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The secret's out - how toasters could be designed
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19/09/2002 17:18:17
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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>>Every time you bought a loaf of bread, you would have to buy a
>>toaster. You wouldn't have to take the toaster, but you'd still have
>>to pay for it anyway. Toaster '95 would weigh 15000 pounds (hence
>>requiring a reinforced steel countertop), draw enough electricity to
>>power a small city, take up 95% of the space in your kitchen, would
>>claim to be the first toaster that lets you control how light or dark
>>you want your toast to be, and would secretly interrogate your other
>>appliances to find out who made them.
>
>Funny as it is, this piece of text discovers itself as the most neglected piece of technology. I've read this seven years ago, and it's unchanged since. Imagine, a technological paper which never had a SP, security patch, new beta...

So Dragan, do you think it's still Toaster '95 out there ?
Then we couldn't install VFP7 in it, could we ? maybe the runtime ?
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