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This is the case now – the night before the IOC finalised the 2000 Olympic Games on 23 September, Australian Olympic Committee President John Cooz hosted two African IOC members – Mukla of Kenya and Nyanwiso of Uganda – at a hotel in Monte Carlo.

There is no major fault with eating and drinking, and the key thing is that John Coates also stuffed the two of them with $35,000 in cash on the spot, and was secretly photographed.

Judging by the quality of the evidence, the technique was very professional and clearly intentional, and John Cowtz just gave the other party the opportunity to show his skills.

It turned out that Australia relied on this method to win by a margin of two votes - the media that had previously been one-sidedly belittling China and praising Australia for its deserved name were suddenly messy.

Since Germany's "Stuttgart-Zeitung" reported the news for the first time, there is reason to believe that the Germans were dissatisfied with their "internal and external troubles" and ended their bid for the Olympic Games.

The Stuttgart Zeitung hurriedly stated that we were not the only media to receive the news, and if we didn't believe it, we would ask "who's the little one".

At first glance, they are all News Corp.'s media outlets - no wonder there is no movement, you know, Murdoch started in Australia.

News Corp hastened to clarify - it wasn't that we deliberately didn't report to work, but that there happened to be some minor problems in the workflow.

Well, since they are not Germans, they must be the Chinese who are angry at their hacking and secretly do their tricks.

China's response was swift -- although it didn't work out this time, but we are still prepared to continue to bid aggressively, and we will not be as petty as you think.

No one admits that they are the initiators of the so-called conspiracy, and this scene is even more difficult to contain.

Seeing that Australia, which it touted to fight China, could not hold up to the wall in such a muddy way, those media were angry and hateful, and began to bite back in their old ways.

For example, in order to bid for the 2000 Olympic Games, Australia's budget was raised from $6 million to $28 million.

Another example is that Australia has provided scholarships to African athletes in order to win votes - about 400 athletes from 11 African countries have come to Australia at a cost of more than $2 million.

All in all, these media will not give up if they do not turn the old bottom of Australia, which has lived up to their "deep affection".

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has also been overwhelmed by this big scandal, and various stakeholders have repeatedly emphasized that it is not the family scandal that they themselves have made the scandal public.

Some committee members have even proposed that since Australia is not victorious, it should either take back the right to host the 2000 Olympic Games, or simply leave it to China.

The powerful figures of the International Olympic Committee are naturally reluctant. Guy can only be wrong now, otherwise the IOC will really have no prestige at all.

Australia, whose reputation has been discredited, has had to respond, putting all the blame on John Coetzes, the president of the Australian Olympic Committee – whose personal actions are not representative of the country.

John Cowts, who had been vice-president and president of the Australian Olympic Committee for six years and president for four years, held a press conference and publicly announced his resignation, explaining with some grievance: "I thought we should express to these members that we want to win. Personally, I think this incident will encourage them to vote for Sydney. ”

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I have to say that the bidding process for the 2000 Olympic Games was very special and exciting, and the ups and downs made many clowns who jumped off the beam cries out in pain while covering their red and swollen cheeks, while looking around and muttering -- Who did it?

Appreciating the situation of chickens flying and dogs jumping, Tang Huan was even more immersed in the abyss while stealing fun - if Australia knew that it was the richest man who revealed his old bottom, then he would definitely turn his face in annoyance.

Let's make it a headless case. History is so fascinating precisely because it has secrets.

In fact, the richest man hides himself very well, because he is not generally busy.

Under the impetus of Tang Huan, the commercial use of the Internet has been ready and has begun to set sail.

The next thing is to build around this center.

For example, more capital is flickered in, forming a real tide. As for whether it is a bubble or not, it is not within the controllable range of personal ability, and the benefits that should be taken anyway have not fallen.

At the same time, 3D acceleration, which can be called the last major gap in the development of microcomputer hardware, has also begun to appear.

The function of the personal computer graphics card was originally just a simple display, that is, the digital display signal sent by the host computer to the display was converted into a general electrical analog signal, so that the monitor could understand what the personal computer commanded it to do.

But soon, after this signal conversion function, 2D acceleration function was added, and there was even a decoding and playback function for digital videos such as VCDs.

At this stage, the level of the semiconductor industry can already put these three types of functions into a chip, and a single ordinary auxiliary accelerator, just like a mathematically assisted processor to a CPU, has been integrated by the manufacturing trend and robbed of living space.

However, although the 2D auxiliary accelerator is gradually losing its necessity, the 3D acceleration is back in place.

Now the 3D acceleration function is also integrated into the same chip, which is not cost-effective in terms of technical difficulty and commercial cost.

Therefore, Mr. the richest man, who holds the power of life and death in the development of the personal computer industry, believes that a single 3D accelerator card can indeed provide a good buffer if it exists in the market for a period of time.

The key now is not to rush to integrate the new 3D acceleration technology into the GPU, but to guide game developers, graphics software developers, and others to learn how to use this new technology architecture.

This kind of two-way interaction has a positive effect on whether it can create a 3D accelerated new industrial ecological chain at the fastest speed and obtain the support of a wider range of third-party vendors.

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It is no secret that Akio Morita and Norio Ohga and their entourage, who came to visit, visited the results with Tang Huan - it will soon be officially released to the public at COMDEX in Las Vegas this fall.

The richest man pointed to a person in the crowd and asked with interest, "Who is this?"

