I think you missed my point, which is that there is no absolute truth, just competing points of view. Usually there is a rough correlation between the point of view of the smartest & most experienced members of a community and "truth" or "reality", but there is no guarantee. Human nature is for folks to compete to advance their view of "truth"... it's far simpler to live with the reality of approximations than it is to go nuts searching for absolute truth.

In any knowledge situation there is always competition for whose version of reality/truth comes out on top, Wikipedia, News Media, College, whatever. The folks who choose to participate in one of these systems understand this and play the game. Think of Wikipedia as opensource basic information... it complements the closed source system and suits different folks. Cathedral vs Bazaar. Wikipedia = Bazaar on steroids.

The only feature Win2k offered me over NT4 was USB, that was the only reason I changed. My post was an attempt to express my disillusionment with the marketing-perpetuated idea that we all need to regularly "update our system" as if it wore out. MS brought out increasingly flashy versions of its media player, all apparently necessary to "experience" media in new formats MS invented to necessitate upgrades. Meanwhile, NT4 could run Office, Web Browsers, and any other serious stuff I needed. I didn't get my computer for games or multimedia. I wanted a workstation.