Chapter 493: Developers

New York, Rio, Moscow, Paris, Chicago, Dubai, Tokyo, some of these cities have a long history, some are fashionable and modern, some are a mix of Chinese and Western styles, but one thing they have in common, that is, they all have beautiful skylines.

Originally, the word "skyline" meant the horizon, horizon, or horizon, but in modern times, the meaning of the word has changed to "the outline of a landscape with the sky as the background."

In fact, the skyline has become a special kind of group photo name, with blue sky, white clouds, and alpine water as the background of the city's high-rise buildings, family portraits!

The skyline is not only a concentrated display of the great power of human transformation of nature, but also the best business card of the city, her prosperity, her wealth, her elegance, and her heritage can be reflected in the skyline from different angles.

If it were a harbor city, when night fell, the windows of the buildings were lit up by the lighting inside, and the outlines of the buildings were depicted by the decorative lights, and then these left shadows on the water, and the splendor and magnificence and elegance were instantly doubled?

It's a pity that this is the patent of the waterfront city, the vast sea, the beautiful bay can add a lot of points to the skyline, the effect of the river surface and the lake surface is almost acceptable, as long as you are patient to find the viewing angle, and the city without harbor river and lake resources can only use artificial water surface to make up the number, such as dredging the moat and digging an artificial lake or something.

However, if the mirror water surface can add icing on the cake to the skyline, there are naturally things that can smear and defile the skyline, such as shanty houses and unfinished buildings, such as the cloudy sky and too much haze.

As a cosmopolitan city, Hong Kong Island is famous for its Victoria Bay and Shanghai's Pujiang skyline, which is regularly featured on various media platforms, attracting countless tourists to their respective cities.

In August last year, Hong Kong Island suffered an embarrassment, the rumored smog struck Hong Kong, Victoria Bay was suddenly covered with several layers of light veil, the world-famous skyline in the past was hazy and unclear, so that waves of tourists who came to admire it were not disappointed.

Fortunately, on the endless road, tourists and friends soon found a large poster set up on the side of the seaside avenue, the content of which happened to be the normal skyline with the blue sky and white clouds as the background, and then they suddenly understood the purpose of this color printed poster was originally for everyone to use as a background, so they walked forward to the depths of the vitality scissor hand to sell cute cat's claw boxing, leaving a commemorative photo of a visit to Hong Kong.

Atletico remembered this because he reprinted the news picture and added the sentence "Uh, this time [one-click smog removal] can't be saved!

This is naturally to learn like Mr. Du, follow hot topics and mix private goods into them, and hitchhike to engage in marketing. The actual effect is also very satisfactory to him, the search volume and usage of the bee camera and the bee mobile phone had a relatively obvious increase at that time, of course, the reason for the relatively small plate of the bee mobile phone, the small base and a slight increase or decrease will lead to a large shake in the growth curve.

In fact, the so-called "one-click haze removal" function is not fundamentally different from the "one-click beautification" and "one-key glow" beautification functions of the camera application, all of which use algorithms to enhance contrast, brightness and color saturation, thereby enhancing the aesthetics of the picture. The only difference is that bee phones are generally dual-camera, and the dual lenses can calculate the depth of field information of the photo with the help of an algorithm when the user takes a photo, so as to distinguish the foreground and background, and beautify them separately, such as cutting out the background to beautify and brighten it or simply replace it.

"Haze" beautification can not really add details to the picture, at most, it is to apply a noise reduction algorithm to reduce useless pixels, which is used to strengthen the original outline details, but in the event of heavy fog, heavy rain and haze with too low visibility, it is naturally a cup, fortunately, the bee also has a background replacement gameplay, even if the effect of automatic replacement is not as good as the green screen effect, it is better than nothing.

Of course, where Atletico Madrid is now, there is no haze in sight.

The cause of the smog is different, different people have their own opinions because of different positions, the citizens say that it is caused by factory discharge, the factory says that I have met the standard, it may be caused by car exhaust, three barrels of oil say that my oil is all qualified, it should be caused by the burning of straw by the villagers, and the farmer friends expressed disbelief that it may be caused by the daily smoking of people in the city, and the China Tobacco Group hurriedly said that it is wronged, maybe it is caused by eating barbecue fried fritters......

But there is an indisputable fact that the smog is definitely caused by people.

In fact, the haze is quite similar to the smoke clouds in the conference room, there are many people in the closed room, and the air is naturally turbid and smoky.

Similarly, the control of smog is also quite similar to the control of indoor pollution, the implementation of energy conservation and emission reduction is very similar to the indoor smoking ban, the adjustment of the industrial structure to limit the foreign population is like reducing the number of people indoors, as for the "urban ventilation belt" plan of some experts, it is also quite similar to the ventilation of open windows. However, these three tricks are quick and low cost when treating the room, but it is not easy to enlarge to the city level, energy saving and emission reduction coal and gas exchange need money, and the foreign population does not need to rush to the Spring Festival holiday to naturally leave, as for the urban fan plan, it is even more unreliable.

To paraphrase an idiom, "the haze is not a one-day discharge", the haze problem does not appear suddenly overnight, and it cannot disappear overnight. A "shock" therapy for the entire city and even surrounding cities can certainly reduce urban pollution emissions in a short time, but it is obvious that the symptoms are not cured, and the Olympic Games are only 16 days, and the World Cup is only one month, and it cannot be held regularly.

At this time, you can refer to the US imperialism, since the first Los Angeles photochemical smog incident occurred in 1943, to 34 years later, in 1977, half of the days were still in a state of health warning, and it was not until 2004 in the new century that the health warning was reduced to only 4 days.

