Chapter 201: Late Striker and First Strike
Atletico sat on a chair, facing the floor-to-ceiling window, holding a black straight mobile phone in his right hand and tapping his big leg again and again, and when he lifted it up, he gently shook it, and the mobile phone between his fingers rotated neatly 180 degrees, and then continued to fall and continue to knock and rotate.
Next to him, Tang Jiayi sat on another chair, with her head down, holding her mobile phone in her left hand, and clicking on it with her right hand from time to time.
The glass door of the room was open, and the raindrops in the yard made a "popping" sound on the leaves of the hosta, and the strings of water that would have flowed down the roof tiles from the eaves disappeared, missing the scenery of sitting and watching the water curtain hole at the door. However, the rain falling from the roof is intercepted by a rain collection channel under the eaves, and flows down the rain channel to both sides, from the downspout in the corner of the wall, and finally into the specially dug water cellar in the yard.
This water cellar was specially dug this year to collect rainwater for watering the flowers.
Although the annual precipitation in the Guanzhong Plain is lower than the national average, the groundwater resources are still abundant, and the rainwater here is usually discharged directly into the sewers, and then pumped from the wells when water is needed. Only people in Ganning, northern Shaanxi, where there is less precipitation and lower water tables, will have to build rainwater harvesting cellars to preserve hard-won rainwater.
In the past, Atletico Tang Jiayi didn't think there was anything wrong with doing this, but when they were making "Da Ming", they checked a lot of information, and slowly became environmental protection supporters because of these shocking materials, and this water cellar is one of the actions to practice environmental protection claims.
Of course, even if he supports environmental protection, he is still a pragmatist at heart, and the motivation for supporting environmental protection has nothing to do with love and compassion, caring for the earth, cherishing life, etc., but believes that saving resources and caring for the environment is just a self-help for human beings to avoid self-destruction, or to delay self-destruction as much as possible.
For Atletico Madrid, the premise of caring for animals and plants is a cute and harmless appearance: the panda is cute and harmless, and the bird of paradise is beautiful and harmless, so it is worth protecting and cherishing. This attitude is more due to his love for all good things as an aesthetically normal ordinary human, and if the panda is replaced by a Chinese sturgeon, the love index immediately plummets by more than half.
In fact, many of the so-called practices and products under the concept of environmental protection are just publicity gimmicks or even commercial marketing, and their effects are likely to be harmful to the environment.
This year's Earth Hour event held by the Panda Foundation WWF in Sydney called on people to turn off lights and other unnecessary electrical devices for an hour at 20:30 on the last Saturday of March every year to save electricity.
The campaign was well received by the public and environmentalists, but was strongly despised by the power system because it was powered by engines rather than batteries. The battery can save power by cutting off the power at any time, while the generator cannot.
Whether it is thermal power, hydropower, nuclear power, wind power, or diesel power generation, it ultimately relies on the rotor of the drive generator to cut the magnetic field lines and convert mechanical energy into electrical energy. Sudden increases or decreases in the load on the grid can be a problem for power plants, as they cannot adjust the amount of power supplied precisely and instantly, and any fluctuation can lead to unstable power supply.
In response to this situation, a type of hydropower station called a "pumped storage power station" was even born, which acted as a "storage battery" for the power grid. This kind of hydropower station is very "stupid" from the principle point of view: the storage power station has two reservoirs, the upper and lower reservoirs, and when the grid load is low in the midnight and early morning, it takes electricity from the power grid, pumps the water from the lower reservoir to the upper reservoir, and converts the electricity into hydropower; in the afternoon and evening, when the grid load is high, it opens the gate and releases water to generate electricity and supply power to the grid.
There will certainly be a lot of energy loss in the process, but for the power company, what is saved is what is earned. This kind of pumped storage power station can undertake the tasks of peak regulation, valley filling, frequency regulation, phase modulation and accident backup of the power grid, which can significantly improve the stability, economy and reliability of power supply.
There is also a way of "peak regulation and valley filling" is ultra-long-distance power supply, because of the difference in time zones, all parts of the country are basically from east to west in order to enter the peak of electricity consumption, with the help of ultra-long-distance transmission can "tear down the east wall to make up the west wall", and the surplus electricity from other places to supplement the local electricity peak.
At that time, when the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) launched this activity, and the whole network was applauding, Bee Navigation MF1 played the slogan "Instead of turning off the lights for an hour, it's better not to turn on the lights tonight", blatantly crooked the building (with a biased topic).
In fact, WWF is only to promote environmental protection and remind the public to pay attention to environmental problems, if the world is doing what they say, it will cause greater energy waste and accident hazards because of the impact on the power grid.
Therefore, the bees' conscious crooked behavior at that time was finally praised by many environmental activists.
Bee Technology does not have its own news team, nor does it have a dedicated content team, in addition to the navigation of fixed common URLs and common tools, the home page of Bee Navigation has "five headlines" that are updated every day, as well as wonderful weekly topics, which has slowly attracted many netizens to stay on the Bee Navigation page for one more minute every day to see the "news".
