"Hey, Tommy, there are four important features you marked that can't be implemented on SSD-2 for the time being, you need to complete your homework, and it is estimated that it will take two or three weeks to free up time to help you get it, but this software has been well received by the mixers in the club, automatic segmentation, text search, annotation footer and other small innovations, which have made the indispensable WordStar become shit in their mouths, and congratulations......" Eric said loudly, walked into Tommy and Jason's dormitory, and then saw Jason sitting in front of the computer busily dealing with two girls:

"Nobody told me that the two of us are now living in a co-ed dormitory."

"Ladies, I promise to solve your troubles tonight, and it will be solved without sleeping, one by one, I can hold it up, first lady, what is your problem." Jason didn't bother to say hello to Eric and asked the first girl.

The girl pushed her glasses: "Cursor control keys, I hope it can be a combination of letter key sequences and Ctrol keys, this software chooses to use 8,2,4,6 four-key diamond combination to control the cursor up and down, left and right, so that the user who has become dependent on WordStar and forms muscle memory is very unaccustomed, I always subconsciously follow the key misoperation I remembered before, so I hope to change it to the same shortcut key as WordStar." ”

"The purpose of developing this software is to make the control cursor no longer as complicated as WordStar, you need to remember sixteen key combinations to move the cursor, using WordStar to move the cursor, you need to press Ctrl+Q to enter the state of moving the cursor, and then press Ctrl+other messy keys to complete, right? Now it's very simple, just remember these four numbers, plus Ctrl, no need for pre-commands, instant operation. Jason exhaled, looked through the notebook Tommy had left behind, and introduced to the girl:

"We're pushing the boundaries of technology, but you're suggesting that we're going backwards, ma'am, so we're sorry, we won't listen to your valuable opinions, second lady, what's your problem?"

The second girl gave another feedback, she used the SSD-2 document function to write, she felt very convenient, the only fly in the ointment is the need to re-record some operations, so she suggested that you can add a call command, put a few simple and different format codes from WordStar, key combinations are presented directly on the screen, so that when writing, you don't need to flip through the operation guide issued by Tommy, you can continue to work at a glance when calling up the command, and it will not increase the volume of the software.

"OK, thank you for your valuable comments, please ask your name, if we complete the update, we will send you the latest beta version as soon as possible." Jason carefully recorded the other party's opinion, and then said to the girl like Tommy's previous scum.

"Jessica Pelce, Social Science Major." After speaking, the girl and her companion left the E-66 dormitory.

After recording the other party's name, Jason turned on the computer and followed the girl's instructions, and then looked at Eric: "Boss, are you visiting the prison?" ”

After the girl left, Eric closed the door, took out a cigarette and lit it, and asked Jason, "Where's that Tommy?" I thought this thing was only doing small tests inside the SSD. ”

"I don't know, maybe I went to some other dormitory to help people install software, in addition to classes, part-time jobs, homework, the rest of the time he is trying to get his classmates to help try this SSD-2, and then give him feedback, what do you want to congratulate him? Finally ready for him to design this week's party, I would suggest not doing that because he would be perfunctory. Jason got up and took out two bottles of Coke from the fridge, handed one to Eric, and chattered as if he had met someone to complain about:

"Since that guy is busy with software, there has been no alcoholic drinks in the refrigerator for a long time, if someone can get the title of 3S when Stanford's freshmen graduate, it must be Tommy's stupid*, it's too much pressure to be roommates with this kind of person, watching each other work hard, and being lazy, it's easy to have a sense of guilt for wasting time, let's put it this way, self-study computer-related courses, I haven't had time to read magazines for two weeks, if I can't go back to the SSD every weekend to party and chat with the girls, I had already jumped off the rooftop. ”

Eric took the Coke: "No, I want to congratulate him, the night before yesterday, Charles and I went out for a drink with a few SSD alumni who worked in a software company in Silicon Valley, and talked about Tommy and you rookies, I heard that Tommy's software is very practical, and an alumnus wants to meet Tommy, to see if it is possible to fool his boss to buy it and let Tommy make a fortune, Charles and I are very happy, which means that Tommy can make at least a hundred thousand dollars as a bastard, and then we will make him bleed to celebrate, But in the end, Tommy has to decide for himself, so I'm here to meet him. ”

"What did I just say?" After hearing Eric's intention, Jason was stunned for a moment, and then asked Eric.

