"... I want to provide a counter point to your argument, Sometimes innovating for the sake of innovating can be an exercise in futility if current solutions are

"... I want to provide a counter point to your argument, Sometimes innovating for the sake of innovating can be an exercise in futility if current solutions are adequate. ..." Point taken. "... NASA spent millions of dollars developing a pressurised pen that Astronauts can use to write in space. The Russians use a pencil ..." Love that one, as old as the hills. Fisher with the AG7's offered to replace pencils due to fire & graphite inhalation before Apollo 11. I remember back in the dim past when /. was civil in the late '90's, early 2000's. I answered this one but can't find my original post. It went something like this one ~ http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?cid=11747662&sid=140282 http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?cid=11747662&sid=140282