User talk:Kushal one

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Hello, Kushal one, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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The following are personal opinions as of 11:36 PM 12/11/2006. If you believe that ANY or ALL content violates Wikipedia policy please double-check the wikipedia policies, including [1]. Feel free to delete ANY or ALL content (Do not worry about me. I will not be angry with you. Moreover, I have my copy offline with me.). Please consider adding your signatures, if you are signed in. Thank you! --who is kushal? 19:59, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] confused

I find the following statement confusing. What does the "while" mean here? According to Wordnet, the noun aesthetics is "(philosophy) a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful". So does the word design here refer to the ease of use?

Jobs' history in business has contributed greatly to the mythos of the quirky, individualistic Silicon Valley entrepreneur, emphasizing the importance of design while understanding the crucial role aesthetics play in public appeal. [from [2] of the Wikipedia article [3]]. --who is kushal? 19:59, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] request suggestions for porting

I think the featured article Bangalore [[4]] (or [5]) is a candiate for porting to the Nepal Bhasa (Newari) Wikipedia. --who is kushal? 19:59, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

More than 40 kB of rant follows. I hereby grant unrestricted permission to edit and/or delete in part or whole on two conditions (1) none of the following may be attributed to me and (2) everything must be taken "as is"; I accept no duties for the following. This is not a licence. The whole text is licensed under GFDL. Nothing that I say in this text will override the GFDL. The rant has been edited offline at 11:06 PM 12/11/2006 by who is kushal? and made more compact (less than 10 kB). The previous version may still be available at the permanent link [6]. An even earlier version can be found at [7]. --who is kushal? 19:59, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] An example for self-fulfilling prophecy

I found this that can probably help the "self-fulfilling prophecy" article. Source:[8] I will meet with firm -- and vocal -- opposition to any suggestion that Wikipedia cannot cross-reference itself. It is true that I will NOT make ANY reverts in ANY case whatsoever. However, there is nothing that says that I may not PROPOSE that the article be reverted and ask for a vote on the matter. I reserve the right to request the Voting be closed anytime after three months of the discussions. I also invite you to believe in my good faith so that I can assume good faith in you.

The excerpt follows: In other situations the delusion may turn out to be true belief.[4] For example, delusional jealousy, where a person believes that his partner is being unfaithful (and may even follow them into the bathroom believing her to be seeing her lover even during the briefest of partings) may result in the faithful partner being driven to infidelity by the constant and unreasonable strain put on her by her delusional spouse. In this case the delusion does not cease to be a delusion because the content later turns out to be true.

[4] Jones, E. (1999) The phenomenology of abnormal belief. Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, 6, 1-16.

End of excerpt.

Comments are welcome but editing the excerpt is NOT recommended. --who is kushal? 19:59, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request article be sent to departmental authorities

I believe that the article http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Developmental_disability&oldid=91975818 should be a part of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine. Please comment. --who is kushal? 19:59, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Grammar question

In one recent email from a very important (to me) source, I read the following sentence. * We ask that you not send a reply to this email address. * I dare not write to him asking about grammar but I still think that there should be a 'do' before the 'not'. Do you, dear reader, have any comments about this? --who is kushal? 19:59, 11 December 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Frat./Sor. good thing?

Is it a good thing to have men-only/women-only clubs within a coed institution? Does it add richness to the college experience? Or does it help chauvinism and gender-based discrimination? The subject is open for debate here. Please give reasonable justifications and remember to sign using four tildes (not required if you are not logged in). Edit others' comments sparingly and with care. Thank you --who is kushal? 19:59, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Free vs Free of cost

I recently requested a minor change of the sentence: "PDF readers are generally free." to "PDF readers are generally free of cost." in the article Portable Document Format [9] The change is so minor that don't think it is worth it to start an edit war for it. I hope it is understandable from the context that free implies free of cost. I withdraw my request. I am sorry for the inconvenience. --who is kushal? 19:59, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Such a nice person

I read this by Rholton [10]. I think he is such a nice person. --who is kushal? 19:59, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

The following was added to the article by anonymous User:24.159.239.230. I've moved it here because she said "thank you". -Rholton 03:53, 16 November 2005 (UTC) ::Penguins DO NOT live in the Arctic!!!!! They are not eaten by polar bears. Penguins are not little fluffballs that wear scarves and play all day long for no reason!! They are not the happiest animals on Earth, and they do not live easy lives. Most penguins do not live in the cold!!!!!!!!! Yes, they all live in the southern hemisphere, but most of them spend thier whole lives on the warmer regions, like South Africa, or New Zealand. Thank you for listen ing to my rant. Good day!!!!!

