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  • Windows, Linux, Mac, or Multiboot?

    opensuse 10.2 for everyday use but for work have to use windows can't live without Photoshop/the whole creative sutie actully:) and yeah before any one suggests Gimp its not as good as Photoshop..plus I like Vista its cool:)

     If anyone uses Suse I got big time problems installing XGL/Beryl well appreciate help forum guys are just long .. tried using Ubuntu think its bit over rated though..

    Posted 14 Mar 07 in General Conversation

  • Web of lies

    I read recently on <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070307/ap_on_hi_te/wikipedia_credentials">Yahoo News</a>  they had interview with with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales  about proof of credentials he said:

    ""It's always inappropriate to try to win an argument by flashing your credentials," Wales said, "and even more so if those credentials are inaccurate."
     and that the focus should be on the content not on who wrote the content..

    see thats how we always backup claims its the way scholars and researchers comes to valid conclusions but the persons credentials I would trust an article written by TIM LEE then annoymous nickname such as USER43388 regardless of the content.

    The popularity of wiki will diminish if more and more users write false content, already Sen. Ted Stevens introduced Senate bill 49 which mentions wiki among other sites to be banned.

    The question will be, Is content more important then the writer even though that content is false or no way to back it up and that subsquentialy leads to loss of validity on the net more then it is at the moment?..

    which brings me back to TIM LEE's answer when bbc asked him the internet has led to this great empire of lies, of unreliability. You simply don't know what the state of any of this information is.


    TIM LEE:
    When you say there are a lot of lies out there, if you go randomly picking up pieces of paper in the street or leafing through garbage at the garbage dump what are the chances you'll find something reliable written on the paper that you find there? Very small. When you go onto the internet, if you really rummage around randomly then how do you hope to find something of any of value?

    But when you use the web, you follow links and you should keep bookmarks of the places where following links turns out to be a good idea. When you go to a site and it gives you pointers to places that you find are horrible or unreliable, then don't go there again.

    You see out there right now, for example, when you look at bloggers some of them are very careful. A good blogger when he says that something's happened will have a point to back, and there's a certain ethos within the blogging community, you always point to your source, you point all the way back to the original article. If you're looking at something and you don't know where it comes from, if there's no pointer to the source, you can ignore it.

    Posted 08 Mar 07 in Technology News

  • London, United Kingdom

    SE London

    Posted 06 Mar 07 in So, where are you from?

  • Social Networks

    I hate orkut very boring, and apperantly no one speaks english over there !!! I feel lost most of the time..

    Posted 06 Mar 07 in General Conversation

  • First Gallery

    well the more sophisticated way to do it is with Adobe illustrator / freehand and some people use flash but mostly illustrator taking advantage of the Mesh tool, poor old me use good ole' Photoshop and the pen tool to trace and fill with color then playing with the blur tool you get different effects , this is the full gallery i got

    mjama.com/gallery/gallery.php 

    Posted 04 Mar 07 in Vector Art

  • Put Yourself On the Tangler Map

    Its awesome could see my small tiny flat t0o!!

    Posted 04 Mar 07 in So, where are you from?

  • HAPPY HOLI!!!

    seems to me all you guys know each other here 

    Posted 04 Mar 07 in General Conversation

  • The Illusionist

    Way Better then the Prestige!!

    Posted 04 Mar 07 in Movies

  • Do you have Facebook ?

    try to decativate or remove your account from there and you'll get this

    You can reactivate your account at any time by logging in with your email and
    password.

    meaning my account will continue to exist..
     

    Posted 04 Mar 07 in Technology News

  • thumbnail

    oh I abandoned the whole thumbnail thinggy, piss'd me off!! but thanks mate:)

    Posted 02 Mar 07 in PHP

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