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February 27, 2006
Torrone on clones
Torrone on clones: Phillip Torrone writes at Make, in part: "A forum member named 71M seems to have created a Macromedia Flash player for the PSP and won the PSP SWF player coding contest on PSPHacks." I've got a slight quibble on the phrasing: an actual "Macromedia Flash Player" is made and distributed by Macromedia (or Adobe ;-) and offers predictable capability on Other Peoples Machines. Unless this hack is hijacking the Macromedia codebase somehow, it's actually just a generic SWF renderer with some undescribed level of support for some level of the SWF file format. Accepting SWF files is a popular decision for software makers because there are so many talented people out there who can produce interesting SWF files -- but a different engine may support a different set of features, and more importantly, may act slightly differently from the reference renderer in the features it does support. No big thing, but it's something to watch out for: if someone tells you that a non-desktop environment "has Flash support", then it's important to qualify exactly what that label means...!
Posted by John Dowdell at February 27, 2006 04:06 PM
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arg, you're right - i need to edit that. it's a clone (if it's real) - almost like the player the clie had, but likely even more hacked up. the clie player was sorta kinda official, but i recall not really, and a lot of things didn't work.
Posted by: pt at February 27, 2006 04:35 PM
No worries, Phil, it's sort of a general issue these days, and I just sorta picked on you for the link there.... ;-)
Thanks for the understanding of the core issue there, though, I appreciate it!
(I had tried researching that PSPHacks post last week, and got as far as figuring that the poster lived in London, but I couldn't dig up much on exactly what they meant by that label to their work... sounds like more info will be available later this week.)
Posted by: John Dowdell at February 27, 2006 05:17 PM
How about: "A forum member named 71M seems to have created a player of Macromedia Flash for the PSP"?
Posted by: Jeff Schiller at February 27, 2006 08:12 PM
"An SWF Player" would probably be the best term. I'll have to try it out later.
Posted by: PaulC at February 28, 2006 12:28 PM
Hi I am very interested in cloning, I really like pigeons so i was wondering if you can clone birds? And if they(the clone) will look the same as the Donar of the Genes.
Posted by: Igor Mironov at March 14, 2006 02:46 PM
Hello, I was wondering if it was possible to clone humans and make them do things for you like do your homework and do all of your chores!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[jd sez: Not all of them, sorry, no... making and training the clones is the easy part, but for some still-unfathomable reason they refuse to take out the garbage if it contains advertising circulars that came to your mailbox. If you could figure out why they refuse to do this one particular chore then all of humanity would salute you.]
Posted by: Justin Ross at March 25, 2006 06:28 PM