According to Al Gore, they are so good there is even an expression coined: "Good enough for government work"
(No...seriously he said that, and he THOUGHT it meant what high quality we get from government workers... He seemed to have no idea it was a sarcastic dig at govt. work being the worst crap you can foist on the public)
http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/npr/library/speeches/2706.html
(toward the bottom)
I've told some of you before that I remember vividly how, as a youngster, the phrase "Made in Japan" meant to me something that was low quality and would wear out pretty quickly. But now, it means to many consumers a level of -- a high level of quality and craftsmanship. Luckily, America's businesses have responded to that challenge and are now the best in quality in the world. Well, in the same way, the phrase "good enough for government work" means to too many people today just barely enough to get by.
But we can see a future not that far away when these kinds of partnerships that we are celebrating here today bring about a change just as profound in the meaning of that phrase "good enough for government work," as we saw the change in that phrase, "Made in Japan." And some years from now, sooner than many people think, that phrase "good enough for government work" will mean "top quality, world-class, a standard to aspire to."
...though hoping for that in-itself is ludicrous.