With economic development, rising raw material prices are inevitable.

Many businesses and organizations have encountered this situation. There is no other way but to postpone the signing of a new contract.

In normal business dealings, price increases are to be expected; it's an inevitable trend. But the Japanese generally won't give you an acceptable price based on natural price increases.

Based on past examples, if you use materials from the Japanese without multiple supply channels, they will make you use them for a period of time, and then suddenly raise the price, leaving you with no choice but to use them.

This is the practice of selling you something at a low price and then making up for it by reducing the cost of raw materials or spare parts.

Normal fluctuations are generally around 5%, which is within a controllable range.

If the price exceeds 5%, then negotiations will need to be renegotiated. The 5% price mark is the warning line; it's manageable.

Or, like oil, prices are generally adjustable within a 5%-10% range. And there are many different methods used, mostly relying on data to predict the magnitude of price increases or decreases in crude oil.

Unless there are unforeseen events or uncontrollable factors that cause prices to surge or plummet.

These are all things that can be seen. In other words, there are already expectations in mind, and both the seller and the buyer need to fulfill their commitments to complete the transaction according to the contract.

One party will always suffer a loss in this situation.

Everyone knows the truth.

But the things the Japanese controlled were things you couldn't see, and they wouldn't let you see them anyway, so there was a lot of room for manipulation.

Xing Baohua called a lawyer to ask how to prevent such things. Besides using written terms and conditions in the contract, the other options were betting models and third-party insurance.

If it's going through a futures trading model, the first thing to consider is whether the raw materials meet the requirements for listing on a financial platform.

Like precious metals, once listed on a platform, their value is determined by the price on the futures platform.

That would be easier to operate, but of course, the risk would be higher, depending on how you play it.

After Xing Baohua finished his consultation and hung up the phone, Zou Wenjuan called him a short while later.

This girl is doing quite well in America. Wang Weibao has also spent a lot of money to invite her to sing many good songs.

Thanks to the distribution of Haina in the United States, they managed to stabilize their situation.

I called Xing Baohua to ask for his opinion. I've started to settle down there and want to buy a house to live in, because staying in hotels all the time isn't comfortable.

He had wanted to buy a house before, but Xing Baohua refused.

Hotels are okay for short trips, but nobody wants to stay there for an extended period.

After thinking for a moment, he said, "Hold on until October. Houses will be much cheaper then, and there will be tons of available properties. Lots of good ones too!"

Although Zou Wenjuan didn't quite understand, she still listened to Xing Baohua and decided to wait a few more months.

After the stock market crash, a lot of people sold their houses, especially luxury homes.

Buying a house now would be such a bad deal!

There wasn't any urgent work to do in the afternoon. Xing Baohua went to the software park to take a look.

In fact, after the acquisition of the headhunting company, a number of people kept coming to the software park. Although not many, over time the number of people grew to more than a hundred.

The team is constantly expanding, which makes Xing Baohua very gratified. In addition, they have recruited many mathematics students from the University of Hong Kong to work on algorithms.

Xing Baohua was looking at the software team's work for a while when an employee came over and told him that he had discovered a serious bug in Java.

The guy followed him to the computer and watched as he pointed at the programming software, wrote a string of code, and then the result of 0.1 + 0.2 was not equal to three.

Everyone knows that no matter how you calculate it, 0.1 + 0.2 equals 0.3.

This situation is still a number system conversion issue.

As we all know, in computer programming, everything is composed of 0s and 1s. When performing calculations, the computer converts the decimal number back to binary before performing the corresponding calculations.

For integers, taking the remainder after dividing by 2 will convert the decimal number to binary.

Similarly, decimals must be converted to binary before calculations, but how is the decimal point converted to a binary number?

In fact, this can be corrected using a floating-point programming language with rounding rules.

Xing Baohua patted the employee on the shoulder, indicating that he was doing well. He also said he would give him a bonus as a reward.

This is also a small way to motivate.

Let's check on the hardware side; progress is good too. Xing Baohua wants to get a lithography machine for them to use for tape-out.

At least the designs can be used directly for testing, instead of being stored on a hard drive and brought to China for tape-out, which is very troublesome.

After leaving the software park, I went to Nokia's Hong Kong office.

This guy comes over to urge us to make progress whenever he has free time.

At least 70% of the signal towers on the blueprints need to be laid before large-scale signal testing can begin. Call and SMS functions will be activated first, but the network will have to wait for the submarine fiber optic cable.

First, create a prototype of the first phase of the project, then create a prototype of the network project.

Only after these two phases are completed can we invite people from neighboring countries of the desert nation to come and take a look.

Xing Baohua was really looking forward to that big deal; it couldn't fall through.

Although this guy increased the wages and Nokia's speed improved a lot, he still didn't seem to know what rushing to finish was.

It's nothing like the kind of rushing to meet deadlines we have now.

There's no other way but to keep urging them.

After working until the evening, Xing Baohua went to Master Zhou's place for soup.

Unfortunately, Zhou's mother was home. Xing Baohua felt a little embarrassed and said that she hadn't brought a gift.

Zhou Ma also said it was fine. It was just talk before that Kowloon Walled City was going to be demolished, but they didn't expect it to be for real. There are definitely many people who don't want to move!

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