would love to watch the video, but, as usual, the american web-sites think that everybody is connected extra-high speed and so the video download is something a bit less than spontaneous.
but i live in germany, at the top of a hill in a village with 350 people where my max throughput is 45K/sec. hardly enough to handle streaming video with pauses every 1.2 seconds.
but why do i bother? because ZDNet, in all its criticims of other people's lack of know-how, can't bother to implement a video-player than, when paused, will continue to load the vide so that the poor pitiful internet creatures such as me will be able to muster up enough patience to sit and wait for the download to compete so as to watch the video glitch-free.
as it is, i can't watch it, and am left to having to completely waste my time writing this comment not a single american soul will care one whit to.
or, living on the top of a german mountain in a small village leaves one to have to find creative ways of spending time, and criticizing american's singular sense that there is no world beyond its ubiquitous borders, and behave every day as if to prove it.
and to be fully self-disclosing, i am born and raised american mid-west. my right to assail is implicit in my existence.
how annoying...
richard
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