I read recently on Yahoo News they had interview 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 that’s 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 anonymous 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 subsequently 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. PS; one of my blogger friends is having an interview with Wales so if you got any questions to ask him post it here or PM me

Cambarro , check this link I made a post about it on my blog http://www.mjama.com/mjama/blog/index.php/2007/02/09/bit-torrent-breakdown/

Okai I think Torrents are the best thing ever, but for single files I would have suggested to join a forum that deals with similar genre of music as yours , in that way you would be able to get singles quicker and through the web "normally faster". I have a link with a website that contains umh ALMOST every single mp3 on the web , I can't post here because of the rules but go ahead and PM i'll hook you up , when i registered it didn't need anything but I heard now you have to make some donation to become a member..

Umh not just you putting your Personal Information on the site that should worries you , for example the sol team could trace your ip and get your location and other vital informations about you with your posts and photos you uploaded , then just forward all those informations like you saw in the video. It's not just about I won't use my real informations so I am safe !!!

Okai we been talking about Vista for while now and some Nomads mentioned Linux , I did use Suse for while but always came back to windows simply because of Adobe Creative Suite but for normal users here it is a post i saw on ArsGeek talking about taking the leap of faith even though this author talking about win xp to ubuntu its quite the same with any other Linux distro for that matter 1. You will miss some aspects of Windows. In my case, the thing I missed most was gaming. There are some wonderful games available for Ubuntu and other Linux distros. There are also services like Cedega which allow you to play some games on Linux. Nothing however really compares to playing these games in their native environment, without having to twiddle a service, muck about with Wine or find some kind of comparative product. This is why I chose (and still choose) to dual boot my laptop. I can still play my favorite games under Windows. 2. You’ll find that lots of people are willing to help you, simply because you’re using Ubuntu. It’s almost like joining a club that has an exclusive membership feeling but allows anyone in. Over the past year and a half I’ve been helped by lots and lots of people with more knowledge and experience than I have. In turn, I feel happy to do the same for others following in my footsteps. It’s nice to belong and other Ubuntu users make it easy. It’s also nice to get quick answers to problems you may be having simply by posting to a forum, or asking on a blog. 3. Sometimes, you’ll really miss using Windows. I’ve been using windows since 3.11. It was entrenched in my nervous system. If I wanted to get somewhere, I simply went to Start and did it. Change my desktop? Easy. Check the Event Log? No problem. Learning to do all of this in Linux takes time. There will be times when you spend an hour troubleshooting what would be a simple problem if you just knew what you were doing. Fortunately there is a community willing to help you and share your frustrations. There’s also that learning curve I just mentioned. Once you crest it, it’s like you suddenly have some serious control over your PC. You can start getting it to do things that make others go “Wow!” even though you’re not having a Vista moment. 4. You’ll find yourself spending a lot less money. Really, there’s no reason to go out and buy lots of additional software for your computer when you can get the same functionality with free software. The list of programs available is huge! Are all of them as fully featured as their Windows counterpart. Nope. Some of them don’t even come close. Keep in mind however that I’ve yet to find a feature missing from Open Office that I used in MS Office. A lot of the features included in pay-for software the average person never uses. If you’re an expert graphic designer, then you’ll probably not want to move from Photoshop to Gimp. If you just like to muck about and make neat stuff, then Gimp works fine. 5. When you don’t have to buy the software, the temptation to pirate software is removed. Really, it’s that simple. I know of lots of people with pirated versions of Photoshop who would be just as well served by Gimp (to return to that example). Office? Same thing. The truth of the matter is, if you’re a professional who needs office or Photoshop, you’re going to go out and buy it. If you want MS Office just to use excel a few times and write the great American novel, you’ll be just as well served by OpenOffice. 