Ever wondered if you can trust predictions
made by computer software?
Microsoft proudly lounged “MSN Maps & Directions” a while ago.
Good work Bill, or? See for your self!
I’m sure it’s an amazing trip even if will take a while to get there. 
/MarcusR
Change Route Type from “Quickest” to “Shortest”
and it will get even better!
I wonder if the ferry company is sponsoring this application.
/MarcusR
Evidently, someone in Newcastle-upon-Tyne is feeling left out.
That’s very very interesting. Perhaps this mapping program was designed by the NY cabbies association, and they want to avoid traffic jams.
“640K ought to be enough for anybody.” – Bill Gates, 1981.
“640K ought to be enough for anybody.” – Bill Gates, 1981.
“But a wedding ring is suppose to be three months worth of salary!” --Melinda Gates
Still on the topic of Bill Gates:
Top Ten Reasons To Parody Bill Gates
9. Bill is wealthier than the country of Ireland.
If you laid his money down end to end, you could go to the moon and back 7 times!
If you spend 24 hours a day counting Bill’s money, it would take you 587 years to complete!
Bill’s money weighs 38,000 tons. By comparison, a Boeing 747 weighs 400 tons.
If Bill wanted to fly his money somewhere, he would need 305 Boeing 747s to do it!
If you spent $3.6 million per day, it would take 28 years to spend all of Bill’s money!
Bill can afford to give every person in the world $6.50 and still have $40 million left over for “incidentals!”
Bill’s time is worth so much that he would lose money if he stopped to pick up a $100 bill.
And the #1 reason to parody Bill Gates…because that’s what we do!
I keep thinking of #9… 
Pictures of Bill Gates from Teen Beat in 1983:
Sure, but could you ever get to Trondheim?!?
Now that’s a tough one. 
Great pic Cat!
Isn’t there a slight resemblance to Michael Flatley?
Hey, Check out the screen in the background isn’t it … an early version of …
the infamous Microsoft Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), planted as early as 1983. That would be in Windows 1.x, or?
/MarcusR
Microsoft’s mapping service had the same problem in the USA, for a short while. It also involved a ferry, in New Brunswick Canada. For certain addresses, the map service would give you directions across the country to take this one ferry, and then local roads back.
In the US this is funnier, because these circuitous routes were sometimes 3,000 miles long, to get to a town 5 miles away.
Caj
I found a link to the aforementioned glitch, reported in the RISKS archives:
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/20.62.html#subj17
Caj
