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Arnold Schwarzenegger walked out of the cinema.

What he just watched was "Rocky", which was a script written by the star Stallone himself - but after Catherine saw it, the script was greatly changed and finally became what it is now.

But I have to say that this film is very outstanding. It only cost one million US dollars, but it has a box office of more than 50 million, and it is still increasing.

Although he is about the same age as himself, Stallone can already be said to be a movie star. It is said that the protagonist of "Contra" is based on him.

Out of curiosity, Schwarzenegger played "Contra" once in the arcade game room after leaving the cinema.

The character in it is indeed very similar to Stallone. But why does 2p's character look exactly like me?

After playing a game, Schwarzenegger returned to his residence.

He had just arrived in the United States and was not familiar with everything.

But Schwarzenegger is already making plans for his future. As a bodybuilder, his career is limited.

Schwarzenegger's brain is as outstanding as his muscles, and he is thinking about his future. He has thought about engaging in real estate, and maybe it would be good if he published two books. But... what if he became an actor like Stallone?

Schwarzenegger thinks this idea is good, but he has never made any movies. He just thinks about it...

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"Is this a 'backpacker'?"

Catherine looked at this backpack-like object.

This is Apple's new product.

After being tricked by the Soviet Union, this also became a small comfort in Catherine's heart...

"How does the music play?"

Catherine asked Olson next to her.

"It's not bad." Olson's expression was very relaxed: "The expressiveness of the audio track is much better than that of the tape. Oh, listening to music on CD is really a pleasure."

Although it has been used in VCDs, digital and analog are different after all, and the expressiveness of current audio is also extraordinary.

And Catherine also knows that there is another reason for this situation - that is, the current tape technology is simply not good enough, and the high-density tapes of the future have no shadow at all now. If the CD audio track even has such "inferior" tapes,

If it can't be compared, it would be ridiculous.

"Can you listen to it for me?"

Although Catherine was confident, she felt it was better to "listen and believe".

Olson nodded and took out a record.

This is a record released by Universal Corporation - of course, it is just a demonstration product.

Catherine now uses UMD standard discs, but the specification of the CD audio track is 1.1, not 1.0, because the optical head and format used in the CD audio track are different from ordinary optical discs, and in order to prevent leaks,

CDs also have special anti-counterfeiting measures.

Olson also prepared a tape version of the same album, and then began comparing them separately.

Indeed...if you listen to it for the first time, the CD track does feel good. Even without a control group, it will give people a "clean" and "fresh" feeling. Even Catherine, who is tone-deaf, can hear this.

That different meaning.

After listening to the CD audio track, and then listening to the music played on the tape, it is just like listening to the sound of a saw cutting wood... it is so rough that people can't help but want to complain.

"The difference is huge."

Elsa also sighed.

"That's of course. How could the things I proposed be bad?"

This is the future development trend.

"What's the preliminary price?" Catherine asked again.

"We have temporarily priced it at US$399." Such a high price can no longer be described as "black-hearted", but Catherine is not worried that no one will buy it.

As long as you can get one person to buy this product, you can get an example of $50. In other words, as long as you can get 8 people to buy this product, then this person will not have to spend a penny, but will still get more money.

Make money

Not only that, the company's TV group buying is also a big killer. You can also get big discounts through TV group buying. Based on this, Catherine doesn't have to worry about price issues.

What's more, your own products are inherently high-end, so how can you do it if you don't set the price higher? "Big Brother" cost 10,000 yuan back then.

"If there are no problems, we can release this product after we hold the developer conference in June, but before the release, we will split up Apple."

Apple will become a high-end brand, while Orange will take the low-end route and monopolize the entire market from top to bottom and bottom to top respectively.

When a new Pentium computer is released, it will never be as affordable as it is now. The price of the new computer will be raised to a higher level. At the same time, Orange Company will also announce the launch of cloud systems and low-end systems, which will make a difference for customers.

An apple is set off by a bunch of oranges in the middle...oh, is there anything more wonderful than this?