[edit] NPOV is a good thing?

I used to think that I don't like the dry tone of NPOV. I thought I wanted to see opinionated expressions. But even when i read the innocuous statement "And, lets be fair, the Mony Python version is much better than the real thing, ie the Meaning of Life." on http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Meaning_of_Life&oldid=86498983 of the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Meaning_of_Life, I thought it was odd. Does it mean that i did not mean it when I told myself that I wanted to hear opinionated expressions in wikipedia? I am confused. --who is kushal? 19:59, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] about Adobe

According to Adobe Acrobat 7.0 complete help: "Acrobat supports paper sizes up to 15,000,000 inches (31,800,000cm) by 15,000,000 inches (31,800,000cm)." These maybe related more to screen and projector display than for print to paper. It is really incredible; I would not believe it had I not read it myself. (I cannot add the information to the Adobe Acrobat pages; I am probably biased in favor of Adobe. I am not sure; i only suspect it. However, that much is enough for me to keep my hands off the article. --who is kushal? 19:59, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

BTW, I saw a few days back a page called "Features new in Windows Vista". I know that Acrobat is not such a major product as Vista, not certainly as much anticipated, but can we consider a short article on "Features new to Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Professional"? It could even be merged into the Adobe Acrobat article if it were to become good enough. Although, this is not a request for voting, please feel free to comment. --who is kushal? 19:59, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] about protecting indigenous languages

I would like to hear from you -- you, dear reader -- in (a very delicate) matter. Please ask yourself, what is your native or mother language? If it is not one of English, French, Chinese, and Hindi, do you think that _your_ language needs to be preserved for as long as possible? What would be the advantages of protecting the language? What reasons are there for abandoning the language? Thank you. Yours sincerely, Kushal_one. --who is kushal? 19:59, 11 December 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Two words, two days

These words are for me (and you) to read. I intend no sarcasm or pun in these words. --who is kushal? 19:59, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Word of the day Sunday, December 10, 2006 Hubris or hybris (Greek ὕβρις), according to its modern usage, is exaggerated self pride or self-confidence, often resulting in fatal retribution. In Ancient Greek hubris referred to actions taken in order to shame the victim, thereby making oneself seem superior. (from the Wikipedia article [11])

Word of the day Monday, December 11, 2006 circuitous [12]

[edit] userpage edit

This is a Wikipedia user page.

This is not an encyclopedia article. If you find this page on any site other than Wikipedia, you are viewing a mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated and that the user this page belongs to may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia itself. The original page is located at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Kushal_one.

"Some users are fine with their user pages being edited, and may even have a note to that effect."[13] --who is kushal? 23:23, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Humor/Humour

Note: I believe the following is licensed under GFDL. Please delete the section if it is not. The original location is [14]. Thank you. --who is kushal? 23:23, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Oscar Gutierrez [15] Is he 5'2"? 5'3"? 5'5"? Did he debut at 5'4" and later grow to be 5'5"? Is he actually 5'6"? Should the official WWE website be taken as accurate due to their common practice of increasing heights and weights for entertainment purposes? What about heights as they appear in video games? This edit war, which was strongly contested due to the many conflicting sources, led to the bizarre compromise of listing his height at 5'4½" with the text "We have come to a compromise between 5'2" and 5'5"." thus throwing out all sources and making a claim based on middle ground rather than accuracy.

Potato chips [16] Should potato chips be flavored or flavoured? What is the provenance of the potato chip, America or Ireland? Four-user revert war on these important issues results in the page getting protected and listed on RfC. As a compromise, the chips become seasoned.

Angels and Airwaves [17] More than 40 reverts in one hour by two editors. The point of contention? Whether "Angels and Airwaves" is a band or "Angels and Airwaves" are a band. (British English requires "are," as the band is comprised of multiple people, while American English requires "is", as the band is a singular entity.) ALL-CAPS edit summaries laced with profanity and death threats liberally employed by one side. Stopped only after admin intervention, but resumed again two minutes after the 3RR block expired. Both get blocked for seven days, and one of them gets his block extended to eight days after stating he doesn't care as long as the other side gets a block of same length. The other side keeps his seven-day block. (Feb. 2006[18])

