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Lord Vetinari

4/9/2010 9:45:00 PM

"Xan Du" <xan747@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:hpo5rh$kv4$1@news.eternal-september.org...
> Lord Vetinari wrote:
>> "John Manning" <jrobertm@terra.com.br> wrote in message
>> news:z-Wdne5J_M95_CLWnZ2dnUVZ_vWdnZ2d@giganews.com...
>>> Jon Stewart had one of the most effective take downs of Fox News ever
>>> done last night. It's a must watch.
>>>
>>> Stewart's argument centers around Fox News analyst Newt Gingrich and
>>> host Sean Hannity discussing the arms agreement in what appears to be in
>>> direct conflict with the facts of the treaty.
>>>
>>> Watch:
>>> http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-april-8-2010/the-big-b...
>>
>> What the fuck is wrong with these people? I can't think of even one good
>> reason to put video up that cannot play on earlier versions of Adobe
>> Flash Player. It isn't as if there is any substantial change in it.
>
> It's been made to be compatible with Flex 4, which itself is a morass of
> horrible code, botched refactoring, dubious "improvements", and woeful
> backward compatibility. My view of it is too many developers trying to do
> too much in too little time. I hate it.
>
>> I'll have to watch it when I get home. Dhammit.
>
> Good luck. Any flash video on this laptop pegs both cores out at 100%.
> It's teh sux0r.

My laptop does just fine with them....but then, I had it custom built.