There is a study that in WW2, the Japanese were handicapped by their language in giving commands during battle so their plans basically kept going without timely changes in tactics. Imagine not being able to control your troops properly during the heat of combat, a recipe for disaster.

Geez folks, Google is your friend. Check out "Digital Preservation, Planets" to find out that all the major libraries ARE digitizing everything they possibly can. They are also qualifying and choosing digital formats that CAN stand the test of time. If the formats change, the Planets committees will adapt and redo the work. This is not just "they should" but "they are." There is nothing special about paper, it's just was was available at the time. Digital is the next logical progressive step in passing knowledge, reporting the news and reading entertainment. The only thing it has against it right now is that it really only about 20 year old technology. Give it another 100 years, and digital storage will be just as accepted as paper ever was. Paper's time has come and gone. "it's the message, not the media, that is important".

Remember the movies "Forbidden Planet" with the ID trying to kill everyone? Then remember the movie "Dr. Strangelove" where Peter Sellers arm starts choking himself? Well...

It's like China and Google. Governments can impose whatever draconian measures they want but can they enforce them? Its a global economy after all. How will they stop XBox live or Steam downloads? Toothless tigers.

Or Colorado? Or any other place where the roads are winding and have blind intersections? There I need all the information I can get. And if you are tooling down a highway, who looks at the map?

Heh, not so fast! Have you TRIED to BUY an ATI Radeon 5870 card since AMD/ATI "announced" it? Everyone is still showing zero stock (Amazon, Newegg, etc). Low yields on the GPU chip. If this goes on long enough, NVidia has a chance to catch up. Why in the world did ATI even bother to introduce the card if they cannot deliver? I smell desperation.

Agree. Look at Google's bare bones servers without even a UPS needed. Got to be a hell of a lot cheaper than this monstrosity. And of course this dual liquid piping will NEVER need maintenance or foul up or have a pump break, right? And there are no places for hard drives. 5 layers of boards and covers, two complete liquid cooling loops, single pump for a row of servers, what could possibly go wrong?

Agreed. This is the best response I have seen. Try to take the "I know best" out of the equation. Getting hot and bothered by something that I thought was of great importance but management did not almost got me fired more than once. The one time that I could not in all justice keep my mouth shut, my boss was fired and I was "laid off" a few weeks later. By keeping your cool and treating this as you would any other IT job, you get a fair chance of fixing it without anyone getting upset. Remember, you are supposed to be an ASSET to the company, not a pain in the ass. I once heard why a manager let a talented employee go. The manager said "the guy was great in doing the job but was it just too much trouble for me to manage him". Once more, with feeling "Communicate, communicate, communicate."

Great post. Says what I wanted to say. I used a lot of the IEC sets in test and measurement racks with HP over the years. Never saw an arcing problem, never got a shock, and never saw a bent connector. Those are damn good connectors!