"What cost reduction? Extended time is king!"

Zhao Xilin stretched out his right index finger, "It's okay to play in an Internet café for more than ten minutes of use, but it's not enough to play with this, right?

"You can plug in the wire. ”

"Now this mode of dragging a cable behind the head to the waist has many opinions, saying that it is the same as the disgusting pigtails of the Manchu Dynasty, if you plug the wire on the controller again, you don't want people to live?"

"The home version is all plugged in, and the included battery capacity is smaller, and it is only used as an emergency power supply to prevent power failure. Saying that, Lin Chen took a few steps forward, reached out to open the box, took out a white object inside, and handed it to his friend, "Like this." ”

After taking it and looking down, Zhao Xilin soon found that the home version of the Dream Walker blindfold in his hand was different from the engineering version he had seen in the space station Internet café before. The most obvious change is the color, no longer the same black of the Internet café version, but into a more sci-fi white, it looks smaller, and it feels a lot lighter in the hand, and there is no longer a cable to drag behind the back to connect to the controller behind the waist.

Looking down at the place where the cable was originally held, I realized that it had become a very special metal area. Stroking the special interface that was somewhat similar to a CPU socket and covered with dense golden contacts, Zhao Xilin couldn't help but ask: "Where's the wire? Didn't you say that you want to plug in the wire, why is the braid behind you missing?"

"You've said that a lot of players hate dragging a cable in the back of their heads, and the Dream Walker development team must have received this feedback as well. So they've made some improvements to this home version that is officially on sale. ”

Regarding his friend's doubts, Lin Chen immediately explained.

Because Big Sword's cucumber dream game and intelligent Chengren toys are very related to the Dreamwalker project, and there is a lot of intersecting relationship in the fields of virtual reality and artificial intelligence, Lin Chen knows a lot of inside information about Dreamwalker.

Then he took out a coil of white cables from the box he was holding in his left hand, put down the box and unfolded the cables, pointing to the white "plugs" or "covers" that looked quite huge at the two ends, so that Zhao Xilin could see the dense golden contacts on the inside of the joint, Lin Chen explained: "This is the latest patented technology safety magnetic wire launched by Bee, the joint uses rubidium-iron-boron permanent magnets that have been carefully tested and arranged, and the interface also uses a matching permanent magnet array, and the connector interface will automatically attract each other to complete the connection when the two of them touch." ”

As a result, Zhao Xilin curiously put the connector close to the magnetic interface on the blindfold, and after a crisp "pop" sound, the two were firmly sucked together. He reached out and pulled it gently, and found that it was quite secure.

"Now the home version of Dreamwalker has begun to use this security interface in front, and there is also this interface on the Sunflower mobile phone, but it is optional. Lin Chen said, "Don't worry about pulling casually! One of the biggest selling points of this kind of safety magnetic interface is that it is easy to connect, and it is automatically adsorbed and connected in the past, and there is also a safety and loss prevention that is not afraid of pulling and pulling! This kind of joint and interface only rely on magnetic fixation, and the size, quantity, and position of the permanent magnet are accurately calculated, which not only ensures that it is not casually disconnected during ordinary use, but also can be disconnected in time in unexpected situations, and there will be no jack strong to pull the plug, and the plug is also strong to pull off the wire. The jacks, plugs, and cords are sturdy, and it is likely to trip over people's cutlery. ”

"You're still a hot girl, you're not afraid of being spicy since you were a child!" Zhao Xilin could only complain about his friend's behavior of humming the lyrics while he was talking, after all, he would hum the slow adaptation of "The five-star red flag flutters in the wind, how loud and ...... victory song"

At the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games on the 8th, the classic song soothing by the girl in the red dress touched many people at that time. Although it was subsequently exposed to the lip-syncing incident, and even became a shielded word for a time, it could not change the popularity and good impression of this children's singing version, after all, the little girl who sang was completely innocent, and it was the national teacher Lao Mouzi who really should be beaten, and it was not appropriate to add the content of "Performance: Lin xx Singing: Yang XX" in the live broadcast subtitles? Anyway, there is a traditional form of music in our country called double reed.

