User talk:DavidCary
Hello David, welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to join the community. Drop us a note at Wikipedia:New user log so we can meet you and help you get started. If you need editing help, visit Wikipedia:How to edit a page. For format questions, visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. And of course, feel free to talk with me or ask questions on my talk page. Enjoy! --Alex S 23:16, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Space elevator
Thanks for your intervention. Paul Beardsell 20:52, 11 May 2004 (UTC)
Space elevator economics
You're welcome :) Fredrik 10:11, 30 May 2004 (UTC)
Welcome
Finally, another Okie! :Dave Walker 21:45, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC)
About Talk:Diagonal
Please note that this is about regular polygons. For n-gons where n > 6, are your figures for regular or non-regular polygons?? 66.245.107.8 14:02, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
All those figures are for non-regular polygons. I hope my edits clarified things -- DavidCary 15:51, 26 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Hi David, I reverted your change to Talk:Switch because it's generally "not done" on Wikipedia to delete other people's comments on Talk pages, even when the comments become obsolete. Please don't be offended. -- Heron 19:48, 26 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Wikibooks transistor
Howdy Omegatron. Thanks for helping with WikiBooks:Electronics. You mention on page WikiBooks:Electronics:Transistors that CMOS and TTL "are not transistors". Very true, but do you think it would be better to mention them on the "transistors" page (as examples of what one *does* with transistors), or should we move all mention of them to some other page ? -- DavidCary 20:11, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Of course we can mention them, but we can't call them transistors. :-) We'll just explain the basics in the transistor section and provide links to the digital logic section. - Omegatron 20:19, Jun 28, 2004 (UTC)
Rubies
Hi; I know it's incredibly late, but I've replied to your queries at Talk:Ruby (gemstone). I plan to revamp it and articles like it in the coming days, so I appreciate your interest in the subject matter. Cheers, -- Hadal 06:10, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Language talk pages?
Hi, I'm mystified by the rearrangement at Talk:Programming language etc, and you don't seem to have explained your purpose anywhere. What's going on? Stan 17:05, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- OK. I generally tend not to favor editing talk pages after the fact - too easy for the sneaky to rewrite history, and there's bunch of people that do exactly that sort of thing in a dispute. But your reasoning is sensible, perhaps next time you could add a little more explanation to the forwarding link, so that jumpy admins don't load the server down with history and version queries. :-) Stan 19:02, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I meant 4GL as in fourth generation programming language ;) Dysprosia 06:26, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Linux and schedule creep
You asked (in a comment) what articles about project deadlines. What about Creep (project management) and Deadline or Project management. - Ta bu shi da yu 04:54, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Thank you for the links. My comments on Linux asked:
- However, some observers claim that the intervals between Linux distribution releases are no worse, and often better, than the "schedule slipping" that occurs with other operating systems and with software systems in general.
- < ! - - Is there a wikipedia page that discusses this general Software Engineering phenomena ? - - >
Those links certainly *sound* like they are relevant to "schedule slipping". Unfortunately, at the moment, the text of those articles don't seem relevant:
- Creep (project management) covers a few reasons why schedules slip, but not (what I think is) the biggest one: sheer lack of knowledge about how long something will take when it has never been done before.
- Deadline is a stub.
- Project management seems to be more about project management in general, rather than the specific problems of software project management.
Maybe someone will add the appropriate text to make them more relevant.
--DavidCary 22:33, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Not a problem :-)
Thanks for your kind words! Out of interest, ever hear of the exploding whale? :P I'm trying to get it to main page. - Ta bu shi da yu 09:28, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)