ess (phil hunt) wrote:

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 18:56:18 GMT, Derek Lyons
wrote:
(phil hunt) wrote:

You have a rather optimistic view of the capabilities of most nations to
handle development of truly accurate x-y-z topo data sets. And once you do
have that data, you have to have a guidance system that can read it, remain
compact enough to fit in your missile,

You do realise, you can get hard disks small enought otfit in your
hand, that store tens of gigabytes these days?

You do realize the problem isn't *storing* the data,

If you were more literate, you would realise that I was replying to
the the point "remain compact enough to fit in your missile".

If you were more literate, you would realize that you adressed only
half the statement you replied to. Which is typical, as you have a
history in this thread of avoiding or handwaving away the hard parts.

D.
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