Seriously, this is a technology whose time has come. Persuading elderly drivers to give up their cars is difficult, and the baby boom generation is putting a lot of people in that situation in the next decade or two.
Not just, consider accident caused by drunk drivers, by drivers fell asleep, careless drivers...
But don't expect a smooth transition. An "AI" driver could silently save thousands of lives, but the first cases where the AI was the reason for an accident will cause major outcries.
It's the nature of human beings to react like that.
or any other media player such as the totally non-obnoxious Winamp
Is this meant to be sarcastic or something?
As for Flash not being obnoxious, do me a favour *rolls eyes*.
I'll do you a favor: Flash is totally silent piece of software. That people use it to produce annoying crap is outside of the power of Flash to decide.
If all those Flash video and blinking ads didn't exist, they'd have Windows Media Player/ Quicktime / Animated GIF counterparts.
Looks like it's impossible to have a sensible discussion here on Slashdot. People go all over the place to collect "evidence" in support of their idea.
there isnt much of an alternative. the "rich text" editors you mightve seen use functionality called designMode that's built into most modern browsers, but there's no standard so the same editor works differently in different browsers. and the worst part is, none of the browsers' implementations do it well.
All of then do the very simple basics well, and filters are easy to do (I know: I use such editor in my own work for CMS). Noone wants to insert images and tables here, just basics.
Plus, think outside the box, even without WYSIWYG editor, they could use Textile or something like this, and provide buttons that wrap the selection with the right tag (ex. clicking the [B] button wraps your selection with *stars*, which in Textile mean "bold"). Replies could automatically quote the parent comment. Thousands of possibilities outside WYSIWYG.
stop that. [b] and [strong] are used to draw attention. use [blockquote] instead.
If formatting was of utmost importance, we wouldn't be typing all tags by hand. Slashdot, it's not 1995 anymore, how about fixing the damn editor, huh?
How does it hurt the user of the OS since the PC builder will just put one on before they sell it? The idea is that if WMP is already on there it acts as a disincentive to install any other media player (since that's extra work). I'm not arguing for or against the remedy I just get tired of reading this fallacy on here.
Flash is a media player with larger userbase than WM. Explain that (yea it's cross platform and that's part of the reason, that said 98% of Windows users have it). Apparently the fallacy is fallacious. If a piece of software is useful, and not obnoxious (like Real Player), people will install it.
Could've been one post, but I have obsessive compulsive Submit clicking disorder.
That said I don't consider leading a dialog by replying to comments extensively to be an indication a "nerve" was struck or something. We're leading a dialog. Plus I don't proofread my comments so I'm really fast and producing them..:D
Assume that you charge them JUST or below the amount that MS makes in the EU sales. Then MS has a strong incentive to continue with the sale. Why? because it is slowly draining their competitors. Once MS owns the market, then they can comply (or do a USA thing and buy the politician). OTH, if you charge them 5 to 10 x the EU sales, they have a strong incentive to become lawful. In addition, even if you charge MS 10 the EU sales it would still be less than what MS loses on their hardware systems.
The problem is that them being "lawful" means, among other things, dumping the media player from Windows, which hurts the users of the OS (I prefer to have a standard media player in Windows, and I don't want to download it additionally. I prefer my apps to rely on the OS having video display capabilities built-in versus having to pack a full media player with each of my media apps for ex.).
RealNetworks is simply very bitter for losing the market (with their adware/spyware/scam crap) and looking to get back in the game the easy way: suing their way into Windows.
What do you think is RealNetworks going to do with the full WM specs? They'll dump it on the market, hurting Microsoft in the server sales, and this Microsoft will lose incentive to improve their media services further.
Who loses? Everyone, including RealNetwork, since they're losers, they lose never mind what they do.
The longer that a gov. takes to play these games with MS is only to MS's advantage. If EU really wanted to stop this, they would tell MS if you have 1 month and then we charge you 5 x all of the EU sales/month each month. Only when it is not in Bill Gates best advantage will he comply.
Why bother charging them 5 times the sales, let's just charge them 5 quantapentillion! Is this a real number? No. Does it matter? No.
Why is it that only Europe is standing up to them?
Real Networks has a strong lobby there. They tried in US, but US finally ruled in favor of Microsoft. Real Networks is who started the whole deal in EU. I for side with Microsoft regarding the Windows Media case.
It's not as if Real Networks will produce anything worthwhile never mind what information they have access to.
Funny somebody with the grammatical abilities of a 7 year old chiding others for being 'kids'.
