Plus Dan Brown writes like a grade schooler.
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Elardus Engelbrecht < [email protected]> wrote: > Joel C. Ewing wrote: > > >Brown was certainly not the first author to use as a plot device an > impossible-to-develop virus with impossible capabilities for a computer > platform of which the virus writer was ignorant: the popular movie > "Independence Day" has the same fault. > > Indeed! There are 2 things about that movie which annoyed the sh*t out of > me: > > 1. Cracking an Alien computer on the first attempt without understanding > the underlying principle of operation of that computer. I nearly walked out > of utter disgust, but stayed until the end. > > 2. Destroying that little building (and its interesting occupants) in > Washington. Why that building, why not any other government building? They > could rather attack our nice Union Building for more drama! ;-) > > Ok, granted, those producers made a LOT of money! > > Groete / Greetings > Elardus Engelbrecht > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