[edit] deleted section

Content deleted for being ambiguous. --who is kushal? 23:33, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] =@GNU

pressing alt + 123456 Result: @ pressing alt + 234567 Result: G pressing alt + 345678 Result: N pressing alt + 456789 Result: U

the result is GNU

typed in unicode BOM in plain text. --who is kushal? 23:23, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] excerpts from a section of a PG e-text

Excerpts are from "The Project Gutenberg Etext of From a College Window by Arthur Christopher Benson" The whole text isavailable from the Project Gutenberg website. The reason I chose this section is its title "THE POINT OF VIEW." (I plead guilty to the charge that I have not read it completely myself.) Excerpts may be candidates to be ported to WikiQuotes or to be deleted. Feel free to do as it pleases you -- however, i would ask you to edit the excerpts with care. --who is kushal? 23:23, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

"I have lately come to perceive that the one thing which gives value to any piece of art, whether it be book, or picture, or music, is that subtle and evasive thing which is called personality."

"It may be asked why I should thus obtrude my point of view in print; why I should not keep my precious experience to myself; what the value of it is to other people. Well, the answer to that is that it helps our sense of balance and proportion to know how other people are looking at life, what they expect from it, what they find in it, and what they do not find. "

[edit] unwarranted criticisms

in the above section, you will find "Ridiculously high prices ... do not discriminate. They just limit the number of people who are likely to accept an offer." do not discriminate but still limit the number of people who are likely to accept an offer... hmm does that go like you can kiss Madonna (the pop singer) but you must poke out your eyes and throw out a kidney as a fee. or in a worse situation, they would say you can kiss Madonna but then you must agree to our conditions that we can change the conditions of the agreement at any time and you must agree with it. the prize is very great but so is the price. IMHO, most people would think twice before agreeing.

[edit] translation please

{{helpme}} I think the following is in French. If you are knowledgeable in french language, please tell me what it means. I found this in the PG e-book "The Project Gutenberg Etext of From a College Window by Arthur Christopher Benson" mentioned above. Thank you. --who is kushal? 23:23, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

"By ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON

Mens cujusque is est quisque

1906"

Can I advise you try out the Reference Desk? They should be able to help with this type of thing in the future. In any case, it's actually Latin, and means something like "The mind of each person is his own". Don't take that as authoritative, but I would say 80% sure about that. Patstuarttalk|edits 23:56, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, Patstuart! I will take your word for it. I know neither French nor (of course) Latin. I heard that Wikipedians are restructuring the Reference Desk and since I am not contributing to that project, I thought I might not as well disturb it.

Thanks, I will also add my questions on the reference desk in the future (just as I have done in the past). Take care, Kushal --who is kushal? 22:20, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I can say what I want but...

I can say what I want and I can make it seem correct by citing Einstein (nobody dares question him) and according to Stephen Hawking, "... if your theory disagrees with the Second Law of Thermodynamics, it is in bad trouble." Comments are welcome. --who is kushal? 18:43, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Some more Hawkings

I am summoning the fair use and non-commercial use arguments to save my backside. Please delete any or all portions that you think might get me into trouble. Thanks. --who is kushal? 18:43, 19 December 2006 (UTC) " I was always interested in science and how things worked. From about the age of 15 I concentrated on physics because I felt it was the most fundamental of the sciences."

[edit] WP:SP

This policy in a nutshell: Do not use multiple accounts to create the illusion of greater support for an issue, to mislead others, or to circumvent a block. Do not ask your friends to create accounts to support you or anyone else.

Please read the second sentence carefully. Does it exclude lobbying of any kind? Is lobbying "uncool" in (EN) Wikipedia? What about lobbying offline or through AOL or Yahoo! Messenger? Does it only prohibit creating new accounts solely to support a particular person or cause or does it prohibit lobbying? I know that was a summary but i am confused. --who is kushal? 18:43, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV

Please do not place too much emphasis on NPOV. Even EN Wikipedia accepts that humans are inherently POV and that will come across in their edits. As you delete this section, ask yourself how much of it is due to your on POV. [User: Kushal_one gave the previous inflammatory address.] --who is kushal? 18:43, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] possible ambiguity

I take support of weasel words here. Some (including I) may find the following sentence ambiguous. "This campaign was one of his most successful, resulting in the imprisonment of over 60,000 people." [19] Why are these two sentences combined? Is it an innocent comma-splice? Is it vandalism? I dare not edit any article -- and this is an extra special article. It is a featured article. It is semi-protected. Most importantly, I am not competent enough to edit this particular article. Could there be subtle meaning to this? Please let me know. --who is kushal? 18:43, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

I place an iRfC (informal Request for Comments) in this page to change the word 'after' to 'despite' in the following sentence and the comma after bidge be replaced by a semi-colon. Please skim through this link andplace your comment below the quote. [20] "After emotional debates with his life-long colleagues, Gandhi refused to budge, and the Government rescinded its policy and made the payment to Pakistan. " --who is kushal? 18:43, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

1:45 PM 12/18/2006

[edit] upgrade pains

about [21] SVG? ..."

