I’m in Hollywood Chapter 494: paranoid

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After lunch, Virginia took the two women out for a walk, and Eric and Chris got into the study together.

"It seems that Emily's reaction was a bit wrong. Wasn't she embarrassed when she heard about marriage?" Eric sat down at the desk and asked curiously.

Chris shook his head and smiled: "It may be because they are pregnant. When you told me the news, I talked to Emily about something," Chris said here and shook his head helplessly. Obviously the result was not very good, and soon changed the topic: "What about you, what happened to Europe, the movement is so big?"

Eric briefly told Chris about Europe Disneyland.

Chris also shook his head after listening: "The budget of 1 billion USD has expanded to 5.5 billion USD, which is indeed out of control. If the rectification still fails to make a profit, what are you going to do?

Eric shrugged: "That must be sustained, this project is related to the rice bowl of 30,000 people, and it consumes so many resources of French Government. If I dare to shut down, it is equivalent to tearing the face with France."

Chris nodded and agreed with Eric. Because of the sudden shutdown of Europe Disney, Chris also inquired some information about Europe Disneyland these days.

French Government not only sold Disney equivalent to one-fifth of the area of ​​Paris urban area at the ultra-low land price of the 1970s, but also provided project subsidies over 1 billion USD. In addition, French Government even built a high-speed railway between Paris urban area and Disneyland, which is another investment of 1 billion USD. All of this stems from the optimism about the prospect of Europe Disneyland and the consumption of such huge public resources. If Disney dares to retreat because the profit of the park is not as expected, French Government can only completely reverse its face with Disney.

"Michael Eisner's ability is unquestionable, but judging from his actions in the last few years of Disney, he has been completely stunned by Disney's. If Michael Eisner continues to control Disney, it will not be Disney. Good thing. But judging from his series of actions to Universal, he seems to have calmed down again, "Chris remembered the Michael Eisner that launched the Disneyland project and couldn't help but comment.

Eric recalled a bit. It seems that this is the case. Although the market value of Disney's is still rising in the mid-to-late 1990s, it is only because of the general trend of the overall economic situation of United States. Disney's profit has declined year after year. Moreover, the heavily invested ABCTV Station has also become a drag on the Disney Group, and has raised the ratio of Disney's debt to a fairly dangerous value.

It is after the resignation of Michael Eisner, Disney, through a series of reform measures of the successor leader Robert. Iger, that this big Film Studio has regained its vitality.

Michael Eisner was driven out of Disney by Eric and went to Universal. It can be said that both Michael Eisner and Disney are a good thing. Disney can let go of Michael Eisner and continue to develop rapidly. Michael Eisner, who has calmed down, can also start a career again with Universal as a platform.

In the current Hollywood, Eric feels that there are not too many people with outstanding abilities. Most of the executives of the major Film Studio are conservative and ambitious. In the 1990s, several large Film Studio executives who impressed Eric. There are currently only three people, Barry Diller, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Michael Eisner.

From the current information, the possibility of Barry Diller acquiring Paramount is extremely low. It is not easy for this Hollywood tycoon to return to Hollywood. Katzenberg still remains in Disney. Eric will not be like the original Michael Eisner. Katzenberg forced out Disney, so it seems that his biggest competitor in Hollywood will undoubtedly be Michael Eisner.

"I heard that Steve Ross is about to die?" Thinking about these. Eric suddenly said something.

Chris has some doubts, but also nodded: "It should not last this year."

"Without the suppression of Steve Ross, Warner's already fierce internal disputes are estimated to be exposed on the countertop. Such a Warner certainly cannot compete with Firefly. In the future, Firefly will be the biggest enemy in Hollywood. It is estimated that Universal Now. "

"Listening to your tone, you don't seem to hate Michael Eisner?"

"It doesn't matter whether you hate it or not, but I always admire people with outstanding abilities, and it is also a good thing to have opponents, otherwise life will be too boring," Eric said honestly. He is well aware that everything he currently owns is obtained through the Goldfinger through, so he is very admired for those tycoons who can't rely on Goldfinger but are able to chatter.

Talking about some Hollywood trivia, Eric only remembered what Chris said when he first came and asked, "Did you say there is good news for me, what is it?"

"Can you go online here?" Chris stood up with a smile and asked.

Eric nodded and immediately understood: "Are there results?"

"Yeah, wait a minute," Chris said with a smile, then walked out of the study and quickly took a notebook from the car.

Eric pushed its Apple notebook aside on the desk, pulled out the network cable and pulled it over, and saw the Chris open the notebook, a little surprised: "Is this IBM Thinkpad?"

The famous Thinkpad series of antique machines.

Eric vaguely remembered noting that IBM was about to launch its own notebook computer series to compete with Apple Inc. on magazine, but I did not expect it to be sold, and it is still the Thinkpad series. previous life also bought a Eric because the IBM notebook business was acquired by Lenovo. Thinkpad laptops, it is estimated that the Thinkpad brand is the longest existing laptop series.

"Thinkpad700c, which was just released not long ago, I bought one for trial, the configuration is similar to the PowerB00k of Apple, but this notebook is loaded with the latest 3.1 system of Windows, I think it is much simpler to operate than the Apple machine, "Chris said, because Firefly investment focuses on investing in high-tech fields related to computers and networks, in order to be able to participate in a deeper level, Chris also spent a lot of effort to study this knowledge.