Sorry you fail in life:
Funny[, ] somebody with the grammatical abilities of a 7 year old [is] chiding others for being 'kids'.
Alternatively:
Funny [that] somebody with the grammatical abilities of a 7 year old [is] chiding others for being 'kids'.
Two reasons that make replying with grammar remarks pointless:
1. You're almost guaranteed to (multiple) make similar mistakes in your "ha-ha you have mistakes" post, which makes you look like an idiot.
2. In a discussion about DirectX and OpenGL, no one cares about the comment grammar, so nitpicking this makes your look like an idiot. Basically no one effin cares.
PS: I don't guarantee this post is completely grammatically correct or typo free either: see point 2.
Funny somebody with the grammatical abilities of a 7 year old chiding others for being 'kids
I'll feed the troll: this happens because I usually shuffle the text around quickly when replying, and sometimes extraneous or redundant words are left in, which I didn't notice.
If I had to pick between perfect grammar and being useful with my answer, I'd pick the latter. People these days don't have the time to be perfect in everything. Priorities.
DirectX 9L (available for both XP and Vista, Aero runs on 9L, not 10) has more better support for the latest graphics hardware and more features than OpenGL. The Xbox360 platform shares API details with both Windows and DirectX.
Unless you're seeking cross-platform compatibility and don't the latest and greatest feature, sure go for OpenGL.
In other words, Vista doesn't run well on my current hardware, XP does. Will this make me switch to Ubuntu or something? No, it won't.
Why would a company need more than 3 or 4 models of a particular product in the first place at any given time? If you have hundreds of products that all do essentially the same thing, and whose only differention is a small feature here or there and a 6 character alpha numeric string, then you need to rethink your product line.
Well that's ignorant. Even if every product had the perfect 3-4 models, then you have to question yourself what a "product" is. Is a big truck and a minivan two models of a truck, or two separate products? Should we have just 3-4 models of automobiles then? Maybe we should have just 3-4 models of transportation vehicle at all (one model train, one model car, one model airplane). Or.. how further can you simplify this? When do you stop?
Truth is, in a heavy competition, product differentiation proliferates, subtle differences evolve, and they matter. Saying that 3-4 models of a product should fit the entire world is like saying that 3-4 animal species should fit on the entire Earth.
We're billions here. Respect us a bit more than claiming our needs fit to 3-4 types of device for all of us. This is one reason I don't like Apple products: not only they create everything around their marketing (simple strong message/brand: this is marketing, not reality), but they apparently convince a lot of people that this is the best possible way to do it in the real world.
The dominant genes causing the mutation would need to be present in both partners or it could be suppressed easier.
If it can be suppressed easier, means the recessive gene has useful utility, if it doesn't.. then who cares that it surfaced... The specimen won't mate/survive.
Plus not all of the genetic information is paired into dominant/recessive alleles.
So that's my idea - a national blacklist of pirates. If somebody cannot obey the basic rules of society, then they should be excluded from society. If pirates want to steal from the music industry, then the music industry should exclude them. It's that simple. One strike, and you're out - no reputable record store will allow you to buy another CD. If the pirates can't buy the CDS to begin with, then they won't be able to copy them over The Internet, will they? It's no different to doctors blacklisting drug dealers from buying prescription medicine.
I understand your grief, but "it's that simple" is a dead give away that your solution is kinda too easy to work.
And if you read what you wrote couple of times, you may realize the irony of the situation. You refused to sell a CD to a buying customer. Sure, he was going to put the CD on the Internet, and that sucks. But he was there to buy that CD.
In the end, before your intervention you had 1 CD sold, after your intervention you had 0 CD sold. Where do you believe this "punk" will get this album from now? Either another store, or the Internet. You lose, either way.
It takes *one* to copy his CD to the Internet for the entire world to have. You have to simply accept that blacklisting people that talk about copying CD-s *in the store* is a wildly inaccurate way to blacklist all pirates.
Even if you "decide to play safe" and blacklist every single person in US (assuming you're in US), someone will buy this CD in another country and upload it, and adapt your business to this, and you'll be out of customers since you blacklisted them all. It's a lose-lose situation.
Violence against the customers just causes lost customers and bad word spreading about your shop. You can be sure this guy told all his friends about this event, and they told their friends. You'll likely not see then buying from you any more.
