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Dale Mahalko |
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dmahalko at gmail.com |
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Gilman, WI, USA |
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IT Administrator |
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Two K-12 public schools |
[edit] My Agenda - Wikipedia Needs Illustrations!
I think Wikipedia needs more technical information, and it needs more pictures and illustrations. Text is relatively easy to contribute, but quality illustrations that are not copyrighted are a big problem. Who is going to provide detailed technical imagry for free? And if there are people that do this, there won't be very many.
And so I am trying to provide pictures and illustrations where possible, and I won't deny that I'm taking advantage of the US Copyright law that says books prior to 1923 are in the public domain.
This is a small 10-book set I bought on ebay for US$100, with the primary intent of scanning the images and using them in various technical articles.
Since I intend to eventually scan hundreds of images from these old public domain books, the images list would be far too large to include here. I have created a userpage as a single-source archive for the images located here:
These are my originals, whipped up with Microsoft Word, screenshotted, and saved using Windows XP Paint! It appears JPG's and even PNG's are hated by some people, but I'm not spending money to buy an SVG editor just to make other editors happy. And so these have all been redone as an SVG by others for the article.
Magnetic distortions seen when rotating a standard CRT monitor.
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Poor side-viewing image quality of an LCD monitor rotated into portrait orientation.
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Good side-viewing image quality of a typical landscape LCD.
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[edit] How the old 3D game Quake Engine could run so well
[edit] Image template
[edit] Userbox collection
Why use words to describe myself, when Wikipedia offers its own language for me to use?
[edit] The wikipedian commentary
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This user uses entirely too many userboxes. |
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This user is aware of how silly this huge table looks on his/her user page, but acknowledges that its real purpose is twofold: statistics and standardization. |
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[edit] Life Learner - Interested in everything!
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This user's favourite subject is Biology.
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This user's favorite subject is Physics.
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[edit] The Internet - It's Work, and it's my Life
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This user contributes using a laptop. |
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This user contributes using a PC. |
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This poor user contributes using a dial-up connection slower than 56k. |
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This user contributes using a broadband connection. |
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This user uses Google as a primary search engine. |
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[edit] A few personal details
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This user is an AFOL. |
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[edit] Games, games, games!
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It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum, but this user is all out of gum. |
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This user plays SimCity. |
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This user's city is much better than Defacto's. |
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This user prefers to play games on a laptop. |
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[edit] My reading is typically science or sci-fi
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This user enjoys reading anything. |
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This user is a fan of Dune. |
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[edit] TV is mostly science or sci-fi
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This user thinks Blade Runner is one of the best science fiction films ever made. |
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This user is a member of NERV. |
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[edit] Trace/Space/Electronica, or high-energy with thumping subwoofers
[edit] Spirituality
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This user is interested in the belief that the Meaning of life is to Improve Oneself. |
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I would say I'm a cynic but I bet you just wouldn't believe me. |
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This user is not a number; he is a free man. |
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