David Perry
David Perry
David Perryis a Northern Irish video game developer and programmer. He became prominent for programming platform games for 16-bit home consoles in the early to mid 1990s, including Disney's Aladdin, Cool Spot, and Earthworm Jim. He founded Shiny Entertainment, where he worked from 1993 to 2006. Perry created games for companies such as Disney, 7 Up, McDonald's, Orion Pictures, and Warner Bros. In 2008 he was presented with an honorary doctorate from Queen's University Belfast for his services to computer...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth4 April 1967
CountryIreland
Once it starts destroying files, people will hunt it down and kill it. I don't expect we will hear of mass destruction for this, because we got notice early in the game.
The minute you hear the word 'share,' you start thinking Twitter and Facebook. These are the places that people can very quickly share something they've just discovered.
People don't want to leave Facebook to play games - Zynga's phenomenal success is proof of that.
The next Earthworm Jim is currently in development and is certainly coming back. It had been known for a while around the people at Atari, but it's certainly coming out.
I actually once sat at the back of a payroll class in America - just me and 40 women! And I'm sitting back there, learning payroll, because I want to understand it. So that when I talk to people about payroll I know what they're talking about. And I set up and managed and ran a full payroll system myself.
Their emotions may be preempting their cognitions, or arousal may be distorting their cognition.
I'd like to see this as a trend, that legal action is taken while the event is still fresh in people's minds.
I hesitate to go out on a limb on a virus like this. I don't know if there will be damage on Friday.
The main thing we've lost is not the money; it is not the credit ratings. The main thing we've lost is trust. Do you trust e-mail enough that if you get e-mail from a bank, you open it?
Microsoft built the architecture that made it (the hole) possible.
There will be a new Internet with a new TCP/IP . All of it will have to be rewritten with security in mind.
The sale has questions for Solution and Sausage and I would question the whole Telstra investment philosophy.
There was a lot of activity because of the media reaction to it, ... If the CEO sees the alert on TV, he calls down and says, 'Take care of this right now.'
So it can be political unacceptable even if the tax loss isn't that great. This is political and ideological.