Rebirth of the Tech Madman

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Just at noon, Mr. Richest Man’s metaphor at the Zheru Spring Developers Conference - If you want to pee in the pool, please don't do it on the diving board, it appeared on the news program of the national television network, and even There are also those who are quick-witted, impromptu comics with images.

In the evening, the powerful reporter got this live video again. And it was quickly sent to the TV station, becoming the most important source of jokes.

Not surprisingly, most of the media viewed this from an entertainment point of view.

Silicon Valley is a place full of myths and people's desire - the US economy has experienced two severe recessions from the early 1980s to the present, but Silicon Valley has been in a state of rapid growth, and a dazzling number of successful entrepreneurs have emerged. They are all enviable young rich men.

Contrary to what people take for granted, although Silicon Valley relies on technology for a living, it does not lack a dull sense of humor, literary styles, and bloody conflicts.

Look, how ruthless the richest man really wants to hurt people!

It is said that Larry Ellison was so angry that he broke a valuable golf club.

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Tang Huancai didn't have time to pay attention to the media's gossip - the content of this year's Zheru Spring Developers Conference was indeed rich and important, and he also put all his energy in the next few days on it.

First of all, in the face of NC's use of concept hype to stir up trouble, Tang Huan wants to guide the PC represented by the Fangyuan personal computer to demonstrate stronger functions and stimulate greater demand. It has become a fake product that does not feel good to users.

This kind of high-level guidance is not as simple as rushing forward regardless of personal strength, but requires the mobilization of many links in the entire industry to coordinate and cooperate with each other in order to achieve results-the time interval between the replacement of Fangyuan's personal computer, in Gradually elongated, it reflects the complexity inside.

In the original time and space, Apple Computer, a branch that cannot be ignored among personal computers, has always been firmly suppressed by ibm-pc compatible machines. One of the important reasons is that its products are either very advanced in the design stage, but the launch But when it lags behind the market; or the product is too big, it is difficult to get enough application software to support the new platform.

As a result, hardware and software are always in a state where one leg is long and the other is short, and they cannot enter into a state of mutual tacit cooperation-it is not surprising that the Apple computer can never run!

Now, Tang Huan intends to use entertainment applications, more precisely, the 3D acceleration function, to create a deep impression on the general public that PC development is getting better.

With the in-depth application of 3D acceleration, the data throughput of graphics card components is getting bigger and bigger.

The current fifth-generation Fangyuan personal computer uses a bus with a mature specification of 32-bit transmission channel and a clock frequency of 33.33mhz, and the data throughput that can be achieved is 33.33mhz×32bits÷8=133mb/s.

This water pipe is not enough for 3D accelerated graphics cards.

For this reason, Zheru and Fangyuan have jointly launched a new standard for 3D accelerated graphics cards - Accelerated Graphics Interface, or AGP.

The first batch of versions launched are agp_1x and agp_2x, and the data throughput capacity has been doubled and quadrupled respectively, reaching 266mb/s and 533mb/s; according to the plan, the data throughput capacity of the previous generation will be doubled in the future. The agp_4x and agp_8x - enough to let the 3D accelerated graphics card run happily for several years.

This is a new specification introduced by the hardware, and the software also needs to be supported by the driver of the operating system. In addition, the most important thing is that the multimedia programming interface - openml has also been updated.

For so many years, Tang's IT Kingdom has been enjoying a high reputation in the industry, being respected and admired by others, not relying on one-sided commercial methods, but solid and complete technological innovations - once a new something comes,

Followers will be able to see it clearly immediately, and submit their trust obediently.

The IT circle is so fiercely competitive, mutual attacks are common, but apart from IBM, which had been in trouble for a while, no one dares to accuse Tang's IT Kingdom of plagiarism—they themselves are followers.

The introduction of AGP this time is also not a simple display of a few photos for comparison, but a concrete demonstration of the prototype.

Tang Huan ran the racing game Need for Speed and the real-time strategy game Fengshen successively on two Fangyuan PC prototypes to illustrate the improvement in data throughput brought about by AGP.

In the excitement of the talk, Mr. Richest Man couldn't help but lick half of the set of Fengshen with full special effects.

In recent years, Tang Huan has rarely been involved in a specific project in person, but Fengshen is an exception, so that it compares Dune 2 and Warcraft: Humans and Orcs of the same type. It's almost clumsy.

The richest man chose the teaching camp, the computer randomly selected the teaching camp, and then the ai only used a wave of attacks to hit his headquarters.

Looking at the gorgeous spells released by the opponents on the screen, Tang Huan shrugged annoyedly, This really puts me in a terrible mood - let other colleagues introduce the rest of the technical topics.

So amidst the lively yelling, Tang it ended the schedule of the Zheru Spring Developers Conference that day.

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Of course, under the background of Internet elements in full swing, the browser battle is a key point.

Netscape's flagship product, netscape_navigator, is a suite that includes a browser, email client, web server, and web development tools.

In the promotion of browsers, Netscape has adopted the free form of shareware, but other components of the suite have to be charged from thousands of dollars to tens of thousands of dollars according to different versions—otherwise, it will attract investors. Where does the profit point come from!