Should upgrading your Mozilla Firefox be a pain? Do a cost-benefit analysis. What do you gain from using the open-source, uptodate web browser instead of the bulky, cumbersome, and flawed default web browser that came with your you-know-what operating system? As much as I love Mozilla, I want to shout that Mozilla Firefox is NOT free of security flaws! You need to keep it fairly uptodate. Please understand that it is you, your privacy, and your security at stake here when you decide not to upgrade. If you are unable to upgrade your Firefox because it does not meet system requirements, go and shout at the Mozilla community. Make a lot of noise. Make yourself heard. DO something! I am confident that the community will incorporate every reasonable complaint that you have. Good luck. --who is kushal? 18:43, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] on a reportedly biased article

Testing the waters Original article at [22] Please feel free to comment. I am watching the development of the article myself as well. --who is kushal? 18:43, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Open source [23] and closed source [24] are two approaches to the control, development, and marketing of computer software [25]. Open source software makes its source code available to the public for review or modification — often free of cost and less frequently even without acknowledgement to the original author(s). In contrast, closed source software does not disclose its source code to the public and protects it as its intellectual property [26].


Background

Computer software is an unusual commodity. Once written, it can be copied and reproduced for very little cost, and can have great commercial value. Under the closed source model, developer(s) does not disclose the source code to the public.

The developer may have several reasons for adopting a closed source model. The most pressing of these are commercial reasons. However, there are other reasons too. Some programs may have security designs that revealing their source code can leave the users stranded against attackers (see Skype [27] and [28]).

Usually a relatively small team develops and maintains closed source software. They produce their "product" in a compiled executable state, which the market then accesses. Microsoft [29], the owner and developer of Microsoft Windows [30] and Microsoft Office [31], is a dominant proponent of this business model along with other major software companies.

The open source model allows any user to view and modify a product's source code. Proponents of this model believe that the benefit that from improvements to their software by a community of software developers is more than the advantages of protecting their competitive advantage. They say that such a structure encourages values such as trust, acceptance, teamwork, and quality (see [32]) much touted in academic circles.

Open source software is often licensed under what is termed a copy left license (see [33]), a term that emphasizes the license's reversal of the principles of copyright. A variety of open source licenses exists. However, two main approaches dominate. They are the GNU/Linux license that requires that any software that derives from the software also be open source, and the BSD license that allows derivative software to be sold as closed source products (in return for proper credit to the original designers). Open source can be — and is — commercialized, by both purely open source companies such as RedHat and other more traditional software companies such as IBM and Novell. The archetypical open source software is GNU/Linux (often referred to as Linux).

What do you think?

[edit] we do have honest people in this world, umm... EN wikipedia

Read this: "... I post this in the comments section, because, being the leader of the Open Graphics Project, I am unlikely to be able to present a totally unbiased perspective. ..." See this [[34]] version of the Talk page of [35] for full text. --who is kushal? 18:43, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Archiving and breaking coming soon

I am thinking of archiving parts of this talk page soon. If you have any objections, please let me know. --who is kushal? 18:43, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] one 'newbie' and one ...

one of these is a newbie and one of these is not an administrator. Tell me who is who. BTW, I have not seen even one administrator bold enough to tell the truth like this. [36] :

Its been completly phased out, except through usb on all new computers.

Superway25 07:02, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

   since when have floppy disks been phased out? I may be misunderstanding you here, but I see floppy drives all the time, and consider them fairly standard? They may not be used as much as they once were, but they definetly still carry an important role in computing. Capi crimm 05:43, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

       Don't remove floppies. You can get a floppy drive in the vast majority of computers through the onboard FDD port. Just because a lot of manufacturers don't include them by default doesn't mean you can only get them through USB. You, my dear friend Superway, are a newb.Triikan 12:16, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Quote

According to Stuart [37], "Building a sense of community is also important. And, sometimes, that can be facilitated with humor. " Read the entire section here at [38] and see how LightCurrent [39], Stu [40], and TenOfAllTrades [41] work together -- despite their differences -- to diffuse a potentially hot issue and reach a common ground.

