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Interview With Linux Flash Player's Lead Engineer

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the because-everyone-loves-flash dept.

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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  1. An obscure database known as MySQL by suso · · Score: 5, Funny

    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"

    1. Re:An obscure database known as MySQL by Fearless+Freep · · Score: 4, Funny

      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!

    2. Re:An obscure database known as MySQL by Sqwubbsy · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

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  2. More Programmers Needed by totallygeek · · Score: 5, Funny
    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.

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  3. wish by doti · · Score: 4, Funny
    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.
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  4. Re:64 bits please... by /ASCII · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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