I would fathom that mutation might happen more often with sexual reproduction, and thus asexual reproduction could slow the pace of evolution, but again, that's not to say it doesn't happen. Because it very surely does, as we know from the mutation of all those single-celled asexual organisms we know about. Like every disease out there. It is absolutely nonsense to claim otherwise. Bacteria multiply asexually. Protists do too. This is why diseases resist new drugs. Countless species of plants reproduce asexually. Myriad species of all these kingdoms have survived for 100 million years. The headline might as well be, 'there has been life on Earth a long time.'
It's Slashdot, you know? I don't understand why is this news. I mean we learned about asexual reproduction in school, for christ's sake.
That said sexual reproduction (means: not male/female necessarily but combining genes from two or more specimens) allows for "good" mutations to combine in a single organism (if that organism is lucky enough to get the right combo).
This makes sexual reproduction a lot more powerful. With simple assexual reproduction everyone is on its own, so to speak. Works for simple organisms, but complex are no go.
Why do you think "news for nerds" is a source of pride for/.ers ?
Actually I'm ashamed I go back here and read Slashdot, but I'm addicted to posting comments clarifying the BS posing as articles. It's a trap. For reals.
I'm a heavy metal banger head, i'm a fucking bright person, not trying to oversell me, and i'm gifted in many ways, in ways of craft and of thinking... this article makes perfect sense to me. I think you dont have to reject all the potent poeple just because of alot of bad apples being thrown at ur poor face... i dont blame you for listening to pop music, or hiphop, but dont ask me to fight. fuck it if you cannot go over ur stereotypes... most of my "metal loving" friends are fucking bright poeple so fuck off and die.
A "fucking bright person" would know it's obscene to write with aolbonics, but I don't wanna put the discussion down on this level.
You know, I don't hate heavy metal, I do listen to heavy metal (among a lot of other genres), but my basic reasoning skills tell me this can't possibly tell me how "bright I am". I can be a total idiot and listen to any kind of music. Listening to music doesn't involve immense brain power, it's a passive experience.
BTW, you're a perfect example of what I was talking about.
So yes, many (not all) gifted children listen heavy metal... and there could be (are) gifted children who don't. Simply put: I didn't get what you tried to say. But I'm walking from reading your comment slightly less mentally gifted.
The study basically says "if you listen to heavy metal you're not necessarily stupid", thus dismissing a stereotype. This is all it does.
Without knowing how many of the "stupid" ones listen to heavy metal, or how they reached the conclusion a kid is "gifted" (I mean, is any non-retard gifted? Who knows what the hell they thought), this study means nothing else.
I've noticed around 90% of the "studies" posted on Slashdot come out with results firmly based on various cognitive biases and logical fallacies people use in their everyday thinking. Which means if you put the information you're fed to a sound analysis, you understand they are just thinly veiled non-sense.
It's just so effin sad you know? Not just that those studies exist, but that they catch most of the "specialized press" for tech and science minded people. But then again, Slashdot was never known for high quality articles anyway.
The called them all iPods and differentiated the models with features and design.
No they didn't. Each has a different name and only 3-4 models exist at any given time, all previous ones are obsolete and no longer manifactured. Maybe you missed that detail.
Gifted children: is there a single type of gifted children? Gifted in what? You can be very gifted in certain areas and suck in other areas.
Also, it's funny that the fellow Slashdot commenters which listen to heavy metal read this as "you listen to heavy metal, so this confirms you're gifted". I don't blame anyone for putting on his rose glasses though. It's only natural.
For the record, gifted children are not a monoculture. There are some gifted children who listen to heavy metal to deal with stress of being a teenager. Nice. There are also gifted children who don't listen to heavy metal, and heavy metal listeners that aren't gifted.
You're walking away from this article slightly less mentally gifted. Slashdot, you suck.
Case in point: AppleTV vs. D-link DSM-520. Which sounds sexier?
Imagine AppleTV produced around 100 models of AppleTV. Ok, now make them all sound sexy... good luck with that.
Apple's rule of thumb is to "dumb it down" and make it "marketing ready". They don't want or need to cater to the masses with lots of features, or low price, they just put out a single (or distinct few) simple products and concentrate all their marketing to pronouncing those the best thing since hot water.
Whether it'll work again we're yet to see. But their brand is still strong.
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Seriously, this is a technology whose time has come. Persuading elderly drivers to give up their cars is difficult, and the baby boom generation is putting a lot of people in that situation in the next decade or two.
Not just, consider accident caused by drunk drivers, by drivers fell asleep, careless drivers...
