It's sad that TI are having to do this. When I was at school we basically had the choice between Casio and TI85 graphing calculators. Casio were far more popular until people discovered how to run assembly mode programs (and games) off the internet. Then everybody wanted a TI. TI even supported this at first by adding assembly mode into the TI86.
Unfortunately by the time I got to finals at university, graphing calculators had been banned because of the ability to store (and hide) extra programs and information. I guess that by locking them down, Texas are trying to prevent this becoming more widespread. Texas are in a no win situation. They don't want to go after their customers but if they don't they might not have any customers at all!

OK, while I agree that the dialogue was pretty awful and the direction could have been better (though one of the things about digital is the camera is more limited due to the size and cables), what exactly is wrong with a political plot?
It's not really that hard to follow, but it is pretty clever, with several plot twists which may throw you at first but are on the whole well thought out and fairly credible (the JarJar thing's a bit dubious though). If you don't want a decent plot then ignore it, but otherwise don't knock it just because it doesn't drop to the comprehension of the lowest denominator.
These films are about the fall of the Republic - it's going to involve politics and anyone who doesn't know what a republic is, or the basics of how it works wants sending back to school for a few years, especially if they live in one!
I saw in one review that the Phantom Edit had removed some (or all) of the Senate scenes! Talk about missing the point of the film completely.
I, for one, am glad that Star Wars hasn't fallen to the level of being yet another shallow action movie like Spiderman. I'll be buying the AOTC DVD when it comes out but Spiderman will be staying on the shelf with Batman and the rest of it's ilk.