Rebirth of the Tech Madman

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The situation of mad cow disease is similar to that of HIV. Although people in certain circles have different degrees of understanding of the existence and harm of this new thing, due to various reasons, the official hopes to control it and not spread it to the public.

In the case of the United Kingdom, once the mad cow disease epidemic is solidified, agriculture will suffer severe damage. And how bad the result will be, no one dares to say that he can evaluate it accurately.

Therefore, since a banquet after the Mid-Autumn Festival last year lifted the cover of mad cow disease, the British government has been investigating the concerns of the domestic people and the most important beef exporters-the EU member states. The necessary procedures such as evaluation, evaluation, etc. are used as an excuse, while procrastinating, while thinking about countermeasures; in addition, he still does not forget to suppress the authority of the report issued by the richest man in a desperate manner.

As for excuses, it’s so easy to find. Viagra’s patent period has not expired. Up to now, I don’t know how much money has been made for this small blue pill. It is rumored that even the Central Intelligence Bureau will use it as a bargaining chip. , Can be said to be well-known in the world, so a natural contempt started from this-what kind of research institution that started from aphrodisiac, is it worthy to discuss the serious subject of mad cow disease?

In the process of delaying so unclearly, the British breeding industry, which was moved by the wind, privately speeded up the treatment of suspected sick cattle, but the long-term irregular operation still detonated the gunpowder keg-the British mad cow disease epidemic began to spread on a large scale. The spread, No. 10 Downing Street panicked completely, to the point where it could no longer be covered and refused to admit that it was impossible.

At this time, the birth of the cloned sheep Dolly, while causing a global sensation, is tantamount to further maintaining the authority of its own research institution-the previous report on mad cow disease is really true!

The day after the cloned sheep Dolly was officially presented to the public, the British Prime Minister John Major announced with a grim face that the mad cow disease outbreak has occurred in the UK!

Suddenly, the world became a sensation again, even overshadowing the "lime" of cloning Dolly the sheep.

It is an undisputed scientific conclusion that humans will be infected by the mad cow disease virus. And the corresponding hazard description of the terminal illness is also very vivid, that is, the brain tissue is sponged, and eventually go mad or die stupidly-definitely the more you think, the more terrifying! The whole world is in panic.

So it is not difficult to imagine that as soon as the voice of British Prime Minister John Major fell, the European Union immediately responded by officially banning the import of British beef; other countries and regions followed suit.

The British government's most feared economic blow, the "catastrophe", still failed to escape. First of all, it faced losses of hundreds of millions of pounds.

Don't forget, the sick cow is so big, it's not easy to deal with the protagonists involved in the avian flu-the chickens and ducks.

Compared with Britain's burnout and the rush of related beef importers, the richest man is calm and relaxed.

Although he deliberately kept a low profile, praise from the British people, including the people in the United Kingdom, still rushed in. Even the British Prime Minister John Major, under the fierce media crusade, had to open his mouth to express regret— -If we were able to pay attention to that report, the current mad cow disease epidemic might not be so serious.

Tang Huan continued to keep a low profile and declined to comment-who made us start the research and development of "spring ~ medicine"! Who is who is not so important, anyway, when the time comes, the British people will use voting to make a ruling.

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The global panic caused by the mad cow disease outbreak in the UK is not entirely unprofitable. At the very least, to a certain extent, it alleviates and conceals the public controversy caused by the "cloning" association of Dolly the sheep, which makes the praise more prominent.

It must be admitted that although the general principle of cloning is very simple, its specific operation process is much more complicated. It is not something that can be done simply by a pile of money-and this difference is the strength!

The cloned sheep Dolly, which has brought unlimited breakthroughs to future medicine, has also attracted entertainment enthusiasm.

For example, "Dolly" developed from breast cells, its name comes from the American country music queen Dolly Barton-you know, this big breasted sister is abnormally plump. The size has reached 40ddd.

Ever since, the video of the cloned sheep Dolly’s life in the laboratory released on AOL was deliberately studied frame by frame by the gossip to prove that what he said was true.

What's more interesting is that Dolly Button, who heard the news, happily went to the appointment, made a special trip to the laboratory, and visited the cloned sheep Dolly.

It is no exaggeration to say that the cloned sheep Dolly must surpass the polar bear "Xiao Qiang" brought back from the North Pole by the richest man and be promoted to the new world's most famous animal.

In an effort to alleviate people's doubts about "cloning" technology, the richest man also contributed his influence.

He published a popular science article titled "Science Must Be Human" in the oldest consecutive monthly magazine in the United States, "Scientific American", to formally express his attitude towards "cloning" technology, that is, it must Respect the ethics of human society and comply with relevant laws and regulations.

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Regardless of the global panic caused by the mad cow disease epidemic or the future imagining of the cloned sheep Dolly, in the process of transmission, the Internet has received a boost that cannot be ignored.

Not long ago, AOL launched the latest tariff policy-only $21.95 per month, you can surf the Internet freely, which can be described as completely changing the rules of the game for network access services.

Gein, this package is not a short-lived promotion in nature, but to be a permanent business method.

It must be pointed out that at this stage, search engines such as Yahoo are only developed by Xiaohe, and online services represented by AOL, compuserve, and prodigy troika are just the most popular niches. .

Throughout the past ten years, the Internet access fee has naturally fallen as a whole. In the early 1980s, if you want to access the earliest online service company, compuserve, you often have to pay as much as 30 US dollars per hour; thereafter year by year Decrease, down to 10 dollars; then to about 2 dollars in the early 1990s.

AOL has always shown sincerity in terms of Internet access fees. One of its long-term signature packages is a monthly tariff plan of US$18, which includes a basic cost of US$9.95 for 5 hours per month, plus another US$2.95 per hour.