But don't expect a smooth transition. An "AI" driver could silently save thousands of lives, but the first cases where the AI was the reason for an accident will cause major outcries.
It's the nature of human beings to react like that.
or any other media player such as the totally non-obnoxious Winamp
Is this meant to be sarcastic or something?
As for Flash not being obnoxious, do me a favour *rolls eyes*.
I'll do you a favor: Flash is totally silent piece of software. That people use it to produce annoying crap is outside of the power of Flash to decide.
If all those Flash video and blinking ads didn't exist, they'd have Windows Media Player/ Quicktime / Animated GIF counterparts.
Looks like it's impossible to have a sensible discussion here on Slashdot. People go all over the place to collect "evidence" in support of their idea.
there isnt much of an alternative. the "rich text" editors you mightve seen use functionality called designMode that's built into most modern browsers, but there's no standard so the same editor works differently in different browsers. and the worst part is, none of the browsers' implementations do it well.
All of then do the very simple basics well, and filters are easy to do (I know: I use such editor in my own work for CMS). Noone wants to insert images and tables here, just basics.
Plus, think outside the box, even without WYSIWYG editor, they could use Textile or something like this, and provide buttons that wrap the selection with the right tag (ex. clicking the [B] button wraps your selection with *stars*, which in Textile mean "bold"). Replies could automatically quote the parent comment. Thousands of possibilities outside WYSIWYG.
Thanks, not compatible with 2.0.0.3 it seems but I'll keep in mind. Of course it's not our responsibility to patch poorly done sites either.
stop that. [b] and [strong] are used to draw attention. use [blockquote] instead.
If formatting was of utmost importance, we wouldn't be typing all tags by hand. Slashdot, it's not 1995 anymore, how about fixing the damn editor, huh?
How does it hurt the user of the OS since the PC builder will just put one on before they sell it? The idea is that if WMP is already on there it acts as a disincentive to install any other media player (since that's extra work). I'm not arguing for or against the remedy I just get tired of reading this fallacy on here.
Flash is a media player with larger userbase than WM. Explain that (yea it's cross platform and that's part of the reason, that said 98% of Windows users have it). Apparently the fallacy is fallacious. If a piece of software is useful, and not obnoxious (like Real Player), people will install it.
Two replies? OP really hit a nerve, didn't he?
:D
Could've been one post, but I have obsessive compulsive Submit clicking disorder.
That said I don't consider leading a dialog by replying to comments extensively to be an indication a "nerve" was struck or something. We're leading a dialog. Plus I don't proofread my comments so I'm really fast and producing them..
Assume that you charge them JUST or below the amount that MS makes in the EU sales. Then MS has a strong incentive to continue with the sale. Why? because it is slowly draining their competitors. Once MS owns the market, then they can comply (or do a USA thing and buy the politician). OTH, if you charge them 5 to 10 x the EU sales, they have a strong incentive to become lawful. In addition, even if you charge MS 10 the EU sales it would still be less than what MS loses on their hardware systems.
The problem is that them being "lawful" means, among other things, dumping the media player from Windows, which hurts the users of the OS (I prefer to have a standard media player in Windows, and I don't want to download it additionally. I prefer my apps to rely on the OS having video display capabilities built-in versus having to pack a full media player with each of my media apps for ex.).
RealNetworks is simply very bitter for losing the market (with their adware/spyware/scam crap) and looking to get back in the game the easy way: suing their way into Windows.
What do you think is RealNetworks going to do with the full WM specs? They'll dump it on the market, hurting Microsoft in the server sales, and this Microsoft will lose incentive to improve their media services further.
Who loses? Everyone, including RealNetwork, since they're losers, they lose never mind what they do.
The longer that a gov. takes to play these games with MS is only to MS's advantage. If EU really wanted to stop this, they would tell MS if you have 1 month and then we charge you 5 x all of the EU sales/month each month. Only when it is not in Bill Gates best advantage will he comply.
Why bother charging them 5 times the sales, let's just charge them 5 quantapentillion! Is this a real number? No. Does it matter? No.
Why is it that only Europe is standing up to them?
Real Networks has a strong lobby there. They tried in US, but US finally ruled in favor of Microsoft. Real Networks is who started the whole deal in EU. I for side with Microsoft regarding the Windows Media case.
It's not as if Real Networks will produce anything worthwhile never mind what information they have access to.
Funny somebody with the grammatical abilities of a 7 year old chiding others for being 'kids'.
