Chapter 914: The League of Losers

A palm slapped on the tabletop with a low "pop!"

The sound awakened a sleeping elf, who searched left and right with its eyes open, and soon found an extra foreign object on the table, and then dragged its slender body like a snake to the palm of its hand. When he arrived, the "snake head" sniffed left and right on his fingers for a while, but he never found a place to speak, so he had to retreat back and turn back into his previous dormant appearance.

"Haha, interesting!" With admiration on his lips, Wang Shan raised his palm and slapped it in a different place.

Not surprisingly, the voice woke up the target again, and the staggered crawled over, and soon crawled back again.

Wait until the desktop returns to its original state, raise the palm of your hand again and put it down, and place a phone on the desktop.

The target was awakened for the third time, dragging his resin body to crawl to the side of the phone, looking left and right to finally find the location of the magnetic USB port, and then did not hesitate to send a "snake kiss".

Seeing that the mobile phone screen automatically lit up and a flashing charging icon appeared, Wang Shan smiled on his face and nodded his head in praise: "Interesting!"

Seeing that he stretched out his hand to get his mobile phone, Yuan Yang on the side hurriedly spoke to stop him: "Don't toss, just charge it like this, it will disconnect by itself when it is full." ”

"Oh!" Wang Shan nodded, turned around and leaned against the table, and sighed with regret: "Oh, it's a big loss not to go to Hengdian this time, I don't have my share in such a fun thing." Did the bees say when they would go on sale?"

"How do I know? By the time I saw this, the man was already outside the hotel. ”

Before going to Yokoyoshi on a business trip, the organizer gave a pocket of souvenirs, and this "lazy plug" is one of them.

As the name suggests, this is an assistive robot for lazy, careless people.

It looks like a mechanical-style snake head, with two forward-facing eyes on an angular face, infrared light bulbs and infrared cameras, a pair of wheels and microphones under the chin, a special magnetic connector inside the mouth, and microUSB and USB-C ports on the back of the head for power connection. As long as the data cable is plugged in and the power is turned on, this "little snake" will turn on and work, use sound and infrared vision to automatically search for targets, find the electronic equipment on the table, and lie on the magnetic interface to charge it. When it is fully charged, it can also flip the magnetic field to disconnect and return to its original position for the next service.

Pointing to the mobile phone on the table, Yuan Yang shook his head and said, "This little thing is a bit out of time, and the magnetic interface is not very popular now." ”

"Yes," Wang Shan nodded sympathetically, "The bees have almost given up magnetic attraction now, although there are optional magnetic shells on the DIY side, but they are no longer the mainstream configuration." ”

The first mobile phone equipped with a magnetic interface was the HP PalmPre that was sold in 2009, but the WebOS it was equipped with had an advanced concept, but it was given a cold reception by the market due to incomplete ecology, and then HP simply gave up the Palm business, and the trademark was sold to TCL, WebOS was sold to LG, and the king of PDA (personal digital assistant) that was once a great man completely fell.

This mobile phone failed miserably, but other manufacturers have also noticed the advantages of the magnetic interface is easy to connect and can prevent pulling and damaging the device, Sony, Bee, Apple, Microsoft and other companies have launched mobile phones, laptops, and tablet products equipped with magnetic interfaces, showing a thriving image.

However, there are two sides to everything, and the magnetic interface also has obvious shortcomings. The structure of the magnetic interface is complex and the cost is high, and the contact resistance is larger than that of the traditional interface, so if you want to increase the charging power, you must increase the volume of the interface, plus the necessary strong magnets, this kind of interface is all chubby. In order to be lighter and thinner, manufacturers even want to kill the "rigid need" of the 3.5mm headphone jack, and naturally they will not open the magnetic interface.

In order to carry the USB-PD fast charging function, the Bee 7 also gave up the magnetic suction and replaced it with the more popular USB-C. The reason why Lao Wang's mobile phone can be plugged in and charged is because this "lazy plug" is equipped with a conversion head like other third-party magnetic cables, and you can use the magnetic function normally by plugging it into the mobile phone, but the chin is protruding and slightly ugly. This is also one of the reasons why the third-party magnetic cable is not popular, many users can't even bear the camera protrusion, these people are definitely not willing to spend dozens of hundreds of yuan, just to add a small pimple to the chin of their mobile phones.

