1st January 2004, 6:16 PM
Oh yes, I remember thinking of that. I suppose we were to just assume that no one got around to telling any computers he was fired... oh wait I think they did. Then we were meant to assume it was a badly designed program, even though everything ELSE was obviously well programmed. Just another insult to our intelligence. Plot holes are kinda hard to ignore. I mean, the entire basis of the rest of the story hinges on that moment, so it all falls apart if that moment falls apart.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)