Chicago 1990

[网]Chicago 1990 "I will bring my beliefs and family values ​​to the position of chief commander, and build an America that is not only good, but also better. That's why I announced today that I will run for the commander of the United States. I need you and I embark on the journey together..."

At the beginning of September, in the large conference room of the a+ Records headquarters, Song Yatuo watched TV with his cheeks and the room full of people. The deputy commander Gore officially announced his candidacy in his hometown of Tennessee today.

'Faith and family values', Gore, who is only fifty years old this year, really announced in his speech that he is more conservative and more'family-focused' than the current chief. This also shows that he will choose to join the current chief and The current commander’s lace scandal keeps his distance.

"We will work hard all night, in order for our children to have a fresh start, a higher starting point, to a brand new century, a higher place! Thank you! God bless you! Bless Amerika!"

The speech was short and the scene was small. Participants held up campaign slogans with the words ‘gore2000’ and there were stars and stripes everywhere.

"He will be a great leader." The representative of the board of directors dispatched by the ea company to 3dfx smiled to himself.

"Ok."

Song Ya agreed weakly. He was a little too lazy to deal with the people of ea. In the first half of the year, ea had announced that it would port a large number of its games to Sony’s upcoming PS2 game console platform, which meant that it would give Sega ds console competition. The opponent adds a lot of games.

And every time Sega’s mainframe sells one less, its own 3dfx display chip will also sell one less.

No way, Sega likes rigid and rigid playing balance. Knowing that ea is very important to them, it has also acquired and supported a cutting-edge company in the sports game field where ea is good at. This has attracted ea’s dissatisfaction and vigilance. Sony hooked up and counterattacked with the same balancing technique.

It is hard to say whether the console platform is more important to the game company, or vice versa.

But now the relationship between ea and Sega has taken a turn for the worse, even with his own 3dfx.

After Gore announced his candidacy, television stations began to broadcast his campaign advertisements, and Americans of all skin colors, ethnicities, and all walks of life expressed support for the camera.

Song Ya turned off the TV.

The whole room had nothing to look at, and everyone noticed that the youngest self-made billionaire, the black pharaoh and 3dfx Dong Zuo, seemed to be in a bad mood now, so they fell into silence.

The only company, cto Jim Keller, who is not a member of the 3dfx board of directors, was also there, and looked at him quietly with the unique curious eyes of a high IQ genius. This is the first time the two have met.

Song Ya was actually in a good mood today. He didn't notice the look in Jim Keller's eyes. He sighed slightly and raised his wrist to look at his watch. Someone was late and everyone had to wait. His time was precious and he was a little unhappy.

His thoughts flew back a few days ago.

Little Daley's victory in the party primaries of the Chicago mayor's election is tantamount to a successful re-election. He can't even hide from the celebration dinner. Even if Daley is freed up, he may start a fierce fight with the governor.

"The current chief executive's wife bought a house in New York, and at the same time she announced her candidacy for the New York State Senate next year. She also claimed that her family had no lawsuits against Paula Jones, Lewinsky, and other lawsuits. Savings, so the money to buy a house is borrowed from friends, banker friend Terry McAuliffe, next year's Donkey Party National Convention will also be held in New York."

Underwood also came back, and the two got together naturally, "That couple doesn't need Chicago anymore." Underwood said.

Song Ya didn't care about the couple, "Senator Joseph Lieberman..." He only thought about the rich three generations.

"Don't worry, you can always think of a way."

Underwood seemed quite sure. The two chatted while observing little Daley who was surrounded by well-dressed wealthy businessmen and celebrities in the distance, saying, "The foundation of their cooperation is not strong."

"Yeah." The two absolutely trusted each other, Song Ya didn't urge anymore, and instead guessed about the relationship between Gore and Chicago with Underwood.

I heard that Gore’s people had come to talk to him after Little Daley won the election, and Peter Flock should have sent someone there, but this is an absolute secret of the three parties, and he and Underwood have no way of knowing the specifics.

The current commander no longer needs Chicago, and discards it as if he is dead, but if Gore wants to be the future commander, everyone is betting.