The selection of "five headlines" is automatically generated by Bee's own search engine, through a comprehensive analysis of multiple sources: three major portal news, Du Niang news, Google news, Bee input method instant hot new words, Honey chat instant topic hot spots, find the "3+2" news that users are most interested in, and put it on the home page of Bee navigation.
"3+2" refers to three of the most popular news messages on the whole network today, plus two popular news that are highly relevant to users, such as local accidents, weather changes, user-defined subscription content, or content that the system "thinks" they are interested in. Of course, if the user disables browser cookies, the website will not be able to obtain their geolocation, and will push the five most popular (reply) messages on the whole network.
Although users will be linked to the source text when they click on the news headline, thus leaving the bee navigation page, the extra tens of seconds and minutes are enough for them to see most of the ads on the bee navigation, which greatly improves the advertising effect of the bee navigation.
This is actually similar to the good 1 model after the acquisition of Du Niang,Originally, bee navigation is one of the copycat replicators of countless good 1 navigation stations,It's just that bees have their own browser,Have their own top three input method software in the country,And a strong software development "team",So MF1 can keep up with it at the same time,Make your own improvements and innovations in some details。
"Innovation ......"
His eyes looked at the heart-shaped leaves of the hosta in the courtyard, but his heart had little to do with the rain in front of him, but with the mobile phone he was holding in his hand.
The mobile phone they are holding now is the iPhone released by Steve Jobs at the beginning of the year, which was claimed to be "reinventing the mobile phone", an iPod player, a smartphone, and convenient Internet browsing.
Two months ago, this much-anticipated mobile phone was launched in the United States, and the mobile phone in the hands of Atletico Tang Jiayi was sold by American scalpers to British fruit fans. Because the production capacity has been bound to the relationship of the communication provider, it will take a few months for the European market to be launched.
After these "overseas scalpers purchased on behalf of others" were sold to Atletico Madrid in London, they were taken by him to fly thousands of kilometers, almost flying over the Pacific Ocean to complete the round-the-world trip.
The hardware configuration of this smartphone can only be said to be pretty good: the screen is 320x480 pixels, the main frequency is 416MHz, 128MB running memory, 8GB storage space, and the network is G**+Edge (2GPRS Enhanced Version)+WiFi+Bluetooth2. 0, the list price of the United States is $599. Counting the exchange rate factor, it is nearly one-third cheaper than the 550 euros of the flagship mobile phone N95 released by Nokia at the beginning of the year, but with the profits of American scalpers, freight or something, Lin Lin finally has more than 5,000 soft sister coins, which cannot be said to be cheap.
After these American apples arrived, they were quickly restricted by Atletico Madrid's unlocked network and sinicized, and they were installed with the global private M card of Egret Island Mobile. Then one of the mobile phones was snatched away by Tang Jiayi, who couldn't put it down every day and became a member of the new generation of "bowing people".
The extreme feel of the iPhone is certainly a major attraction factor, and the large number of classic games carried by Atletico on that phone are also accomplices to the abuse. From Tetris to Snake 3D, from seeing the biology department to find faults, from Mario 64 to Mario Kart, from Rentengu to the European version of Pokemon Pearl Diamond, which was released just last month, a large number of classic popular games have been ported to the iPhone.
In fact, in Atletico Madrid's view, this mobile phone hurts in many places, especially its aluminum-magnesium alloy metal body.
As a pragmatist, he would never have imagined that iPhone designers would be controlled by obsessive-compulsive disorder, and would resolutely use all-metal materials to make mobile phone cases in order to pursue feel and style.
Dear, don't you know what a Faraday cage is?
A Faraday cage is a cage made of conductors such as metal, and the Faraday cage with the shell grounded can effectively isolate the electric field and electromagnetic wave interference inside and outside the cage, which is called the phenomenon of "electrostatic shielding". That is to say, the wireless signal of the mobile phone with an all-metal shell will be very bad, and the solution is not to let the metal shell be connected. One method is to leave a plastic area on the housing and place the antenna inside, which is equivalent to extending the antenna out of the Faraday cage, and the other is to use insulation to divide the complete metal housing into several pieces so that it cannot be effectively closed. This method looks better, but it can be expensive to calculate the optimal segmentation model of the shell.
It is believed that Steve Jobs developed the iPhone 1 of the flowers. A large part of the $400 million must have been spent by engineers who repeatedly tossed the metal shell.
"But the metal shell is comfortable to the touch, cold and cold. ”
If nothing else, Atletico themselves must admit that the feel of the metal shell is indeed much better than the plastic shell, and it feels like there is a sense of strength. And the multi-touch screen that people have repeatedly polished and optimized is much better than the touch screen he used on B6 mobile phones and bee tablets.
Its own products also use capacitive touch screens, and even before Apple's iPhone is in real life, it "preemptively" launched the B5 mobile phone with a cool swipe unlock mode. However, they all use a single-touch screen, so you can't use two fingers to zoom in and out of pictures and pages, and you don't have a multi-touch screen when playing whack-a-mole, so it's easy to use several fingers together.
