I also had the same problem with one of my employers in the past. I simply explained to him that it was illegal and that they can lock you for it. Lucky for my a had a local example
http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080514/NEWS10/720447000
of what can happen. I find the articles I found of him rather interesting since people around here were told he was locked up. While the articles seem to just say he's nowhere to be found.
It seems to me people are looking at this wrong. People keep saying "Its to hard don't do it, or you'll mess up" However the fact is threading + multiple cores does speed things up. Also not doing something simply because its hard, or because you may mess up is foolish at best. If its hard and you may mess it up the best thing to do is to "DO IT ALLOT" the more you do it the better you will get. As you mess up you'll see where you messed up, and be better equipped to NOT mess up like that in the future. People learn from doing, and exploring. The #1 thing that has held back parallel processing today IS that people have been told to avoid it. This retarded the development of the field, and needs to be amended.
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I also had the same problem with one of my employers in the past. I simply explained to him that it was illegal and that they can lock you for it. Lucky for my a had a local example http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080514/NEWS10/720447000 of what can happen. I find the articles I found of him rather interesting since people around here were told he was locked up. While the articles seem to just say he's nowhere to be found.
It seems to me people are looking at this wrong. People keep saying "Its to hard don't do it, or you'll mess up" However the fact is threading + multiple cores does speed things up. Also not doing something simply because its hard, or because you may mess up is foolish at best. If its hard and you may mess it up the best thing to do is to "DO IT ALLOT" the more you do it the better you will get. As you mess up you'll see where you messed up, and be better equipped to NOT mess up like that in the future. People learn from doing, and exploring. The #1 thing that has held back parallel processing today IS that people have been told to avoid it. This retarded the development of the field, and needs to be amended.
If it had sold for $250 and come with windows xp instead would he have given it 3 points instead?