It seems to me that Brin looks at the surface then takes his criticisms to their absolute extremes. Being a writer I would think that he had more depth than this. I guess there'll always be people like this. Someone once recommended Brin's works to me. I can't say I'll be reading the work of someone with such shallow senses.
It makes me wonder that he didn't understand this movie. While there are lots of other things in his review (slashing) of TPM that I disagreed with, I'll just address this one point. He asks why it is the Sith are risking so much to take such an insignificant planet like Naboo... It's as simple as this: Senator Palpatine made a deal with the trade federation to move in on the sovereignty of Naboo. While doing this, he tricks Queen Amidala into going to the senate and presenting a vote of no confidence in Chancellor Valorum's leadership. It is here that he can move to take the leadership of the senate and plant the seeds of his future empire.
-Burt, who has never read Brin and probably never will.
So you condone stealing proprietary source code and support those that breach contracts? Wake up dude, reverse engineering is one thing, but outright STEALING code is just bad news. IF this is true about Creative then this'll be a bad scar on them for the rest of their lives.
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Not everyone has the funds to go buy a huge monitor. 17" monitors are still nice, btw. Frickin' spoiled brats.
It seems to me that Brin looks at the surface then
takes his criticisms to their absolute extremes.
Being a writer I would think that he had more depth than this. I guess there'll always be people like this. Someone once recommended Brin's works to me. I can't say I'll be reading the work of someone with such shallow senses.
It makes me wonder that he didn't understand this
movie. While there are lots of other things in
his review (slashing) of TPM that I disagreed
with, I'll just address this one point. He asks
why it is the Sith are risking so much to take
such an insignificant planet like Naboo...
It's as simple as this: Senator Palpatine made
a deal with the trade federation to move in on the
sovereignty of Naboo. While doing this, he
tricks Queen Amidala into going to the senate
and presenting a vote of no confidence in
Chancellor Valorum's leadership. It is here that
he can move to take the leadership of the senate
and plant the seeds of his future empire.
-Burt, who has never read Brin and probably never
will.
So you condone stealing proprietary source code and support those that breach contracts? Wake
up dude, reverse engineering is one thing, but
outright STEALING code is just bad news. IF this
is true about Creative then this'll be a bad scar
on them for the rest of their lives.
-Burt
NO WAY MAN!! Jar Jar rules! They should let him play the older Anakin!
Burt
He was pretty good acting like a retarded boy in 'Gilbert Grape'.