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,
We will see on Friday how many people report it. People rarely report in when they miss the boat and get infected.
We think it is a great project if we can get it permitted.
The spirit is strong. Our faith is solid.
There will definitely be some traffic from this worm this evening. But I don't think there will be the widespread damage that's predicted. I could be wrong. But I don't think we're going to see anything like we've heard about.
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.'
The revitalizing of this part of the city I think would be a welcome thing,
There's still a very exciting story to tell in Snowmass. The renaissance of Snowmass is underway. There's still something like $28 million in development projects currently going on in town without including Base Village.
People don't want to leave Facebook to play games - Zynga's phenomenal success is proof of that.
User education is paramount. They need to learn to look at the Internet as a city. You can move into the wrong neighborhood and it can ruin your life. You need to learn where to park or walk and where not to park or walk.
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.