User talk:CyborgTosser

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projector

Hello. When you create a new linear algebra article, could you add it to the list of linear algebra topics? Also, could you address the question I raised on the discussion page for projector (linear algebra). Michael Hardy 20:12, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Jack rock

Hello, CyborgTosser. Noticed your inclusion of "jack rock" as a synonym for caltrop. This puzzled me at first, as I haven't heard this term before, and couldn't find it in any of my dictionatires. Further, I was initially unable to find any Google references that didn't derive from the article. However, I did eventually find CODE OF ORDINANCES CITY OF WASHINGTON, ILLINOIS (http://ci.washington.il.us/HTML/CHAPTER%20130.htm). These are cirty ordinances for a small town in Illinois. Thus, the term is possibly a local Illinois usage? At present the description makes it appear as if "jack rock" is a common or widely known synonym, which I don't believe is correct. I wondered if you had any additional information on the distribution of this usage so we could clarify the point? Securiger 01:36, 12 May 2004 (UTC)

Well, I found something here: [1] (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jack+rocks) Not excatly the same thing, but along the same lines. I know it's not just a local Illinois thing. I didn't grow up in Illinois and it's the only word I've heard to describe such an item in modern usage. I don't know where I first heard it, but when I mention it to other people, they seem to know what I'm talking about. As a side note, I've always thought of "caltrop" having a military (and usually somewhat archaic) connotation, whereas "jack rock" describes something a criminal might put in the road to slow down police. CyborgTosser 06:35, 18 May 2004 (UTC)

Discussions

Here are some discussions to which I have contributed:

Talk:Ctype.h, Talk:Insider trading, Talk:Friction, Talk:Adverb, Talk:Chop Suey!, Talk:Americentrism, Talk:Religious pluralism, Talk:Significand, Talk:List of oxymora, Talk:Magnolia (movie), Talk:Cyclic group, Talk:TLAs from AAA to DZZ, Talk:Waltzing Matilda, Talk:Adverse selection, Talk:Theory of criminal justice, Talk:Retributive justice, Talk:Sense, Talk:Genetic basis for homosexuality, Talk:Restorative justice, Talk:Caltrop, Talk:Common logarithm, Talk:Nickel-cadmium battery, Talk:Cajun cuisine, Talk:Euphemism, Talk:Hypnosis, Talk:Cot-caught merger, Talk:American and British English differences, Talk:Causes of sexual orientation, Talk:Projection (linear algebra), Talk:Yars' Revenge, Talk:Capital punishment, Talk:Pet Shop Boys, Talk:Wedding band, Talk:Bounded linear function, Talk:Comparison of Java to C Plus Plus, Talk:Burrows-Wheeler transform, Talk:Java programming language, Talk:Checks and balances, Talk:Embrace and extend

Edit attributions

Hi. Edits from 198.37.26.168 have now been reattributed to you. Regards — Kate Turner | Talk 07:29, 2004 Sep 4 (UTC)

Thanks CyborgTosser 22:28, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Your username

In case you haven't been following the discussion, I just wanted to make you aware that apparently some people find your username disturbing, due to an implication of which you were probably not aware. To understand why, take a look at the discussion about your nomination on Wikipedia:Requests for adminship. --Michael Snow 17:05, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)

severity

severity *= 2;

would proabbly be faster as

severity <<= 2;

Oh wait, this is Java. Nevermind ;) -- orthogonal 11:12, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Well, it would be

severity <<= 1;

anyway. But compilers are smart enough to justify keeping the more readable

severity *= 2;

CyborgTosser 17:57, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Damn, you got me! Ouch. ;) -- orthogonal 18:14, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Sys-op nomination

I'm sorry to inform you that as there was no consensus on your becoming an administrator at the end of the one week voting period, I've had to remove your nomination. I hope you'll stand again when you have more edits, as that was the main objection given and I believe you would make an excellent administrator. Warofdreams 16:12, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Don't be too dissapointed, you missed it by only a narrow margin. When you feel the time is ripe to try again, drop me a note on my talk page and I'll nominate you myself. (unless you turn into a vandal or something in the meantime ;-) Theresa Knott (taketh no rest) 19:53, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I am disgusted at some of the reasons people gave to oppose your adminship. I encourage you to spend a month building up the "all-important" edit-count before reapplying. - Mark 12:35, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I am disappointed as well, but I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised. Just a few months ago, the guidelines on the nomination page said 500-1000 edits, but I guess that's not enough for some people. CyborgTosser 19:17, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Jimbo Visit

I will be at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 23 October, 2004, speaking at the ACM Reflections | Projections Conference 2004 (http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/) -

This conference runs from 22. - 24. October 2004; it would be fantastic to have a Wikipedia booth, if I can get volunteers for it.

