Comments on: End of Wall Street: What Happened

By: wwilder

wwilder — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:40:33 +0000

Video works for me, no problems. Mac OSX 10.5.6, SeaMonkey 1.1.14, DSL.

By: vdhinaka

vdhinaka — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:16:13 +0000

charlie1939. It worked for me. Upgrade your browser.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

By: gloppie

gloppie — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:44:41 +0000

WSJ videos never work for me.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121621 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.5

By: charlie1939

charlie1939 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:33:53 +0000

Update, regaarding my previous rant, M$ I-net Explorer is only marginally better than Firefox at steaming the video from WSJ. FYI, I am on a cable internet connection and the download speed via Speakeasy is about 5-6 Mbps right now out of NYC, DC or Chicago. WSJ must have a low grade system of delivering video…

By: charlie1939

charlie1939 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:54:45 +0000

Barry,
First, thanks for bringing a lot of these explanations of the current financial crisis to us in your blog…
However, don’t tease us with any more of these half-baked jokes of a video streaming system without warning us that they do not work on Firefox!
On Firefox (my preferred browser), I got through about 1/2 of the first video before it crapped out. Came back later and got through about 2/3 of the first video. I figured it might be a fluke of that one video, so I tried the second one. No different in its pathetic performance…about 1/3 of that one. Finally, I did try to watch it on M$ I-net Explorer, lo and behold, it worked fine!
So be nice to your readers and warn them not to watch WSJ videos on Firefox. I’ll not bother wasting any more time on this garbage of a video system on Firefox.
For what it is worth, what I did see on these videos was not anything that hasn’t been said before and often with more detail and more eloquence!