Some familiar Windows interfaces appear in front of you. Eric found the eye-catching e icon from the light blue background desktop at a glance.

Chris skillfully connects the laptop to the Internet cable, and sees that Eric has started to operate the mouse to click on the software shortcut key, explaining with a smile: "This is the software logo they designed according to the drawing you gave. Alpha version of internal testing. Beta version for users will start to be released at the end of November. The official version will wait until next year through user testing and feedback, and make appropriate adjustments before publishing. "

Listening to Chris, Eric has been connected to the Internet, and opened this graphical interface browser that appeared two years earlier than the original time and space. After a brief load. The browser interface with gray tones appears on the screen, the eye-catching ‘InternetExplorer’ logo on the upper left border of the software, followed by shortcut icons such as the menu bar, forward and backward, and the address bar.

When the homepage is loaded, the page that surprises Eric appears again.

"The homepage of Yahoo was also unexpectedly completed."

Chris nodded and shook his head again: "If it is just a simple directory collection site, it will certainly not take long, but you have more than that in the plan book. The team is currently testing the search engine algorithm and Optimization, they also feel that this function will be one of the core technologies of Yahoo, so they are very cautious. What you see is only the test server we set up. At present, about 8,000 websites have been collected and organized, divided into news, Finance, technology, education and other sectors. "

Eric clicked on several websites in the directory to try it, and the opening speed was very smooth. Moreover, the homepage designed by the Yahoo team also followed the clear design ideas given by Eric, and did not see those like Eric previous life. web portal is full of redundant information, but Eric also knows that the fundamental reason is that the current technical conditions can not meet those, think of it here. Eric looked at the homepage again. Although it was very simple, I always felt something was missing.

"Pictures, by the way. The website can't be all text, should there be pictures?" Eric said, and opened several websites at random, and really saw the pictures on the pages of other people's websites.

Chris seems a little surprised, but soon explained: "I thought you would not pay attention to this, IE management is currently negotiating with a company called CompuServe. I plan to acquire this company, I had planned to next time Give you the relevant documents. "

"CompuServe?" Eric read it again, but couldn't remember the company's name at all: "What do they do, is it related to the pictures?"

Chris nodded: "This company has developed a picture format that is very suitable for the current slow Internet speed. It can compress the picture by 50% without losing the image quality. This picture The format is called GraphicsInterchangeFormat. People generally call it GIF. You have just seen pictures used on several websites. Most of them use this picture format. "

Eric heard the name of the GIF image and immediately understood it.

So familiar!

Chris saw the obvious raised eyebrows on Eric, and paused with some doubts, but continued to talk about it: "After the IE team intends to acquire this company, it will optimize the GIF image format algorithm again Apply for related patents, and then use the IE browser as a carrier for promotion. "

Although Chris does n’t make it clear, Eric quickly understood that using IE as a carrier to promote a picture format will definitely encourage a large number of websites to actively use this format. And this algorithm format has been applied for a patent, then other companies want to use GIF's image format algorithm for commercial software development work, and they must be authorized by IE, which forms a technical barrier that can block most technologies. Companies with insufficient strength have entered the field of browsers, and even a powerful software company such as Microsoft must bypass this layer of technical barriers to develop a graphical interface browser that can display pictures in GIF format, which must consume a lot of time and Money is used for technical public relations. In the era of technology explosion, even if it is a few weeks behind, it may have to be thrown away by competitors, not to mention months or years.

"Right, have you applied for a software patent for the IE kernel?"

Chris nodded: "Of course, we all applied, and Tim Berners-Lee also promised to promote World Wide Web's technical standards for IE, but many technologies are still freely published, so it is not too difficult to bypass our patents. , What we can do is to set up some technical barriers on related applications around, such as the GIF format just now. "

Eric heard these and felt a bit sorry.

Chris comforted: "However, as long as we have maintained the technological and time advantages, we can still maintain our leading position, not to mention, IE does not charge, speaking, the IE team does not understand this, they think this The software is very good, if it can carry out business operations, it will definitely bring a lot of profits. "

"This is what I agreed to Tim Berners-Lee, and you were present," Eric said. He did not care too much about the profit of IE software sales. The key is still a large potential user group: "And, you will understand in the future The benefits of doing this. "

"Hopefully," Chris said nothing more. There are currently only 20 million Internet users in the world, which is much lower than the number of personal computers. Therefore, Chris did n’t feel too distressed to give up IE ’s software sales profits. .

After reading the results of the two companies Yahoo and IE, Eric asked: "What about the online mailbox service? To be honest, I actually look forward to this. With an online mailbox, it is much more convenient to communicate with many things. . "

Chris shrugged: "There is no way to show you this. Hotmail's chief engineer named Steve.Mitnick is a perfectionist paranoid. I have asked it a few times and I have not blocked it. The core program of Hotmail has long been It has been written, but that guy feels that the system's security performance is not good enough, and has been conducting closed tests on the hypothetical server inside the company. I only tried it when I last went to HotmailHeadquarters in Cambridge. "

Eric laughed and said: "Another paranoid named Steve!"

Chris knows that Eric refers to Steve Jobs, and then laughs: "Yeah, but that ’s fine. Hotmail is an online communication tool. If the security performance is not guaranteed, it will definitely go wrong. So I ’ll just let it go The guy has tossed repeatedly, I heard that he is still a very powerful hacker. "(To be continued.)