From someone who's driven I10 coast to coast too many times, west texas through new mexico is the *worst* part of the drive. Miles of beautiful desert, but it just gets to be the same after the first couple of hours. Sunset/sunrise is kind of nice, tho.
Something that many people may be interested in concerning motorcycles is the Iron Butt association. They usually sponser some pretty signifigant rides/races. More information at www.ironbutt.com
I believe that altitude, humidity and climate all play a role in what kind of gas works best. Give the man a cookie, he's correct. In higher altitudes, your engine "breathes" less air per cycle than at sea level, and thus has less to compress. You have less need to use uber-octane fuels at 6000 ft than at sea level, as since you're not compressing as much air, you have lowered the likelyhood of pre-ignition. Humidity plays a role here as well, but I'm less clear on it. Probably due to the same reasons. Most of this is fixed by modern ignition systems, however.
That kind of change would be really unusual to have from just putting different octane fuel in a car. 10 MPG suggessts a real problem. I'd believe one or two, tho. Octane ratings have very little to do with actual power output (although if you build an engine correctly you won't be able to run correctly on anything but high octane gas, more on that in a moment), but a lot to do with preventing pre-ignition or engine knocking. See, most moden vehicles have electronics on board to montitor for engine knock/pre-ignition. What usually happens when the knock sensor is triggered x number of times, the computer slightly retards the ignition until the problem goes away. You used to have to do this manually, but since the 80s, electronic control of the ignition has been the norm, not the exception. At least to my knowledge. About the power thing, one of the ways to get an engine to make more power is to raise the compression ratio in the cylinders. As we all know basic physics, when you compress something more, it gets *tada* hotter. You need to run higer octane fuel in these engines to prevent pre-ignition of the fuel mix. Now, if you got 8 gallons of fuel mixed with something really funky, or just a tank of stale fuel, that might account for your junk mileage. Also, keep your foot out of it. Someone correct me if I'm wrong here?
Did the same thing in Pheonix AZ for a while. 15 miles each way, whiddled it down to twelve when I found some alleys and such to ride down before I relocated to walking distance of work.:) The only bummer was the ride back in the 115F summer heat. The biggest problem that I actually ran into in most places was the lack of a shower to use when I got there. If I'm less than 20 miles from work and there's a shower, I'll usually ride to save the fuel, get the exercise. It'll usually take about 1 hour in traffic on the bike, which is usually only slightly less in a car. At least that's the way it was in Phoenix. Most places I've worked for just didn't have a shower facility on site. So it was either stink all day, or drive the car. My coworkers appreciated the latter better.:D
Dittoes on the motorcycle. I'm getting ~50 MPG, 31 miles each way. Fill up for ~$8, drive 3-4 days, repeat. The way to go for a one person trip. Hell, my wife and I even ride tandem to work occassionally.
No, problem is with the children. After the age of 10 most of your new habits come from your peers. Generationaly speaking different cultures arise because of socioeconomic realities that the children percieve and react to attract mates and find satisfaction in their respective careers. The problem with your reasoning is that you are discounting what the parent has already taught the child before this imaginary "line" of 10 years old. You say yourself that these are "new habits". If the parents teach the children right, they'll figure it out. I stand by my statement that the parents are the primary problem. Then again, I'm not a psychologist or a parent. I just work in technology (again).
More teachers are not the answer, holding students responsible for their own education is like we as professionals are. Don't try and tell the stereotypical soccer mom that. They'll flip. Seriously. In all seriousness, this problem starts with the parents of these kids, not the kids themselves. Parents simply don't take enough of an interest in their kids education for the most part. The second problem is that many parents expect (sone, unconciously, maybe) the school to teach their kids things like "morals" and "determination". But hey, this is my opinion, from my viewpoint, as a married guy with no kids.
Former bike to work/college and grocery store guy. The only time you find me on two wheels is on my motorcycle. (And it still sucks to ride in the rain).
Then you need to invest some more into wet weather gear.:)
Seriously, I ride my motorcycle to/from work 30 miles each way, M-F, Rain or shine. Spend some money on some *good* wet weather gear, and you get there dry and toasty.
