I've been searching the internet for a while trying to find out how this is possible. My friend was programming in C++ and somehow messed with pointers or something like that.
Some of the stuff that happened after she ran her program (it was a programming project)
All her keys were randomized, some spouted the ABCs, some spouted out the less often used characters
Her computer immediately started overheating. Her computer literally started smoking within 5 minutes i believe.
My question is, how is it possible for a program to physically destroy a computer. Aren't the controls for the cooling fan, etc. protected or just plain simply built right into the motherboard or BIOS?
Thanks
P.S. I never managed to get a copy of the program from my friend seeing as how they're computer got destroyed.
Those analysis aren't applied to the "first batch" only. You seem to agree w/ this, with "the first batch would be in the millions of dollars". So I'm not sure what you are talking about here.
Agreed here, but the hardware team isn't the team that's doing the software changes. That makes no sense. They can still be working on the first-party handheld.
Ea and Ubisoft's already have a 3rd party client mode where it removes the store features from the client and only uses 60mb of ram rather than 700....
I use playnite for gog and epic games because the the third party legendary client etc
Combined in playnite epic and gog only use 200mb/ram while also showing my entire library from every other platform...
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I've been searching the internet for a while trying to find out how this is possible. My friend was programming in C++ and somehow messed with pointers or something like that.
Some of the stuff that happened after she ran her program (it was a programming project)
All her keys were randomized, some spouted the ABCs, some spouted out the less often used characters
Her computer immediately started overheating. Her computer literally started smoking within 5 minutes i believe.
My question is, how is it possible for a program to physically destroy a computer. Aren't the controls for the cooling fan, etc. protected or just plain simply built right into the motherboard or BIOS?
Thanks
P.S. I never managed to get a copy of the program from my friend seeing as how they're computer got destroyed.
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