Chinese entertainment for engineering students

These days, GIT is particularly lively, as is Mizuki BBS. The new science fiction project launched by the great god X.W has attracted more and more attention and has become a hot spot for a while.

Simultaneous translation is also carried out almost at the same time. Of course, it is all translated by technical personnel, so don't expect it to be honest and elegant. It just means that.

After all, science fiction novels are based on plot rather than writing style, and Wang Xu’s clever manipulation made this novel the first serialized novel on the Internet, and also made the basic settings open source.

This means that anyone can continue to write novels based on this setting, so science fiction enthusiasts soon followed suit and wrote a, um, version of Little Days.

Yes, in the 1990s, Xiaozi was even more obsessed with science fiction than Ugly Kingdom. The space opera "Legend of the Galaxy Heroes" really cultivated many science fiction fans for Xiaozi, and Tanaka Yoshiki didn't know it. How many days ago science fiction fans had a god-like existence.

Just like "The Three-Body Problem" in later generations has cultivated countless science fiction fans in China, "The Legend of the Galactic Heroes", completed in 1987, can be said to be the most important science fiction work in the history of Xiaoli.

Although Wang Xu's views on this kind of book are very general, his contribution is to reproduce many of China's strategies in science fiction, making it appear more epic among science fiction novels.

But the biggest problem with this science fiction is that its science fiction elements basically come from others, and there is no particularly exciting idea. Therefore, as a science fiction work, it is somewhat lacking in novelty.

This is also an important reason why this work has not won awards such as Hugo and Nebula. After all, the subject of space opera has been something that the West has played with for decades.

Of course, he also won the "Little Days Nebula Award". This award is somewhat different from the one in Chou Country. It can be said to be a regional award, and its authoritativeness is almost meaningless.

However, the people in childhood really like science fiction works, which can be seen from the large number of science fiction works in their animations.

No, a college student in Xiaotian also uploaded a short story of his own. It has nothing to do with Wang Xu's. It is just a short story. The background is Xiaotian after the apocalypse. He was also enslaved by the matrix and then resisted.

The whole story is full of a two-dimensional and middle-class atmosphere. Obviously the author is an animation lover, but it doesn't matter. This is how open source works. Readers will naturally judge whether it is good or not.

Most of the works uploaded now are for fun, and there are no payment channels. They are just published on the website in such a bold way, and they are usually reprinted on BBS.

BBS generally rarely have various strange languages, although Wang Xu has long provided support for UTF-8 and UTF-16 standards. Therefore, these BBSs can theoretically support multiple languages.

But in fact, few people go to text forums that they are not familiar with and insist on showing off.

The Firebird BBS system developed by Wang Xu is currently the most widely used website building system in the world. Because it has almost no restrictions on text, contributors from all over the world have equipped this BBS system with interfaces in almost all mainstream languages. translate.

Therefore, the operation methods of BBSs almost all over the world are almost the same, because they all come from the same open source products.

This is the charm of open source. Many things can be spread around the world without any barriers. It is at this time that many people experience the charm of information transmission across the world for the first time and are deeply intoxicated by it.

Based on the conclusions of the last gathering, Wang Xu once again made minor revisions to his novel. This operation will of course cause a lot of complaints from readers, because the translator has to translate it again.

However, the benefits of using GIT to upload novels are revealed at this time. It can be said that it is clear at a glance what has been modified and what has been added. If you are using a BBS, you can only re-upload a new one and find tools for comparison.

After Wang Xu uploaded the novel, he browsed emails from all over the world as usual. Wang Xu had multiple mailboxes, and the management programs for these mailboxes came from the open source Firefox mailbox on GIT.

Since the establishment of the mirror sites on the east and west coasts of Chouguo GIT, Wang Xu's name has become an unavoidable name in the IT field, because when Wang Xu established the project, he didn't pay much attention to the identity issue, so he always used X.W for convenience. Performed by name.

It can be said that the open source projects under this name account for almost half of the entire open source field. And almost all heavyweight open source products are related to X.W.

