has become a computer Internet, which can transmit more diverse data forms and provide more flexible services, which is of inestimable value.

Al Gore, who was scratched to the itch, laughed heartily, The World Wide Web advocated by Don has now become a major trend in the development of the Internet. We are here this time, hoping to experience the latest achievements up close, so as to improve the 1991 High Performance Computing Act.

From the perspective of the richest man, the High Performance Computing Act of 1991 is not just the achievements of Al Gore and others.

It is still a glittering business opportunity. Once it is passed by Congress, it will receive tens of billions of dollars in funding for infrastructure construction, and it will push the entire IT industry forward with unprecedented strength. As a beneficiary, of course, you must be active cooperated.

So Tang Huan replied straightforwardly and confidently: I guarantee that the results seen by Mr. Congressman are absolutely up-to-date, because they will not be introduced to the public until the comdex Las Vegas Autumn Exhibition later. .”

I have long been longing for the Philosophy Research and Development Center, which is as prestigious as Bell Labs. Al Gore, who couldn't wait, urged in a tactful way.

The richest man laughed and acted as a guide himself.

In order to deepen the direct impression of the visit, the first result demonstration chose Fast Ethernet, which has just been released.

Tang Huan talked eloquently: At this stage, Ethernet has surpassed IBM's token ring network and has become the most widely used technical solution for LAN. Its mainstream standard is 10mbps Ethernet formulated in the early 1980s; we based on this , launched Fast Ethernet, increased the network speed by 10 times to 100mbps, and supported both twisted pair and multimode fiber.

After the general introduction, Tang Huan brought these technical laymen to the computer, and let them understand the feeling of 100mbps Ethernet through the application of the World Wide Web.

To put it simply, in an ideal state, if two personal computers on Fast Ethernet copy files to each other, they can reach a speed of 12.5mb per second, which is basically enough to provide the required data for any mainstream Internet application in the original time and space more than ten years later. network bandwidth resources.

Of course, some forward-looking secrets still need to be kept, and demonstrating to these officials and gentlemen also requires certain skills, as the saying goes, talking to people and talking to ghosts.

Al Gore's High Performance Computing Act of 1991 first emphasized the significance of the Internet to education, then Tang Huan showed them a library information management system based on the World Wide Web platform, and even let them Holding a card, I experienced a process.

Next is a set of distance education system, which has begun to involve multimedia functions such as network audio and video.

In fact, the real technical core is often highly abstract, dull, and incomprehensible to outsiders, and these so-called achievements used for demonstration are the specific application development contributed by Zheru's peripheral departments or subsidiaries Just an example.

However, Al Gore and his group followed this pattern, and all of them had bright eyes, as if they had fully comprehended and attained enlightenment.

In the end, Al Gore made no secret of his shock, concluding: I think our trip to Silicon Valley, after visiting Don's company, can end and return to Washington-Here in Cupertino, we have everything we need. Everything you can think of. In other words, the Internet of the future is what it should be.”

That's the way it is. The richest man muttered something in his heart, and laughed loudly: Thank you, Mr. Congressman, for your affirmation and praise. I hope your bill will pass smoothly.

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Not long after seeing off Al Gore and his party, Tang Huan had another visitor—the Clintons. Not long ago, on October 2, Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton announced that he would seek the nomination of the Democratic Party in 1992 to run for the President of the United States.

Next year will be the year of the US general election, but due to the victory of the Gulf War, the reputation of the current President Bush Sr. can be said to be in the sky, and it seems almost certain that he will be re-elected for another term.

Under such circumstances, the bigwigs of the Democratic Party wisely did not jump out, so as not to humiliate themselves, which gave the so-called rising stars like Bill Clinton a chance to make their mark.

You know, it wasn't until 1988 that Bill Clinton, as the chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, set foot on the political stage of the United States for the first time, and was invited to speak at the Democratic National Convention. Introduce the Democratic Party's presidential candidate at the time - Governor of Massachusetts Michael Dukazis.

Why is the truth often in the hands of a few? Why are great men called great men? That's because they can master and create a set of rules that ordinary people must abide by.

