Rebirth of the Tech Madman

In order of the degree of disaster, the fire caused by the overheating of the freezer wires and igniting the surrounding combustibles is the second largest fire accident tragedy in the United States after World War II, second only to the 119 deaths caused by the Atlanta fire on December 7, 1946. , Resulting in 87 deaths, most of whom suffered from excessive inhalation of toxic fumes, and 700 others were injured, among them Zheru’s engineers.

It is obvious that the sensation and reflection brought about by this accident has directly damaged the tourism industry in Las Vegas, and the United States has also begun to formulate stricter fire protection regulations.

Of course, the responsibility for the accident must be investigated, and Kirk Coklein’s MGM Grand Hotel is the first to bear the brunt.

When it was first constructed, the MGM Grand Hotel invested 106 million US dollars. It is known as 26 floors. Because there are no 3, 4, and 13 floors, there are actually only 23 floors with more than 2,000 guest rooms. The first floor and the basement floor are opened. The casino covers more than 6,000 square meters. Its grand scale and magnificent degree are well-known in the world, but it is very stingy in fire protection, for example, it has not fully installed an automatic sprinkler system.

When the fire broke out, there were as many as 3,400 guests who checked in alone. With gamblers and various staff, there were more than 5,000 people in total. The level of chaos can be imagined.

Most of them fled the scene of the fire on their own, but those trapped in the upper floors could only endure the fatal threat of smoke, waiting for rescue by fire ladder and helicopter, and even one woman jumped to death because she couldn't stand the smoke.

In the original time and space, after the fire, there was a protracted legal action. The MGM Grand Hotel was charged in the process of design, construction and use. There are as many as 83 violations of building safety regulations. The 118 defendant companies have to face a total of 1,327 lawsuits.

All the companies involved in the case raised US$223 million and established a compensation fund to provide compensation to the victims and injured. As the main responsible party for the accident, MGM Grand Hotel assumed US$105 million in compensation.

In a nutshell, Kirk Coklein, a rich man, is in trouble. It's a big deal.

The impact of this accident on Zheru is that a series of database products represented by the hotel information management system, the business in the Las Vegas hotel industry, is caused by the industry depression caused by the damage to the tourism safety image. The change in the customer's mentality triggered by it-whether to continue to be enthusiastic or to lose interest is still unknown.

Fortunately, the hotels in Las Vegas are just famous, not unique. There are too many cities waiting for philosophers to explore.

This fire has been widely concerned by the media in the United States and the world. People in the Silicon Valley area will naturally have seen some reports in this area, because colleagues are witnesses. Zheru's employees are more empathetic and concerned about related news.

On behalf of Tang Huanhe Company, Chambers made a special trip to Las Vegas to visit those engineers. Their injuries are not serious and there is no major problem, but they still have some lingering fears.

With regard to Tang Huan's various measures to strengthen the company's cohesion and network people's hearts, Chambers empathized with the power in the process of implementation.

As the largest microcomputer software provider, Zheru has gradually become the main target of peer poaching.

For example, Microsoft's Gates, every time he visits, his harmless appearance cannot conceal his pursuit of some talented programmers.

With the great success of the database ebase, companies outside the personal computer industry have also begun to look at philosophers, such as those also located in Silicon Valley, and even HP.

But so far, Zheru has not had a series of job-hopping incidents, and the personnel in key positions have continued to work hard, leaving competitors to stand aside and sigh regretfully.

Although the knowledge of the fire accident is a small probability event, it has a great psychological impact on people. Zheru has a large number of engineers on business trips to provide customers with consulting, maintenance, support and other services. No one can guarantee that they will not In case of emergencies, providing an additional commercial insurance will undoubtedly draw people's hearts even better.

But the problem is that this is not a necessary expense. Whether the boss can agree to it is really unpredictable. Chambers can only find a private opportunity to test it out.

