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
Unlike most viruses, which have some financial objective, such as stealing Internet-banking passwords or using the victim's PC to send spam, this worm is purely malicious. It is as if its creators just want people to sit up and take notice of them.
We actually have people abandoning using their computers because it's just too much trouble,
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.
We will see on Friday how many people report it. People rarely report in when they miss the boat and get infected.
When people think of the diseases affecting children most frequently, they often think of things like obesity or asthma. But dental disease is now the single most common chronic disease of childhood, and is seriously impairing the quality of life for thousands of children in California each year. That not only hurts our children, it hurts all of us.
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.
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.
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.
It can make your brand inaccessible to people.
Microsoft built the architecture that made it (the hole) possible.
My mother wanted desperately to contribute to the war effort, ... Her brother was a pilot. And so she drew, she painted, she worked for the Red Cross, she was a recreational therapist with wounded soldiers, whatever she could do.
There are about 300 million computers on the Internet (but) the number of NT installations on desktops is relatively miniscule,
There is no reason to pay full walk-up rates for lift. All you have to do is the tiniest bit of advance planning.