Take the small Xiangjiang as an example, the elites there are already accustomed to the circle drawn by the British—no matter how clever their brains are, their vision is limited, so that they take it for granted that Xiangjiang will be unlucky every time there is a world economic crisis .

Let's talk about the United States again. The vigorous election has made countless people worship the rules.

If there is no asymmetrical information of the original time and space, Tang Huan will also think that Bill Clinton is a character who accompanies the prince to study, and he cannot compete with Bush Sr. at all.

In fact, even if he sees Bill Clinton, who is gearing up and eager to try, the richest man does not think that the other party has the hope of winning.

But it was also because of this that Tang Huan secretly observed all this with great interest. Anyway, he had already made a multi-bet layout.

During the exchange of greetings, the richest man joked: What a coincidence, I just finished entertaining Congressman Al Gore from Tennessee, who is across the river from Arkansas, and you are here.

He should come to Silicon Valley to collect data for the High Performance Computing Act of 1991. Well-informed Bill Clinton laughed: Now, we all call this act the 1991 Gore Act.

Tang Huan nodded slightly, Didn't Al Gore participate in the 1988 nomination competition for the Democratic Party? Why doesn't he seem to be moving now?

Al Gore did not participate in the competition due to family reasons. Bill Clinton explained: Although he belongs to the Democratic Party, his political stance is more inclined to the middle, such as supporting anti-abortion and banning guns. Buying and selling, etc. When the Gulf War broke out this year, he was one of the ten members of the Democratic Party who supported the war.”

In this way, he is also afraid of President Bush's sharpness. Tang Huan laughed, Bill still has courage and will not stick to the so-called authority.

For the first time running for the election, the pressure will naturally not be too great, and it is right to accumulate experience. Bill Clinton said something openly, and then pulled back, However, I still have to work hard. Do your best to get support.

Of course. Tang Huan agreed, Texas is the stronghold of the Republican Party, and California is the stronghold of the Democratic Party, so we should plan well.

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Mr. Richest's hospitality to the Clintons was naturally warm and thoughtful; they were also in a good mood when they left; Hillary also made an appointment to send his daughter Chelsea over to participate in the activities of the sons of the richest man during the winter vacation.

Although he gave the other party a satisfactory statement, Tang Huan was still not optimistic about Clinton. Therefore, he was rarely tormented by a strong sense of curiosity in his heart—how did that invisible invisible hand turn its hand into clouds and turn it into rain?

It is a pity that there is no answer now, and everything will not be revealed until next year.

At this time, the global box office of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, which cost as much as US$100 million to shoot, has basically settled—more than US$550 million. All parties are very happy.

In fact, box office hits are second to none. What Tang Huan values ​​more is the effect of the production process on stimulating his own IT technology, which in turn produces an expansion effect.

This effect made Disney sacrifice once again. Originally, the 30th classic animated feature film of Time and Space——Beauty and the Beast with a global box office of more than 300 million US dollars, was surnamed Tang again.

The sons of the richest man and their little friends are chasing after the movie, as well as the singer of the theme song - Celine Dion.

Appreciating the wonderful scene of being cut off by himself again, the richest man can only say sorry silently - there is no way, there are too many children, and I have to make some wonderful and suitable entertainment programs for them.

Anyway, Beauty and the Beast fell into the hands of me with a higher level of computer animation, and I didn't suffer from a higher level of quality.

Otherwise, you should concentrate on running a more promising theme park!

In addition, the global box office of The Silence of the Lambs, which missed the deadline for Oscars last year, has reached 300 million U.S. dollars. This makes those theaters who are not optimistic about the commercial performance of the film and give up most of the profits to the film company feel regretful. It is an ironic commercial joke this year.

However, The Silence of the Lambs, which gained both fame and fortune, also fell into the cliche troubles of being popular and popular, and was criticized by homosexual groups. Gein and the others believe that this movie does not have any positive descriptions of negative lgbt characters.

The richest man didn't care too much about this. It is impossible for a movie to please all groups in every way. Anyway, Jodie Foster has been taught by himself, and he is increasingly alienated from this trend.