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Binary Prefixes

One thing I've learned...stick to your guns. --Wtshymanski 17

47, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Huh?

I came across the indecipherable text in the superheterodyne article and did my best to post a single clear explanation of how it works. You reverted it all back to the indecipherable version, with a single comment that appears to be about grammar? Please explain. Maury (talk) 18:53, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

"Highly tuned amplifier" I thought was even more indecipherable. The explanation left out the mixer, which is the essence of a superheterodyne receiver. The overview should explain why the extra trouble and expense of a superheterodyne circuit is justified. --Wtshymanski (talk) 21:17, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Well then fix it, don't revert. Sheesh, now I gotta do it all over again. Maury (talk) 21:29, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

How about I fix it, as you are obviously far too busy. --Wtshymanski (talk)

vacuum tube manufacturers

Hi Wtshymanski,

Thanks for re-adding the content outside the applications section. However, I would contend that information being usable and being encyclopedic are two different characteristics. Indeed, your user page lists "big dumb lists" and "wikipedia is not a parts catalog" as "considered harmful." I think the context of the article makes it clear that tubes are still being made; it shouldn't be necessary to itemize the companies that manufacture them, though. Just my two cents. Cmprince (talk) 05:34, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Hmm...possibly. I just think it's interesting (in an encyclopedia-worthy sort of way) that so many companies are still in the fossil business (and so many of them are in China). Take it out if you like, but I don't think it hurts the article. We have much bigger (and much dumber) lists that no-one seems to argue about (like List of 7400 series integrated circuits, and the asteroids list(s). --Wtshymanski (talk) 13:07, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Why am I leaving Misplaced Pages?

Wtshymanski, take a good look at my user page! I believe it documents that fact that I have been a long time contributor of good articles related to my many years of engineering experience.

So why have I decided to leave Misplaced Pages? Because I have grown weary of the revisions made by unexperienced people who think they know a subject when they really don't know it. I am also weary of people who make revisions because they "know better than anyone else". In particular, the actions of one young postgrad student who calls himself Headbomb with whom it is impossible to reason because of his firm belief that he is infallible ... and that he and only he "knows better than anyone else". His attitude has finally been the last straw in making my decision to leave Misplaced Pages. I am simply tired of trying to reason with the likes of Headbomb.

Goodbye to all the friends I did make here in the past two and a half years or so.

mbeychok (talk) 06:56, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Associated acts

hi i noticed you undid the edit from the Bryan Adams page. If you notice in the discography I diligently added every associated act there 2 years ago. If you are going to delete my edit, then perhaps we need to add every single associated act from Shock to Tina Turner. Thoughts on that?