From operating systems to network tools, from audio decoding to 3D modeling, from development languages ​​to development environments, from databases to application services, from scientific computing to artificial intelligence, the name X.W is almost everywhere, and open source projects are almost all-encompassing.

Almost every imaginable computer application software has open source products with similar functions on GIT. There are many, and they are even easier to use than commercial software.

There are already some commercial software companies in Ugly Country, which have begun to use some modules on GIT to improve their commercial products, and even remit some profits to public accounts in accordance with the provisions of the agreement.

The public account of GIT is hosted. This is a non-profit organization. Several professors from the Department of Economics and Management of Shuimu are responsible for building the basic framework, and it is managed by an accounting firm in Chouguo.

They distribute profits to contributors according to that complex dividend rule.

Anyway, it's quite complicated. Currently, the purchase cost of GIT server and the rental of bandwidth are all managed by this organization.

At present, GIT mainly relies on donations, and there are many donors. Especially after connecting to Chou Country, many IT companies in Chou Country have donated funds to support it.

If you just open a project, you can also talk about Wang Xu's permission issues, but the key is that in almost every project, there is core code contributed by X.W.

This is extraordinary. In the world of programmers, code is the language of communication, and X.W is the god of code.

However, it is not easy to contact X.W. To contact him on GIT, you can only contact him through a public mailbox that is open to the outside world. The efficiency is probably not as good as directly shouting on the forum.

Wang Xu actually doesn't read that mailbox. His assistant usually organizes it, and only the really important ones are forwarded to him.

Well, Wang Xu now has more than one assistant. Wang Jinghua has one for him, and there are also assistants in the laboratory. Of course, there will be no shortage at the school. Basically, each one is responsible for his own affairs. Otherwise, ten Wang Xu will not be able to keep busy. Come.

However, this assistant in the laboratory has the ability to access the Internet, or the education network. It will take two years for Huaxia Internet to officially open access.

Wang Xu browsed through the assistant's screening, but there were still hundreds of emails. Most of them were suggestions for project products. The assistant had already forwarded them to the relevant person in charge. Wang Xu was just reporting here.

But there are still some emails that need to be handled by Wang Xu himself, such as this one, which is an email from Chou Country.

“Dear X.W.

It is a great honor to write this letter to you.

This is the first time in my twenty years as an editor that I have been so excited to write a business letter.

A few days ago, an old friend from the Literature Department of Stanford University enthusiastically introduced me to a brand new scientific project. Yes, it is your open source "Matrix" project.

I read your setting and the first work "The Matrix" based on this setting with great excitement. I dare say that this is an epoch-making work.

Not only for such a novel, but also for such a brand new setting model full of science fiction spirit.

This is a true interaction between science and literature, and a new attempt to bring science fiction into reality. This magical experience even gave me a dreamy feeling that I was in a science fiction world.

This method of communication and sharing based on the new era and new technology is very worthy of observation and discussion. DAW Books very much hopes to participate in it and become a driving force for the advancement of technology and literature.

As the president, I hope to have the opportunity to publish your works and have in-depth discussions and communication with you about GIT open source, a new science fiction creation model.

We have donated US$10,000 to the GIT organization, hoping to help GIT develop longer.

Wish you smooth development.

Betsy Wollheim President

DAW Books"

Judging from the signature, this letter comes from Betsy Wollheim, the president of DAW Books.

Even in later generations, it is estimated that not many Chinese people know about this publishing house, but in the American science fiction community, this name is still quite famous. It has been publishing various science fiction books since the 1970s, including many Hugo Awards and Nebula Awards. award-winning works.

Later, it became a cooperative brand of Penguin Publishing House, the largest bookseller in Chou Country, specializing in publishing science fiction and fantasy works for him.

Wang Xu knew this name because this publishing house seemed to be acquired by Huaxia Capital in later generations.

The name Betsy Wollheim is even more interesting, because she is not only the president of this publishing house, she is also the daughter of Donald Wollheim, the founder of this publishing house.

Donald Wollheim is a figure in the National Science Fiction Hall of Fame. Although he was posthumously recognized ten years later, he should be dead now.

