What exactly does Noah Kagan do? Writing blogs is certainly not his superpower. After reading it I felt I knew less than when I started.
Here is another of his sites which has more of his experience: http://noahkagan.com/
I'll echo some of the same sentiments others are posting here in that I don't know what he really did at FB but given the information on the site above, here are some highlights:
Internship at MS in 2003 for ~3 months during the summer before his Senior year; the experience definitely looks like he took a few liberties describing his responsibility. Bachelor's in business administration and economics from UC Berkeley in 2004 Moved on to Intel from 2004-2005; again his experience looks a bit exaggerated. I don't doubt there is truth to it but in my opinion, the way it reads gives the reader the impression his responsibilities were much more than they actually were. Moved on to Facebook in October 2005 until he was fired in June 2006. For those keeping tabs, that is less than 1 year of experience at FB. Furthermore, the experience he lists has a lot of what I would consider technical in nature yet he does not have a Comp Sci or related degree. Given the liberties I feel he has taken with his other experience, I don't think this one would be any different. If he helped market facebook during its infancy then he should be marketing that (hah) a lot more than "his" experience with these technical items.
At the end of the day, he joined Facebook with about 1 year of actual work experience under his belt and he got fired from Facebook after having worked there less than 1 year. Did he lose out on $100M other than what he feels he would have eventually worked up to had he been there until the IPO? Not a chance.
I think that's entirely the point. DRM or no DRM does not affect the piracy rate but it DOES impact the end-user. If the end-user's experience is affected by something that does not affect the illegitimate users then they need to re-evaluate their goals. There are extra costs in development and overhead with the implementation of DRM which must be factored into the ROI. It appears they are coming to the realization that their implementation negatively affects the end-user experience, impression of their brand, and does not provide any additional sales (which is the whole point, really) so they're on the wrong end of that ROI.
There are still Quake TF servers out there, albeit they are very few so your ping times can suffer greatly. They are also filled with cheaters. But other than that it is nice to see the spy in his tux and wielding an axe...
Employment-at-will means you can be fired at any time and you can quit at any time, and neither require prior notice. In my opinion your boss is not being reasonable, but what do YOU think?
Meh. What I'd be interested is decoding MP3s. So far, MP3 decoding is limited to realtime. Also, when are we going to be able to decode multiple MP3s at once?
MP3 decoding is not limited to realtime. Have you ever used the diskwriter output option in winamp? It will decode your mp3 into a wav file much faster than realtime. And as for decoding multiple MP3s at once, why? Using the same diskwriter option you can set up a batch conversion by having winamp run through your playlist to convert all the MP3s. Decoding multiple MP3s at once seems inefficient and pointless but perhaps I am missing something.
Note: You can also use other programs such as CDex to convert MP3s to WAVs faster than real-time; I was merely using winamp as an example.
How many times do I have to post this in this thrread and yesterday's "Steamed" thread!? Ugh!
You can start Steam in offline mode just fine! You can play HL2 without an internet connection once you've done all the authenticating!
In other words, in 5 years, Valve could be dead and gone, Steam could be history AND I WILl STILL BE ABLE TO PLAY HL2.
Let's try and think this through, shall we? 5 years later you will more than likely have a new computer and HL2 will probably not be installed. For the sake of argument, let's say you try and install it. What happens after it is installed? It wants you to sign in to Steam to authenticate your purcase. Woe is me. Steam is no longer functional and cannot authenticate your purchase! You don't get to play the game you bought! Now HOPEFULLY you will see why people are pissed off at Steam.
That is true but not the point of my post. I am just saying that the number of users with dvd drives could possibly be severely overstated because of the use of drive emulators.
I would like to point out that the DVD statistics may be a bit skewed. I took the hardware survey twice and both times it detected I had a DVD drive which is not the case. Apparently the scanner detects the Daemon tools drive and concludes you have a DVD drive. It also fails to detect that you also have a CD drive. Not that I'm against putting more games out on DVD, I just think these statistics should be taken with a grain of salt.
I have lost a good bit of data over the years and it really isn't all that bad. I am guilty of hoarding files I never intended to get rid of but after losing them, it really didn't matter to me. I think a lot of us keep files around because we think they COULD have a use in the future or maybe we just have some sentimental attachment to them but the truth of the matter is we will probably never use those files again. I think of files I have backed up to CDs and then realize the last time I touched the CDs... when I made them. Just like most garages get piled up with crap, so do our harddrives; it is too bad we can't hold a sort of data sale for all of our precious relics.
Sorry about this delayed response but you are incorrect. If you read the same site you linked it states:
Then "exit" (do not log out!) from Steam
If you don't believe me you can try it yourself. Exit and logout from Steam and then disable your internet connection. When you open steam again, it will state the following:
Unable to connect to the Steam network. Offline mode is unavailable because the 'Exit and logout' option was used when you last exited Steam.
