I agree with everything that you said. I was just pointing out a specific example of retraining costs associated with upgrading from one version to the next of the same software, which the GP seemed to think was a ridiculous concept. I am enjoying every minute of explaining to users that Documents and Settings is now called Users, as another example. That one is fighting 15 years of dogma for, as far as I can tell, no benefit to anyone. Perhaps lazy script writers that don't want to figure out how to deal with spaces. As for emacs, you must admit that C-x M-c M-butterfly is awesome.

Hundreds of employees each spending 20+ minutes to figure out where the fuck the print button went in the new version of Office, for example. No, clicking on the ball in the top corner of the screen is not even close to intuitive, and no, there isn't anyone that actually clicks on the take a tour of $new_product to find these things out. Even if they did, multiply that half hour to hour of tour across an enterprise, and it is significant.

Wow. Well spoken, good information, and level headed. If I hadn't noticed the user ID, I would say that you are new here. Thanks for the input.

I work across the street from Paine Field, the airport it took off from, and I can tell you that it was pretty exciting to us. We have nothing at all to do with the industry, and we were all still keeping an eye out for the takeoff. Something of an oddity for guys who are used to hearing/seeing dozens of planes take off every day, including a couple of liftoffs of the DreamLifter every day. How often do you get to see history first hand?

If you happen to have a relative that works there, they have a family tour once a year that you can go on. They let you down on the work floor for that tour, instead of just up on the catwalks. The only thing that they have running is one of the ceiling cranes spinning a plane around, so you aren't dodging anything. If you have the chance, I highly recommend it.

No, they shouldn't, but they should have the right to keep the CD in a place where a suit from the RIAA can't intentionally scratch the CD to make sure that it will not play at any time they like. The industry has never been expected to make physical products that are indestructible, but they have never been capable of destroying the product at any moment with no notice. Important difference.

No kidding. I finally stepped up to a real HF rig after getting sick of my dad talking about how he worked Christmas Island with a quarter wave dipole on ten meters. At least now I get some good DXing on 20 and 40. One can only hope that we have now hit rock bottom.

Really? I was thinking it was Yggdrasil.