6. You’re not going to have to worry much about viruses, worms, trojans and spyware. It’s a simple fact. I open emails with impunity, even if they come from my office mate and are entitled “Britney Spears Naked”. Why? That exe file tagged to the end of six thousand spaces isn’t going to effect me. Bonzi Buddy for Linux? Nope. I don’t think it will be this way forever as more and more folks adopt operating systems like Linux and OSX but for now, I enjoy myself without dealing with malware, pop ups, and viruses. 7. *** (See edits at end of point 7)You are going to be more vulnerable to hackers. If you don’t consider a malware infestation as being hacked, then Linux/Unix is probably the most hacked OS. Sure there are far less instances of hacking than of malware and virus outbreaks but you’ll want to be aware of this. If you have a system with a dedicated IP that’s on all the time, you could be a target for hacking. Read up on your linux security. A good firewall is a good idea. Edit - I’d like to update this a bit. I’m no longer sure point 7 is true - certainly you could be the object of intrusions or scans to attempt an intrusion. At this time however ubuntu is just as hardened if not more so than other operating systems. So could you be hacked? Yes. Will you? Your probability isn’t any higher than any other OS. However if you modify the base system and open your system to vulnerabilities you may open yourself up to greater risk. 8. There are times you’ll be sorely tempted to just go back to Windows. With me, I’ve found that a dual boot system alleviates that a bit. If I just can’t get it done in Linux (and since I like to hack about my system if I’ve caused my own problem and I need to work) I can simply boot into Windows and do it. This will taper off with time though. The only reason I boot into Windows now is to assist someone with a Windows problem their having or to play a game. 9. You’ll need to learn at least a little about the command line. Like it or not, Linux has a CLI and there will be times you’ll want to use it. Having said that though, you can do a lot now via a Graphical User Interface. Why would you want to use the CLI then? Your GUI is like flying over your computer at 5,000 feet. You’ve got a broad view of what’s going on but it’s hard to make out the little details. Your CLI is like walking across your OS. You can stop, take a hard look around and tweak the littlest thing. 10. Surfing the web, checking email and instant messanging stay pretty much the same. If you already use open source products like Firefox, Thunderbird and Gaim this is even more true. If not, you’ll have a brief period of adjustment and then you’ll be surfing, emailing and chatting like you always have. 11. Playing DVDs, Music and Movies on your Ubuntu box takes two extra steps. Above and beyond installing Ubuntu, you’ll have to do two more things to be able to listen to most types of music and play most types of video files and movies. What are those two things? Installing Automatix2 and then running it. 12. If you have a family member or friend who acts as your tech support and they know Linux, they will thank you profusely. Because your Ubuntu experience will be free of viruses, malware and pop-up hell, this means that their support roles have suddenly diminished. If you do have a problem, it’s easy for them to pop right onto your computer from just about anywhere and take a look at it. Unless of course, your problem is getting online. I’ve switched a couple of friends over to Ubuntu and it’s a joy. When they do have a problem I SSH in and fix it. 13. You’ll find that you don’t have to reboot. Really! Unless you’ve come across a very severe bug, or have done something to your computer yourself, you won’t have to reboot even when you update Ubuntu! The only time updates generally require a reboot are when a new Kernel comes out and is distributed to Ubuntu users. You’ll also find that, updates aside, Ubuntu is a rock solid stable system. I’ve got Ubuntu machines that have seen heavy and steady use which have been up for 200+ days. If you’ve been hearing a lot about Ubuntu (or other Linux distributions) and you’re deciding whether to make the switch or not, I hope I’ve been some help. It’s always good to go into a decision like this with information. If you’ve recently made the switch, I’d love to hear from you. Let me know the good and the bad. Ubuntu isn’t perfect. There isn’t a perfect OS out there, but it does offer a range of usability from simple point and click to ultimate customization. ---------------------------------------------- I am downloading Ubuntu trying to see whats all the fuss about but if you do make sure to partition your system and keep your current operating system untill you sure

I'd like to Thank my Parents and Friends!! and ofcourse I'd like to thank intel for providing us with the dual core processores, the PHP group for inventing PHP, and the one person all of us should be thanking Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the first website in August 1991...aka Father of the Internet

anyone alive here? come down to the chatroom pretty bored!

