>5. To those whose bosses seem to think they should know everything....there is an old saying that "knowledge is power." In our world, that's not completely true. Power is knowing where to find knowledge -- and the UT has empowered me to be significanly more productive than I ever could have been without it.

And since the boss is the boss, and he requires the guys to get help from the books and each other and not the UT (ergo, he has the power) - that would mean he knows better, and expects them to know it all. So, he knows more than all of it, and the conclusion is clear: if you don't know what to do, can't find it in the books, colleagues can't help, don't go to UT. Ask your boss, he'll know it.

On a more serious note, reading UT on the side, specially the things which are totally unrelated with what I need at the moment, gave me the edge in the moments where I used the knowledge (that I wasn't aware of, having acquired it in the moments of leisure, surfing UT) to solve a problem. On the other hand, sometimes even searching doesn't help, simply because you don't know which specific term is used to describe the thing you need.

Thus, even aimless surfing the UT is better, IMO, than reading sports results, politics, or whatever people do online.