Sometimes, in order to compete for users and beautify the data on the important indicator of "new users", AOL will also aggressively launch a true monthly package with a time limit.

The result of doing so often leads to network congestion, server downtime, and other signs of collapse.

Fortunately, the “herd effect” that is particularly obvious in the Internet ecosystem has helped AOL not suffer too much negative impact.

Today, AOL has listed the unmixed Internet access fee monthly package as a formal permanent business item. Obviously, it is well prepared in terms of wiring, server and other hardware, while other competitors seem a little caught off guard.

In terms of their respective back-office differences, there is no doubt that there is Tang IT behind AOL; the main beneficiary behind prodigy is ibm; and the recent shareholding changes of compuserve are somewhat intriguing.

The oldest online service provider was originally owned by a tax declaration service company called h&r_block; now it has just changed to Microsoft.

On December 7th last year, Gates did a very famous thing. He declared in the company's internal mail that this day is not just an anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, but also a turning point for Microsoft's survival in the face of the advent of the Internet era. From this moment on, all operations of the company will put the Internet as a priority.

Gates can be said to do what he said. As soon as the voice fell, Microsoft very efficiently acquired the controlling stake of compusserve from h&r_block, which was already under competitive pressure. In this way, like Tang Huan and ibm, it also entered the field of online services. .

In the eyes of discerning people, Gates did this to a large extent in a positive response to Wall Street’s last year’s beating that Microsoft’s stock was lowered from “buy”.

In fact, this phenomenon also shows that in the current IT field competition, the influence of capital games is increasing.

In this way, just like AOL adopts Fangyuan and Zheru's technological solutions, and Prodigy adopts ibm's technological solutions, Compuserve will fully embrace Microsoft's solutions centered on windows_nt.

However, whether intentional or unintentional, it is just such a coincidence that Microsoft is inevitably involved in the Internet tariff war launched by AOL.

At this time, AOL’s management, headed by Chairman of the Board Steve Case and CEO Robert Pittman, was reporting the company’s operations to the richest man in Tang—this was also the intention before the annual report came out.

Looking at the high spirits of Steve Case, Robert Pittman and others, it is not difficult to imagine how proud AOL is at this stage.

The field of online services in the U.S. is basically the trio of AOL, prodigy, and compuserve. Among them, AOL is the leader.

So far, AOL has nearly 15 million subscribers.

In other words, more than one-third of users across the United States access the Internet through services provided by AOL.

If these data still belong to the "false fire rise" peculiar to Internet companies, then the operating income of several billion US dollars and the market capital valuation of more than 10 billion US dollars can definitely be regarded as real results.

Relying on burning money and breaking a **** road, America Online has been able to take the lead, mainly because of two reasons-technically thanks to the earliest introduction of graphical user interface technology, the use of the Internet's true public protocol tcp/ip, and the embrace of the World Wide Web And so on; the outstanding point of the operation is to be able to forge ahead in the most sensitive tariffs from the user's point of view, which can be said to fully implement the "traffic is everything" concept.

In contrast, competitors such as prodigy and compuserve have always been unable to let go of their positions-AOL stepped forward and lowered their tariffs, and they stepped forward step by step helplessly, appearing extremely passive.

As a result, the user share they own now speaks for itself.

Following this, investors headed by Tang's richest man also saw more and more clear golden light ahead.

AOL, which sits at the top of online services, launched a regular tariff package of $21.95 per month at this time. Obviously, it is still not satisfied with the current achievements.

Steve Case revealed his ambitious ambitions during his work report, "AOL wants to use this marketing strategy to increase its share of US Internet access users from the current more than one-third to at least More than one-half."

The richest man nodded slightly-although it is quite difficult to make progress in succession, it is not a problem for AOL to achieve this goal by relying on the "Matthew effect" of the stronger it already has.

"As far as AOL's operations are concerned, I admire the current management team very much." Tang it slowly said: "I just remind you that the development of the Internet is not an exaggeration to describe the rapid development of the Internet, and the industry competition that comes with it. The changes in the game rules are also dizzying-if you lose your original vigilance and fall into blind optimism, you are probably not far from being pushed from the throne of the king by the cutting-edge."

Looking around at the people who were listening carefully, the richest man placed his right hand on the armrest of the sofa, raised it and waved it, "Please consider a question carefully-in the past ten years, the Internet can be described as a wilderness, and what you have done , Which is equivalent to planting crops, harvesting grain, providing high-quality content services to users ~www.readwn.com~ and getting their subscription fees based on this."

"But now, the World Wide Web has exploded. According to a rough assessment I got, the total number of web pages currently exceeds 100 million. The makers of these web pages all want users to read their own content. It even does not hesitate to launch a variety of attractive value-added services."

"It can be said that from now on, the Internet will inevitably be seen everywhere, with vibrant green crops everywhere, and your traditional business model-content subscription, has subsequently lost its former ‘seller’s market’ status."

Steve Case immediately replied: "Among AOL's operating income, advertising has begun to become the absolute protagonist. It has reminded us that free content will be the general trend."

"This time the monthly tariff package of 21.95 US dollars is actually to put the subscription fee in a secondary position, mainly considering the hardware cost such as the line; and the development direction of AOL will also follow Tang's suggestion and become an Internet media portal. ."

The richest man laughed loudly, "Since you have such a clear idea, then I can rest assured."

When the intensive work report was over and everyone else left, Steve Case talked about another thing, "Tang, AOL’s emerging media status has attracted the attention of some people, and many of them take the initiative. Contacts, test the possibility of acquisition."