"Then why don't Internet cafes use this kind of magnetic interface?"

"The space station Internet café is a special engineering version used to test and collect more user usage data, and there are some unique designs for the public purpose of Internet cafés. Pay more attention to safety, stability and adaptability, such as a circle of shading cushions around the eyes in order to facilitate cleaning and disinfection, using soft rubber materials, and this home version can be used to use more breathable, but also light sponge material. In addition, the fixed strap and optical path adjustment system prepared by the engineering version in order to adapt to different head shapes, interpupillary distance, and vision have also been greatly simplified, divided into more than ten models, fortunately, our two heads are about the same size, and neither of them is nearsighted, otherwise you may not need my this. ”

"Well, why do I feel like a virtual helmet with biometric binding?"

Just like gamers pursuing the feel of different keyboards, mice and even mouse pads, and audio players are picky about sound card headphones and power amplifiers, the pursuit of the ultimate user experience must be as close as possible to the user's physical characteristics and usage habits. Of course, as a mass-produced product, it is not possible to achieve true personalization, but it is not wrong to work in this direction. ”

"Isn't it because these profiteers deliberately designed a lot of models in order to make more money?"

"It's not wrong if you have to think so, after all, the company is not a charity, and the company is playing tricks if it doesn't make money. Even if it is a charitable organization that spends money based on its mood and hobby, they also have various fundraising activities, charity auctions, donation parties and so on. ”

"Who said that? Bill Gates's charitable foundation doesn't need to beg for help, most of the net worth donated by Gates Buffett alone is hundreds of billions, plus the money that other billionaires who responded to Buffett's promise will donate in the future, it is easy to use hundreds of billions of dollars just to do a lot of things with the annual interest money. ”

In 2005, Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and the world's richest man, announced on his 50th birthday that tens of billions of dollars of wealth would be donated to society and would not be left to children and grandchildren as an inheritance. In 2006, Warren Buffett, who was second only to him on the rich list, signed a letter of intent to donate, officially deciding to donate 85% of his wealth, or about $37.5 billion, to five charitable foundations, which is the largest charitable donation in the history of the world, most of which will go to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation founded by Gates (the names of the Gates couple together), according to the plan, the donation will be realized in the form of transferring 10 million shares of the company's shares, with an annual payment of 5%. Later, Buffett announced that he would donate 99% of his personal wealth, and together with Bill Gates, who announced his retirement, he "pulled sheep into the gang" everywhere and persuaded other rich people to promise to donate at least half of their personal wealth after death, which is the so-called "Buffett commitment".

The most important reason for pledging to donate half of one's personal wealth, rather than more or less, may have something to do with the 50% maximum rate of inheritance tax in the United States. More than 100 countries around the world have an ancient tax of inheritance tax, the United States since 1916 began to levy inheritance tax on the estate of the rich, and the implementation of the total collection model, no matter how the heirs fight for the inheritance, the IRS first takes the share belonging to the federal government, and only cash.

Whether it is Bill Gates or Warren Buffett, the biggest assets under their names are the stocks of commercial companies they hold, Gates is Microsoft stock, and Buffett is Coca-Cola, Wells Fargo, American Express stock. Once they die, the heirs will need to pay federal estate taxes equal to 50% of their market value on these estates, which are worth tens of billions or more. As we all know, stocks rise when you rush to buy them, and they fall when you sell them in a hurry, and the IRS does not accept stocks, but only recognizes US dollars.

Of course, it is impossible to sell half of the shares to raise money for taxes, because a large number of shares will inevitably smash the stock trading price. In this way, tax avoidance with the help of charitable organizations has become an inevitable option, and donating shares to family charitable foundations, or setting up charitable trust annuities, may avoid the IRS from taxing these shares.

