User talk:Technion

The redirect/official-name thing has been under discussion on VT's Talk page since shortly after the shootings unleashed chaos upon Wikipedia's VT-related pages. It looks like someone decided to be overly-bold and make an end-run around the consensus issue. Feel free to say your piece on the Talk page, and thanks for helping hold the line until consensus is reached. --Dynaflow 01:36, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, one more thing. Make sure not to run afoul of WP:3RR. I did accidentally when I was helping fight off the orgy of vandalism a couple of days ago on the VT-related pages, and I had to write an apologia the size of a small legal brief to argue for my editing privileges back. --Dynaflow 01:42, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again for helping keep the page where it belongs. I think it would be better, though to keep the "main article" template in place. The big reason it's there in a jump-out-at-you kind of way is to show editors who are just itching to make some sort of contribution to the VT massacre issue that there's a whole article on the massacre, and they don't need to make it any more prominent on VT's main page than it already is. It's a temporary solution, of course. Once emotions simmer down, I'd like to take the massacre down to one sentence, with an in-sentence link to the massacre article, à la École Polytechnique de Montréal. --Dynaflow 03:49, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Need help with SVG Flag

Hi!
I made this flag of the US and it is a humouristic version of the flag, and i need help with straightening up the stars so it will look better.
If u'll agree your help will be very much appreciated. Oren neu dag (talk) 15:14, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

image gamma hack

If you look at the iamges in Spatial_anti-aliasing, you'll probably notice that the image you reverted my change to (File:Antialiased-lanczos.png) looks a lot darker than the other two in the upper area where the pixel value is 50% gray (808080). That's because values in image files are assumed to be compressed with a gamma of about 0.45, so they get expanded by a power 2.2 when reproduced as display brightness. 0.5^2.2 is about 0.22, not a bad "mid gray", but far darker than the 50% white/black pattern should be. If it doesn't look too dark on your display, your display is probably way out of calibration, or set for a very low display gamma. My attempt to fix it by distorting the tone scale was somewhat 'arbitrary', but I think produced a result more representative of what would be expected from an accurate anti-aliasing of the scene. Dicklyon (talk) 06:20, 21 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I really do not want to get into an argument with you because it’s painfully obvious you have a lot more free time than I have. First of all, it’s disingenuous to say, “you'll probably notice that the image you reverted my change to (File:Antialiased-lanczos.png) looks a lot darker than the other two in the upper area,” because the reason it looks darker is because you yourself went and modified the other image in order to make it look lighter, which I am going to undo in a moment. Second, in the original images, the gray at the top is exactly halfway (#808080); your modifications make it much lighter than that. If you don’t believe me, open them in any image editor and check the pixel values yourself. Third, gamma correction is often already handled by the graphics subsystem in the operating system and even in the display system of graphics cards and even by some monitors, so applying an arbitrary gamma correction to the original file is redundant and in effect overcompensates. Because of all this variability in OSes, graphics cards, and physical displays, it’s best to leave the original image files as is; are you next going to go around Wikipedia and download all audio files, change their EQ so that they sound good on your particular stereo system in your own den, and then reupload them with the same meaningless comment “Adjust tone scale”? Fourth, your attempt to fix it wasn’t “somewhat arbitrary,” it was totally arbitrary, because different displays have different gamma values, and different OSes and graphics subsystems handle gamma correction in different ways. Fifth, by changing the grayscale levels of the image, the resulting images are no longer a faithful representation of the original code written by the contributors who created the original images; the images’ creators’ technical decisions and aesthetic judgments should take precedence over your own personal standards. Finally and most important, it’s highly presumptuous of you to go around Wikipedia arbitrarily modifying other people’s work in order to impose your own personal, arbitrary opinions of how things should be. If it’s that big a deal to you, the least you can do is have the courtesy of saving your own arbitrary modifications under a different filename. —Technion (talk) 09:09, 26 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Changes to iPad

I've reverted them, can you discuss them on the talk page and bring a reliable source as well? Youtube doesn't cut it - especially not on a WP:GA quality article. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 17:44, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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