Of course, the challenge for airlines, the FAA and travelers will be whether flying will bog down again once traffic picks up with economic recovery.

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But many also wondered if another set of dotted-line accountabilities would bog down the organization and make it harder to keep up with the latest trends.

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Even though these graphics chips whip up close to 1 million polygons a second, they bog down in the data, which can travel only so fast between the graphics accelerator and the memory chips nearby.

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