In a sense, the choice of the rich to donate non-cash assets such as stocks, real estate, and real estate to charitable foundations can be regarded as helping to maintain social stability, otherwise once a wealthy person dies, the inheritance of stocks, real estate, land, etc. in his name will cause violent market fluctuations.

Moreover, although the purpose may be for tax avoidance, these charitable foundations do want to burn money to engage in charity, whether it is to help the poor or fund research on terminal diseases. If a charitable foundation is not properly operated, not only will it not be able to maintain its value, but it may lose a lot of money and be chased by the government to pay taxes without spending money, and the chain of funds will be broken if it spends too much. So there are still some rich people who choose a more simple and crude way to avoid taxes, that is, immigration!

In more than 200 countries and regions around the world, half have inheritance taxes, and half have no or have had them but have abolished them. While many wealthy people in China are running to the United States, many wealthy Americans also immigrate to countries and regions without inheritance tax every year, such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Italy and other countries that have successively suspended inheritance tax, especially Canada and Australia, two English-speaking countries.

It seems to have seen this situation, the United States has repeatedly promoted the reduction of inheritance tax in the past decade, the threshold of inheritance tax has been continuously raised, the maximum tax rate has been reduced from 55% to 50%, and even in 2001, President George W. Bush once announced that he would completely abolish inheritance tax. As a result, a group of wealthy people such as Gates and Buffett spoke out against it, and even advertised in newspapers saying "Plea Tax!" (Please collect our taxes).

Although Warren Buffett is high-spirited, according to the statistics of the Internal Revenue Service, about trillions of dollars of property enter the inheritance process every year, but the inheritance tax received is not much, and the vast majority of taxes are confiscated by various legal tax avoidance and illegal tax evasion methods. This is also the reason why President Bush wants to withdraw from the abolition of the estate tax, because he can't collect much money, and he is still scolded all the time, so he doesn't want to be the big boss of this wrong!

"Okay, okay, what's the use of thinking about what you don't have, if you are envious and yearning, you can also prepare a will in advance to take it to justice, and promise to donate half or even all of your property when you die. Anyway, our country has been discussing whether to levy inheritance tax and gift tax in recent years, if you are lucky enough to live long enough, your children should have to pay inheritance tax when you hang. But if you are moonlight, except for a house with a validity period of 25 years, there is no p left, so I didn't say it. ”

"Well, don't be in a hurry, if you want to have a child, you have to have a wife first, and if you want a wife, you have to talk about a female ticket. ”

"You can still go on a blind date. Lin Chen said with a smile.

Because of their mechanical and electrical backgrounds, these two guys actually became a single in the heron with a male-to-female ratio of nearly one to one, and they are also a pair of cups. Of course, there are still advantages to studying at Luda, at least they all have some unsuccessful relationships, not like those pure monks, peers who haven't seen their sisters for four years are still miserable to the point where they don't even have a confession partner.

If it weren't for his status as a single, Lin Chen might not have thought of the idea of smart Chengren toys, and took it as his first career after graduation.

"What about me, your mother didn't force you to go on a blind date?" Zhao Xilin replied disdainfully, "Also, have you told your family what kind of work you, the general manager, do?"

"Well, not yet, I'm afraid I'll be beaten by my dad when I say it. ”

"Haha!" Zhao Xilin smiled very sympathetically: "This is what you asked for, haha!"

Shaking his head, with an expression of "I don't talk to stupid N", Lin Chen connected the white Dream Walker's blindfold to the controller on the table, and then connected it to the laptop next to him with an "I" shaped special cable.

The "I" shaped connection cable is actually the same as the one connected to the eye mask, with rounded corners and square pieces at both ends, but one end of it needs to be connected to the computer, so naturally it cannot directly use the magnetic interface, after all, this high-configuration laptop he bought on Hong Kong Island is not a bee product. At this time, you need to use the magnetic adapter at the top of the "I" shaped cable, Dreamwalker is equipped with a variety of adapters of different specifications, they say that they are adapters, but in fact they are a small section of the adapter cable, one end is a flat magnetic interface, and the other end is a variety of standard connectors, such as the 3 of the earphone. 5mm connector, standard USB connector, MI C meat SB connector, HD MI high-definition multimedia connector and so on.