After thinking about it, Wang Shan said: "Actually, this idea is quite good, the magnetic suction can't be used, and it can also be made into a traditional plug or an induction charger." ”

"Feasible is feasible," Yuan Yang shook his head, "The problem is the cost!"

"This little thing is actually the same thing as a spherical robot, the plane movement structure is simpler, and it can definitely be done for more than 100 yuan. However, if you add plugs and induction chargers, the structure will be greatly changed, and the motion module will be added, and the cost will definitely go up. Would you buy a data cable for hundreds of dollars to save trouble?"

"That's right," Wang Shan nodded and changed the subject, "Don't talk about this, didn't you say that there is also a PV (promotional video) of 'Cosmic Miner', take it out and take a look!"

"Hmm!" Yuan Yang stood up, picked up the disc box on the small bookshelf in the cubicle, and put it on the table.

The black box is covered with colorful stars, and in the center of the cover is a golden asteroid, and a group of miners in thin spacesuits are digging for gold with pickaxes in hand. Seeing this, Lao Wang couldn't help but smile and asked, "This is space mining?" ”

"Of course not, this is just a concept art, the gravitational pull of the asteroid is much smaller, and people will be thrown out with a pickaxe. ”

I took out the disc and stuffed it into the PT CD-ROM drive, and soon a magnificent and silent image of the universe appeared on the screen.

Pointing to the screen, Yuan Yang introduced: "This drama is inspired by 2011UW-158, the legendary platinum asteroid. When it came to Earth last year, it was on the news several times, when the crew of "The Wandering Earth" happened to be doing the plot of crossing the asteroid belt, and then someone brainily used those materials to cut a video of asteroid belt mining and put it on the Internet. Now that the movie is almost finished, Bee Ying picked up this idea and planned to make it a domestic 'Big Bang Theory'. ”

Looking at the room scene and environment introduction on the screen, Wang Shan bowed slightly: "It's quite similar, except for the different tones, it does look like TBBT." But is it really good for bees to do this? blatantly plagiarism?"

"It's not plagiarism, it's just a tribute. TBBT has made a start, and other TV series with similar themes will inevitably learn from imitation. But don't worry about them imitating the plot of the Big Bang Theory, the gap between the times is too big, and the mining robots of the future will not be played by women casually. And," Yuan Yang paused for a moment, and said quite excitedly: "The project of Bee Shadow can be regarded as officially authorized, because they have reached an agreement with Goguang CBS, astronomer Rush and roboticist Howard will appear in this TV series, as the role of the American team, well, it is the elderly version." ”

"It should be a cameo, right? Their remuneration seems to be very high," Wang Shan subconsciously asked rhetorically.

"It's not expensive!" Yuan Yang waved his hand magnificently: "These people are among the top few in the income list of American drama actors, and their salary is only one million dollars per episode, which is converted to less than seven million soft girl coins, which is still before tax, and the cost performance is still very high." The bees buckle the noose again, and the money to invite them to make a cameo appearance in a few episodes is still available. ”

"That's right," Lao Wang accepted, "I remember that I seem to have seen a comparative report, as if our country has led the world in terms of TV drama salary." The United States is better, the salary of first-line TV actors in the United Kingdom, Japan and South Korea is only equivalent to the second, third and fourth tiers in China, and it seems that it is not bad to find a foreigner to make a cameo. ”

"The key is to have a good book, if the script becomes scum, no matter how big the star is, he can't hold it," Yuan Yang pointed to the portraits of the characters that appeared on the screen and said: "See, senior astronauts, futurists, aerospace engineers, science fiction writers, American screenwriters, this advisory group is gorgeous enough, right?"

"It's pretty good," those people's titles were strong enough that Wang Shan couldn't refute them at all, but she still noticed something wrong, frowned and asked, "Hmm, why didn't you see the introduction of the protagonist?"

"Yes, in the back," Yuan Yang smiled mysteriously, picked up the mouse and flicked the progress bar, and soon a familiar face appeared on the screen.

