how do they manage?

Omg

How do the developers of the Flash player manage to make a every successive version more broken.

I remember when the change to hardware accelaration made it impossible for my girlfriend to watch movies on her old computer.

Now in recent changes to the interface it has become impossible to adjust the volume while the stream is loading and more cumbersome to control the seekbar.

On top of that Im getting frequent and annoyingly consistent framedrops (about every 4 seconds) on lots of movies from all kinds of sources, using a broadband connection without additional traffic.

When CPU usage is moderately high these increase in frequency and make downloading the movie beforehand a necessity. (well I should be doing that anyway).

This has nothing with my hardware of configuration, and Im assuming the cause is newer code favouring newer graphics card chipsets and the such.

I've 768MB of video RAM etc, most modern (10 years and newer!) cards are beastly machines anyway. A sane and responsible person does not need to and shouldnt do such upgrades.

It seems like a ruse to incite unrelenting comsuserism. If Im correct in my assumptions its a clear example of professional irresponsibility and modern fascist corporatism.

Ah well alternatives are bound to come along.

Ill see yall then