re: Products W/ Kinks

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tech products can be orders of magnitude more complex than a vehicle. It's amazing that they ship with so few problems.

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This is the correct answer.

To the OP - not all software has to be perfect in every way. For example, if you're typing up a paper in Word and a letter on your screen is offset by one space it really isn't that big a deal.

But for certain applications it does matter. That exact problem was noticed on a display during a Space Shuttle flight. The fix cost something like a million dollars - not because it was hard (the code change takes literally seconds) but because they have to test to make sure it works perfectly every time, and also doesn't cause problems for something else. Basically they have to retest the entire package for even the smallest change.

Needless to say, that ain't happening if a student typing up his Word document gets mad at something.