He is Ken Kuta, the head of Sony's computer entertainment division, which was only established this year. Oga Norio, who hurriedly introduced, couldn't help but wonder in his heart - what kind of eyes did Tang have, he could actually pick out Kuda Ryoki, who looked nothing unusual, from the crowd.

"It's a pleasure to meet you. After shaking hands with Ken Kuta, who was bent over, Mr. The richest man turned to Akio Morita and Norio Ohga and smiled meaningfully: "It seems that Sony's territory in the field of entertainment consumption is getting bigger and bigger. ”

"Compared to Tang, we are just an afterthought. Akio Morita, who was quite unhappy in his heart, replied modestly.

Sony had wanted to work with Nintendo, which was eager to find other technical supporters because Mitsubishi Electric couldn't keep up with the latest developments in home game consoles, so that he could quietly familiarize himself with the rules and master the resources, and finally enter this lucrative field.

It's a pity that Hiroshi Yamauchi still found out that Sony's harboring evil intentions, and he didn't need to be provoked by others, so he decisively tore up the cooperation agreement, which is also very star-although Nintendo can't do the EA of the richest man, but this position of the second millennium, others don't want to worry about it!

After Sony's chicken-and-egg strategy was over, there was a lot of disagreement among the top brass about whether to continue to enter the video game space.

Ken Kuta, who served as the head of Sony's side in the process of cooperating with Nintendo, naturally hopes that the owner will not give up his original intention, otherwise his career will be hit again.

Fortunately, Sony President Norio He made it clear that he supported his independent research and development of a new home game console, which is also making good progress, and thus formed a Sony Computer Entertainment this year, which can be regarded as a formal establishment.

After the release of the 64-bit fourth-generation Holder microprocessor, the video game industry was also shaken up. The CPU used in the current three generations of Gain's Xiaobawang game consoles is a special version of the Holder family - with the technical strength and tacit cooperation between Zheru and EA, it is a matter of course to introduce such a powerful microprocessor into the field of video game consoles.

The home game console currently being developed by Ken Kutaragi also uses a RISC microprocessor, which is a licensed derivative of MIPS and is compatible with the R3000 32-bit chip under this architecture.

Don't look at the current stage of the semiconductor industry in the global spring breeze, but the products it relies on are mainly memory, in terms of technology, in the entire semiconductor industry is actually in a low-end position, and compared with the American counterparts who can independently develop a new CPU architecture, there is still a big distance.

Therefore, under the surface of hegemony, it is inevitable to be controlled by others, and Sony is one of them.

Taking advantage of the excuse of seeking a new graphics acceleration chip this time, Akio Morita and Norio Oga want to take a good look at the possible impact of the fourth-generation Holder on the field of home TV hosts, so as not to die before their product background is successful.

When Ken Kutaragi and other technicians gradually learned that the 3D acceleration chip codenamed "Volcano" developed by Tetsuru has hardware support for Z-buffering, texture compression, linear filtering and texture blending, as well as a pixel fill rate of 10MPixels/s, they can't help but show a happy look.

"It also supports hardware acceleration for MPEG-1, right?" Morita promised.

For digital video represented by VCD, Sony has been coveting it for a long time, and is planning to introduce new technical standards to replace VCD, which has many obvious shortcomings.

"More than that. The latest MPEG-2 is also supported. Tang Huan smiled playfully: "The low resolution of VCD has become increasingly obvious to the limitations of the home theater experience. This level is called low-definition, and the standard definition that can reach 720x576 pixel resolution has naturally become the successor of the indisputable, and it will be more satisfying if it is combined with the digital TV being studied. ”

"Tang's grasp of the direction of the industry has always been at the forefront. Akio Morita complimented.

The richest man seemed to enjoy the feeling of being lifted to the clouds, and took the initiative to say: "We can see the latest developments in this area." ”

The next demo platform consists of a personal workstation equipped with a "Volcano" 3D accelerator card and a TV with the "Sharp" logo.

Looking at the engineer while explaining, while connecting the digital TV to the TV interface of the workstation graphics card, Akio Morita secretly frowned - Tang Huan's IT technology, the influence of traditional home appliances, is really becoming more and more obvious.

"This is the performance of the successor to VCD, DVD. Mr. The richest man pointed to the screen where a football match was playing, and said calmly.

"It seems that the sound system has also been improved. Norio Oga, who loves music, is keenly aware of the audio performance of the DVD.

"The latest features, including surround sound, multi-channel, etc., will be officially announced at the upcoming Las Vegas COMDEX. Tang Huan replied pointedly.

After the football match highlights, there was a detailed FIFA promotional video.

Kutaragi boldly asked, "Is this the next version of FIFA, it seems to use 3D acceleration technology." ”

The richest man laughed and replied seriously: "The Football World Cup will be held in the United States next year, which can be described as unlimited business opportunities, and of course FIFA will use some new things to attract more players." ”

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As a courtesy, Tang Huan's hospitality to Akio Morita and Norio Ohga was naturally very thoughtful and warm, and when they left, they looked very happy.

However, according to the assistant who was in charge of putting them on the plane to Hawaii, he came back and reported -- in private that both Akio Morita and Norio Oga were frowning, and even overheard Akio Morita sigh -- that it seemed that we had to fight for second place.

"I hope Sony can be so interesting. Mr. The richest man, who was satisfied with the beating effect, smiled slightly.

Not long after, news came from Hawaii that Akio Morita was playing tennis when he suddenly suffered a cerebral hemorrhage - a stroke.

Tang Huan, who was stunned, said to himself happily: "Fortunately, they left quickly!"