User talk:Wgsimon

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Contents 1 William Wegman (photographer) 2 Incorrect Label of Line in Image:Wgsimonmooreslaw001.jpg 3 Graphics Lab 4 Image:Wgsimonmooreslaw002.jpg listed for deletion

[edit] William Wegman (photographer)

thanks for the note, the page has been reverted, and the images have been listed on Category:Images with unknown copyright status, so they can be deleted in seven days.

--Duk 00:56, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Incorrect Label of Line in Image:Wgsimonmooreslaw001.jpg

A careful examination of this graph reveals that it contains a serious error. The line labeled "Number of transistors doubling every 24 months" is, in fact, a line showing the number of transistors doubling every 20 months.

I took into account whether the graph was "level" -- that is, whether the x-axis is exactly horizontal in the image, and I found that it is.

I used the exact pixel location of the y-axis points labeled 1,000,000,000 and 10,000,000,000, and found that the point representing 2004 in the line in question is just about exactly one-third of the way between 1,000,000,000 and 10,000,000,000. On a logarithmic scale, this is about 2,180,000,000. This number represents a 948,000-fold increase from 2300 in 1971. 948,000 is about 2^19.8, which means that by 2004, the point represented by the line in question depicts a number of transistors that had doubled 19.8 times over 33 years. Dividing 33 years by 19.8 doublings gives the result 1 2/3 years, or 20 months for each doubling.

I suggest that the person who created and/or uploaded the image revise it to correct this error. Thank you.
--GraemeMcRae^talk 01:33, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

You are quite right. The position on the vertical axis corresponds to approximately 10^9.3. it should be 10^8.3. Thanks for pointing it out. -- Wgsimon 18:20, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Glad to help.--GraemeMcRae^talk 19:59, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Graphics Lab

I saw your name listed on Wikiproject Illustration or the list of graphic artists, and I thought I'd let you know that a Graphics Lab has been created on EN. Based on the highly successful French and German graphics labs, it seeks to better organise and coordinate our graphic design and photo-editing efforts. Up until now, there has been no common space on EN where users could ask for maps, charts and other SVG files to be created. What's more, the Graphics Lab has discussion boards, tips, tools and links; in sum, a good common workspace. Come help us out! The infrastucture is already in place, and now we need participants. :) --Zantastik talk 00:43, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Wgsimonmooreslaw002.jpg listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Wgsimonmooreslaw002.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. MECU≈talk 20:51, 11 March 2007 (UTC)