Do you think you could come? Jimbo Wales 16:23, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Admin nomination

If you want your nomination to go through, it might help to answer the "candidate questions" at the bottom, since non-response is being used against you. VeryVerily 23:30, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I don't remember seeing this section of questions earlier and I think it was added fairly recently. [[User:CyborgTosser|CyborgTosser (Only half the battle)]] 00:12, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I see you've just been promoted to admin. Congratulations. Use your new powers very catiously. Nearly everything you do can be undone with the exception of deleting images. There's no undo for them. What's more the link table is corrupted and some images look like they are orphans when they are in fact used. So be really really waring of deleting an image. Let me know if you need any help with anything while you find your feet. Theresa Knott (Not the skater) 08:29, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

RFC pages on VfD

Should RFC pages be placed on VfD to be deleted? I'm considering removing Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Slrubenstein, Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Jwrosenzweig and Wikipedia:Requests for comment/John Kenney from WP:VFD. Each of them was listed by CheeseDreams. Your comments on whether I should do this would be appreciated. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:30, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

It is my opinion that RFC pages are part of the history of the project that shouldn't be erased. They could prove useful in resolving further disputes with the user or similar disputes with other users. However, I don't really want to get involved in this as I haven't spent much time involved in RFC. [[User:CyborgTosser|CyborgTosser (Only half the battle)]] 21:41, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
• Multi-Licensing Guide
• Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Ram-Man&action=edit&section=new)| talk)

Image tag

Hi! Thanks for uploading the following image:

• Image:Dynamic_logic_nand_gate.PNG

I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status?

You can use {{gfdl}} if you release your own work under the GNU Free Documentation License, {{PD-self}} if you wish to release your own work to the public domain, {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, and so on. Click here for a list of the various tags.

If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know at my talk page where you got the image from, and I'll tag it for you. Thanks so much. Denni☯ 04:23, 2004 Dec 13 (UTC)

P.S. You can help tag other images at Wikipedia:Untagged_Images. Thanks again.

thank you

Thank you for contributing so much to wikipedia.

I see some inconsistency between the mechanical equilibrium and the metastability articles, and I hope you could help me fix it.

I would tend to say that the

• Second derivative < 0
• Second derivative = 0

cases are *both* metastable, and the third case

• Second derivative > 0

is stable.

However, my intuition is exactly the reverse of the mechanical equilibrium article.

The metastability article seems to say that *none* of these three cases qualify as metastable.

--DavidCary 03:23, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Retributive justice

In reference to the retributive justice article, do you have any more details about "the recent practical failings of restorative justice"? I am writing an article on restorative justice that will include 2001 stats from Department of Justice Canada showing restorative justice has lower recidivism than retributive justice[2] (http://www.justice.gc.ca/en/ps/rs/rep/meta-e.pdf). Most of the data I have found (such as studies by University of Minnesota professor Mark Umbreit) show that restoration has better rates of victim and offender satisfaction as well. I will copy this message to the retributive justice talk page. — Nathanlarson32767 (Talk) 19:34, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Consonant articles

Feel free to plunge in and improve them in whatever way you see fit. In particular, a standardized way of dealing with examples is sorely needed. And by "standardized", I fully intend for English examples to be treated differently from other languages,this being the English Wikipedia and all. Best of luck to you. Nohat 06:49, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Palatal nasal

I am reorganizing the sections on language examples in each of the consonant articles (trying to make them all fit the same format), and I noticed the English language example, canyon, you added on palatal nasal. Is that an Australian pronunciation? I'm not sure I've ever heard it pronounced that way (by the way, I'm from the US). I just wanted to make sure before I move things around. Thanks. CyborgTosser (Only half the battle) 10:18, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

That surprises me, because I watch American programs on TV (there are alot on our TV channels) and to me that's how Americans pronounce canyon, just as we do here in Australia. This is definitely a correct pronunciation (if not for North Americans) from both Australian & British dictionaries that I have. If your confused about the two different pronunciations, one is the broad transcription (between the slashes) and the other is the narrow transcription (between the square brackets). Could you give me an example of how Americans pronounce canyon from a dictionary using IPA? -- Kind regards, AxSkov 14:29, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

