That is absolutely true. How do you learn. Trial and error, and by example.

For all of you having problems with the idea of AI actually learning like we do, please Wiki Genetic Algorithms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_algorithm Not only do they work extremely well, they learn, IMHO, much faster than back-propagation (which paradigm was being used earlier to make a point...) Kiwsa

Still using 2005 Standard ourselves. I/We can't see shelling out for a "better" newer version considering it handles everything we throw at it so far. Migration for all the people that work with/for me would be a pain (even if just for the Admin of uninstalling/reinstalling/dependencies etc...) We have 397 products/projects (some in idea/snipit stage, all the way to finished code) (had to look in the code base server for that info...whew there's a lot of junk :P) and all of them fit nicely in 2005 so I really cant give you any reason to upgrade. Now on the other hand if your business/programmers are just starting out...Get them the newest thing now. I remember the pain of picking a new dev IDE when the choice was VS6 --> VS2003/VS2005. We went to 2005 because we had outgrown 6 and needed something new and it sucked and was a royal pain. Lots of old software (API viewer comes to mind) had to be replaced for .net stuff and many things that just worked no longer did (sockets....don't even get me started on .net sockets!). The question was not to upgrade or not, it was upgrade to what, so we went with the newest thing on the market at the time hence VS2005.