Berst is a dork, but that wouldn't be so bad of itself. There are a lot of these industry pundits that are huge dorks, leftovers from a time -- early 80's -- where "microcomputers" were new, no one knew where they were going, and publishers needed to find "experts", really just personalities with a technical bent, whose names they could tack onto columns and market to a business readership hungry to tune into, well, experts. "Oh yeah!? Well, John Dvorak says blah, blah, blah..."
What makes Jesse Berst worse than the dork company he keeps is the fact that he's a boring dork. There's very little he uncovers that's really new or interesting, and his "insights" are rarely anything more than the latest marketing headlines culled from the latest press releases from the latest hype machines, which is why he is now saying watch Torvalds.
And now he's saying leave Gates behind. Well, folks, don't get me wrong, I'm not a Microsoft fan, though I'm forced to use it, I proselytize Linux as much as anyone, and I have generated my own geekcode, but if I had a dime every time some industry trend dipwad dork told his/her readership to count Gates out because they only perceived obstacles that they, with their characteristically limited vision -- which is why they're "trend watchers" and not highly paid marketing or financial analysts -- would be troubled by, then I'd have way enough cash to be able to leave my webmaster job and get a big house in La Jolla and have lots of oiled-up sex with ex-Penthouse models.
Chewbacca's dead? About time. What the hell was a wookie anyway? A big hairy thing that had so little control over his appetites that he would ill-advisedly clutch at any hanging piece of rotting carcass, no matter what the surrounding dangers or likelihood that it was bait for a trap? Come on guys. The Ewoks(!) got the better of Chewbacca with nothing more than bloody meat and a net. Seems like wookies are the stupidest things walking.
And we're supposed to believe that this digusting, stinky beast, that can do little more than open its mouth and let loose a primal yawp of sorts -- even though seemingly every other race in the Star Wars milieu has acquired the capability of advanced communications and technology -- has left its forested home to become a navigator/co-pilot on a faster-than-light smuggling ship? Suuuure.
And there's that whole scene with C3PO and Chewie playing the quasi-chess game in Star Wars, where C3PO is warned that wookies pull the arms out of their opponents if that particular wookie is angered. Screw wookies, screw their arrogance, screw their propensity to physical violence, screw their stupidity and their inability to do anything other than yawn loudly, and screw Chewbacca. I'm glad he's dead. I hope he suffers first. I hope it's because he can't control his filthy self and reaches for a rotting piece of meat hanging from a trap on an alien world while the rest of them is conducting a highly secret, crucial mission.
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Berst is a dork, but that wouldn't be so bad of itself. There are a lot of these industry pundits that are huge dorks, leftovers from a time -- early 80's -- where "microcomputers" were new, no one knew where they were going, and publishers needed to find "experts", really just personalities with a technical bent, whose names they could tack onto columns and market to a business readership hungry to tune into, well, experts. "Oh yeah!? Well, John Dvorak says blah, blah, blah ..."
What makes Jesse Berst worse than the dork company he keeps is the fact that he's a boring dork. There's very little he uncovers that's really new or interesting, and his "insights" are rarely anything more than the latest marketing headlines culled from the latest press releases from the latest hype machines, which is why he is now saying watch Torvalds.
And now he's saying leave Gates behind. Well, folks, don't get me wrong, I'm not a Microsoft fan, though I'm forced to use it, I proselytize Linux as much as anyone, and I have generated my own geekcode, but if I had a dime every time some industry trend dipwad dork told his/her readership to count Gates out because they only perceived obstacles that they, with their characteristically limited vision -- which is why they're "trend watchers" and not highly paid marketing or financial analysts -- would be troubled by, then I'd have way enough cash to be able to leave my webmaster job and get a big house in La Jolla and have lots of oiled-up sex with ex-Penthouse models.
Ultimately, my advice, for what it's worth:
$Berst->packForget();
Chewbacca's dead? About time. What the hell was a wookie anyway? A big hairy thing that had so little control over his appetites that he would ill-advisedly clutch at any hanging piece of rotting carcass, no matter what the surrounding dangers or likelihood that it was bait for a trap? Come on guys. The Ewoks(!) got the better of Chewbacca with nothing more than bloody meat and a net. Seems like wookies are the stupidest things walking.
And we're supposed to believe that this digusting, stinky beast, that can do little more than open its mouth and let loose a primal yawp of sorts -- even though seemingly every other race in the Star Wars milieu has acquired the capability of advanced communications and technology -- has left its forested home to become a navigator/co-pilot on a faster-than-light smuggling ship? Suuuure.
And there's that whole scene with C3PO and Chewie playing the quasi-chess game in Star Wars, where C3PO is warned that wookies pull the arms out of their opponents if that particular wookie is angered. Screw wookies, screw their arrogance, screw their propensity to physical violence, screw their stupidity and their inability to do anything other than yawn loudly, and screw Chewbacca. I'm glad he's dead. I hope he suffers first. I hope it's because he can't control his filthy self and reaches for a rotting piece of meat hanging from a trap on an alien world while the rest of them is conducting a highly secret, crucial mission.
Wookies suck.