28th March 2004, 7:39 PM
Far as I can tell, NOA is either being lazy, or they are woefully understaffed or underfunded, OR they are obeying some really old and outdated company guidelines from the NES days, OOORRR, a combination of some or all of the above.
"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)