It is naturally impossible for Zheru Software Company to fall behind in terms of technology. At this conference, it grandly launched the three Musketeers of website development tools - dreamweaver, fireworks,.

Among them, Fireworks is an editing software for bitmap and vector graphics. Its function is similar to Adobe's Photoshop. The difference is that it has a more focused and considerate design for web page artists, such as adding hotspots conveniently.

Dreamweaver is a comprehensive website development software, users can easily edit html through its what you see is what you get interface, add scripting language functions like pascalscript, and use the built-in polestar browser engine at any time , render the web page, and preview it in real time.

Like Zerone_Develeopment_, Zheru's programming tool, dreamweaver can use color, highlighting, etc. to mark the syntax of html and pascalscript, so as to remind developers of errors at any time.

In the process of introducing Dreamweaver, Tang Huan harshly criticized some browser developers without naming names. In more than a year, it broke through 100, which severely damaged the simplicity and beauty of the html specification, and made it impossible for the same webpage to display the same effect on different browsers.

Finally, Tang Huan said sternly: The atmosphere of the Internet is free, but it must also follow the accepted code of conduct - if a certain company goes further and further down the wrong path, Zheru Software will consider using more direct legal means.

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This year's Confucianism Developer Conference is really full of swords and swords every day-although the criticism of the richest man is not named, everyone knows who he is talking about.

The reason why he is so reserved is not because he is afraid of anything, but because he doesn't want to give him the opportunity to increase his popularity.

Just like the e-commerce era in the original time and space, media people often use Xubao and Xudong to refer to the most famous e-commerce companies to avoid suspicion of advertising.

Now, the criticism of Mr. Richest Man does not name him, which actually reflects his distasteful attitude.

After an all-round analysis by the media, which is already extremely exaggerated, the complex entanglement of interests in Silicon Valley can be described as vividly displayed in front of the general public.

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When demonstrating this multimedia creation tool including vector animation, Tang Huan directly brought up two typical application examples - the advertisement and card game of iStrategy of Zheru Software Company.

The two undoubtedly gave a beautiful answer to the Internet business model that is still in the exploratory stage, and the latter shows a point in terms of interactivity-it is not so easy for java to come to the browser platform to grab territory!

If it is said that these means of countering competitors are all existing technologies of Zheru Software, then the programming language introduced by Tang Huan later——c# is undoubtedly a recruit.

This programming language, which was originally only rumored to exist in the laboratory, has various features such as automatic allocation and recovery of memory, and compilation of source code into intermediate code for execution in a virtual machine. People immediately interpret it as directly targeting java.

In the process of introducing c#, Tang Huan concluded proudly: It is not difficult to see from the tangible results we showed on the spot that we have already carried out the exploration of a more advanced cross-platform programming language than C language. many years.

write_once, run_anywhere - write once, run everywhere, must be the wish of all programmers.

But the reality is that the differences brought about by different hardware platforms and software systems are beyond our imagination-it is extremely difficult to cover up all the differences with a small intermediate code to execute the virtual machine, which leads to We have an internal joke that write_once, debug_everywhere - compile once, debug everywhere.

I don't think anyone will question Zheru Software's experience and feelings too much. After all, we have well-known outstanding achievements in virtual machines-in the server field, Zheru Software's virtual machine products perfectly solve a large number of problems. Compatibility issues.

But we still feel that it is very necessary to launch c# at this point in time.

Everyone should have experienced how difficult it is to communicate between processes on the same computer; then the complexity factor is self-evident for process calls across the Internet that cross computer boundaries.

The reason why c# is called the Internet programming language is because it natively supports the distributed application architecture of the Internet.

And among them, we had to introduce extensible_markup_language—Extensible Markup Language, xml, to support serial data flow between processes within the Internet.

I think that the introduction of c# can make all developers notice how different the distributed application architecture on the Internet is, and at the same time work together to solve some difficult problems encountered.

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The Zheru Spring Developers Conference with unprecedented content, in addition to being used by the entertainment media to link it with the smoke of gunpowder in Silicon Valley, was also interpreted by the professional media as a technology mobilization event that embraced the Internet in an all-round way.

It is not an exaggeration at all. Microsoft, which has to wait two months for the launch of the IE browser, has been reduced to a marginal role. Great contrast.

Gates was anxious about this, and to make matters worse, Steve Ballmer rushed to bring a piece of news-because Microsoft was too focused on operating systems and office software, which led to a slow response to the Internet boom, Goldman Sachs will Microsoft The stock evaluation was lowered from buy to hold, and Microsoft's stock price fell accordingly.

This group of greedy guys, if they are not happy, they will do this. Gates slapped the table heavily angrily.

It can be said that Microsoft has been favored by Wall Street since its listing.

One of the main reasons: Microsoft's financial statements are very skillful, always a few cents higher than expected earnings, which is suitable for hype.

But Wall Street is also merciless when it changes its face. Any random assessment and upgrade will beat Microsoft into fear.

After Gates got angry, he was powerless to resist. He could only run to the development department in the same hurry, yelling at his engineers.