385. Chapter 385: IT Arena
The tenacious Entente was also not as vulnerable militarily. Especially the Americans, this amazing new people with adventurous genes are very powerful, and the black-and-white film film invented by Edison is very expensive to shoot, but due to the technical monopoly of the Windsor department in the film industry, many programs that the majority of audiences like have not been filmed.
This gave the Americans the opportunity, and Edison Pictures made a lot of popular films in New York and made a lot of money. The money is definitely not as good as the Windsor movies that have an absolute advantage in technology, but for Edison, he finally made the real first pot of gold, and the previous government offered a bounty for cracking the secret of wireless telegraphy.
America's most famous inventor has finally made a comeback and announced that he has saved the first PC outside of IBM! The first PC in history was embarrassing for ordinary people to know what it could be used for, and IBM's PC has already pointed the way for the industry, naturally, first of all, it has to be able to send telegrams.
IBM has also pointed out a good direction for PCs - to transmit data through guò wires. The first thing Edison computer realized was the function of using wires to transmit telegrams, and used a self-produced CPU, which is equivalent to the third-generation level of IBM chips.
Since 1867, IBM has upgraded one generation of CPUs every year, and it has reached the 8th generation so far. Edison was not alone, and universities across the country were vying to provide technical support for Edison's computer, and to help the only Allied organization that could break the monopoly of Windsor's tech empire.
In addition to CPUs, hard drives, memory, and monitors are all supplied from all over the United States, and other members of the Entente have provided it with considerable support. A significant portion of the technology for these key core components came from scientists and engineers in the Entente countries.
For the sake of this first non-IBM computer, the Entente can be said to have given up. Their vision is really good, computers and networks are the most important products in the new economy, and even Downing is happy with the great achievements of the Entente, and the friends have finally caught up.
Originally, Downing was also going to let Edison's computer access to IBM's Internet, but Edison's computer was too powerful, with completely uncontrolled copy, paste, and save functions, and Edison was still complacent about these as selling points, and IBM had to block Edison's computer on the grounds of copyright protection.
Therefore, the Entente countries must build their own networks, and the two networks will never communicate with each other. The Entente indignantly said that IBM this is red? Bare? Abuse of monopoly position. Only artists are very supportive of IBM's policies, and if articles, pictures, and broadcasts can be copied at will, how can they sell them for money?
Because of the use of wires for communication, Edison computers could in fact quickly set up their own networks, of course, cables were not as fast as fiber optic cables, and they lost a lot of money in multimedia transmission.
In the early days of the Entente Internet, in fact, only text telegrams could be sent and transmitted, and other IBM computers had functions that they were mobilizing a large number of programmers to develop, mainly copycats.
Obviously, it is impossible for this kind of broken computer to compete with IBM, and only the government departments will force government procurement under the pretext of national security to feed the domestic products of the Allied countries.
In the past 8 years, the price of PC has been reduced year by year, and the most expensive is only 50 euros per year, (the euro is worth about the same as the old pound, because the pound began to depreciate, and it is no longer denominated in pounds for the time being), and the cheapest first generation has actually dropped to 1 euro.
1 euro, which is lower than the manufacturing cost of Edison computers, so Edison computers are really only bought by people who are truly patriotic. In order to crack down on the patriotic computers of the Entente, IBM announced for the first time the total sales of PCs in the past 8 years, and now, a total of 32.4 million PCs are leased.
This terrifying figure can be interpreted as follows: at an average price of 25 euros, IBM's total annual revenue reaches 800 million euros. In addition to this, IBM also has advertising revenue, e-commerce revenue, software sales revenue, e-books, music, radio and other digital media revenue, which ...... It's so ...... Scary.
It means that the Windsor Consortium can be called the world's No. 1 monster-level consortium with this one product. No wonder, no wonder the Windsor Empire fights a world war without inflation, alas.
The scale effect of the Windsor Empire is also reflected in the fact that he can provide high-income jobs for veterans, and he can be a security guard with a super high income of several hundred euros at every turn, which makes many young people desperate to be mercenaries of the Warlords of Windsor.
Therefore, the mercenary recruitment of the Windsor Empire is so fierce, and those who don't know think that the registration point is a discount promotion on the store holidays.
The Entente's ** Internet looks hopeless, because a large number of software, a large number of websites, payment methods, etc. are abundant and mature on the IBM Internet. It's like a mollusk that has been frozen for tens of millions of years, and after 10 million years, other creatures have evolved even spine, teeth, pincers, and other big killing weapons, who has more advantages?