The content of the letter did not surprise Wang Xu. It was strange that this new gadget could not attract the attention of businessmen from Chou Country.

However, the wording of this letter is somewhat unexpectedly enthusiastic, which is exactly the same as the reaction of a science fiction fan when seeing a new idea.

Judging from the wording of this letter, the business feeling is quite weak, but the fans' sense of déjà vu is quite strong.

Therefore, Wang Xu naturally replied to her in a personal capacity. Naturally, it was impossible to promise anything casually in the letter, but he still invited Ms. Betsy to come to his place for a chat at a convenient time.

Although it is a bit far across the Pacific Ocean, the direct flight between the two countries is actually only a dozen hours of journey. I just don’t know if as the owner of a big publishing house, she is really looking forward to a meeting as she said. .

Wang Xu replied to the letter and put the matter aside. His open source on GIT was not just to complete the creative background. In fact, he was more concerned about the implementation of various projects.

Now, Wang Xu plans to sort out what is needed to make such a science fiction movie.

The first is the establishment and management of the crew. The crew is actually a small company. Managing the crew is to manage a temporary small company. After all kinds of supporting personnel and professionals are available, the company will run.

In this era, film crews, even in Hollywood, are still managed in traditional ways, and the new generation of project management methods have not entered this rather traditional field at all.

And what does Wang Xu do? As a time traveler and an engineering student, if you hear that you need to manage, if you can’t use software to manage, then it’s not called management. So a new set of software product blueprints for project management and resource management was born.

Wang Xu named it "Little 2 Class", well, it was the same name as the best friend group that Wang Fei had in her previous life.

But I don’t know if she will organize that thing again in this life. Although her best friend group already has a fixed venue for activities, I haven’t heard of them naming it.

Wang Xu was named Xiaoerban, but who asked Wang Xu to be called Wanger? The crew is almost the same as the theater troupe, so he was modest and called Xiaoerban.

In fact, it is something similar to later generations of ERP, plus functions such as Kanban boards for project management. There are no smart phones yet, but there are pagers. Build a paging platform for a small area, and then do what needs to be done. Just send it to the pager.

If this thing is modified, it will become ERP, and it will be branched out in the future. As for the project management part, it will be modified by the mercenary union. It will be easy to do, and it will be done in about two months.

Wang Xu directly assigned a large-scale mercenary mission, and then marked the price of 100,000 yuan and contracted it out.

The mercenary union at this time was not just established. Any university that can connect to the education network can undertake the above projects. However, now there is a bidding process. After all, there are more people. Compared with when it was first established, There are many more competitors.

Computer departments in many universities have established their own mercenary teams to undertake tasks to supplement their families' income.

Many mercenary teams later established companies to take on external computer software development tasks.

Of course, therefore, the various software handover standards established by the mercenary union have become de facto standards in the industry. This was Wang Xu’s original vision, to use de facto standards to become industry standards, and then become the setter of national and even international standards. .

For example, the codes in the previous era were basically based on the ASCII coding standard, but Wang Xu used the UTF-8 standard here. Although this standard was only announced by the ISO organization in 1992, Wang Xu knew that this standard would be used by future generations. full character standard.

In fact, Wang Xu would rather use GB18030. Unfortunately, this standard has not yet been determined. Faced with symbols from all over the world, Wang Xu did not have the ability to unify these characters, so he had to use the ISO standard.

Wang Xu has not only done this one, but a bunch of similar projects, such as 3D modeling software that is more suitable for film and television production, high-speed editing software, film digitization software, and digital film conversion software. It seems like a lot. But overall the cost is still controllable.

Wang Xu even posted many hardware development tasks in the mercenary union, such as those firearm models and car models.

Yeah, that's right, he doesn't plan to use today's weapons, it's science fiction, it's the future, why not use weapons from the future, even though it's just a look.

But as far as Great China is concerned with seeing who is pregnant, if they can do something, it has nothing to do with Wang Xu, right?

When Wang Xu makes a movie, the so-called drunkard's focus is not on the wine, but on the software and hardware products.

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(See you tomorrow)