You will not be able to use Steam until you can connect to the Steam network again.
This was my original point by stating you MUST go into offline mode when exiting Steam as opposed to exiting and logging out. Again, if you don't believe me I encourage you to try it yourself.
That used to be the case, however Steam has been updated and you can now launch into offline mode, and chose if you want to go online or not. Great for lans, playing a home networked game, etc.
It's nice how you left out the very next sentence:
It should be noted, however, that if you login to steam and THEN go into offline mode, you can play the games you bought while remaining offline.
I'm sure they'll come out with a press release saying something to the affect of:
"Recent tactics against piracy are working, which caused our profits to climb this past year. We look forward to using more strong-arm tactics to further increase our profits."
Furthermore, I want a copy on a CD so that, if Steam breaks for whatever reason (which it likes to do), I can still install and play the game I bought.
You can't play any of the games without logging into Steam, even if you have the CD. It should be noted, however, that if you login to steam and THEN go into offline mode, you can play the games you bought while remaining offline. If Steam was just a product distribution channel I wouldn't have a problem with it, but it tries to be everything at once. They tout Steam as being able to keep all of your games up to date yet they could just use it as an updater and not require you to use it in order to play your games. Sorry for the rant, I recently had to install steam in order to play TFC and I'm not too fond of the system.
I remember when HL came out and I ran it on my 233 non-graphics-accelerated PC without problem. Since the levels were all divided up in small segments, even loading wasn't that bad. Maybe you were just running it at too high a resolution.
Use Work Offline mode in IE when you aren't using it. This setting will be saved even when you close IE thus keeping IE exploits such as this down. As a side note, it also kills the ads in AIM which is a nice plus. The only downside is when a program does try to access the internet using IE (such as AIM) it prompts you to Stay Offline or Connect. All you have to do is click stay offline and you'll be fine. If anyone knows how to suppress this prompt I would love to hear it.
Well you may have meant something else by using ROC but it is an actual word. Defined by Merriam-Webster:
Main Entry: roc
Pronunciation: 'räk Function: noun Etymology: Arabic rukhkh : a legendary bird of great size and strength believed to inhabit the Indian Ocean area
There are quite a places in Duke3D that were actually on top of each other and not cheated, off the top of my head I would say the spiral staircase in Hollywood Holocaust (episode 1 level 1) does show the build engine is capable of rooms over rooms. You can see where they cheat things by using your map and you will sometimes get "transported" somewhere else. There are numerous times that they just flattened sprites and made them solid in order to make bridges and other things to simulate multiple levels. So yes they did cheat by transporting you when you did things like going under water but the build engine is capable of doing rooms over rooms.
"He did go into the artistic reasons why he retains copyrights. He said we may make reprints of the photos at a low-quality shop and tarnish his professional reputation. He did say he does provide 'middle resolution images' on CD or password-protected FTP free of charge.
Let me get this straight: You cannot have the high quality images since you may take them to a low quality shop but you CAN have middle resolution copies! How does this make sense? Assume you took those middle resolution pics to a low-quality shop, they would come out worse than the highest quality ones. Maybe I'm missing the logic or maybe my bullshit detector is working.
High-rollers and steady customers always get preferential treatment at casinos. There are usually seperate lines for checkin, buffets, and shows for patrons they assume will be more profitable. In the meantime, we have to wait it out in long lines with the rest of the "poor people." So getting to the point, it is being done in a face-to-face setting.
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What exactly does Noah Kagan do? Writing blogs is certainly not his superpower. After reading it I felt I knew less than when I started.
Here is another of his sites which has more of his experience: http://noahkagan.com/
I'll echo some of the same sentiments others are posting here in that I don't know what he really did at FB but given the information on the site above, here are some highlights:
Internship at MS in 2003 for ~3 months during the summer before his Senior year; the experience definitely looks like he took a few liberties describing his responsibility.
Bachelor's in business administration and economics from UC Berkeley in 2004
Moved on to Intel from 2004-2005; again his experience looks a bit exaggerated. I don't doubt there is truth to it but in my opinion, the way it reads gives the reader the impression his responsibilities were much more than they actually were.
Moved on to Facebook in October 2005 until he was fired in June 2006. For those keeping tabs, that is less than 1 year of experience at FB. Furthermore, the experience he lists has a lot of what I would consider technical in nature yet he does not have a Comp Sci or related degree. Given the liberties I feel he has taken with his other experience, I don't think this one would be any different. If he helped market facebook during its infancy then he should be marketing that (hah) a lot more than "his" experience with these technical items.
At the end of the day, he joined Facebook with about 1 year of actual work experience under his belt and he got fired from Facebook after having worked there less than 1 year. Did he lose out on $100M other than what he feels he would have eventually worked up to had he been there until the IPO? Not a chance.
