bredk - Slashdot User

Comment Re:That's okay... (Score 0) 521

by bredk on Monday February 22, 2010 @03:18AM (#31226716) Attached to: Why Flash Is Fundamentally Flawed On Touchscreen Devices

The reason why Apple does not want flash is simple. They would not be able to control the influx of rich applications and games. 30% of paid apps is a great deal of money. Why make people just visit a web page when they want to play a game?

Comment Re:Is it trickery? (Score 0) 514

by bredk on Wednesday November 18, 2009 @07:12PM (#30150370) Attached to: Bing Gains 10% Marketshare

Google does not own or in any way take part in Yandex.ru.

Comment Re:Uhm... wrong site. (Score 0) 511

by bredk on Sunday October 25, 2009 @12:27PM (#29865137) Attached to: What If They Turned Off the Internet?

This is a sad day for Slashdot. If this happens again, where should one go?

Comment Re:Short Sighted (Score 1, Funny) 200

by bredk on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @10:08PM (#29046797) Attached to: Gardeners Told to Give Exhausted Bees an Energy Drink

... Now we're even bailing out the bees!

Comment Re:missing option... (Score 0) 665

by bredk on Sunday March 02, 2008 @02:49AM (#22614134) Attached to: Favorite Sci-Fi Starship

StarCraft Behemoth Class Battlecruiser: Yamato Gun - Magnetically focused nuclear explosion makes one ridiculously cool weapon.

Submission + - UK schools warned off Microsoft deal

Submitted by red3dwarf on Friday October 26, 2007 @07:58AM

red3dwarf writes: From a BBC news story: The UK computer agency Becta is advising schools not to sign licensing agreements with Microsoft because of alleged anti-competitive practices.

Submission + - Google Searching Slashdot for Patentable Ideas ?

Submitted by

rtb61

on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @03:13AM

rtb61 writes: "So is Google 'searching' the Slashdot forums for patentable ideas and claiming them as their own? Not that I am particularly proud of coming up with the idea but I certainly don't want Google patenting it, http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=167009&cid =13929372. Now would that post, as negative as it is about the concept, be sufficient to constitute prior art and is Googles "Do no Evil" starting to wear 'patently' thin."

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