The Design and Implementation of laffer1

I just finished watching The Social Network.  The movie is an interesting look at a startup.  Based on my own limited experience in Silicon Valley, I'd have to agree with the portrayal of the office environment shown at the end of the movie.  

Funny thing is I agree with the movie zuckerberg regarding the difference between "The Facebook" and the Harvard site proposed.  The latter ended up targeting a large audience and was in fact a different site.  In the computer industry, it's common to rip off ideas.  Look at Mac OS, Windows, KDE, or Gnome.  Consider the similarities with various smart phones interfaces.

Was he a dick? Yes.  Is it different from Paul Allen, Steve Wozniak or any other co-founders of large companies? Not so much.  

It would be interesting to know what the movie got wrong.

Like most gamers, i've found the PSN outage to be irritating.  Today, I've run into another problem.  I bought a copy of Crysis via Steam and the cd key doesn't work.  Looking at a forum post, I found that many people are having this problem.  In fact, there are 17 pages of people bitching about this problem.  EA admitted to some it was an issue with their activation servers.  I've contacted steam/value about it.  

They're running an EA weekend deal where many EA games are on sale.  I've been avoiding EA games for some time due to the activation issues with newer SIMS games and several other titles.  I finally broke down and bought Crysis because I've been told it's awesome and it was only $10 for the game.  Now I don't get to play the game.  It may clear up in a few days, but it ruins my plans for tonight.  Bummer. 

Lesson learned: don't expect to play EA games after you buy them. 

Guess who's fault it might be... sony!  http://www2.securom.com/  They make the DRM.