Sorry you fail in life:
Funny[, ] somebody with the grammatical abilities of a 7 year old [is] chiding others for being 'kids'.
Alternatively:
Funny [that] somebody with the grammatical abilities of a 7 year old [is] chiding others for being 'kids'.
Two reasons that make replying with grammar remarks pointless:
1. You're almost guaranteed to (multiple) make similar mistakes in your "ha-ha you have mistakes" post, which makes you look like an idiot.
2. In a discussion about DirectX and OpenGL, no one cares about the comment grammar, so nitpicking this makes your look like an idiot. Basically no one effin cares.
PS: I don't guarantee this post is completely grammatically correct or typo free either: see point 2.
Funny somebody with the grammatical abilities of a 7 year old chiding others for being 'kids
I'll feed the troll: this happens because I usually shuffle the text around quickly when replying, and sometimes extraneous or redundant words are left in, which I didn't notice.
If I had to pick between perfect grammar and being useful with my answer, I'd pick the latter. People these days don't have the time to be perfect in everything. Priorities.
DirectX 9L (available for both XP and Vista, Aero runs on 9L, not 10) has more better support for the latest graphics hardware and more features than OpenGL.
The Xbox360 platform shares API details with both Windows and DirectX.
Unless you're seeking cross-platform compatibility and don't the latest and greatest feature, sure go for OpenGL.
In other words, Vista doesn't run well on my current hardware, XP does. Will this make me switch to Ubuntu or something? No, it won't.
Why would a company need more than 3 or 4 models of a particular product in the first place at any given time? If you have hundreds of products that all do essentially the same thing, and whose only differention is a small feature here or there and a 6 character alpha numeric string, then you need to rethink your product line.
Well that's ignorant. Even if every product had the perfect 3-4 models, then you have to question yourself what a "product" is. Is a big truck and a minivan two models of a truck, or two separate products? Should we have just 3-4 models of automobiles then? Maybe we should have just 3-4 models of transportation vehicle at all (one model train, one model car, one model airplane). Or.. how further can you simplify this? When do you stop?
Truth is, in a heavy competition, product differentiation proliferates, subtle differences evolve, and they matter. Saying that 3-4 models of a product should fit the entire world is like saying that 3-4 animal species should fit on the entire Earth.
We're billions here. Respect us a bit more than claiming our needs fit to 3-4 types of device for all of us. This is one reason I don't like Apple products: not only they create everything around their marketing (simple strong message/brand: this is marketing, not reality), but they apparently convince a lot of people that this is the best possible way to do it in the real world.
The dominant genes causing the mutation would need to be present in both partners or it could be suppressed easier.
If it can be suppressed easier, means the recessive gene has useful utility, if it doesn't.. then who cares that it surfaced... The specimen won't mate/survive.
Plus not all of the genetic information is paired into dominant/recessive alleles.
FYI: YHBT. HTH. HAND :)
BBQ?
So that's my idea - a national blacklist of pirates. If somebody cannot obey the basic rules of society, then they should be excluded from society. If pirates want to steal from the music industry, then the music industry should exclude them. It's that simple. One strike, and you're out - no reputable record store will allow you to buy another CD. If the pirates can't buy the CDS to begin with, then they won't be able to copy them over The Internet, will they? It's no different to doctors blacklisting drug dealers from buying prescription medicine.
I understand your grief, but "it's that simple" is a dead give away that your solution is kinda too easy to work.
And if you read what you wrote couple of times, you may realize the irony of the situation. You refused to sell a CD to a buying customer. Sure, he was going to put the CD on the Internet, and that sucks. But he was there to buy that CD.
In the end, before your intervention you had 1 CD sold, after your intervention you had 0 CD sold. Where do you believe this "punk" will get this album from now? Either another store, or the Internet. You lose, either way.
It takes *one* to copy his CD to the Internet for the entire world to have. You have to simply accept that blacklisting people that talk about copying CD-s *in the store* is a wildly inaccurate way to blacklist all pirates.
Even if you "decide to play safe" and blacklist every single person in US (assuming you're in US), someone will buy this CD in another country and upload it, and adapt your business to this, and you'll be out of customers since you blacklisted them all. It's a lose-lose situation.
Violence against the customers just causes lost customers and bad word spreading about your shop. You can be sure this guy told all his friends about this event, and they told their friends. You'll likely not see then buying from you any more.
