Hogwarts: Becoming a god from reselling fresh food

"I'm very excited," Patrick said. "My heart has never been very good, and my doctor told me that I should avoid getting emotional. But unfortunately, I can't do that."

"I have been waiting for this day for two years," Patrick said. "Even sometimes I feel that my whole life has been waiting for this day to come."

“Thank you again, and thank you to Umbrella Company, and to my friend Mr. Murphys Anon, the founder of Umbrella, for giving me this opportunity to come here and share our products with you.”

Patrick was a little emotional, and the atmosphere team in the audience also gave timely applause and a few cheers and encouragement.

"When Morpheus told me about two years ago that he decided to get into electronics, I thought he was crazy, to be honest."

"I said, NO, you're not serious."

"He said, Yes, I'm serious."

"I said, NO!"

"He said, Yse!"

"I said, we're going to fail."

"He said, no, we have to make this work."

"We have been arguing for a long time. After all, everyone knows that Umbrella Company is a pharmaceutical company. We have made the best trauma treatment drugs in the world, but the electronics industry is not our strength."

"If you are injured, even if your nerves are broken, Baiyao can heal you, but it can't repair your computer!"

"So I asked him, Why? Why do you want to get into the electronics field? Why do you have to do this?"

"Morpheus convinced me with one sentence."

"He said, Patrick, we have to push forward technology, we have to change the world!"

The venue was silent for a while, and then there was a burst of applause. Twenty or thirty years later, this has become a common saying among Internet companies, but at this moment, when Patrick said it, it was full of touching sincerity.

When the applause died down, Patrick said: "Please allow me to introduce to you the product we are proud of, the personal computer that will definitely change the world. Queen Blue!"

As he finished speaking, the dark blue color that filled the screen suddenly gathered towards the umbrella company logo in the center, and merged into the icon. The icon was also infected by the dark blue color, from the original red and white to white. It turned into an umbrella shape of alternating dark blue and light blue.

Then, each fan shape in the icon disappeared clockwise. As the last fan shape disappeared, a silver-gray computer appeared on the screen.

The silver-gray host is like an ultra-modern building. The three vertical metal frame lines on the front end are hollow grids. There is no other decoration. There is only a button with a blue umbrella icon as the power-on button.

The slim LCD display is also extremely clean and tidy, with rounded edges. It also adopts a minimalist design, with only an umbrella icon on the front as a switch.

The dynamic display lasted for half a minute.

Patrick spoke again, "We have invested six world-leading technologies in this computer: large-size high-resolution LCD display, epoch-making 64-bit chip - Silver Dragon One, new architecture memory: Mana, independent Image processor - Blue Dragon graphics card, self-developed next-generation desktop system: Cornerstone, ultra-large solid-state drive, ultra-high-speed mechanical hard drive, etc."

"Before I introduce it in detail, I would like to demonstrate this computer to you."

After he finished speaking, a staff member came up with a display stand on which was placed a "Blue Queen".

After connecting the console to the big screen, Patrick pressed the power button.

For an instant, the dark screen lit up, and then a blue umbrella icon appeared in the center of the black screen. Eight alternating sectors disappeared and reappeared in a clockwise direction, indicating in the most intuitive way that the system was loading.

However, just two or three seconds later, the loading animation suddenly stopped, and then the screen brightened up, and an extremely clear and concise desktop appeared in front of everyone.

For a moment, there was silence in the venue.

"We use a high-speed solid-state drive loading system, so that the boot speed of the Blue Queen is only three seconds." Patrick explained in a timely manner.

“What everyone sees now is our self-developed desktop system: the cornerstone.”

"At the beginning of designing the system, Morpheus identified several principles for project general manager Bob Henderson."

"First, the desktop system is the cornerstone that connects hardware and software applications. As the middle layer, it must have portability and modular structure and be able to flexibly support more hardware environments."

"Currently, in addition to supporting our self-developed hardware, the Cornerstone system also supports most CPU, memory and other hardware on the market."

"However, because the Cornerstone system is developed to our next-generation hardware standards, it can only provide limited functionality when using less capable hardware."

Hearing this, Intel's Paul Otellini frowned and had an ominous premonition.

“The second principle Morpheus put forward to Bob was: in order to ensure the user experience, it must be compatible with enough software.”

"Based on the development manuals of several friendly vendors, we have optimized the cornerstone system to the maximum extent, making it backward compatible with most software in friendly vendor environments such as Windows systems, linunx systems, and unix systems."

Microsoft's Steve Ballmer also frowned.

“Third, the cornerstone system must be unprecedentedly easy to use, so that anyone who has never used it can become familiar with most of its operations for the first time.”

"To this end, we have adopted a polymorphic interaction mechanism, fully thinking from the user's perspective, removing all messy guidance, and returning the right to explore system functions to the user. This button..."

Patrick said, clicking the blue umbrella icon on the lower left side of the desktop, "We call it the start key. Almost all functions in the cornerstone system can be found here."

Hearing this, both Paul and Steve Ballmer looked at Jobs, who was not far away.

As we all know, simplifying complexity and focusing on user experience have always been the product concepts that Qiao Gang leader most admires.

“Final principle: Cornerstone systems must have unparalleled performance.”

Having said this, Patrick dragged the mouse and demonstrated the opening and closing of folders, dragging of windows, dragging of files to organize, delete, sort, etc. All operations were as smooth as clouds and flowing water.

Gradually, a buzz of conversation filled the venue, and there were one or two exclamations from time to time.

Suddenly someone in the audience shouted: "How many frames did your animation use?"

Patrick took a look and found that it was Steve Ballmer. "All animations in the Cornerstone system are 60 frames."

"How is this possible? Your image resolution is so high. If it is 60 frames, won't there be frame errors and freezes? How do you allocate performance? Do you need to use all the memory to display animations? How do you do it? Solve this problem?”

Patrick smiled, "You got the point right, my friend from a business partner."

“The solution to this problem is actually not to solve it.”

"What?"

Steve Ballmer was stunned, "Are you kidding me?"

"I'm not joking." Patrick said, "In our view, the root cause of the display effect problem is not that higher animation frame rates will consume too much performance, but that the performance of the existing hardware is too low. It worked!”

"If we have a well, do we care about a drop or two of water that escapes?"

"Umbrella companies don't want to weaken the user experience for one or two drops of water. Our solution is to dig a well."