I think that's entirely the point. DRM or no DRM does not affect the piracy rate but it DOES impact the end-user. If the end-user's experience is affected by something that does not affect the illegitimate users then they need to re-evaluate their goals. There are extra costs in development and overhead with the implementation of DRM which must be factored into the ROI. It appears they are coming to the realization that their implementation negatively affects the end-user experience, impression of their brand, and does not provide any additional sales (which is the whole point, really) so they're on the wrong end of that ROI.
Actually no, you can get to the "You're not supposed to be here" area by using a jetpack which is available in that level.
There are still Quake TF servers out there, albeit they are very few so your ping times can suffer greatly. They are also filled with cheaters. But other than that it is nice to see the spy in his tux and wielding an axe...
In a word, no.
Employment-at-will means you can be fired at any time and you can quit at any time, and neither require prior notice. In my opinion your boss is not being reasonable, but what do YOU think?
Meh. What I'd be interested is decoding MP3s. So far, MP3 decoding is limited to realtime. Also, when are we going to be able to decode multiple MP3s at once?
MP3 decoding is not limited to realtime. Have you ever used the diskwriter output option in winamp? It will decode your mp3 into a wav file much faster than realtime. And as for decoding multiple MP3s at once, why? Using the same diskwriter option you can set up a batch conversion by having winamp run through your playlist to convert all the MP3s. Decoding multiple MP3s at once seems inefficient and pointless but perhaps I am missing something.
Note: You can also use other programs such as CDex to convert MP3s to WAVs faster than real-time; I was merely using winamp as an example.
Let's try and think this through, shall we? 5 years later you will more than likely have a new computer and HL2 will probably not be installed. For the sake of argument, let's say you try and install it. What happens after it is installed? It wants you to sign in to Steam to authenticate your purcase. Woe is me. Steam is no longer functional and cannot authenticate your purchase! You don't get to play the game you bought! Now HOPEFULLY you will see why people are pissed off at Steam.
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That is true but not the point of my post. I am just saying that the number of users with dvd drives could possibly be severely overstated because of the use of drive emulators.
I have lost a good bit of data over the years and it really isn't all that bad. I am guilty of hoarding files I never intended to get rid of but after losing them, it really didn't matter to me. I think a lot of us keep files around because we think they COULD have a use in the future or maybe we just have some sentimental attachment to them but the truth of the matter is we will probably never use those files again. I think of files I have backed up to CDs and then realize the last time I touched the CDs... when I made them. Just like most garages get piled up with crap, so do our harddrives; it is too bad we can't hold a sort of data sale for all of our precious relics.
Just my 2 pennies
American Splendor, great movie btw.
If you don't believe me you can try it yourself. Exit and logout from Steam and then disable your internet connection. When you open steam again, it will state the following:
This was my original point by stating you MUST go into offline mode when exiting Steam as opposed to exiting and logging out. Again, if you don't believe me I encourage you to try it yourself.
Movies (provided by IMDB)
Actually IMDB is an Amazon.com company, so in a sense they are providing themselves with movies.
History of IMDB.
It should be noted, however, that if you login to steam and THEN go into offline mode, you can play the games you bought while remaining offline.
I'm sure they'll come out with a press release saying something to the affect of:
"Recent tactics against piracy are working, which caused our profits to climb this past year. We look forward to using more strong-arm tactics to further increase our profits."
Okay, so maybe I added the last part.
I remember when HL came out and I ran it on my 233 non-graphics-accelerated PC without problem. Since the levels were all divided up in small segments, even loading wasn't that bad. Maybe you were just running it at too high a resolution.
Use Work Offline mode in IE when you aren't using it. This setting will be saved even when you close IE thus keeping IE exploits such as this down. As a side note, it also kills the ads in AIM which is a nice plus. The only downside is when a program does try to access the internet using IE (such as AIM) it prompts you to Stay Offline or Connect. All you have to do is click stay offline and you'll be fine. If anyone knows how to suppress this prompt I would love to hear it.
Are you sure that she worked for the electric company?
There are quite a places in Duke3D that were actually on top of each other and not cheated, off the top of my head I would say the spiral staircase in Hollywood Holocaust (episode 1 level 1) does show the build engine is capable of rooms over rooms. You can see where they cheat things by using your map and you will sometimes get "transported" somewhere else. There are numerous times that they just flattened sprites and made them solid in order to make bridges and other things to simulate multiple levels. So yes they did cheat by transporting you when you did things like going under water but the build engine is capable of doing rooms over rooms.
High-rollers and steady customers always get preferential treatment at casinos. There are usually seperate lines for checkin, buffets, and shows for patrons they assume will be more profitable. In the meantime, we have to wait it out in long lines with the rest of the "poor people." So getting to the point, it is being done in a face-to-face setting.