On 2003-07-07, Major Variola (ret) uttered to cypherpunks@lne.com:
Here, ponder this: why are there no oxygen sensor or manifold temperature or ignition-phase (etc) displays in ordinary cars?
Because the wiring, displays, etc. do impose costs, most of all in design expense. You can't do it all in software. With CD drives you can, and it's quite likely it wouldn't constitute more than a page full of C if your existing codebase has any structure at all. So yes, I do understand about cost constraints. It's just that this particular feature wouldn't likely violate any of them, and would be a highly useful feature to a number of people. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:decoy@iki.fi, tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2