The circuit of the multi-touch screen is more complex than the single-touch screen, the cost is high and difficult, and the technology has not spread to the country, so bees can only use the capacitive screen or even the resistive screen of the single touch.
However, through the analysis and cracking of iPhoneOS, Atletico Madrid has an insight into the secrets of multi-touch and has mastered the relevant code, which can be upgraded to full multi-touch mode at any time in the future.
Speaking of which, with Atletico Madrid's programming prowess, Bee OS is now in the single-touch stage, but it is already the first place in the new field of touch phones. Because it has emphasized touch operation from a very early stage, after watching the Apple press conference at the beginning of the year, it also introduced the convenient operation mode of the exclusive touch system such as swipe unlock and gesture control, which can be said to be unique in the past six months, and even tens of thousands of touch screen mobile phones running WM and Symbian systems have been brushed into bee OS by their owners.
This is a late-mover advantage that belongs exclusively to Atletico.
"Late-mover advantage" refers to the phenomenon that in some economic activities, latecomers can gain competitive advantages by observing and learning from the actions of pioneers, avoiding detours and free-riding, and reducing costs in all aspects.
With the help of alien technology e7u, Atletico Madrid's late-mover advantage is particularly obvious and seems to be invincible.
In addition to Atletico Madrid, the existence of late-mover advantages can be seen in many industries, such as the change of search engine hegemony is very typical.
In 1995, Yang Zhiyuan and David Ferro established Yahoo, which is the first generation of search engines, and the second year its Chinese imitation version of Souki was born.
However, these first-generation search engines adopted the classification method, with the help of manual creation of website index databases, and slowly failed to catch up with the era of information explosion. At this time, Google and Du Niang, which use machine algorithms to automatically generate index databases, came into being, and although the search results they provide are not as accurate as manual classification search engines, they are more versatile and can cover more websites and web pages, so they have become the world's largest search engine and the largest Chinese search engine respectively.
Latecomers can take a free ride, but industry pioneers are not fuel-efficient lamps, they will use patent barriers, technical barriers, standard barriers and other means to try to raise the cost of latecomers. Patent barriers include a patent fee of $30 per DVD for domestic manufacturers to "work in the middle of nowhere"; technical barriers include various bans on the sale of high-precision lithography machines to China, which makes domestic CPUs uncompetitive in the market because of process defects; standard barriers are more "gentle" than the first two, and in recent years, European and American countries have continuously improved the emission standards of automobile engines and the pesticide residue standards of imported agricultural products are typical cases.
The pioneers who successfully avoided the tragedy of "the front wave died on the beach" can also be called "first-mover advantage". For example, CPU, IntelX86 architecture dominates the world, the only AMD Chaowei Semiconductor that can barely fight with it used to be Intel foundry, and obtained the X86 architecture license, although AMD has repeatedly "eager to try" to try to steal Intel's market share, but in the end Intel launched new products in time to regain its advantage. Like the unbeatable villain in Japanese cartoons, AMD's spirit of becoming more and more courageous and repeatedly defeated inevitably makes people suspect that it is a "competitor" deliberately connived and supported by Intel in order to evade antitrust investigations.
Therefore, the "first-mover advantage" and "late-mover advantage" are only relative, and can only be said to be a temporary help. So far, in addition to a few small software, the bee company has not really won the first place in any influential field, whether it is antivirus or input method, or chat software, it is only a market share of 2 to 5 places, indicating that it has stepped into the range of the decline of the late-mover advantage and the effect of the first-mover advantage.
Perhaps it was originally designed that the prototype included three different chat styles: real-name friends, net-name netizens, and anonymous chatting relationships, and the honey chat software was branded as "multi-functional and one-in-one" from the beginning, and it was also constantly added by Atletico Madrid with new features, becoming more and more different.
Atletico Madrid's software seems to have this style: the software will provide users with as many functions as possible, each of which needs to be practical and effective, and users can choose their own functions, customize the UI, customize the skin background, and even customize the installation package.
This hodgepodge style, if put in other software companies, will definitely make the product manager be besieged and bitten to death by artists and programmers, but in Bee Technology it is deeply implemented, and every bee product has a tendency to do this to a greater or lesser extent.
Among them, the most typical product is Honey Talk, in the past nearly a year, it can be described as crazy growth, soaring, PC version of the software volume from the initial 1MB to today's 300MB, but there is no sign of slowing down.
With the help of e7u, Atletico can be said to be the best planner in programming, the artist with the most brains, and the best programmer, but the gap between him and the top talented industry experts in each field is real. Therefore, simply make use of the strengths and avoid the weaknesses, give full play to the advantages of e7u in cracking other software products of copycats, and make Honeytalk the most comprehensive chat software.
As for the redundant functions and unsightly interface, Bee has launched a custom packaging tool and a UI editor, which allows users to customize and modify the UI customization functions and then package them into their own exclusive version. Then you can also upload the packaged version as a mod D version to the Bee Wisdom Center for other players to download, and if it is popular, you can also have an income. For mobile phone users, please visit http://m.piaotian.net