Tang Huan laughed loudly after he understood the whole story, "You have a delicate mind, and you can abruptly think of the way of business from such an accident. I am not that short-sighted. I naturally hope that the company will develop in the long-term. There is no reason not to agree. , You are responsible for arranging specific matters."

Tang Huan's joy made Chambers feel very touched by the surprise, and the boss is really ambitious.

How did he know that in the original time and space, Tang Huan had seen big Silicon Valley companies provide employees with more exaggerated benefits, and even pets would be covered. It has long been a surprise.

Moreover, Zheru’s current financial situation is very relaxed. Huge cash flow has been quietly lying in the bank’s account, preparing to deal with various unexpected market risks, or to eliminate a certain market opportunity through acquisition. A new company that has air transportation but has not appeared in the original time and space.

The additional insurance plan for Chambers employees is not worth mentioning. Besides, the insurance orders of thousands of people will definitely attract insurance companies to **** them up.

With Tang Huan’s affirmation, Chambers readily took the order to operate this matter, and Tang Huan was concerned about the upcoming Christmas sales season. As electronic consumer products, Xiaobawang game consoles and Xiaobawang Palms are the focus of promotion, especially the latter. Just add orders to dex retail and sell tens of thousands of units. The hardware and software are all their own, even if the profit is small. More sales, the income is also considerable.

In addition, Tang Huan established a typical second-generation Fangyuan computer open hardware platform partner, Seagate and 3, after all, are external companies. In the initial stage of cooperation, the running-in mechanism needs to be continuously improved, and Tang Huan must keep an eye on it.

With the support of Seagate and 3, the industry will inevitably yearn for the platform of the second-generation Fangyuan Computer.

This kind of appeal is similar to that of Intel and Microsoft in the past few decades. Not available overnight. Only through hard work and accumulation step by step. In order to gradually build it out.

However, compared to Seagate, which has surrendered 20% of its shares happily, 3's board of directors has been arguing.

For this reason, Robert Metcalf’s nose was almost crooked. These guys allowed him to raise 3’s assets to 60 million U.S. dollars within a few years, but after he found a very powerful collaborator. , I don't know the so-called worry about bringing wolves into the room. You guys are looking for a guy from HP. How can I divide the power of the founder?

After hearing Robert Metcalf’s heart-wrenching complaint, Tang Huan was also very dissatisfied. He said that you investors on the East Coast are also called venture capital? Compared with your counterparts in Silicon Valley, it is too far behind. According to your thinking, you have to develop the route in the original time and space. Wait for ibm- to become popular, and then paste it like a harpy to please. Push the ibm of the token ring network.

If it wasn't for Robert Metcalfe and Ethernet. Tang Huan really doesn't bother to pay attention to the currently unknown 3.

So Tang Huan decided. Go to the 3 headquarters in Marlborough, Massachusetts, in the eastern United States, and meet these difficult guys for a while.

Without giving up part of the benefits, how the two sides can have a strong alliance relationship is not clear to this unspoken rule.

It is a pity that Tang Huan, who is disdainful in his heart, still can't get out of his body at present, and he doesn't know if it's the harvest season, and various results are coming.

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On December 1, 1980, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notified the world that the first case of infection was discovered and confirmed, which was more than seven months earlier than June 6, 1981 in the original time and space.

Since then, mankind has launched a long struggle against this number one infectious disease.

Compared to the initial period when it was announced to the public in the original time and space, the medical community didn't know much about it, and there was no cure, and the infected had to be tortured to death.

In this time and space, the laboratory funded by the Shennong Fund effectively disclosed the preliminary research results of this type of virus.

Therefore, although the people are not aware of the danger at this stage, the medical community has already shaken.

The director of the laboratory, Robert Gallo, published a related paper in one of the most authoritative academic journals, "Science", which attracted great attention from his colleagues.

The biggest difference between the two time-spaces and research is that after Tang Huan's intervention, not only were they discovered in advance, but the cause was basically determined.