The changes you have made to palatal nasal are fine, but I should clarify something. The dictionaries I have, use the [nj] sequence for canyon in general, but they also say that the:

• [ç] sound is similar to the first sound in huge, that is the [hj] sequence.
• [ɲ] sound is an allophone of the [nj] sequence used in English, in words such as onion, canyon, etc.
  • If you say onion or canyon (with the primary stress on [k]) fast, you should get a sound very similar to [ɲ].
• [ʎ] sound is an allophone of the [lj] sequence used in English, in words such as million, etc.

Do you mind if I restructure the sentence to say something like this:

In some dialects of English, the [nj] sequence is an allophone of the palatal nasal, as in onion (/ˈʌnjən/ or [ˈʌɲən]) or canyon (/ˈkænjən/ or [ˈkæɲən]).

-- Regards, AxSkov 05:06, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Arbitration Committee case opening

The case against JarlaxleArtemis has been accepted by the Arbitration Committee. Please bring evidence to Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/JarlaxleArtemis/Evidence. Thank you. -- Grunt [[European Union|]] 16:26, 2005 Mar 3 (UTC)

wrong information in article

hi, i'm from the german wikipedia and there occured the same mistake like here with the german de:Ach-Laut. it's not a voiceless velar fricative, but a voiceless uvular fricative. i saw that you gave the information in Voiceless velar fricative and so i want you to correct it, please. not only this article, there are some other more. thanks, joni --213.209.67.141 22:39, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Haben Sie ein Hinweis über Ach-Laut mit IPA (auf Englisch oder Deutsch)? Ich finde deise Seite (http://www.ex.ac.uk/german/abinitio/pronounce/), die sagt Ach-Laut ist wie "ch" in scottisch "loch", also [x]. Auch, UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database (http://www.langmaker.com/db/ups_german.htm) sagt Deutsch hat voiceless velar fricative. Danke, CyborgTosser.

i've found one:

on http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~ifb/sw/ipa/ipauebersicht2.html you can find the following:

stimmhafter velarer Frikativ:

<hoch> [] süddt.Variaton (="dialect of people in the south of germany", not the standard [they speak very strange :P])

<Acht> [] süddt.Variation (="dialect of people in the south of germany", not the standard)

stimmloser uvularer Frikativ:

<Drachen> []

----

"uvular" means "at the suppository/uvula/small plug" (whatever you understand, i don't know the right word, i mean the thing in the back of the mouth that hangs there like a drop) and if i speak a "ch" like in "auch", "machen" and "Bauch", i feel that this drop is in motion

thanks, joni --213.209.69.4 09:10, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Arbitration Committee ruling

The case against JarlaxleArtemis has closed. Please read the final decision for details. -- Grunt [[European Union|]] 23:07, 2005 Mar 18 (UTC)

A moderating force could be of use

At RfC I listed:

• Talk:Rikssvenska, Talk:Swedish language, Talk:Swedish phonology, Talk:Voiceless dorso-palatal velar fricative, and most probably soon in more related articles, souring relations between contributors with conflicting attitudes and personalities (likely related, among other things, to the status of Finland-Swedish and the Mandatory Swedish education in Finland).

Maybe this is a field where you can weight in as a moderating force.

Regards!
--Johan Magnus 09:59, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

DYK

Sprinkles

I've been wanting to add to your lovely Sprinkles article for weeks, but since I'm pretty new here, and have only added to stubs, I thought it would be better-mannered to let you know in advance. A heads-down, in this case, to avoid nonpareils in the eye. I hope this meets with your approval.

fan of sprinkles, Mothperson 22:35, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

I do have a few ideas. I can't tell you precisely why, but this article is near the top of my top ten list of favorite Wikipedia articles. Don't let that worry you, though. I am not a nut. Okay, I am, but I am an educated nut with a good background in sugar. Thank you. --Mothperson 02:07, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

"parking structure"

Hello. You edits to parking cause me to wonder if you're from (a) California, or (b) elsewhere on the West Coast, or (c) somewhere else. Is "parking structure" a term you're accustomed to using, other than when you edit here? Michael Hardy 19:47, 24 May 2005 (UTC)