Blooming America

"Ada, you actually look better. I'm serious."

　　 Catherine came to this conclusion after watching it for a long time.

　　 "Don't comfort me, Kate."

　　 Ada squeezed her face.

　　 "Although I have confidence in my figure, this face is good at best."

　　 The aesthetic point of view of Europeans and Americans is really different from that of Catherine.

"It's you, Kate, if you go to the filming, you will be able to kill a large number of people. Did you know that after the "Red Alert" was broadcast, everyone was fascinated by Elizabeth. They probably didn't I think there are real people!"

　　 Catherine shrugged.

　　 "But Catherine, you have such a high talent, why don't you go filming?"

　　 Catherine shook her head: "You know, Ada, my energy is limited, and the Ark Group cannot do without me."

　　 Indeed, Catherine is the helm of the Ark Group, guiding the company's direction. Without Catherine's foresight, the company would not be able to get ahead of others. Although the future will not decline, but the pace of continuing to move forward must be reduced by at least half.

　　 "Well, Kate. Uncle Homan once said that you are so talented and it is a pity not to act."

　　 "But we have to know how to choose, Ada."

　　 Catherine heard these words, and suddenly felt that filming seemed very interesting. Maybe I can try it later?

　　 "Actually, I still think I'm better at being a director... Who knows, maybe I'll be less and less filming in the future."

　　 Katherine guessed, it seems that it’s almost time to shoot one film a year.

　　 For the next month, Catherine stayed on the set. Although "The Flag of Fathers" could be filmed very quickly, it was very troublesome to find actors for "Iwo Jima Family Letters".

　　 But it’s better to shoot it than not to shoot it—as a capitalist, profit comes first.

　　 Right now, U.S.-Japan relations are on the rise, which is why Japanese products can enter the U.S. soon.

　　 Japan has given a very generous subsidy to the US troops stationed in Japan in the "Papa Country". It is impossible to split US-Japan relations these days.

　　Instead of this, it's better to ride the wind and earn more extra money.

　　 Anyway, the set has been set up, and even if it is filming, the cost can be saved by more than half.

　　 What's more, the historical box office of "Iwo Jima Letters" is higher than that of "Flags of Fathers". Catherine believes that if it can be released in Japan, the box office will definitely be "good."

　　 Actually, this shot was taken to soothe Japanese emotions. Slap the Japanese, give a sweet date, what Americans like to do in this case. As for the domestic box office, Catherine is not so optimistic.

　　 But at this time, Catherine was laughing with a market survey, because the price of the Japanese TV set, which was too low, had begun to rise.

　　 "What do you do next?" Olsen asked, "Should you take advantage of the victory and chase the Japanese companies away?"

"No, let's let them do it, contact them, I think they are already in a hurry. Tell them, we can consider withdrawing the lawsuit, but—" Catherine held out another finger: "The standard is to be set by us. ."

　　 Light prohibition is not enough, Catherine knows. And more importantly, the relationship between the United States and Japan also determines that I cannot do that.

　　 And if you go too far, antitrust laws will make you very troublesome.

　　 Although I own the patents for integrated circuits, I can own more than 90% of Intel's shares!

　　 So Catherine can't have a monopoly.

　　 She chose the standard.

　　 The standard is the boss, such as the later 3.5-inch floppy drive. Sony, Philips, and Panasonic each received US$79 million in patent grants each year. From 1985 to 2005, the patent grant alone allowed these three companies to obtain a substantial net profit.

　　 "Also, Olson, you are the president. You should be the same as Sanders. You should know some decisions."

　　 Catherine’s "standard" plan is not too difficult for the other party to think of.

　　 Olsen nodded: "I'm just worried that if the policy is incorrect, it will lead to losses."

"Loss is not terrible. The so-called CEO is not the same as those government officials. Once they make a mistake, they must step down. Executive officers should be held responsible. There is no one who can't make mistakes in this world. , You should make up yourself instead of resigning in various ways."

Olsen nodded, "I see. I think maybe the new'long tube' technology will give us a more solid advantage in the TV industry. Apart from the law, there is nothing more to fear. "

　　 "Okay, I will write a report with the Pentagon."

　　 Olsen nodded. He guessed that this is probably related to Intel’s Z80.

　　 The military version of Z80 has come out.

The military version of 　　 is actually very simple, because it seems that the Pentagon is mainly used for guided weapons, so it does not need to be resistant to high temperatures and low temperatures as on satellites. The most important thing is the stability of the system.

　　 However, Catherine's report is not about this aspect, but a new thing that was created by this opportunity.

　　—Fluorescent-Multilayer-Dis (Fluorescent-Multilayer-Dis).

　　FMD is an optical disc format developed by Constellation-3D, but this company has not yet appeared.

　　 Unlike ordinary optical discs, FMD uses fluorescent technology instead of reflective materials to store data.

　　 Fluorescent material allows the optical disc to use three-dimensional optical data storage, and there are up to 100 data layers. These additional layers may allow FMDs to be capable of terabytes, while maintaining the same physical size of conventional optical discs.

　　 Such an FMD disc, UU Kanshu www.uukanshu.com reads the disc with a full spectrum. It can read a hundred layers of data at a time, and the data stream is calculated in G per second. In the history, fluorescent discs were European technology, so they were blocked by IBM. Once this disc appeared, the current industry would become a joke. Blu-ray and other things would all be clouded.

In 2000, the storage capacity of the first-generation FMD was as high as 50GB, while the Blu-ray technology took several years to catch up, but also a few years later, the second-generation FMD was already a TB-level storage weapon. .

　　 The cost of this thing is more than US$3,000, and it is naturally impossible for civilian use, but Catherine believes that the military will be happy to accept this technology.

　　The reason why she chose FMD was also considered by Catherine, mainly because of the "spectral concept".

　　It can be said that it is a weapon to use this optical splitting concept to build fiber optic gate circuits and develop optical storage devices. With Catherine's fiber optic technology, it can even realize a computer that does not require photoelectric conversion.

　　 Although it was decades later, it was because it started too late.

　　 Computer is a very new thing after all. Although Catherine’s Microsoft computer is a joke, it has pointed the way to other manufacturers. Catherine can only rely on her own foresight if she wants to continue to be in the front.

　　 Although these technologies sound far away, how can you cheat money to promote your own technical reserves without these concepts?

　　 In line with the idea of ​​FC, never let players play PS, Catherine is very selfishly planning for her future.

　　 Just like now, now, Catherine and IBM are cooperating to develop laser discs, and on the other hand, the bright future of fluorescent discs is handed over to the Pentagon, while Catherine herself is developing the VCD format...