[Noir]

quite a bit =) which makes your analogy (rather comparison) off by a lot of things...
I think we are also taking the projection dates literally and we shouldn't. That is a huge problem and I have adopted the attitude if someone says 1-2 days, take it with a grain of the most coarsely ground salt you can ever come up with

That's just from experience that 1-2 days usually means 7-10. And it seems anytime a developer puts a time restriction on a release, ANYTHING that can go wrong does pushing the anticipated date of release back by days, weeks, sometimes even months.

Heck to make a better instance
fpsece has said version 0.10 will be released in 2007. And then in 2008. And finally after all the it will be released, its finally going to be released after 3 years...

That's just one example of anything can happen. And again the statement
it'll be done when its done
couldn't be more apt