Tell it to Apache, Navajo, Sioux and the rest... This is just too good - the society of immigrants complaining of... immigrants. :D Yes! Deport them all!!! :D

Not even that - you would have to have it on the receiving system, as the packet can get corrupted in the very last hop - especially if it was fragmented. As to - if it matters which data is sent first - IMO encrypted should go anytime but last. So - one can imagine sending some data + NACK + encrypted data + NACK + some data + ACK.

As a developer I have it completely reversed - tech writers want me to give them documents in Word. What is more, they've found some funny rules to name those word docs, because no real version control exists for this format. The result being - everyone is running like hell from writing this. And additional 'advantage' - as my company switches from one client to another, we have to shuffle with word versions, as one client can't switch, because "...", and the other has switched and thus needs a new version... 'Sleek' ;).

Is exactly what I would like to have, of course.

"\frac{4}{5}" is exactly what I wouldn't like to have. "4/5" is not - because I do not know what will become of it. Simple example: I do know exactly what will become of "\frac{4}{\frac{10}{2}}", but not what will become of "4/10/2".

Well... did you really understand the line you replied to? Hint: reflect is the word you are looking for...

Why stopping at a simple 4/5. Go ahead, do this:
\begin{equation}
\| \mathbf{A}\|_p = \sup_{\mathbf{x} \ne 0} \frac{\| \mathbf{A}\mathbf{x}\|_p} {\| \mathbf{x}\|_p}.
\end{equation}

Well, I do still remember Word97 crashing after being fed with Word 6.0 documents. I had to export to RTF first to be able to open them... So - have you checked you can really open them, or are you guessing? And have you read this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938810

Can I merge? Automatically? With all the rest of my C, Java, ... sources? Or do I have to take two files, open them in Word, merge by hand, save the new version? Well, it is certainly better than to print and compare, but not much...
Does it have commit comments?
You call it "version control system" - can I keep my other sources in it? Compilable? If not, then it is not a VCS, just a marketoid hype.