13th November 2004, 1:31 AM
Yes, agreed, it is amusing to beholden unto. It's almost as though Nuby, fully aware of how horrible the thing would be, almost anticipating aweful sales, designed it PURELY as a publicity stunt. You know, "no publicity is bad publicity" and all that rot.
"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)