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Submission + - BitTorrent Inc. sez: the future of entertainment is RealPlayer (neowin.net)

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KingofGnG

on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @12:01PM

KingofGnG writes: "BitTorrent Inc., the USA company founded by the original creators of the BitTorrent protocol, is testing new ways to monetize on the content freely available on the file sharing network. The company wants to “rewrite the Future of the Entertainment Industry”, a feat that begins with the bundling of a well-known relic of the multimedia technology past."

Comment Who created civilisation? (Score 1, Interesting) 497

by konaya on Monday July 23, 2012 @04:02PM (#40740909) Attached to: Who Really Invented the Internet?

The question is pointless. It's like asking who created society, or civilisation.

The WWW, however, now that's another story. I'd say CERN, Switzerland is to be held responsible for that. More specifically, Tim Berners-Lee, creator of HTTP 0.9, HTML, the first web browser, the first web server, and the first web pages.

Somewhat related, the first images to be served on the WWW is believed to be promotional shots for the parody pop group Les Horribles Cernettes.

Comment Re:We could also learn Esperanto (Score 1) 557

by konaya on Wednesday July 11, 2012 @09:40AM (#40613965) Attached to: Is It Time To End Our Love Affair With the QWERTY Keyboard?

English is self-contradictory so you get the chance to look down your nose on people who fail to keep track of it all. Since everyone cocks up sometimes, everybody gets a shot at it. That's why we love English :)

Comment Re:COLOMBIAN....not "Columbian" (Score 1) 204

by konaya on Wednesday July 11, 2012 @09:17AM (#40613615) Attached to: Web Exploit Found That Customizes Attack For Windows, Mac, and Linux

Interestingly, this makes "Columbian" the only 100% correct and unambiguous denonym for a person from the USA. "American" could mean anyone from any country from any of the Americas, "North American" could also mean Canadian... Am I missing any candidate demonyms?

Comment Re:STOP MAKING SHIT UP (Score 1) 204

by konaya on Wednesday July 11, 2012 @09:13AM (#40613569) Attached to: Web Exploit Found That Customizes Attack For Windows, Mac, and Linux

Yup. Colombia is spelt with an O and Columbia is spelt with a U. Why are we stating obvious things?

Comment Re:I take it (Score 1) 402

by konaya on Friday April 13, 2012 @09:46AM (#39672605) Attached to: Audi Gives Silent Electric Car Synthetic Sound

Hm, good point. Perhaps back-up lights should come with back-up signalling horns by default? No, that'd be too annoying. But how about having very-short-range radio warning beacons in every back-up light, and have all hard-sighted people equipped with a receiver?

Comment Re:How cool. (Score 1) 402

by konaya on Friday April 13, 2012 @09:41AM (#39672575) Attached to: Audi Gives Silent Electric Car Synthetic Sound

...until someone's car is in a pile-up addicent and, when the dust has settled, plays multikill.wav from Unreal Tournament?

Comment What about..? (Score 1) 394

by konaya on Friday April 13, 2012 @09:28AM (#39672433) Attached to: My most recent tax bill was ...

What about people who do not need even to fill a fax form, for various reasons?

Comment Re:Hopefully (Score 1) 796

by konaya on Friday April 13, 2012 @09:18AM (#39672329) Attached to: Indian Man Charged With Blasphemy For Exposing "Miracle"

That makes sense, after all Atheism is being against religion while Agnosticism is having no religion.

I think you are confusing atheism with antitheism.

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