who rags on armegeddon?! I love that movie. "This is how we fix in mother russia!"

I work in audio visual where all our equipment is 19 inch and we have no need for the 22 inch standard but as we share some rack hardware with the IT industry (power distribution, cable management etc) I hope what we will see is equipment being built to the 19 inch standard wherever practical and shipped with ears to accommodate either rack standard

I think it's interesting to note that htc developed a 12 pin connector compatible with standard mini usb cables and their connector, yet apple, who is supposed to be the father of all things innovative has to create a whole new proprietary connector to get 8 pins. http://pinouts.ru/images/htc_headset.gif

Because those sets of statistics can be related to one another in a reliable manner...

it appears we have a serial, long winded troll in our midst.

money sink? NASA recieved 1/2 of one percent of the national budget annually (less than was spent by the U.S. in the first day of our involvment in the libyan conflict), which has now been cut to one third of one percent with the end of manned space flight. As far as bang for the buck for taxpayer money goes you could do alot worse than NASA.

That doesn't even make sense, if you want a 3D gaming device buy a DS but even the most hardcore gamer needs to send a text, write an email, or make a call every now and then, e.g. phone functionality is a must.

so basically your going to give him Sh*t for using correct terminology, and not give him any solutions despite the fact that you're a catv engineer?

lets be fair here, there is other hardware that meets these requirements...you know like crayons :P

looks like its time for me to switch to chrome

that is the ugliest 2.1 million dollars I have ever seen

You can't exactly just dodge a flock of birds in a 747

umm...no?

make them come pick up the prize or whatever they've won and beat the hell out of them there

that could have been photoshop faked in about 30 seconds heck coulda done it in paint in about 45 seconds