"There's lots of hard, rigorous software that boys and girls like equally," he said.
An origin story directed with a sure touch and perfect tone by J. J. Abrams, the fully loaded film — a showcase for big-studio hardware, software, muscled boys who can act and leggy girls who aren't required to — turns back the narrative clock to the moment before the main characters first assembled on the deck of the U.S.S.
Mammoth platformers Metroid, Castlevania and Mega Man were also highlights among the 700-odd Game Boy software library.
SafeWeb, a maker of networking hardware in Emeryville, Calif., that has drawn some financing from the Central Intelligence Agency, recently provided free software called Triangle Boy that protected Internet users' identities by routing their browsing through SafeWeb's server.
"Our aim is to change the image of the Indian software professional from country-boy techie to cosmopolitan global business manager".
But if he really wants to play with the big boys in software and services, he will have to do plenty of butt-kicking within his own company.
"Puerile sniggering at breasts contributes to the continuing impression that software development is a boys' club," wrote one leading engineer.
"Puerile sniggering at breasts contributes to the continuing impression that software development is a boys' club where girls aren't welcome," Dr Garrett wrote.
For the price of a Nook or Fire, you get a device with much better specs and some big-boy productivity software.
Sega is already developing software for Nintendo's Game Boy, a system for which Sega has no competing product.
(Apple's homegrown versions of important programs like Internet Explorer and Acrobat Reader seem aimed at addressing a common criticism: "Boy, if [insert software company here] ever stops making a Mac version of [insert popular program here], Apple will go out of business".