Of course, the patient who provided the virus sample has unfortunately passed away, and now there is no medicine that can control the condition.

Originally, this research result had come to an end. It had little to do with Tang Huan. He had already ordered that the matter should be handled according to the process and he would not participate. However, the White House sent an invitation. President Carter attached great importance to it and hoped that the Shennong Fund and the laboratory could Report in person.

Tang Huan, who was busy in Silicon Valley, couldn't help scratching his head after hearing the news. It seemed that in the original time and space, the official didn't really pay attention to it at the beginning.

However, on the way from Cupertino to San Francisco, Tang Huan roughly understood the key.

There is still more than a month before Carter, who has failed the election, should step down as president. It is estimated that he has nothing to do and wants nothing more. He wants to leave an extra political legacy. Anyway, the next stall will be cleaned up.

If the successor, Reagan, has made some achievements in this regard, it is also a continuation of Carter's wise martial arts. If it is not handled well, it will be even more Carter's foresight.

This also shows to a certain extent that Carter was a little unconvinced with his fiasco in the campaign, and the improper handling of the Iranian hostage crisis has done too much damage to his reputation.

In fact, since the Iran-Iraq War broke out in September, Iran’s attitude has become increasingly hopeful that the hostage crisis can be resolved.

Soon after the November election announced the results of Reagan's victory and Carter's defeat, the Carter government began negotiations with Iran with the help of intermediaries such as Algerian diplomats, Abdul Kalim Fleber.

In exchange for the release of the hostages, the United States agreed to unfreeze the $8 billion in assets previously frozen. And promised not to sue Iran in this matter.

And the previous October. Carter seems to have done nothing about it.

In the original time and space. There are unconfirmed rumors that it was the illegal transaction between Iran and the Reagan staff that caused the delay in the release of the hostages.

Because the latter does not want to see the "October Surprise", that is, before the beginning of the November general election, there will be events that will cause a large flow of votes to Carter, such as the release of hostages.

As a result, on January 20, 1981, a few minutes after Reagan’s presidential inauguration, all the hostages were released. They were handed over to the U.S., and these people immediately flew to the U.S. Air Force base in Frankfurt, West Germany.

Former President Carter, as the current President Reagan's special envoy, received them there. After undergoing a physical examination and reporting the incident, everyone flew back to Washington and was welcomed like a hero.

It can be said that the development of the situation is so wonderful that it is difficult for people to think about it.

"These people, they are all thieves and spirits when they black out their opponents." Tang Huan shook his head.

However, he is not so easy to be used in vain. If you have a chance to hitchhiking, you can't miss it.

then. In addition to Tang Huan and Robert Gallo during this trip, he also brought five second-generation Fangyuan computers with him, intending to find opportunities to sell them.

Robert Gallo has a clear understanding of the reasons for his academic achievements that he has made in history, and he is naturally grateful to Tang Huan.

When the two of them first set up the laboratory, they went through the ditch several times on official business. They had a good impression, but they couldn't talk about personal relationships. This time they took a plane to Washington together, but they had a chance to get closer together.

As a result, they had a tacit understanding. They didn’t talk too much about official affairs, but talked about the contents of the world, and even private affairs. For example, Robert Gallo mentioned that the reason why he chose the profession of medicine was because My sister was killed early by leukemia.

Tang Huan nodded slightly. They were all people with stories. This old man was in the original time and space, because the virus specimens he used came from the group of Luc Montagnier in France, and missed the Nobel Prize in Medicine. It's hard to say right and wrong.

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In the gap between the time when the White House staff arranged for the president to meet, Tang Huan found the place for the five second-generation Fangyuan computers that Tang Huan brought to him.

One was given to Carter, and the rest was given to a special group, the White House Correspondents Association, who squatted at the White House to interview the president’s press team.

The word processing software bundled with the second-generation Fangyuan computer currently provides complete functions.

