On the Subject of Flash Video

Sara Varone

Something that has been seriously pissing me off recently is embedded flash videos. Why the FUCK can't anyone design a player that is smart enough to buffer enough data so that it will be able to play the fucking video without having to pause every fucking five seconds? Is it really so difficult to work out how much you've downloaded, and how long it took, and then calculate how long it will take to download the rest and compare that with the playtime of the video? Even fucking Apple can manage that.
And don't tell me my internet connection must be shit. My internet connection is just fine, but most of the bandwidth is being used to download videos and pictures of women with no clothes on.