Sure. And, true to form, you didn't offer a reason why you changed from Windows. Your wife's reason seems to be she 'didn't like it'. Choice based on individual and subjective enjoyment, I understand. Rejecting Windows based on security and privacy concerns out to be based on objective analysis, but if to often based on rumor and 'reports' (but I repeat myself).

I've stopped relying on Cory's rants vigilantes. Long time ago.

A simplistic view. '"really" don't like' comes down to, in my experience:

- Rejection of change, Doesn't matter what the change is. Just move the Start Menu from left-justified to centered. That's juvenile.

- No more than rumors of enhanced telemetry becoming a serious privacy concern. Rumors are enough. Add in captures of new data and the screamers will blow it up into disproportionate danger. Ignoring their browser, every web site that clandestinely keeps logs that describe your activities, etc. That's a little juvenile also.

- Any launch bugs or flaws. Claimed as proof of rushed release, danger, and well just keep going on.

- Any security concerns, any. As if not merely Widows, but Linux, BSD, even Apple software suffers a security flaw at leas occasionally, some undiscovered for a decade or more.

- And other juvenile complaints and reactions.

Occasionally, Microsoft has hit a release out of the park. W4W 3.11, NT4.0, Windows 8. Mostly because these were preceded by less than excellent releases, though some were leaps ahead that could not be compared to predecessors. Windows 11 is working. Get over it. Or hide behind some excuse and cling to Windows 10 like an infant to their mommy's leg. Linux isn't winning Windows 10 clingers, nor Windows 11 runaways. And if you're paying attention, it's not even winning security and privacy wonks, since they know it takes some effort to secure Linux and hold on to even the illusion of privacy on the modern Internet.

"Over time, with process improvements,"

And like that, you've spent all three.

A lot of people don't understand that. take the time to work it out, you lose fast.

If fast isn't most important, you can spend cheap. Then you can get good, maybe.

If good wasn't the goal, well, then you choose the desired, and the rest sorts itself out.

See? The equation is proved by your example.

True. Apollo suffered huge costs because of the deadline, forcing development costs more. The NASA equation - good, fast, cheap. Any 2 of the three.

SpaceX is doing very well indeed, and so far as I can tell making no excuses. Don't need to. They are kicking it, and NASA is trying to stay relevant in the launch business.

With a little luck Starlink will satisfy the broadband access mandates the rest of the ISP business has taken money for and not delivered for *decades*.

Of course people hate Elon. He's successful. They don't envy him, they resent his success, while they languish in sub-mediocrity and blame all else for their malaise.

Pus.

Only one example of the species...

You think rsilvergun is a Democrat? He's just a shovel in a manure pile. Not an original thought. Having a pension does help defocus your life.

I'm a LaTeX fan, and find Kile works well for editing, or really any text editor in a pinch. If the packages that allow picture insertions at random spots in the text were better, there would be no competition. Floating figures can also be a trial. They've improved a lot over the years, and there may well be more modern packages that I'm not aware of, but that aspect is the most annoying to me. Still not enough of a problem to go back to the roff suites or to mess around with Microsoft.

I love the tables of contents, list of equations, figures, graphs, glossary options, and the like. Equation creation and display is pretty nice. And when all is done, you get something that looks like it came out of a book publisher, in most cases. If HTML would ever get hyphenation of capitalized words enabled by default, so multi column looked better, it would be a close second to LaTex for content delivery looking good, at least if you didn't need to ever print the document.

Free speech includes lying.

Merit should always consider strictly value.

Do you mean 'creative'? As in using the rules in interesting ways...? Pure AI application. The prompt starts with, for instance, "how do...".

Accounting is a more rational and regulated industry than many. It's ripe for AI maximization.

On the one hand, humans are still much more adaptive, creative, flexible than programming or machines.

On the other hand, we may yet become a Philip K. Dick story.

Hello, people get it w7 sometimes and other people have to figure it out.

*whoosh*