"Huh?" Seeing Lin Chen plug the two "D" shaped HD fan plugs and USB plugs into the notebook, then adsorb the magnetic cable on it, and then connect the power cord to turn on the power switch of the controller, he couldn't help asking: "Isn't the cost reduction you are talking about just putting these interfaces, right? It seems that most computer graphics cards now do not have HD fan interfaces." ”

Shaking his head and denying it, Lin Chen said: "We are subtracting the home version of Dreamwalker, subtracting some functions that are not used in playing Chengren games, and then we will launch an entry-level version of Dreamwalker." As for the HD fan interface,If the graphics card doesn't support it, there's no way.,Picture processing and post-output have to use it.。 However, I heard that Bee is negotiating with a graphics card manufacturer to customize a graphics card specifically designed for VR devices, and maybe you will be able to use Bee graphics cards next year. ”

"In fact, with the strength of bees, you can make your own graphics card, anyway, now I have a bee driver on my computer. ”

Some players found that the graphics card driver used by the bee swarm collaborative acceleration system is better than that of the two major graphics card giants and Microsoft's respective general computing driver software platforms, so some people took it upon themselves to extract the bee graphics card driver and package it into an installation package to spread on the network. Bee and the two major graphics card manufacturers have noticed this behavior, but they pretend to turn a blind eye because of various problems.

The bees pretend to be stupid because they make walks of unofficial third-party graphics card drivers, which may infringe on the intellectual property rights of Female IDIA and Ati, which has been acquired by AMD, and Female and Ati are filled to avoid the embarrassment of "inferior skills".

"Dear,When you say you make your own graphics card, you don't mean those copycat graphics card factories that change the female and ati public graphics cards and public drivers slightly.,Add your own brand and say you make your own graphics card, right?"

"No, no, no," Zhao Xilin hurriedly shook his head, "How is it possible, what I'm talking about is a graphics card that is independent of N and A and makes a truly domestic independent intellectual property right." ”

Pouting, Lin Chen said: "This is impossible, there is no high-level wafer factory in China, and it is impossible to make a good graphics card." As for the pure domestic independent intellectual property rights or something, it is better to hand over the Han core polished by Motorola DSP56858, and the red flag operating system of Chinese Linux. ”

In fact, it is said that Bee intends to change some GPU peripheral interface IPs with the two major manufacturers for the code of the general computing driver, so that although their customized graphics card cannot modify the GPU core, it can also greatly increase the effect by customizing and modifying the peripheral circuit. And this level should be more advanced than those domestic manufacturers who assemble graphics cards on PCB, of course, it is also limited. ”

"Alas!" Zhao Xilin sighed, "It's all because SMIC is not angry!"

"Hehe!" Lin Chen sneered, "Technology blockade, embargo on key equipment, intellectual property litigation, SMIC's current technology lags behind the international mainstream technology, and the cost is not much cheaper, and it is already remarkable that it has not closed down for several years." Moreover, Lao Mei's technical blockade has a very cheap means, that is, when you develop the banned products and are about to put them on the market, he will open the sales of the corresponding products, and then use the low cost of the mature production process to smash you into a daze, and you can't recover the cost of research and development. At the same time, he took the opportunity to encourage some people to desperately preach that it is better to buy than to build, and it is better to rent than to buy. ”

"To deal with this situation, either grit your teeth and insist on burning money until the technology catches up, or you have to find another way to take another route, and if you can't do it, you have me, so you have to find a way to be a person without me. Shaking his head, Lin Chen said: "But now there is no embargo on civilian chips, so SMIC, Loongson, these manufacturers will continue to work hard, after all, there is no cost performance." For mobile phone users, please visit http://m.piaotian.net