Rudy rudy rudy dude what happened to you man? since when you care if the sister get some enhancments on if she feels that she needs it!! stay picky like that and i'll end up @ the pet shop buying cats!

umh okai this is not about my pic looking fat on facebook.. watch this video first and then come back and tell me what you think ... http://albumoftheday.com/facebook/

lol atleast you got your refrence after all

good luck with that

I am sick and tired of all those new commercial buzz words such as web 2.0 reminds when Microsoft made the big fuzz about DHTML, things that doesn't exist.. according to Tim O'Reilly (who coined the term) is this one: "Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform. Chief among those rules is this: Build applications that harness network effects to get better the more people use them." so what does it mean exactly?..umh nothing. from dawn of the internet we did communicate with each other its not a new thing to be coined as web 2 quite agree with BERNERS-LEE BERNERS-LEE: Totally not. Web 1.0 was all about connecting people. It was an interactive space, and I think Web 2.0 is of course a piece of jargon, nobody even knows what it means. If Web 2.0 for you is blogs and wikis, then that is people to people. But that was what the Web was supposed to be all along. And in fact, you know, this Web 2.0, quote, it means using the standards which have been produced by all these people working on Web 1.0. It means using the document object model, it means for HTML and SVG and so on, it's using HTTP, so it's building stuff using the Web standards, plus Java script of course. the important and the new thing is Semantic Web in which applications communicate with each other offering web services through eXtensible Markup Language (XML) and the Resource Description Framework (RDF). umh okai I released some tension that was building up but not done yet to be continued

nice post rosey rose, and my avatar is actully an vector graphic of my own pic

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Magnificently sophisticated geometric patterns in medieval Islamic architecture indicate their designers achieved a mathematical breakthrough 500 years earlier than Western scholars, scientists said on Thursday. By the 15th century, decorative tile patterns on these masterpieces of Islamic architecture reached such complexity that a small number boasted what seem to be "quasicrystalline" designs, Harvard University's Peter Lu and Princeton University's Paul Steinhardt wrote in the journal Science. Only in the 1970s did British mathematician and cosmologist Roger Penrose become the first to describe these geometric designs in the West. Quasicrystalline patterns comprise a set of interlocking units whose pattern never repeats, even when extended infinitely in all directions, and possess a special form of symmetry. "Oh, it's absolutely stunning," Lu said in an interview. "They made tilings that reflect mathematics that were so sophisticated that we didn't figure it out until the last 20 or 30 years." Lu and Steinhardt in particular cite designs on the Darb-i Imam shrine in Isfahan, Iran, built in 1453 Islamic tradition has frowned upon pictorial representations in artwork. Mosques and other grand buildings erected by Islamic architects throughout the Middle East, Central Asia and elsewhere often are wrapped in rich, intricate tile designs setting out elaborate geometric patterns. The walls of many medieval Islamic structures display sumptuous geometric star-and-polygon patterns. The research indicated that by 1200 an important breakthrough had occurred in Islamic mathematics and design, as illustrated by these geometric designs. Will Dunham of reuters About time those fools recognized!!

lol ^^^ , you do certainly win if we had the .2 planet we'd all live happily ever after!! Xu, hows your project ?

loool so true

And they say money could buy you happiness

^^ lol

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I got an E-Life , plus is that the only thing you grapsed from my post?

Joost formally known as the Venice project from the same nerds that created Kazaa and Skype.. I am always online which leaves very little time to watch t.v. so I ended up downloading my favourite t.v. programmes but still I have wait weekly and have to wait for downloading depending on the seeders now all that is over Joost is here!!! Joost™ is a new way of watching TV on the internet, which uses new and established technologies to provide the best of both the internet and TV worlds. We're in the process of making it as TV-like as we can, with programmes, channels and adverts. You can also see some things that we think will enhance the TV experience: searching for programmes and channels, for example, as well as social features like chat. There are many more new features to come! At the moment its on Beta and invite only I requested a membership and still waiting when I get it I will be able to offer invites for you guys and if anyone already a member hook a brother up! and by all means try to get the beta invite you could be luckier then me!

To come to the conclusion that somali men are split into those three categories she must have dated alot of them otherwise her conclusion would be flawed if it based on only three men she dated

CC, damn girl you must've dated alot of men to come to this conclusion!

I don't know about Arab women man they eat alot of garlic!! I'd say japanese girls come second