The marketing staff of Edison Computer Company came up with a plan to save the country - to take the initiative to pirate a large number of copyright content on the IBM Internet, especially text content. Image? Not yet, the Internet in the Entente countries is too slow, and they are not ready to transmit pictures.
Soon, the Entente Internet gained the notoriety of the "pirate Internet", well, perhaps in the eyes of the Entente. Especially netizens in the Qing Dynasty and in Russia, they have expressed their positions: If you have a advantage, you don't take advantage of it, and the turtle is a bastard.
In the midst of the competition of science and technology, how can our great Windsor Empire be willing to let the opponent have a chance to take advantage of? I'm going to show you what despair is. The project that Tang Ning told Wen Fei that requires a master of regular expressions is officially out of the closet-search engine.
This product should be familiar to everyone, it is an application that requires a huge amount of Internet content to appear, through the quantity and quality of links to judge the importance and relevance of web pages, a large number of miscellaneous information from the deep and hidden place, into a simple keyword can be retrieved.
How smart is Edison, as soon as he heard the BBC news and simply said the principle, he was shocked, what a terrifying information integration technology, this is going to kill the rhythm of my little love? He immediately went to a search site for a separate domain name: Apple, which has no suffix.
According to the BBC, you can reach the website by typing an A in the URL bar, which shows how much Downing attaches importance to this information super portal.
Apple Search is naturally an apple icon, and it's an apple that has been bitten in, which looks naughty and cute.
Xiao Ai narcissistically typed his name, and as soon as he entered, the first search result was his personal website, the second was its entry in the encyclopedia, the third was the Edison movie website, and the fourth was the Edison Electric website...... It's really reliable, and the feeling of being killed by the Windsor technology empire is even stronger.
Xiao Ai's biggest headache recently is how to get the Haitian fiber optic cable between the United States and the United Kingdom, his second test word is "submarine fiber optic cable", the first one that appeared in Edison's own "Science" magazine is the most relevant technology in the famous article, this article is the first to guess that the Windsor technology empire may have used fluorescent substances to continuously enhance the light signal, so it has been cited many times.
Click in to the paid reading page of the Science magazine website, after Xiao Ai logged in, she saw the electronic version of the paper, and she could also list all the papers that cited this article, and those papers were ranked according to the number of citations and the quality of the cited papers.
It's so reliable that you can't look at it directly, alas.
Edison tested a number of words in science, literature, music, history, film, and other fields, and found that almost all of the results were very much in line with his expectations, that is, it was a near-perfect Internet information integration tool, well, Apple Search, and you won again.
At a meeting of Entente Internet experts chaired by Edison, he asked others what they thought of Apple Search, and many people said: It exploded. Everyone's face is heavy, but there are also many people who pretend to be a good information tool, because such a good information tool is also a good thing for all mankind, as long as IBM still allows people from the Entente countries to use it.
If the Entente wanted to shut down the IBM Internet at this time, I am afraid that these Internet experts would be the first to refuse, believing that it would be a great harm to the entire Entente technology circle.
None of these big experts could have imagined the huge potential of the advertising system launched with Apple Search, and the relevance of keywords would lead the advertising industry into a revolutionary "precision era". So, they couldn't understand what it was like when the Apple Search team announced that they would invest 50% of their profits in rewarding the creation of useful information.
Apple Search divides the current useful information into three categories: one is to create zào content, one is to collect content, and one is to approve content.
Writing an encyclopedia entry is a kind of creation, writing a school tutorial is another kind of creation, and writing a scientific research paper is also a kind of creation.
And sorting out the content of the creation of zào is also a work that requires a lot of energy, for example: the same research on a food additive, there are all kinds of real papers, how many are said to be toxic, how many say it is non-toxic, the establishment of this kind of number library can provide a basis for health decision-making, the food safety of this world can not only rely on god-level scientists as prophets, this is not enough.
Toxicity is not as simple as it seems on the surface, the life and death of an animal cannot explain the problem, so there is a concept of lethal medium in toxicology, even if it is theoretically toxic, it is not necessarily toxic to animals, even if it is toxic to animals, it is not necessarily toxic to humans, and vice versa, so the establishment of the entire number of jù libraries will consume astronomical energy.
Now you know why Windsor Hospital can't make money with such a strong monopoly, and it's too expensive to do this.
Approving information is to send manpower to errata and crack down on key information, and to develop a series of punishment and reward mechanisms. All of this will cost astronomical energy, and fortunately, the revenue from search engine advertising will also be astronomical