When Tang Huanyun helped a reporter finish a manuscript and printed it out, looking at the exquisite typesetting, the other party’s eyes were straight at the time, he swallowed and asked with difficulty: "Just this one. The manuscript is stored on the disk, can I modify it at any time in the future?"

"Of course." Tang Huan gently placed the disk in his hand, "However, this kind of disk needs to be taken care of."

"I want to buy one personally, how can I contact your company." The reporter asked.

"There are telephones on the packing box and the instruction manual, just contact directly, and there is also our branch on the east coast." Tang Huan pointed patiently.

At this time, Carter appeared, and his ease of mood can be seen indirectly from his attitude towards White House reporters.

"Tang, is this your other big technology product?" Smiling Carter asked casually, and before Tang Huan could answer, he continued: "The video game console you gave last time is really good. "

"Thank you, Mr. President, for the compliment." Tang Huan made a sentence, then looked at Carter who was sitting directly in front of the computer typing in pretending surprise, and admired, "Unexpectedly, Mr. President is also a technical expert familiar with computers."

"Of course, when I was young, I used to be engaged in research work." Carter, with a smug look, looked at an aunt in sixties, and joked, "Helen Thomas, you look at the screen. What's on?"

It turned out that Carter just typed out the opponent's name with the keyboard.

The president eagerly showed his familiarity with the new computer, demonstrated the computer's various functions, and looked at Helen Thomas with a grin, "Now that I am optimistic, I can even delete you."

As he said, Carter pressed up the keyboard, "", and the letters disappeared on the screen one by one.

For this joke made by the president, the client Helen Thomas and other reporters all just smiled politely.

The reason why Carter made fun of a reporter like Helen Thomas is because the members of the White House press corps are not simple. They can ask the president all kinds of sharp questions, even if the president does not come to Taiwan on the spot, he will not hesitate. And Helen ? Thomas is one of the best.

Only one seat in the White House News Center is engraved with the reporter's name, which is the exclusive seat of Helen Thomas in the center of the first row. This shows how special her status is.

In January 1961, after Kennedy was sworn in, Helen Thomas, who was just over 40, began to participate in the White House presidential press conference.

She asked Kennedy the right to participate in the White House press conference dinner, becoming the first female reporter to attend the dinner and the first woman accepted by the White House press corps.

Ten years later, Helen Thomas became the chief reporter of the White House Press Corps and later the head of the White House Press Corps.

When Nixon visited China in 1972, Helen Thomas was the only woman among the accompanying journalists.

In the original time and space, Helen Thomas was the oldest member of the White House Press Corps and worked until the 2000s.

In 2003, Helen Thomas pointed out that Bush Jr. is "the worst president in history and the worst president in American history" and directly asked Bush Jr. why he started the war in Iraq.

This made Helen Thomas once resisted by the White House and prevented her from asking questions about the president.

Helen Thomas has written five books, and her fourth book published is "The Watchdog of Democracy?" The decline of the Washington Press Corps and how it broke its trust in the people.

From then on, it’s not difficult to see how Helen Thomas is a sturdy eldest sister and daughter reporter. During his tenure in office, he asked 9 US presidents, and they all had some sharp questions about Helen Thomas. A bit of fear, it can even be said to be fear.

This also shows from another aspect that the President of the United States is just a post. After leaving office, he has to return to his normal life.

Therefore, when the matter was finished, in the next private meeting, Tang Huan boldly sent out an invitation, “After Mr. President resigns, it is better to come to Shennong Fund as a director, and continue to play your role in environmental protection, medical care, education, etc. Influence."

In the original time and space, the Bill Gates and Melinda Gates couple funded the establishment of the world’s largest charitable foundation—the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Its influence was so huge that even the World Health Organization thought It reduces its own policy-making ability.

The Shennong Fund, which currently has nearly one billion U.S. dollars in assets, is not as deep-rooted as the foundations owned by established families such as Rockefeller, but it should also be worthy of Carter's identity. Look out one or two. (To be continued...)

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