The developer conference has been split into three, one is the display of hardware products, one is the display of game products, and the other is the display of other software. Among them, Catherine is most focused on the display of hardware products.

.So she had high hopes for this CD player.

"Also, there is one more thing." Olson said.

"how?"

"Some people wanted to buy our Celeron supercomputer, but we were no longer prepared to sell the Celeron computer, but they still came to me."

"Oh? Who are they?"

Catherine became interested.

The Celeron supercomputer can be said to be the fastest computer now. It uses integrated circuit technology, which has never been done before in the history of supercomputers.

"Pfizer."

"Pfizer?" Catherine's eyes widened: "Are you...sure?"

The other person nodded.

"Wait a minute, you mean, the one that develops Viagra... Oh, you mean the one that develops medicine, Pfizer?"

Catherine suddenly thought that "Viagra" seemed not to have appeared yet.

"Yes, that's them. Only their company is named 'Pfizer'." Olson looked at Catherine strangely.

Pfizer is a multinational pharmaceutical company based on research and development with a history of more than 100 years.

Maybe many people don't know about this company, but almost no one doesn't know about the product "Viagra". Viagra was developed by Pfizer.

Four Viagra pills are taken every second, and after one year, the profit will be hundreds of millions...

The common sense of capitalists made Catherine immediately think of profits... Viagra has no effect on Catherine...

"What did they say?"

"They are willing to buy three Celeron supercomputers, and they can invest US$3 million each, for a total of US$9 million."

Calculated in this way, the profit is probably more than 3 million. Fortunately, they don't know that the current Celeron supercomputer is not very valuable anymore.

"Why don't they rent IBM machines? Each machine only costs 10,000 US dollars a month, which is only 120,000 US dollars a year."

"IBM's 360 only has 3 million operations per second. They don't like IBM at all. What's more, IBM's products have been criticized recently..." Olson's expression was a little strange.

Indeed, the current IBM 360 has been scolded for being too slow, and Catherine is the initiator of all this.

Catherine's strategy has begun to take effect, and it seems that IBM is indeed in trouble.

But for now, there is no product that can replace IBM, so the market is still controlled by IBM for the time being.

Perhaps because Catherine had sold Celeron supercomputers before, Pfizer approached her.

Supercomputers are widely used. Since the birth of a supercomputer, I am afraid it has been busy all the time, calculating complex formulas that are simply impossible to calculate with the human brain, and then deducing

It may take hundreds of years to reach a conclusion.

It is not surprising that Pfizer needs supercomputers. Although the number of supercomputers is very small, they are inseparable from medicine, biology, and machinery.

It can be said that it is precisely because of the emergence of supercomputers that science in the future can develop at such a rapid pace.

"Our supercomputers are no longer sold separately. We now choose to install supercomputers as processing centers when building a freight network... But so far, only Wal-Mart has done this. But Burger King

Recently, there seems to be an intention to build such a network.”

Catherine thought for a while and said: "The supercomputer must be built. Since Pfizer needs it, just give it to them. But we can... we can use it in the name of joint development."

You still have to do enough superficial work.

"Joint development?"

"Yes, isn't our new supercomputer under development? We can do a 'secret crossing'."

Although he didn't understand what Catherine meant by "secretly crossing Chen Cang", Olson probably understood it.

"After all, this is millions of profits..."

Millions are money. Although the company's total profit is over hundreds of millions, as the saying goes, horses are worthless...

It's a pity that the federal government's vision is not far-sighted enough. If they can notice the benefits that supercomputers can bring to them, and then vigorously develop supercomputers, the future technological level of the United States will definitely leave other countries behind.

But this is the case in today’s countries, so what can be done?

Not just now, but also in the future, especially in some emerging countries.

The funniest thing is in China. Applications for the use of the national computer have been queued for several years, but some people are still preventing the construction of supercomputers, thinking that it is "wasting taxpayers' money".

Since Pfizer needs it now, just give it to them, promote the development of science and technology, and build her own technology empire. Catherine has never forgotten her ultimate goal.