Rebirth of the Tech Madman

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Ted Turner’s wedding was the second time that Tang Huan attended such an event this year after Jobs’ wedding.

After his busy schedule, the richest man immediately returned to Cupertino in Silicon Valley and met with visiting Al Gore and other members of Congress.

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

Al Gore was born in a family of politics and governance. His father, Gore, used to represent Tennessee as a member of the House of Representatives from 1939 to 1953 and a Senator from 1953 to 1971. His childhood naturally followed 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 to study politics and scholarship, paving the way for future political and political careers.

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

After returning from the battlefield, Al Gore went to Vanderbilt University's seminary and law school, and also received a Rockefeller Foundation scholarship.

At the age of 28, Al Gore joined the U.S. Congress, serving as a member of the House of Representatives from 1977 to 1985, and serving as 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 running for the election, he used the youngest candidate, who was only 40 years old, and his centrist stance as a selling point. As a result, he won the presidential nomination in the southern United States. Although the primary election was ultimately defeated, it won 13.68% of the votes, ranking third among the five candidates.

Therefore, Al Gore, who has a bright resume, is definitely a veritable Washington elite, and Tang Huan naturally paid special attention to the inspection led by him, not to mention that the other party is preparing to submit to the U.S. Congress a document closely related to the IT industry. Very interesting bill "the_high_performance_computing_act_of_1991"-"High Performance Computing Act of 1991", namely hpca.

In the spacious conference room, Al Gore said with great interest his original intention of drafting the "High Performance Computing Act of 1991", "In 1988, Professor of Computer Science at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Leonardo Clerlock, a report submitted to Congress, let me understand the importance of the Internet, which is equivalent to the highway of the information world."

Leonardo Clerlock is one of the important developers of the embryonic form of today's Internet, and he can be called the pioneer of the Internet. His report is so natural that politicians are attracted by it.

Tang Huan, who also expressed his appreciation for this computer scientist, noticed that Al Gore repeated a word ""-"information superhighway" in the conversation.

To be honest, this concept is not new. In various academic discussions, it has a history of at least more than ten years, but it is repeatedly quoted by a politician, which inevitably reveals a rare meaning.

Therefore, Tang Huan deliberately extracted the concept of "information superhighway" as a separate topic, and tentatively discussed: "Mr. Senator is not a professional IT person, but his insights are very clever. The roadbed of the information superhighway was previously It is a telecommunications network, and now it has become a computer Internet, which can transmit more diverse forms of data and provide more flexible services, which is of incalculable value."

Al Gore, who was scratched to the itch, laughed and said, "The World Wide Web, which Tang advocated, has now become a major trend in the development of the Internet. We are here this time, hoping to get a closer look at the latest achievements in order to improve "1991 The High Performance Computing Act of 2016."

From the perspective of the richest man, the "High Performance Computing Act of 1991" is not only the achievement of Al Gore and others, it is also a golden business opportunity. Once passed by Congress, it will be used for hundreds of billions of dollars. Funding for infrastructure construction has pushed the entire IT industry forward with unprecedented strength. Of course, this beneficiary, myself, must actively cooperate.

Therefore, Tang Huan replied in a quick and confident manner: "I guarantee that the results that Mr. Senator sees are absolutely the latest, because they will not be introduced to the public until the Comdex Las Vegas Autumn Exhibition later. ."

"I have long been longing for the Philosopher R&D center whose reputation is catching up to 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 demonstration of the results selected Fast Ethernet, which was just released.

Tang Huankan talked: "At this stage, Ethernet has surpassed ibm's token ring network and has become the most widely adopted technical solution for local area networks. Its mainstream standard is the 10mbps Ethernet formulated in the early 1980s; we build on this basis. , Launched Fast Ethernet, which 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 through the application on the World Wide Web, he let them understand what it is like to have 100mbps Ethernet.

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

Of course, some forward-looking secrets still need to be kept, and to demonstrate to these officials requires certain skills, as the so-called talk to people and ghosts.

Al Gore’s "High Performance Computing Act of 1991" first emphasized the significance of the Internet for education, so Tang Huan showed them a set of library information management system based on the World Wide Web platform, and even let it 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, boring, and incomprehensible to outsiders, and these so-called results used for demonstration are all peripheral departments or subsidiaries of Philosopher, who have contributed to the development of specific applications. It's just an example.

However, Al Gore and his party just ate this set, all of them stared brightly, as if they were fully comprehended and became immortal.