"Maybe until Gore comes to Chicago this month to see the clues." Underwood said.

"Oh, I'm under a lot of pressure now."

Little Daly has won the election, and the deeply rooted Daly family will not fall to the point where they can’t do without themselves, but Peter, who has a relatively shallow foundation, can’t. He failed to attack Little Daley, and the well-versed real estate developer Kozko fell behind. With little Daly in his hands, Peter began to look anxious, and he urgently needed support.

And because he has always been one of Al Gore's gold masters and he has made a big bet on Al Gore's Internet site, Peter has made it clear that he hopes that when Al Gore comes to Chicago this month, he can accompany him to meet Al Gore.

This move will undoubtedly be jealous of little Daley.

But Peter's kind of ruthless role that still does not forget to kill Cathy's father Vic after many years, when he is really impatient, it is best not to make him unhappy.

In a dilemma, Gore, who is still performing his duties as a deputy commander, finally came to Chicago and found an excuse to hide again, right? That's why Song Ya said that the pressure was great.

"I understand." Underwood said naturally. "What are you going to do?" he asked.

"I should go. I asked Michelle to ask Mr. Daley for forgiveness in advance."

Song Ya answered. Michelle worked as an assistant to the mayor's office for Little Daly, and has always been politically regarded as a person over there.

"Be confident in aplus. I heard that this year's Fuji Bi, you can be among the world's top 100 richest people?" Underwood said with a smile: "It's okay, little Daley still has such a big breast."

"Almost." Song Ya shrugged, "I hope so..."

He is observing others, and others are observing him. After a difficult election battle with single black mothers, Daly, in fact, generally doesn’t think much about him, who has a great influence on the black community. Michelle learns that he will meet with Gore with his mortal enemy Peter.

"I heard that today this kid will be ranked as the eighty-first richest person in the world with a net worth of 4.5 billion, and he is tied with the two brothers of the media giant Newhouse family."

A cronie said to Little Daly: "The little Bronfman, who is at odds with him, is at the threshold of the top 100 millionaires. He has already overtaken him. There are rumors in Hollywood that the two bet on who will go bankrupt first... "

"Chicago's pride..." Little Daly didn't smile. "Don't care about him, I will talk to Gore personally."

"Aplus! People are here!"

Back at this moment, 3dfx former CEO McLaren appeared at the door of the meeting room excitedly, "Let's go down." He still holds the board of directors after his retirement.

"Ok."

Song Ya was shocked, and immediately followed him downstairs with other directors, and watched the fleet of cars that were far and near lined up in a tacit agreement. Except for Jim Keller, they all took the opportunity to tidy up their instruments. There was a team on station A who was in charge of the camera. .

This is a historic moment for 3dfx, because as the team stopped at the door, a bald middle-aged white man opened the door and got out of the car. He was the CEO of Microsoft. In 1999, Fuji was the fourth richest man in the world with a net worth of 190. Five hundred million Ballmer.

"Aplus! Haha..."

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Ballmer seemed to be energetic at all times. He laughed and stretched out his hand, shaking hands with Song Ya, "The shameless guy in your mouth is here."

Some of the directors who knew that Netscape and Microsoft were talking about each other immediately laughed.

"Those are what Jim Clark taught me." Song Ya also smiled and dismissed it.

"Hahaha!"

Ballmer and everyone laughed together, "Hello, hello..." After shaking hands with the directors, "This may be my first meeting in a record company." Ballmer looked up again. a+ record headquarters building smiled.

Everyone laughed again.

He has mastered the rhythm of the conversation, "Want to visit it?" Song Ya asked.

"convenient?"

"of course."

"OK." Ballmer readily agreed.

Song Ya took them to visit his record company, personally responsible for the explanation, and stopped before the riaa platinum records were certified. "This single was released in 1990. This is 1991..."

At this time, in Washington, Underwood, who had returned to his shabby House of Representatives Office on Capitol Hill, and Chief of Staff Doug were on the phone. On January 1st of the beginning of the year, he moved out of the Office of the Whip of the Donkey Party House of Representatives.

