> Well, I won't rant back at you, Dick, but your expectations are way off > base. GPS cartographers have to designate billions (yes, billions) of > addresses and the fact that they miss a few scarcely justifies a backhand > brushoff as "shoddy work."
Look at it another way: They are producing one product for 10s of millions of customers. The reproduction costs are trivial, so they have hundreds of millions of dollars to get one product right! > Can you have a product of this size and complexity that is completely > error free. No. No matter how hard you try, the answer remains...no. > (References on stochastic processes available on request.) > > Can you have a product with* fewer* errors? Of course. Can you have it > for eighty bucks. Nope. The $80 is for one copy. Try near a $1,000,000,000 for the digital map of the USA. > Be a good capitalist and take your choice. -John ================= _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
