Inrush current limiting is an important consideration in electronic designs, especially in the case of switched-mode power supplies or similar devices which have large amounts of bulk storage capacitance.
I better watch out, or I'll draw fire from Clay Shirky soon. But much of the debate over the semantic web clears my head by quite a distance - I'm more interested in what works and why. I just got off the phone with the GlobalSpec team -Jeffrey Killeen,.