The lever that lowers the food lacks versatility, and the darkness knob is confusing. Users won't buy the product unless it has a user-friendly, graphical interface. When the breakfast cooker is plugged in, users should see a cowboy boot on the screen. Users click on it, and the message 'Booting UNIX v.8.3' appears on the screen. UNIX 8.3 should be out by the time the product gets to the market.
Users can pull down a menu and click on the foods they want to cook.
An Intel P6 with 32 MB of memory, a 1.6 GB hard disk, and a SVGA monitor should be sufficient. If you select a multitasking, object oriented language that supports multiple inheritance and has a built-in GUI, writing the program will be a snap. The king wisely had the computer scientist beheaded, and they all lived happily ever after. I wish to state that I didn't write this. Otherwise the computer science students who work for me might reformat all my systems so that they boot up with the Linux operating system and require me to learn Perl to get anything done.