R Soul on 18/3/2010 at 18:51

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Press Escape and they should stop.

doctorfrog on 18/3/2010 at 21:06

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First annoyance: people who don't read threads and post in them without knowledge as to whether or not their point has been made.

Second annoynace: now, I haven't read the thread and don't know if anyone has said this or not, but Adobe hasn't made or acquired a plugin yet for browsers that isn't terrible, bloated, and unoptimized. Let's take flash videos for a second. It's 2010, and we have Flash videos that don't properly make use of 3D acceleration or RAM. As a result, when playing video, there are hitches in play as the one-use-only video is pointlessly cached to disk instead of RAM, and my CPU is unnecessarily exercised. The only way to watch a video without these momentary pauses is to pause the video, wait for the entire thing to load, then watch it.

Now, Hulu Desktop is little more than a wrapper for a Flash-based video viewer, and it is capable of both streaming and playing video at a moderate 480p without hitching. They've figured it out, why can't other flash players do the same? (Although it still plays video by shoveling every frame through the CPU.)

WCarnation on 18/3/2010 at 22:16

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Blogs that have hyperlinks to something but they're really just more tags within the blogs to show you all updates about that subject in that blog, so you end up crawling through 40 tags before you can find an actual real URL.

st.patrick on 18/3/2010 at 23:21

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Scots Taffer on 19/3/2010 at 02:05

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lewl



epic lulz for teh win