To a certain extent, the domestic masses have actually caught up with the good times, although the sentence in the history textbook "never follow the old road of Western countries to pollute first and then clean up" now seems to have become empty words, but objectively speaking, we have not embarked on the old road, after all, the harm of smog is only "carcinogenic" and the like, compared with the "death" of the London smog and the Los Angeles smog is obviously much weaker.

On the one hand, thanks to technological progress, the pollutant emissions of today's cars and boilers have been greatly reduced compared with their predecessors a few decades ago, and on the other hand, there are also "lessons from the past", so that pollution control can be implemented earlier.

Late-mover advantage, proper.

North America is already a vast and sparsely populated country, and the United States and Canada have been aggressively promoting deindustrialization in recent decades, and most of the population is engaged in tertiary industries such as service and finance, so the air quality is certainly improving.

For example, Vancouver, where Atletico Madrid is located at the moment, has a population of only 600,000 in the entire urban area, and there are only 00,000 people in the entire Greater Vancouver area. Even so, Wenshi is already the third largest metropolis in Canada, and the population of the first metropolis, Toronto, is only 2.5 million, and the entire Greater Toronto Area is 6 million.

In fact, in terms of the skyline alone, Wencun is not as good as Egret Island, not to mention the international metropolises in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, after all, there are nearly two million people on Egret Island alone, with a per capita land area of 77 square meters. Such high density naturally creates a demand for high-rise residential buildings and high-rise office buildings, and the skyline is naturally much better when the high-rise buildings are densely populated.

Of course, if you compare the natural environment and architectural details of the skyline, Vancouver will definitely be better, and that faint sense of history is obviously a plus.

As the old saying goes, "Warm and thoughtful silverfish, hungry and cold steal the heart", and in Atletico's view, this sentence is actually an image description of "human brain automatic frequency conversion technology".

According to relevant research, the human brain only accounts for 2% of the body weight, but consumes 25% of oxygen and energy, which is actually a burden in many cases, which is why the vast majority of animals have not evolved to develop brains and wisdom like humans, because "natural selection is enough".

For most animals, the simple, low-energy brains give them a competitive advantage and are less likely to be eliminated and extinct. For example, cockroaches, this animal has a simple mind and a single function, even if its head falls off, it can live for another 9 days, and then starve to death because it has no stuttering. According to the analysis of amber fossils, the history of cockroaches is longer than that of dinosaurs, and it is still there after the dinosaurs are extinct, and scientists even say that cockroaches are resistant to cold, heat and radiation, and they can live well even if nuclear winter comes......

However, it is the super survivability that has caused this animal to not evolve for 400 million years, because "enough is enough", what is the progress?

For the human brain, because the energy consumption of this organ is too high, in order not to drag down the whole too much, the brain also has its own set of "automatic frequency conversion technology", when the blood sugar is sufficient and the energy is full, the mind is fully open and the wings of imagination are fully expanded, and naturally all kinds of cranky thoughts, desires are rampant;

Atletico likes Vancouver very much, not only because of its mild climate, clean air, and large number of Chinese, but also because of its leisurely pace of life, which not only has his "summer palace", but also has the North American R&D base of Bee Games.

Because of the relationship between the mobile phone system,Bee PT platform has a serious mobile game、Sketch tendency,The above large-scale games are either transplanted domestic online games,Or are replicas of classic stand-alone,The newly launched games are more like mobile games,After all, compared with tens of millions of mobile phone devices,So far, there is not much sense of existence in PT that has not sold millions,Developers are naturally more inclined to design games for bee mobile phones。

Even Bee Games does this themselves, after all, the development speed of large games is too slow, let alone triple-A masterpieces. Of course, the high cost of large-scale games and the low sales volume are also important reasons, and the difficulty of recovering the cost is also an important reason.

When it comes to mobile game development, they have long found an embarrassing situation, most of the online games are domestic, and the stand-alone games are foreign.

And even if it is an online game, it is also "copied" to "speculate", Journey to the West, Three Kingdoms, martial arts, ...... There are so many themes back and forth, cards, dress-ups, rounds, real-time, hang-ups...... What game is popular on the market, its gameplay is quickly copied by changing skins, and there are n more siblings and even twin brothers with "pixel-level copying".

In fact, this situation has been around for a long time, before the establishment of Bee Company, and when the smartphone boom rose, online game manufacturers brought this bad habit to the mobile phone field. Although Bee's own platform is unique, third-party developers are still the same people, and they are naturally flooded with various copycat games.

Even though the review of the Bee App Store is relatively strict, excluding most of the inferior scum and problematic works, there is nothing that can be done about "tribute" and "imitation".

And even if the bee's own companies,The games produced are also full of copycat flavor,After all, "the radish is fast and don't wash the mud",In order to increase the number of applications as soon as possible,Enrich the application type,Avoid the embarrassment of WP1%,You can only lower the standard appropriately。 Moreover, Bee's own games are all built using the Vee series game engine, and later opened it to third-party manufacturers, which further aggravates the situation of Qianyou's déjà vu.

Fortunately, there are still foreign developers, and after the introduction of applications and the promotion of the buyout policy to foreign countries, the number of original high-quality games has slowly increased.

I have to admit that for game development, which has a lot of artistic creation characteristics, it is still very important to have a comfortable and soothing rhythm of life, so that you can create a game full of inspiration and ingenuity by having enough food and clothing, and no need to worry about the KPI performance of car loans and housing loans.

So after realizing this, Bee also began to deliberately deploy abroad, looking for developers who really love games to help them create really interesting and fun games, and the North American base is responsible for this role. The living conditions here are more comfortable than those of the Australian firepower laboratory, and it is also more "close" to Asia, which is convenient for sending people from China to communicate.

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