Eric shook his head slightly: "You said that it was too stressful to be a roommate with Tommy, and he was going to jump off the rooftop." ”

"That guy immediately has hundreds of thousands, and as my roommate, the biggest pressure now is how to spend that money for him!" Jason stared at Eric and asked loudly, "But are you sure that a plagiarized piece of software is stupid* ready to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy?" Hundreds of thousands? ”

"This kind of thing is very common, last month next door DTS there was a fool, developed a small software that can add text to the picture, sold 200,000, from development to sale, it took less than two weeks, and the guy's original intention to develop that software, just want to write a sentence on the photo of his girlfriend who cheated on him "You are a slut", and then post it all over the school, if it is handwritten, he is worried that the police will find him through handwriting comparison, so he chose to print it with a computer font, so that the police have no trace. Eric said to an excited Jason:

"Every time we meet him when we go to a bar for a drink, we can hear him rejoicing that his ex-girlfriend is a slut, let him earn 200,000, and then find a more beautiful girlfriend."

After listening to this, Jason said enviously: "I'm glad for him." ”

……

"Tommy!" Eric glared at Tommy Hawke, who was sitting in front of the computer at this time and looking through various feedback messages, and said in an angry tone:

"You can ask the other person if they want to invest instead of buying the rights to it, but you can't...... You can't tell him that your next idea is to put ads on the back cover of "Joy Seeker", "Children & Parents", and "Metropolis"! What computer user would buy this kind of junk magazine! I wouldn't be mad if you landed on the Playboy, at least its interview was in-depth, Funker! F*ck！ You're a bitch of an SSD-2 you've made! This is something that everyone has worked so hard to help you make, and you don't respect it! We don't respect everyone, and we don't respect our brothers who helped us after graduation! You can refuse, saying that you are not ready to sell it now, I will understand and support you, but you can't take me for an idiot! ”

Jason carefully observed the situation, and thoughtfully piled baseball bats, boxing gloves and other things near the two of them for them to reach, and after he did all this, he silently sat back on his bed with a bag of potato chips, waiting for the two sides to officially start fighting.

Eric is recognized as a good guy by rookies, and rarely loses his temper, the reason for his anger is that when he happily introduces Tommy to an SSD graduate alumnus who wants to know Tommy's software, and by the way, he fools the boss to buy it with money and let Tommy make a profit, but Tommy hopes that the other party can fool the boss into investing, Eric asks Tommy's thinking, Tommy actually tells him that he wants to publish ads in those useless magazines, which is the reason for Erik's anger, he thinks Tommy has been joking, does not respect him at all, and does not believe what he says.

"Joy Seeker" California's hottest * trading magazine, the largest customer group is * customers and call girls, * customers buy magazines to understand the market on it, horizontal comparison, and call girls who are ready to go to the sea are looking for job postings of entertainment companies on it, or simply buy advertising space to advertise customers.

The latter two are the oldest cheap housewives magazines in the United States, which have been the main source of news and life tips for middle- and lower-class women since the Great Depression, and will publish articles telling women what food is cheap but hungry, so as not to make the children in the family hungry, what part-time jobs are suitable for them to earn some pocket money, how to take care of multiple children, how to buy cheap clothes, how to save money for housewives, etc., as for the advertisements, they are all kinds of cheap goods at discount.

But now, Tommy Hawk is telling him that he's going to put software ads in these magazines, isn't that a joke about what is he?

Tommy stood up, took out a cigarette and handed it to Eric, and said in a soft tone, "Is it okay to listen to me?" Eric? I can give you a reasonable explanation. ”

"It's better to be like this." After Eric finished scolding, he took the cigarette from Tommy and lit it, and sat down in Tommy's chair, ready to listen to Tommy's explanation.