The problem with going much faster than around 20 is that you wind up with enough motor that most states require you to register the vehicle, and in turn insure it. It moves away from "cheap transportation" at that point. The other point that I would make is that the bicyclist has as much right to the road as you do. In most states when a bike is on the road, it must be treated as a vehicle. If there's no shoulder, chances are there's not much sidewalk either. I belive that was mentioned. Now, if your a spammer-like person (I can't remember the term for it) and don't really care about the consequences of your selfishness, then I geuss nudging a bike off the road isn't that much of a problem. I've commuted to and from work on a bicycle before, and it takes very little road to pass a cyclist safely./Sigh. Feeding the trolls, I know.
The last time I downloaded the package, it was using an old version of the cygwin1.dll file. It would hang on big transfers with scp, was the specific problem that I was having. I grabbed a new copy of cygwin for a devlopement machine, and copied the cygwin1.dll file out of that onto the machine that I'm using ssh windows on, and replaced the version shipped with ssh windows with the new dll. worked ever since for me.
The only problem with TerraTerm and Terraterm SSH is that they don't support SSH2. A *real* bummer. I use Console for a nice frontend to cmd on XP, and ssh windows. Full cmd line support, without the full cygwin install. If something strange happens, I'll grab the newest version of the cygwin1.dll file, which usually fixes any issues that I'm having.
Without a license, you can't get insured and screw with rates. If you get caught without a license, you get fined or worse which would give reckless drivers incentive to slow down and pay attention. If these people have already had their license suspended, then they probably don't have insurance anyway. I don't see a fix here. I work for a local law enforcement agency. Just 2 days ago, a guy was busted by state highway patrol doing 65 in a 40. License had already been suspended because of excessive infractions, no insurance, no valid tag. They guy's in the county lockup right now, but he's not going to be there long. The problem is something that's not going to be fixed easily. If someone can come up with something short of euthanasia for fixing it, I'd (and I'm shure many others) would be interested in entertaining it. Here's my "discusting piece of law enforcement" link that stands as just a little more proof that this isn't going away: The first part of the storyThe rest of the story. 100 days for *KILLING* someone. Think about that.
See, the problem with this is the same one I've brought up again and again in these situations: If you start taking licenses away, you will just have more unlicensed drivers on the road. This statement is true in the U.S., at least where I live, anyway.
The other part of the problem comes in when you reply "well, let's just jail them", which also won't happen. There's no easy fix here, as much as many people, including myself, would like one.
As someone who commutes with a motorcycle, I take idiots who don't drive well, or worse, choose not to drive well very seriously.
Anyone who says that auto techs are really computer techs is just blowing smoke. The majority of repairs that I've seen come into shops are because the person who owns the vehicle just put fuel in it and drove the piss out of it. Most of the computer stuff is either "it works" or "a sensor isn't working". Hell, the diagnostic computer you hook to the car to read the computer will usually suggesst what needs to be replaced.
The following is a true story:
Guy gets his current model year Toyota 4Runner with 60k miles up to a shop, and says he wants a new engine. The mechanic looks at him like he's grown a third head, and asks who told him that he needed a new engine. The customer refers the mechanic to the Toyota dealer.
Mechaic calls the dealer and starts trying to figure out what exactly happened. Dealer mechaic says that due to a lack of maitenence, the warranty won't cover it.
Mechaic talks to the customer. Apparently, the customer *NEVER CHANGED THE OIL* in the vehicle. Removing the oil pan drain plug confirmed this, as the oil was mostly gelatonous (sp?) black sludge. It's kind of hard for a regular oil pump to move stuff the consistancy of jello.
Want a real safety precaution? Scare people straight. Make all the roads' speed limits something like the "safe and prudent" stuff they use in remote rural areas. Then, impose a severe penalty for unsafe driving. If you cause an accident, you lose your license for a year. Cause another one, make it 5 years. Drive without a license? No license ever again, and 1 year in prison.
I call bullshit on that statement. The only thing that will happen is that you'll have more people driving with out licenses. With jail over crowding that the media touts as a serious problem, these people won't see a day, even if the law as stated above is applied.
actually, that wouldn't be that hard to do, would it? An alternate universe incredibly similar to the first... start fresh and do it right from the beginning. Again... or should that be at/near the same time... These quantum dimensional things can get really confusing.
Now, actually happening.../shrug. Here's to hopeing.
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From someone who's driven I10 coast to coast too many times, west texas through new mexico is the *worst* part of the drive. Miles of beautiful desert, but it just gets to be the same after the first couple of hours. Sunset/sunrise is kind of nice, tho.
