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Comment It is abused (Score 1) 287

I am not going to argue what is innovative or not. But, many companies have no clue how to simply keep their products fresh. Design by giant committees keeps a lot of companies stale, and many get killed by change. RIMM comes to mind, and there are many others. Sure RIMM made an "innovative" new phone OS, but so did Apple and Google. RIMM's corporate structure certainly stifled their ability to innovate within a competitive time frame. Even Google recognized they were missing important new product innovations, which they specifically allocate time for their employees to work on (e.g. Twitter).

Sometimes innovation has an important back-end to make that innovation sustainable/workable. Depositing checks via mobile camera, needs a lot of back-end support. Legacy back ends can be very difficult to innovate around, and that is "invisible" to the user.

Comment CAFE Standard Loopholes are numerous.... (Score 2) 1184

I wonder what new ones will be introduced. This is a political game. O makes nice sounding announcement for meaningless rules. You want better mileage, crank up the gas tax and make drivers pay for their environmental externalities. http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/news/fuel-economy/6-ways-detroit-gamed-the-cafe-standards-flex-fuel-loophole#slide-1

I got rid of my car about 1 year ago, and have never looked back.

Submission + - The Luddite Fallacy - "The Only Important Invention" (angrybearblog.com) 1

mcwop writes: "The following statement from the linked blog post is the perfect ask Slashdot question:

"pretty much every important invention of the modern world — trains, planes, automobiles, air conditioning, antibiotics, painkillers, telephones, radio/television, computers — had already been invented and was in at-least-fairly widespread use when I was growing up in the sixties. The only thing since then has been the internet."

So, is the Internet the only important invention in recent times?"

Comment Re:The past sucked - time to admit it (Score 1) 382

You do not have a right to do it on someone else's plane, at someone else's airport. And your findlaw statement clearly states the Sec of Transit can regulate it. You have the right to flap your arms and fly, yes. You do not have teh right to demand United airlines take you somewhere on your terms.

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