Tommy leaned on the end of the bed and looked at Eric: "First of all, I don't want to sell the copyright to make a profit, or even if I want to sell, I have to toss it first, I can't sell it for hundreds of thousands, and then multiply it several times and dozens of times, maybe I will consider, if you want to sell it at a high price, we need data, and when those people want to buy it, they will ask you how the software is sold, how is the income, etc., according to the market in Silicon Valley this year, as long as this software sells 10,000 copies, we can get at least 3.5 million purchase prices, hundreds of thousands and 1.5 million, How to choose? The latter, of course. ”

"Unless you're taking a break from school to start a company right now, you don't have time to sell it." Eric exhaled a puff of smoke and said to Tommy, "So, you're going to take a leave of absence?" ”

Tommy lit a cigarette in his mouth, took a deep breath, and then said to Eric:

"No, the current plan is to ask the students to test it to minimize the difficulty of the operation, and at the same time I asked Holly Keener from the King's Club, the blonde girl from the New Night, she studied social engineering, and worked part-time at the Entrepreneurship Education and Research Center in the College of Engineering, and she was helping me bring the software there, so that the teachers and guest lecturers there could help try it, and if the feedback was good, they were interested in supporting the project, I could probably get 50,000 yuan of entrepreneurial support, Then I found an active feminist public welfare organization in Stanford University, the Kingfa Society is very familiar with those organizations, I have asked Reni to help me understand the situation, if I can, cooperate with them to open a training company with a public welfare nature, I use the startup fund to purchase a batch of the cheapest computers into the shares, and they take management shares, so that the daily management of the company will have the students of the public welfare organization to take turns in charge, as a co-founder, I don't need to waste too much time in it, anyway, there is nothing to manage, I can continue to study normally. ”

"The ostensible purpose of the training company is to encourage women to go out of the family and find equal opportunities for work, but at a deeper level, it is actually to pay less taxes, and the training will not be charged, but the ladies need to buy software, the price is low, 49.99, which is almost one-tenth of WordStar, and the lowest-level call girl earns enough money to buy a customer, and I am ready to purchase fifty of the cheapest compatible computers, which are sold for six hundred yuan, that is, thirty thousand yuan of principal to support the training program, This means that we can make a profit by selling 1,000 copies, and at the end of the training, the NGO can recommend jobs for the women, and everyone gets benefits, I get some money, the NGO gets fame, the women get jobs, and the software gets sold. ”

"You use a group of low-level women to impact the current white-collar clerks? Turn those clerical jobs into fast food restaurant waiters as cheap? When the capitalists see that even prostitutes know how to operate computers, the weekly salary of nearly 300 yuan for those white-collar clerks will quickly become less than 200 yuan. Eric said.

"Smart people's investment is not easy to get, Eric, but the poor people's money is easy to earn, the poorer they are, the more eager they are to find opportunities to change their fate, and if they want to make money, they need to rob those white-collar workers, I am just helping the ladies of the proletariat, providing them with weapons, so that they have the confidence to rob the money of the propertied class, and by the way, lower the price." Tommy nodded, not denying it:

"Those clerks want to maintain elite status, it is better to learn some new skills, there may not be 50,000 billionaires in California, but there are definitely housewives or call girls who are several times as many as 50,000, fifty yuan, you can have a chance, so that you can find a decent job, no longer have to be scolded by your husband as a waste, no longer have to rely on selling your body, there will be people who are willing, not all poor people are willing to sink all the time."

Eric thought for a moment, and suddenly a question came to mind: "What if those women can't find jobs?" I mean, while it sounds like the white-collar industry is going to quickly become worthless, what if you can't find it? ”

Tommy said as a matter of course: "Of course I want to go back and continue to be a housewife or a call girl~ Before becoming a capitalist or a politician, don't rush to think about social responsibility, Eric, we want sales figures that allow us to sell this thing for a high price or attract large investments, rather than really dedicating ourselves to helping California women solve employment problems." ”

The second 4,000 words are presented~

(End of chapter)