Something that many people may be interested in concerning motorcycles is the Iron Butt association. They usually sponser some pretty signifigant rides/races. More information at www.ironbutt.com
IIRC, the Chrysler Prowler did as well.
yes, you're right. If you're connected properly, it's only 100 days in a minimum security prision. Link: http://www.ama-cycle.org/news/2004/janksent.asp
Makes me fsking sick everytime I think about it.
I believe that altitude, humidity and climate all play a role in what kind of gas works best.
Give the man a cookie, he's correct.
In higher altitudes, your engine "breathes" less air per cycle than at sea level, and thus has less to compress. You have less need to use uber-octane fuels at 6000 ft than at sea level, as since you're not compressing as much air, you have lowered the likelyhood of pre-ignition. Humidity plays a role here as well, but I'm less clear on it. Probably due to the same reasons.
Most of this is fixed by modern ignition systems, however.
That kind of change would be really unusual to have from just putting different octane fuel in a car. 10 MPG suggessts a real problem. I'd believe one or two, tho.
Octane ratings have very little to do with actual power output (although if you build an engine correctly you won't be able to run correctly on anything but high octane gas, more on that in a moment), but a lot to do with preventing pre-ignition or engine knocking.
See, most moden vehicles have electronics on board to montitor for engine knock/pre-ignition. What usually happens when the knock sensor is triggered x number of times, the computer slightly retards the ignition until the problem goes away. You used to have to do this manually, but since the 80s, electronic control of the ignition has been the norm, not the exception. At least to my knowledge.
About the power thing, one of the ways to get an engine to make more power is to raise the compression ratio in the cylinders. As we all know basic physics, when you compress something more, it gets *tada* hotter. You need to run higer octane fuel in these engines to prevent pre-ignition of the fuel mix.
Now, if you got 8 gallons of fuel mixed with something really funky, or just a tank of stale fuel, that might account for your junk mileage. Also, keep your foot out of it.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong here?
Did the same thing in Pheonix AZ for a while. 15 miles each way, whiddled it down to twelve when I found some alleys and such to ride down before I relocated to walking distance of work. :) The only bummer was the ride back in the 115F summer heat. :D
The biggest problem that I actually ran into in most places was the lack of a shower to use when I got there. If I'm less than 20 miles from work and there's a shower, I'll usually ride to save the fuel, get the exercise. It'll usually take about 1 hour in traffic on the bike, which is usually only slightly less in a car. At least that's the way it was in Phoenix.
Most places I've worked for just didn't have a shower facility on site. So it was either stink all day, or drive the car. My coworkers appreciated the latter better.
Dittoes on the motorcycle. I'm getting ~50 MPG, 31 miles each way. Fill up for ~$8, drive 3-4 days, repeat. The way to go for a one person trip. Hell, my wife and I even ride tandem to work occassionally.
No, problem is with the children. After the age of 10 most of your new habits come from your peers. Generationaly speaking different cultures arise because of socioeconomic realities that the children percieve and react to attract mates and find satisfaction in their respective careers.
The problem with your reasoning is that you are discounting what the parent has already taught the child before this imaginary "line" of 10 years old. You say yourself that these are "new habits". If the parents teach the children right, they'll figure it out.
I stand by my statement that the parents are the primary problem.
Then again, I'm not a psychologist or a parent. I just work in technology (again).
More teachers are not the answer, holding students responsible for their own education is like we as professionals are.
Don't try and tell the stereotypical soccer mom that. They'll flip. Seriously.
In all seriousness, this problem starts with the parents of these kids, not the kids themselves. Parents simply don't take enough of an interest in their kids education for the most part.
The second problem is that many parents expect (sone, unconciously, maybe) the school to teach their kids things like "morals" and "determination".
But hey, this is my opinion, from my viewpoint, as a married guy with no kids.
forgot the trailing slash, but yes.
Former bike to work/college and grocery store guy. The only time you find me on two wheels is on my motorcycle. (And it still sucks to ride in the rain).
:)
Then you need to invest some more into wet weather gear.
Seriously, I ride my motorcycle to/from work 30 miles each way, M-F, Rain or shine. Spend some money on some *good* wet weather gear, and you get there dry and toasty.
The problem with going much faster than around 20 is that you wind up with enough motor that most states require you to register the vehicle, and in turn insure it. It moves away from "cheap transportation" at that point. /Sigh. Feeding the trolls, I know.
The other point that I would make is that the bicyclist has as much right to the road as you do. In most states when a bike is on the road, it must be treated as a vehicle.