This phenomenon is quite unlike the Oscar Gutierrez [42] scandal where reaching a common ground was fodder for humorous commentaries (see above in section "Humor/Humour").

[edit] DYK I am stupid?

I asked this question "2.53 Why is your name Stu?" [43] and it turns out that it was already answered in [44]. --who is kushal? 18:43, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] a message to Keenan and Keenanpepperbot

Initially typed on 6:03 PM 12/18/2006 Keenan, if you ever go through the massive list of what links here to [45] and follow the link here, then I have a message for you. Wish you a Happy New Year 2007! --who is kushal? 18:43, 19 December 2006 (UTC) PS: have you created the account Keenanpepperbot yet?

[edit] replace it with V2

in the paragraph: "The progenitor of the ICBM was the German A9/10, which was never developed but only proposed by Wernher von Braun. The progenitor of the IRBM was the German V2 (Vergeltung, or "Reprisal") rocket designed by von Braun that used liquid propellant and an inertial guidance system. It was launched from a mobile launcher in order to make it less susceptible to Allied air attacks. Following World War II von Braun and other lead Nazi scientists were secretly transferred to the United States to work directly for the U.S. Army through Operation Paperclip developing the V2 into the Redstone IRBM and Jupiter IRBM. Due to treaty agreements the U.S. was able to base these IRBMs in countries close to the USSR within strategic range." can we replace the 'it' " ... guidance system. It was launched... " with " 'V2'? --who is kushal? 18:43, 19 December 2006 (UTC) Oh, the article is [46].

[edit] 9:26 AM Thursday, December 21, 2006

9:26 AM Thursday, December 21, 2006

[edit] Buddy list

From [47] Note the last message. Game over! --who is kushal? 22:12, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

i've noticed people keep putting up screenshots with other peoples screen names in the buddylist. i think this is a privacy issue. either the names should be bogus or aliases should be used to protect the "buddies" of one who takes the screenshot. just my 2 cents You are absolutely right, I hadn't thought about it. I will try to "fix" it. Knut 04:29, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC) Bleah. All those blurred-out user names look really ugly. Can't we just get a screenshot of some Wikipedian with a bunch of other Wikipedians in his or her buddy list? --Ardonik.talk() 05:42, Sep 18, 2004 (UTC) Indeed. We don't need to resort to blurring out names; just alias the names to something obviously dummy or impossible and there would be no privacy issues and no ugliness :D --Wing 17:57, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC) Using fake names as the aliases would definately be a good idea. --/?v?s/ /t??k/ /k?nt??bju??nz/ 16:34, May 13, 2005 (UTC) Okay, I switched out the buddy list. :) -Jake0geek 05:23, 26 February 2006 (UTC) I removed the buddy list in its entirety, imho it just didn't fit in. --Bruce 09:21, 20 August 2006 (UTC)


[edit] some more controversial things on King Lear's origins

I know that I have no sources for it. That is why this is not in the article. Now stop pulling my leg and help me by searching the sources. A BBC World Service program on literature William Shakespeare said that the origins of King Lear might be in Shakespeare's personal life. Shakespeare had only daughters and belonging to the old times, he feared being dependant on his daughters in old age. This is a partial explaination to the play. Has anyone else heard anything like this? You can write in my talk page if you want to. --who is kushal? 22:12, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

I repeat that I have no sources to back myself up. However, Shakespeare did have daughters only. See below for my source (which fails under the self-citation criterion but is a good jumping point.).

According to [48]: "He was married to Hathaway until his death and was survived by his two daughters, Susanna and Judith. Susanna married Dr John Hall, but there are no direct descendants of the poet and playwright alive today." According to [49]: "He was married to Hathaway until his death and was survived by his two daughters, Susanna and Judith. Susanna married Dr John Hall, but there are no direct descendants of the poet and playwright alive today."

Advertisement: The BBC World Service is broadcasting King Lear this Sunday December 24, 2006 0900 hrs GMT The production was recorded live at Globe Theater, London. Please listen to the play once again and think whether the link that I showed between Shakespeare's personal life and King Lear holds any water. Thanks for reading. Good day! --who is kushal? 22:12, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] {{wiki}}

Could you please remove the {{wiki}} tag from your user page as it is showing up as needing wikification, which, I presume, is not your intent. Thanks Rich257 09:02, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Done! --who is kushal? 18:13, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

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