User talk:Ben pcc

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shut up.

Ben pcc 22:06, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

 ? :) Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 03:54, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] NBL image

The Photographer's Barnstar
Thanks so much for creating HoustonPano03 Small.jpg! Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory looks so much better now, and it's definately more complete with your photo. Keep up the good work! — Swpb talk contribs 15:04, 11 June 2007 (UTC)


Hey cool, thanks. -Ben pcc 16:07, 11 June 2007 (UTC) But you know, it's spelled definitely. -Ben pcc 18:31, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Request for edit summary

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Are you a robot or a guy who really likes to copy and paste?

No, I'm sorry for being a smartass. It's just that I was doing an overhaul of cartographic notation, outlined my intent in the map projection talk page beforehand, and didn't want to repeat it over and over in the edit summary. -Ben pcc 15:55, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

I am not a robot. :) I use {{subst:summary}} ~~~~

[edit] Note

I replied your question above.

Regarding this edit, first note that your browser damages Unicode (scroll to the bottom of the diff).

Also, did you indeed copy stuff from MathWorld? That is not OK.

You can reply here. Thanks. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 03:05, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

I cut out the mathworld text for now, as I don't want us to run into copyright trouble. If you can get that text from somewhere else (and with a references, if possible), we can put it back in. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 03:19, 13 August 2007 (UTC)


Wow, that's bad. I just edited again as I was reading this, there was a minor problem, so it must be ruined again (in fact, I got an edit conflict writing this). I'll see if I can figure out how to fix that. I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.1. Thank you for letting me know.

It wasn't blatantly copied, it was read, understood, and rewritten (they used some inconsistent notation and a redundant case statement). It's not exactly original research or anything like that, it's more like "copying" 2 + 2 = 4, except a topic of higher math; I don't believe it's worth citing but I don't know. It's certainly not a copyright thing and, again, not one character was copy + pasted, they look quit different. For reference: central, forward, backward.

Thank you for looking out for me. Please let me know if you think it's alright if I put it back in. -Ben pcc 03:26, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

I think it is OK to use stuff from MathWorld, as long as, as you said, you read it, understood it, and wrote it in your own words. Adding the appropriate links to MathWorld in the external links section could be good too (citations are good simply for verification, if the reader wants to know more on the topic or to double check what is being said).
I took that text out temporarily as a precaution. I think it is fine if you would like to put it back in. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 15:00, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] ... and a style note

Sorry to bug you again. :) In math notation variables must be italic, so either n or n but not simply n. I fixed this in the finite difference article. Cheers, Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 02:42, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. I want to do it right, don't be sorry. -Ben pcc 03:40, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] ==rvannatta is local===

yes. I'm local. think 'West Oregon Electric' and "www.vannattabros.com" web site.

as for the railroad in Mist, I pulled that because to my knowledge it is wrong or at least misleading.

I believe the railroad that you are referring to is the "Kerry Line" that came from Woodsen over Nicoli Mountain (and through it) arrived at Fishawk, and had the roundhouse at Neverstill west of Birkenfeld and mostly supported logging west of there.

I don't regard Mist is being part of that route.Rvannatta 02:32, 12 September 2007 (UTC)


I'm not sure which line I'm talking about to be honest, but more then one person (old natives) tell me that there was a railroad through Mist which was taken out because it was no longer necessary. One person told me that circa 50 years ago the Nehalem would freeze so thoroughly that rail tracks were temporarily laid over it.

Nice to here from you. I visit Mist often and used to live there with my parents (who are still there), now I'm in Portland; thank PSU for robbing me from that firry wonderland. -Ben pcc 03:01, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Do understand that there were temporary branch railroads 'everywhere' as in about down every ridge. Logging roads and trucks didn't not exist, so temporary railroads were layed out between 1900 and 1940, and logs were drug with cables to the tracks and loaded. these tracks were then relocated to the next site. these spur roads were often no more than half a mile apart. to my view the mainlines are news these tempoary spurs are just that---about as news worthy as a tempoary truck road tohaul logs....

Easily seen remanents of a RR --- if you look A railroad crossed the Nehalem where the bridge is at Big Eddy Park. ---if you look accross the Or 47 from the present bridge you will see some RR piling in the low ground there.

Also if you look at the ground by the Apiary Road intsection you can see the RR cuts there. The power line is along them and a cut turns up the Apiary road---which is a converted RR all the way to the Rock Quarry. Rvannatta 02:44, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] inline TeX

MediaWiki didn't do anything to your inline math; I changed it. Please see Wikipedia:Manual of Style (mathematics). Inline Tex usually fits badly---it is the wrong size and usually badly misaligned. Michael Hardy 23:56, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Hmmn, ok. But why didn't I see an edit? — Ben pcc 23:57, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

I don't know. It's in the edit history. Michael Hardy 00:02, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

From the "Very simple formulas" section of that page, it says that either way is ok, doesn't encourage one over the other, and discourages changing what others have done. It does discourage inline png, but my math wasn't png, it was rendered as text. For me anyway. If noone objects I'll continue using math markup inline as it's far more flexible.

Right, it's in the history. I didn't see it when I edited after you... lag of some kind I guess. — Ben pcc 00:05, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

I don't think I've done this except in cases where inline TeX looks really really horrible (which is usually). Michael Hardy 00:31, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Vibrating Glass Beam
An image uploaded by you has been promoted to featured picture status
Your image, Image:VibratingGlassBeam.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! MER-C 04:41, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

O gosh. I can just die right now and not feel like I failed to accomplish something. Merci, MER-C! -Ben pcc 17:51, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

POTD
POTD

Hi Ben,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:VibratingGlassBeam.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on January 19, 2008. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2008-01-19. howcheng {chat} 01:17, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] HDD image

I came here to award a Photo Barnstar, but you already have one of those! Big THANKS then for this top class contribution. --Kubanczyk 18:27, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Hey, thanks. — Ben pcc 21:10, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kutta's third-order method

Do you happen to know a reference for Kutta's third-order method, which you listed in the list of Runge-Kutta methods? I did not manage to find it in any of the Hairer books. Cheers, Jitse Niesen (talk) 16:46, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

I poked around and I couldn't locate my source. I think I transcribed it from one of Butcher's papers but I can find the darn thing. Sorry. — Ben pcc 21:26, 1 November 2007 (UTC)


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[edit] Re: Rename image please

Done. More detail on my talk page, to keep conversation in one place. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 03:54, 30 January 2008 (UTC)