"Has the father's interview been aired? Ok, okay." Doug was relieved after answering the phone and turned on the TV.

"I don’t know what problems Senator Joseph Lieberman helped us to solve. I testified in Congress, but until now Marilyn Manson’s records are still being released normally. I later heard that he and the recording industry were on the same side. . They deceived me in partnership..."

Do you remember the distressed father who testified before Congress to control the release of such records because his son who liked Marilyn Manson’s songs committed suicide? it's him.

After reading it, Underwood chuckled sinisterly with satisfaction, he asked Doug to find him.

"Damn it!"

Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut has long been reminded by friends in the media that this interview will be broadcast. He is also watching. The other party's name is not clear to himself and the recording industry. This is nothing to his conservative political stance. A major blow, but it is undoubtedly a warning from some friends on Capitol Hill.

This is not easy, because he is indeed unaware of the Jewish influence in the entertainment industry.

"Reject the little Bronfman. I didn't like that guy who feels good about himself." He ordered his staff.

In Chicago, Song Ya led Ballmer out of the deep-sea recording studio, and they had almost visited the scene. They returned to the large conference room for a formal meeting.

"I am honored to be able to invite Mr. Ballmer to our meeting today."

Standing at the top of the long conference table, he formally introduced Ballmer, and then said: "Today's agenda is as follows..."

"First of all, our cto Mr. Jim Keller will introduce next year's new products, the new architecture of voodoo chips." He gave up his seat to Jim Keller and drove everyone to applaud.

"Thank you."

Jim Keller prepared a whiteboard. He took the oil-based pen and began to write and draw on it. At the same time, he explained: "We will abandon the previous generation architecture on the voodoo5 project..."

"Is it necessary to make such a big bet? The previous-generation architecture has been very mature, and we are still the market leader."

3dfx's second-largest individual shareholder who personally attended the meeting interrupted Jim Keller and raised questions.

"Unfortunately, our single-card performance has been surpassed by nv's tnt2ultra this year, so we are no longer the front runners." Song Ya said displeasedly.

"Maybe you shouldn't have driven Ross and the others away..." The second largest individual shareholder had always firmly supported him, but after the trio left, they began to shake the correctness of their previous behavior.

"If they are still there, our voodoo will only be still playing 16-bit color, and the gap with nv will only get bigger and bigger. The responsibility for the performance from leading to backward is the three of them." Song Ya retorted.

"After they went to the stb, they said that 16-bit color was enough, otherwise it would squeeze the polygon performance of the display chip."

It seems that this guy has been paying attention to the remarks made by the trio after they left, "This is a problem of resource allocation, at this stage..."

"At any stage, I don't accept that the performance data is surpassed by the opponent. The graphics card buyers are believers who read the book data, so they don't care about the current trade-off..."

Song Ya did his homework during this time, "They will only buy graphics cards from the head company, and we can't lose the crown of the king of performance."

"but……"

"Well, now is not the time to talk about this, Mr. Keller, please continue." Song Ya raised his hand to stop the other party.

"Thank you, our computing unit..." Jim Keller continued to explain the rough architecture he drew: "In order to cooperate with voodoo5, we must also rewrite glideapi on a large scale. This work must be completed before March next year. "

Glideapi has already been jointly developed by Song Ya with both hands and Microsoft. Ballmer doesn't understand this technology, and probably rarely talks about such trivial matters, but the people he brought with him understood and immediately interjected: "Time is too tight."

"We will find a way to increase some resources." Ballmer turned his head to stop his men.

Song Ya pursed his lips, and Microsoft is also playing balance. They have never given up their d3dapi, and it is impossible to see 3dfx dominating the family. The more rivals such as nv, the better.

In business, it’s okay, but... after all, it’s a bit unpleasant.

"Thank you Jim Keller for the wonderful commentary."

The boring technical route demonstration is like a heavenly book. Song Ya didn’t understand much at all. He led everyone to the end of the applause, with his hands on the table, his eyes firm and full of pressure and said: "I don’t allow our products to be in the performance rankings. The performance is lagging behind our competitors, single-card performance, not dual-card sli, which is expensive and poor in sales!"