I would fathom that mutation might happen more often with sexual reproduction, and thus asexual reproduction could slow the pace of evolution, but again, that's not to say it doesn't happen. Because it very surely does, as we know from the mutation of all those single-celled asexual organisms we know about. Like every disease out there. It is absolutely nonsense to claim otherwise. Bacteria multiply asexually. Protists do too. This is why diseases resist new drugs. Countless species of plants reproduce asexually. Myriad species of all these kingdoms have survived for 100 million years.
The headline might as well be, 'there has been life on Earth a long time.'
It's Slashdot, you know? I don't understand why is this news. I mean we learned about asexual reproduction in school, for christ's sake.
That said sexual reproduction (means: not male/female necessarily but combining genes from two or more specimens) allows for "good" mutations to combine in a single organism (if that organism is lucky enough to get the right combo).
This makes sexual reproduction a lot more powerful. With simple assexual reproduction everyone is on its own, so to speak. Works for simple organisms, but complex are no go.
Why do you think "news for nerds" is a source of pride for /.ers ?
Actually I'm ashamed I go back here and read Slashdot, but I'm addicted to posting comments clarifying the BS posing as articles. It's a trap. For reals.
I'm a heavy metal banger head, i'm a fucking bright person, not trying to oversell me, and i'm gifted in many ways, in ways of craft and of thinking... this article makes perfect sense to me. I think you dont have to reject all the potent poeple just because of alot of bad apples being thrown at ur poor face... i dont blame you for listening to pop music, or hiphop, but dont ask me to fight. fuck it if you cannot go over ur stereotypes... most of my "metal loving" friends are fucking bright poeple so fuck off and die.
A "fucking bright person" would know it's obscene to write with aolbonics, but I don't wanna put the discussion down on this level.
You know, I don't hate heavy metal, I do listen to heavy metal (among a lot of other genres), but my basic reasoning skills tell me this can't possibly tell me how "bright I am". I can be a total idiot and listen to any kind of music. Listening to music doesn't involve immense brain power, it's a passive experience.
BTW, you're a perfect example of what I was talking about.
So yes, many (not all) gifted children listen heavy metal... and there could be (are) gifted children who don't. Simply put: I didn't get what you tried to say. But I'm walking from reading your comment slightly less mentally gifted.
The study basically says "if you listen to heavy metal you're not necessarily stupid", thus dismissing a stereotype. This is all it does.
Without knowing how many of the "stupid" ones listen to heavy metal, or how they reached the conclusion a kid is "gifted" (I mean, is any non-retard gifted? Who knows what the hell they thought), this study means nothing else.
I've noticed around 90% of the "studies" posted on Slashdot come out with results firmly based on various cognitive biases and logical fallacies people use in their everyday thinking. Which means if you put the information you're fed to a sound analysis, you understand they are just thinly veiled non-sense.
It's just so effin sad you know? Not just that those studies exist, but that they catch most of the "specialized press" for tech and science minded people. But then again, Slashdot was never known for high quality articles anyway.
The called them all iPods and differentiated the models with features and design.
No they didn't. Each has a different name and only 3-4 models exist at any given time, all previous ones are obsolete and no longer manifactured. Maybe you missed that detail.
This article basically makes no sense.
Gifted children: is there a single type of gifted children? Gifted in what? You can be very gifted in certain areas and suck in other areas.
Also, it's funny that the fellow Slashdot commenters which listen to heavy metal read this as "you listen to heavy metal, so this confirms you're gifted". I don't blame anyone for putting on his rose glasses though. It's only natural.
For the record, gifted children are not a monoculture. There are some gifted children who listen to heavy metal to deal with stress of being a teenager. Nice. There are also gifted children who don't listen to heavy metal, and heavy metal listeners that aren't gifted.
You're walking away from this article slightly less mentally gifted. Slashdot, you suck.
Case in point: AppleTV vs. D-link DSM-520. Which sounds sexier?
Imagine AppleTV produced around 100 models of AppleTV. Ok, now make them all sound sexy... good luck with that.
Apple's rule of thumb is to "dumb it down" and make it "marketing ready". They don't want or need to cater to the masses with lots of features, or low price, they just put out a single (or distinct few) simple products and concentrate all their marketing to pronouncing those the best thing since hot water.
Whether it'll work again we're yet to see. But their brand is still strong.
That is, if it supports Divx, then I will NOT purchase one.
If it does NOT support Divx, then I will buy one.
I'm selling empty cardboard boxes for $50, kills AppleTV in price up and down.
They don't play DivX or XviD, even don't play DVD. Soo... ground or express shipping?