In the end, Al Gore did not conceal his shock, and concluded: "I think our trip to Silicon Valley, after visiting Tang’s company, we can end and return to Washington—Cupertino, where we are. Everything you can think of. In other words, the Internet of the future should be like this."

"That's the way it was originally." The richest man who murmured in his heart laughed loudly: "Thank you, Mr. Congressman, for your affirmation and praise. I hope your bill will be passed smoothly."

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Soon after sending Al Gore and his party away, Tang Huan came here with another guest-the Clintons. Not long ago, on October 2, Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton announced that he would seek a nomination from 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. However, due to the victory of the Gulf War, the prestige of the current President Bush Sr. can be said to be in full swing, and for another term, it seems almost certain.

Under these circumstances, the bigwigs of the Democratic Party and the Nationalist Party did not jump out wittily so as not to take their own humiliation. This gave Bill Clinton the so-called rising star the opportunity to emerge.

You know, it wasn't until 1988 that Bill Clinton, as chairman of the Democratic Party Governors Association, set foot on the political arena of the United States for the first time, and was invited to give a speech at the Democratic Party National Convention. Introduce the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party at that time, the Governor of the State of Massa, Michael Ducatis.

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

Take the small Xiangjiang as an example. The elites there are used to the circles drawn up by the British-no matter how smart their brains are, their vision is so limited that they take for granted that Xiangjiang will follow bad luck again and again when the world economic crisis occurs. .

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

If there is no asymmetric information in the original time and space, Tang Huan would also think that Bill Clinton is a character who accompanies the prince to study and cannot match Bush Sr.

In fact, even if you see 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 is precisely because of this that Tang Huan observed all this secretly with great interest, anyway, he had already prepared a multi-bet arrangement.

During the greeting, the richest man joked: "What a coincidence, I just hosted Congressman Al Gore from Tennessee across the river from Arkansas. 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 Gore Act of 1991." "

Tang Huan nodded slightly, "Didn't Al Gore participated in the 1988 Democratic Party nomination competition? Why doesn't it seem to be moving now."

"Al Gore did not participate in the competition for family reasons." Bill Clinton explained: "Although he belongs to the Democratic Party, his political stance is more centrist, such as supporting anti-abortion and prohibiting firearms. Trading, etc. When the Gulf War broke out this year, he was even one of the ten democratic party members who supported the war."

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

"The first time I run for the election, the pressure will not be too great. Quandang has accumulated experience." Bill Clinton said openly, then pulled back, "However, I still have to fight I tried my best to win support."

"Of course." Tang Huan agreed: "Texas is the base camp of the Republican Party, and California is the base camp of the Democratic Party. It should be planned carefully."

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The hospitality of the richest man to the Clintons was naturally warm and thoughtful; when they left, they were in a good mood; Hillary had made an appointment to send his daughter Chelsea over to participate in the activities of the sons of the richest man after the winter vacation.

Although he gave the other party a satisfied statement, Tang Huan still disliked Colinton. Therefore, he was rarely tortured by a strong sense of curiosity in his heart-how did that invisible hand turn it into the cloud and cover it into the rain?

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

At this time, the filming cost of "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" was as high as 100 million US dollars, and its global box office was basically settled-more than 550 million US dollars ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ The parties are extremely happy. .

In fact, the box office sales are second, and what Tang Huan values ​​more is the pulling effect of its production process on his own it technology, and the expansion effect that it produces.

This effect caused Disney to sacrifice again. Originally, its 30th classic animated feature film-"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, leading their little friends, are chasing after the movie and the singer of the theme song-Celine Dion.

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

Anyway, "Beauty and the Beast" fell into the hands of my own with a higher level of computer animation, and I didn't suffer any loss in terms of quality.

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

In addition, the "Silent Lambs", which missed the Oscars deadline last year, had the final result at the global box office-reaching 300 million U.S. dollars. This makes those cinema chains that are not optimistic about the commercial performance of the film and give up most of the profits to the film company, regretting it. It is a rather ironic business joke this year.

However, "The Silent Lamb", which has both fame and fortune, has also fallen into the cliché trouble of many popular rights and wrongs, and has been criticized by homosexual groups. Gein believes that the film does not make any positive descriptions of negative LGBT characters.

The richest man didn't care too much about this. A movie can't please all groups in every aspect. Anyway, Judy Foster has been tuned and taught by himself, and has become increasingly alienated from this popular trend.