"I don't allow our 3dfx to be just a family sought after by professional hardware media and enthusiasts, but the sales figures and profits are lower than those of competitors. They are notorious rock stars!"

"I don't allow us to lose this war!"

In the large studio of the a+ film studio not far from the building, Blade Warrior director Zach Schneider and the photographer are instructing their staff to assume dozens of high-speed cameras in front of the green screen in a semi-circular shape. This is a big hit in the first half of the year. The technology used in the classic visual effects of the movie Matrix "Bullet Time" is now being imitated in large numbers by other crews, and each has its own magical powers to expand the use of scenes.

"So we will compete fiercely with our opponents on every product line next year. Our voodoo5 will cooperate with graphics card manufacturers to sell versions in various price ranges, just like our opponents! voodoo5sli, voodoo5max, voodoo5super, voodoo5plus, voodoo5, voodoo5mini ..."

When Song Ya said this, the director representative of id company, a shooting game, smiled and said: "In this case, we will become mockers who are mocked."

The director of nec, who is responsible for some voodoo3 chip foundries, represents the interface: "If we learn nv's product strategy, then we need to cooperate with chip packaging and testing manufacturers on a large scale to select and subdivide chips of different physiques... This means higher costs. "

Song Ya gave these two guys a glance, and was not disturbed. "So, we need to increase the total capital expenditure of 200 million dollars in order to defeat our competitors!"

Ballmer, who was originally watching the play silently with great interest, took a closer look at the hundred richest man and black pharaoh and gave him a deep look in surprise when he heard this sentence.

Song Ya happened to look over, and stared at him. Ballmer saw the fierceness in the opponent's eyes, and a slight sense of familiarity rose in his heart.

The mayor’s office, at this time, Little Daly had just sent away the special envoy for Gore’s visit to Chicago. "Damn it!" He turned and tanned in front of his cronies. "Gore seemed to think he had plenty of time for me and Peter plays a balance between the two. He will not have to pay too much for the infighting Chicago politics next year and still get our support!"

"The reality is like this." The cronies replied calmly, "We are now like this inside of us...it is indeed that we need his support more."

"That's impossible!"

Little Daly said grimly: "That pesky Peter Flock must be solved as soon as possible!"

"Hehe, our governor may not know that Kozko has agreed to be a taint witness." The cronies smiled and put a document on Little Daly's desk.

"Let's do it then!" Little Daly made a decision. "He shouldn't want to work in that position until 2001 to be responsible for the rezoning of the constituency. I will not allow it!"

That is big political capital, and Peter is very pleased with the voters...

"Peter's energy in the law enforcement agency..." Another older and more respectful cronies hesitated, "He is very black when he is insane. Shouldn't he consider it more carefully?"

"If you don't think about it, time is the most tolerant of waste. We must all be fast!"

Little Daley can't stand Peter now, let alone delaying time, he ordered his cronies: "Go to the lieutenant governor, let me find a chance to have a good chat with him! This is a life-and-death war!"

"Therefore, we need to expand our software department to rewrite glideapi. We need to find a better packaging and testing manufacturer to reach cooperation. We need to expand our marketing department and fight a legal battle with nv. At the same time, all Resources will be tilted towards Jim Keller and his project team to help them design the world's invincible voodoo5 chip!"

Song Ya continued to say in a deep voice: "In order to raise sufficient funds for the above work, 3dfx will issue some additional shares to strategic partners such as Microsoft. It will be decided today at this meeting!"

The directors made a commotion. Even though they had learned some news in advance, they were still very shocked. They whispered to each other and couldn't help but look at Ballmer.

Ballmer also smiled at everyone, he is here, and Microsoft's attitude is self-evident.

"As the chairman of 3dfx, you may know my deeds in other fields better, but I want to say that the reason why I can achieve a little bit of success is because I have an extremely strong desire to win."

Song Ya glanced over the faces of the directors at the meeting, "I don't like failure! I rarely lose! So now... please vote!"

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