"Hmm, isn't that who?" Lao Wang didn't react for a while, but when the second face appeared on the screen, he suddenly exclaimed, "Isn't this Bliss Kidney Bao Lu Xiaoqiao?"

The "Love Apartment" series watched Changhong, and several young actors who had just graduated from the drama became popular, but when the series ended, the circumstances of the leading actors were different, except for Zeng Xiaoxian, who became a popular variety show star, the star journey of others was not too smooth. The reason is that the filming of the series, which lasted for four years, "made a lot of contributions", and it was the characters that were popular rather than the people, and the audience saw their faces and thought of the previous roles, but it was difficult to accept the new roles they played.

This phenomenon is seen in film and television actors, but it is most often seen in TV actors, especially those TV series that have been filmed for several years, and it is easy to form an image solidification. If the series continues to be filmed, it will be nothing, and there will still be old fans who will continue to pursue it, but if the series ends for some reason, the aura of the characters will become a burden, and there are often actors who can't get out of it, and eventually become losers in the film and television industry.

For these actors, the best thing to do is to improve their acting skills, recreate an attractive character, and then establish a new image with the audience and the producer. But this road is also the most difficult to walk, acting requires hard work and talent, and you can't upgrade it with a click. There is another way, that is, to play a role similar to the image and temperament of the previous role, after playing Qianlong, it will be easier to play his grandfather Kangxi and his father Yongzheng, playing Zhao Ling'er, and then playing Xiaolongnu and Wang Yuyan are also holding the handle, but choosing this path will also lead to further deepening of the image solidification, ambitious actors usually resist this, and even do not hesitate to shave their heads and strip off their clothes to play out-of-character roles to break the image.

Of course, if the producer is sincere enough, there will be many actors who will take on such work. Even if the image is fixed and affects Calais, it is still the treatment of the protagonist, which is better than half of the supporting roles that are not purple or irrelevant.

I don't know if it's out of bad taste or for other purposes, Bee Film and Television has recruited a group of famous actors who were once popular, but their images are fixed and their stars are not going well, and they form the starring lineup of this TV series. After reading the character introduction, Wang Shan almost without thinking, gave this TV series the nickname "Loser League".

Interestingly, there are many people who think the same way as him, and it is obvious that everyone is poisoned by the "Avengers".

On the other hand, Atletico Madrid didn't know that their TV series had not been filmed first, and they had a wave of existence with the label of "Losers" and nostalgia. At this time, he was immersed in the world of code and circuits, and was working the development of new chips.

There is only less than a month left before the release of PT2 "Rooster", the design work of BH626 has not been completely completed, and the siege lions of BHIC Bee Heart Semiconductor have entered overtime mode.

Today, chip-aided design tools are becoming more and more mature and convenient, and the work intensity and entry threshold of chip designers have been greatly reduced, making all kinds of chip products bloom and prosper. However, no matter how good the tool is, it still needs to be used by people, and the talent and experience of the main architect still strongly affect the final performance of the product.

For Beecore Semiconductor, Atletico Madrid is their JimKeller, usually small repairs do not need to be bothered, but if you want to create a new process and new architecture, you can't do without the latter's full care.

Jimmy Kahler is a living legend in the field of processors, and more than ten years ago he led the launch of the K7 and K8 classic cores at AMD, which made the Athlon CPU a long time in the limelight. Later, he was acquired by Apple to create two mobile chips, A4 and A5, which were used in the original iPad and iPhone4s respectively, which are also classics. What's even more powerful is that he was recruited by the old master of declining agricultural machinery sales, and rejoined AMD to lead the team to create a new x86 processor core ZEN, but when he was about to see the results, he resigned categorically and jumped to the electric car company Tesla, which has been advocating self-driving technology with high requirements for computing power, and specially invited this great god to sit down.

In terms of talent and intuition, Atletico naturally can't compare with a legend like Jimmy Kahler, but he also has his own advantages, that is, the alien plug-in of E7U. The latter gave him a strong memory, ten years of deep knowledge, and all kinds of unbelievable electronic abilities, and as long as the plug-in remained, he was still the world-renowned chip design genius, especially good at micro-innovation. Although the 626 with a 10-nanometer process is difficult, it is not difficult for him.

(End of chapter)