-- which they say, in very-small print, they will "need" to install to go from Macromedia 9. xx --> 10.0.22.87

(The BBC player starts to load stuff and then flakes out -- on 9.x)

Per http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/

Adobe® AIR® is a cross-operating system runtime that lets developers combine HTML, Ajax, Adobe Flash®, and Adobe Flex® technologies to deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) on the desktop. AIR allows developers to use familiar tools such as Adobe Dreamweaver® CS3, Flex Builder™ 3, Flash CS3 Professional, or any text editor to build their applications and easily deliver a single application installer that works across operating systems.

How more cloyingly Market-speak can it get?
'rich Internet applications' via some *#*#%^#@ runtime sounds like beast.NET; dunno the size of this thing, or IF it can be REMOVED in-toto after it spews stuff, should I update 9.x at all.

Prefer not to crap up this iMac install with more marketing balls-of-fluff by companies seeking another monopoly in indispensable bloatware.

Anybody allowed this sucker IN?
(And did Uninstall WORK, actually?)

Not been to USPS for a couple days; will try VLC.. and it's open source, yet!
Let Adobe simmer in inattention for a time.

Have yet to grok to fullness the codec game: who writes them, why so many -- who profits from same / how DRM is folded in, etc. (Life too short..)

Any group that can have their DEVDays in Paris! be my kinda guys n'gals.
(And any of those who spend their whole time with a keyboard, There: not-so-much.)

Thanks for including.. 18 MB (ouch)
Ya gets 4 GB of RAM and everything gets Bigger again!
(Looking forward to the alleged streamlined Snow Leopard; imagine ... anticipating an OS Upgrade, without well-justified trepidation!) A first, por moi.

Just hooked up a *second monitor, thanks to neighbors suitable DVI --> analog dongle. Now getting accustomed to : it just Works. Cute, mousing across the æther and back to another box!
Now since the mon. has normal-size DVI input too: need an Apple-size --> Normal-DVI cable or adaptor, too. OK I see the miniaturization fetish, for the nbs. Time to google for OEM adaptors. I see there's even a Color Calibrator App.

Hmmm 5 more monitors and I can emulate the gadgetry Rand linked to: a Control Room, but with scopes too! maybe not.

* and I noticed that, with both monitors making work for video card: a few °F temp rise on the 'GPU Diode' ensues. As one might expect. {cackle}