If there's no shoulder, chances are there's not much sidewalk either. I belive that was mentioned.
Now, if your a spammer-like person (I can't remember the term for it) and don't really care about the consequences of your selfishness, then I geuss nudging a bike off the road isn't that much of a problem. I've commuted to and from work on a bicycle before, and it takes very little road to pass a cyclist safely.
The last time I downloaded the package, it was using an old version of the cygwin1.dll file. It would hang on big transfers with scp, was the specific problem that I was having. I grabbed a new copy of cygwin for a devlopement machine, and copied the cygwin1.dll file out of that onto the machine that I'm using ssh windows on, and replaced the version shipped with ssh windows with the new dll. worked ever since for me.
The only problem with TerraTerm and Terraterm SSH is that they don't support SSH2. A *real* bummer. I use Console for a nice frontend to cmd on XP, and ssh windows. Full cmd line support, without the full cygwin install. If something strange happens, I'll grab the newest version of the cygwin1.dll file, which usually fixes any issues that I'm having.
One thing that might need to be considered is the cost of living adjustments.
if it's just [insert reallyexpensiveitem here] payments, tho... oof.
Without a license, you can't get insured and screw with rates. If you get caught without a license, you get fined or worse which would give reckless drivers incentive to slow down and pay attention.
If these people have already had their license suspended, then they probably don't have insurance anyway. I don't see a fix here.
I work for a local law enforcement agency. Just 2 days ago, a guy was busted by state highway patrol doing 65 in a 40. License had already been suspended because of excessive infractions, no insurance, no valid tag. They guy's in the county lockup right now, but he's not going to be there long.
The problem is something that's not going to be fixed easily. If someone can come up with something short of euthanasia for fixing it, I'd (and I'm shure many others) would be interested in entertaining it.
Here's my "discusting piece of law enforcement" link that stands as just a little more proof that this isn't going away: The first part of the story The rest of the story.
100 days for *KILLING* someone.
Think about that.
See, the problem with this is the same one I've brought up again and again in these situations: If you start taking licenses away, you will just have more unlicensed drivers on the road. This statement is true in the U.S., at least where I live, anyway.
The other part of the problem comes in when you reply "well, let's just jail them", which also won't happen. There's no easy fix here, as much as many people, including myself, would like one.
As someone who commutes with a motorcycle, I take idiots who don't drive well, or worse, choose not to drive well very seriously.
Let's just say that it's a *real* rural area, and 2 hours on the interstate to work and back isn't uncommon. :)
Anyone who says that auto techs are really computer techs is just blowing smoke. The majority of repairs that I've seen come into shops are because the person who owns the vehicle just put fuel in it and drove the piss out of it. Most of the computer stuff is either "it works" or "a sensor isn't working". Hell, the diagnostic computer you hook to the car to read the computer will usually suggesst what needs to be replaced.
The following is a true story:
Guy gets his current model year Toyota 4Runner with 60k miles up to a shop, and says he wants a new engine. The mechanic looks at him like he's grown a third head, and asks who told him that he needed a new engine. The customer refers the mechanic to the Toyota dealer.
Mechaic calls the dealer and starts trying to figure out what exactly happened. Dealer mechaic says that due to a lack of maitenence, the warranty won't cover it.
Mechaic talks to the customer. Apparently, the customer *NEVER CHANGED THE OIL* in the vehicle. Removing the oil pan drain plug confirmed this, as the oil was mostly gelatonous (sp?) black sludge. It's kind of hard for a regular oil pump to move stuff the consistancy of jello.
Could this be the difference in net/gross profit?
Want a real safety precaution? Scare people straight. Make all the roads' speed limits something like the "safe and prudent" stuff they use in remote rural areas. Then, impose a severe penalty for unsafe driving. If you cause an accident, you lose your license for a year. Cause another one, make it 5 years. Drive without a license? No license ever again, and 1 year in prison.
I call bullshit on that statement. The only thing that will happen is that you'll have more people driving with out licenses. With jail over crowding that the media touts as a serious problem, these people won't see a day, even if the law as stated above is applied.
I was going to suggest North Florida
actually, that wouldn't be that hard to do, would it? An alternate universe incredibly similar to the first... start fresh and do it right from the beginning. Again... or should that be at/near the same time... These quantum dimensional things can get really confusing.
/shrug. Here's to hopeing.
Now, actually happening...
The unfortunate fact of this parent is that the subtlty of the humour in it will be lost on mods.