Interview With Linux Flash Player's Lead Engineer

An anonymous reader writes, "Ryan Stewart of ZDNet has an interview with Mike Melanson, the lead engineer behind Adobe's upcoming Flash Player 9 for Linux. It covers what the plans are for the player, what kinds of things won't be in the Linux player that are in the other players, and ways to give Adobe input on the Linux player."

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He threatens me

[BadAnalogyGuy]

How big is the team working on the Linux version of the Flash Player?

There is a core team working on porting and testing. There are various volunteers within the organization who have jumped into the effort out of general platform enthusiasm; and if we need any advice with particular areas, we bring in people from the rest of the Flash Player team as needed.

Of course, we're not making cheese sandwiches here. Throwing more programmers, any programmers, at the problem will not necessarily speed the process along.

Shit.

Re:no hard questions asked....

[Lussarn]

Is there a flash 9 for Linux, where?

An obscure database known as MySQL

[suso]

I got into Linux when I wanted to use a free relational database called MySQL for a web project

Why does this quote remind me so much of Data (from Star Trek, an obscure TV show):

Data: "It is from an obscure language known as French"
Picard: "Data, the French language for centuries represented civilization"

Re:An obscure database known as MySQL

[Fearless Freep]

Professor Hubert Farnsworth: This is my Universal Translator. It could have been my greatest invention, but it translates everything into an incomprehensible dead language
Cubert J. Farnsworth: [into the translator's microphone] Hello.
Universal Translator: Bonjour!
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: See? Utter gibberish!

Re:An obscure database known as MySQL

[Sqwubbsy]

I know I'm burning what little karma I have (and I also know it doesn't apply to you) but this comment totally deserves a "you must be new around here", so...

You must be new around here.

Re:An obscure database known as MySQL

[minus9]

Oh my, yes!

Re:An obscure database known as MySQL

[LittleBigLui]

No mother thong has what is needed to be a good and neutral internationnal language.

You are so right! Actually this isn't limited to thongs, and isn't limited to mothers or even close relatives either.

I hereby state LittleBigLui's theorem linguistic underwear exclusion theorem:

Actually no undergarment at all, anywhere in the universe is a "good and neutral international language".

I have found a proof of this, too, but it is too elaborate to fit into this comment.

Re:An obscure database known as MySQL

[Anonymous Coward]

That's nice. What's Futurama?

...i think it was this bit...

[andyr0ck]

"Didn't RTFA but I assume..."

that aside, it's a valid point.

More Programmers Needed

[totallygeek]

Throwing more programmers, any programmers, at the problem will not necessarily speed the process along.

It's like giving nine women the task of gestating a baby in one month.

in true slashdot style

[aristolochene]

Yes, but does it run on linux?

Branigan's Law versus Brooks' Law

[Anonymous Coward]

> It's like giving nine women the task of gestating a baby in one month.

Zapps "We'll need an army of super-virile men scoring round the clock. I'll do my part. Kif, clear my schedule."
(Kif takes out an etch-a-sketch and shakes it) ;-]

Re:PPC Linux Flash ?

[Anonymous Coward]

What the hell is PPC? Some old, arcane hardware? Is that like an Amiga? Damn, you guys _never_ shut up, do you?

wish

[doti]

But one suggestion I would make to the community is to use the Adobe Wish Form to make specific feature requests, such as support for 64-bit and PowerPC platforms and alternate OS such as FreeBSD, so the comments are more productive.

I, for one, wish Flash to die a horrible death.

Re:64 bits please...

[/ASCII]

Because you have to use a carpet knife to get the cut right (or else you'd get one 30-bit and one 34-bit processor), and Delta Airlines don't allow you to use carpet knives any more.

Blame Osama.

Bandwidth, Latency, and Throughput for pregnancy

[Skevin]

Bandwidth-wise, if nine women had nine months to each generate a baby, then you can say each woman will have created one baby in one month.
The Latency simply was nine months.
The Throughput is the twelve hours of labor it took to push the brat out.

Consider the ramifications from a Network Admin's point of view.
If you could completely eliminate the latency, then you could push a baby out twice a day. You could make millions off of welfare alone!
However, the lowest latency I've ever seen, was that big-bellied chick I took home to get it on with, and she gave birth the very next day. It was only 24 hours between doing her and making my first child support payment.

I'm trying to apply these findings down at our data center, but all I have to show for it is some slippery floors and some unusual-tasting coffee. My boss must have taken an interest in the concept, because I often see him and his secretary attempting a similar effort after hours.

Solomon