You had it right the first time -- "foot-pounds" is correct in the (horrible) US system. In the (better! and I live in the US) metric system, it's "Newton-meters".
I am planning at this point to trade in my auto 2.0 for the Golf 5 TDI when it's available (since I no longer have to share the car with a non-stick driver... my ex-husband refused to learn) so I'll definitely be joing TDIclub and chipping the car when I've got it (I've heard great things about the TDI chips.) I want a fun-to-drive car that is efficient at the same time.
VWVortex.com has some great discussion forums, although the main model-specific forums, especially the Golf/Jetta forums, are mostly full of "what rims should I get?" and suchlike, which is a shame because I keep finding that requests for actual help are buried under such junk. It's quite frustrating to check back a while after a request to find two pages of rim polls burying your post past the 1-3 pages most people bother to read. Some people resort to adding a photo to their post to get the camera icon next to their thread so people will open it even if the photo is unrelated to the help request.
Then there are the large number of people who, frustrated by this and by the search function that seems to be totally incapable of actually finding anything, post a nice query that obviously took some time to set up, only to be greeted by people who post "Use the search" or screenshots of the forum software toolbar with huge arrows pointing to the search function... which has probably already been tried, with no success.
So, I recommend the forums, but use the more-specific forums for your problem... although the sad fact still is that fewer people traffic those forums so you'll have to wait longer than you should for a real answer.
No ad traffic to submit if nobody can read the page!;) Unless, of course, you use Mirrordot. Which for some inexplicable reason is not actually mirroring the site... just linking to it. Which kind of ruins the point of mirroring.
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This is why spacecraft design should be "open sourced" and put up for download so that engineers everywhere can review it and point out problems.
Contractors should be heavily punished if their designs fail -- make them pay to redesign and refly, for instance. "You can cram your agreement up your ass because we paid to buy this from you and because it's on a publicly funded spacecraft. We're posting this on the web now so stop whining."
And why do we keep buying from Lockheed when they've fucked up so many missions in the recent past? JPL knows how to build stuff that actually works. Lockheed apparently doesn't. How about Boeing and the other companies out there that can do it?
And I agree... these idiots couldn't be bothered to even explain their mistake.
- DVD means no CD-swap-dance. Why are apps still shipped on CD when DVD burners and readers are so inexpensive and nearly all new systems come with at least a DVD reader? I figure this is worth $45-50 to me.
- When my ex-husband and I split up we divided things pretty fairly and he got some of the games and I got some of the others (he got furniture too because he needed it more than I did) and he got the original. So since this version includes a remake of the first game, which I can replay before starting HL2, it's worth an extra $15 or so just for that.
- I'm a science geek so a T-shirt with the symbol for half-life on it is definitely going into my T-shirt pile, and worth $20.
- Maybe I might eventually actually play Counter-Strike, although maybe not, I tend to like to play games solo or with small groups of friends, although that even only rarely.
- The book I will read part of (I try not to use walkthroughs unless I really am stuck) and I like concept art, 'how it was done' stories, and so on. Worth $5 or so for me.
So it more or less breaks out to be even and a decent deal for stuff I will mostly actually play, read, or wear. I have a lot of T-shirts as it is, but some of them are a bit on the small side or just aren't as neat, so as I get new shirts, older (smaller, shrunken, worn etc) ones wander down to the local Goodwill. (Besides, I work at a university and I'm sure a couple physics types will do a double-take at the shirt!)
However, it should be kept in mind that not all exhaust systems are annoyingly loud and seem to be designed just to make the maximum amount of noise. A couple of people in my local VW club have installed exhausts that actually aren't all that loud; they sound different, but aren't creating offensive noise levels and in fact are very quiet unless driven in such a way that they can be heard -- but the stock exhaust system is audible in the same circumstances anyway. This is what I am looking at doing.
Their main purpose is to flow a little better and restrict the engine a little less. The car I've got has a relatively small engine compared to some of the optional ones that were offered. I chose to get the less expensive, more reliable, cheaper to own and operate engine with the knowledge that it'll never be a racer (I don't aim to drive fast anyway; as I said in my other post, I believe in being courteous to others on the road in any case, and there's more to driving than just being fast) but there are things that can be done to make it drive a bit better and reach a bit more of its potential. If I wanted to get a loud exhaust just to make noise, could I? Sure. But that's not what I'm planning. I do know exactly the kind of moron you're thinking of, though, and the fart-can exhausts annoy me just as much as they do you.
I'm also a she.:) Surprise! A female car buff! Sadly, you are right in this thread and the other one: far too many people ignore the basic safety rules of the road and what it means to exercise restraint and not bother others with anything you do, including noise. It's depressing how often perfectly normal people become inconsiderate jerks once they touch something that has wheels and an engine.
You insensitive clod, I already wear a hearing aid!
And you know what? I'm a hell of a lot more attentive than a lot of other motorists out there. I don't talk on the phone or anything else while in a car. I drive. I'm out there to drive for some other purpose or for fun and I follow the rules of the road and I look out for others around me, literally and figuratively.
Yes, I know you were being generic and I'll admit there are a lot of idiots out there on the road, but there have been times when a motorcyclist has cut me off, created his own "lane", weaved in and out of traffic, who knows what. People that do that give all motorcyclists a bad name. And while there's something to be said for modifying your vehicle to sound nice, there are times when I actually find myself distracted by the ridiculous excessive noise. Since I have bad hearing, if *I* think I'm in a situation where I think something is making excessive noise, then anyone with normal hearing will find it intolerable. I've been in those situations, where even ONE motorcycle is intolerably loud -- to ME. Fortunately, those seem to be in the minority by a fair bit; something that's THAT loud crosses over into nuisance-to-others territory.
Again, it's not everybody that goes over the top with exhaust systems or stereos (I'm in this group) and those who do give everybody else a bad name.
I know this is Slashdot, but accusatory attitudes and lumping all drivers into the "moron" category is just as bad as those people who lump all motorcyclists into the "asshole" category. I've got friends and (ex) relatives who are motorcyclists, which is part, but by far not all, of why I don't do that.
I depend on closed captions to watch TV at all, being hearing-impaired, but fortunately the documentaries I love are mostly captioned. It is fantastic to be able to watch TV while out if I choose to -- I made a point of complimenting a local pizzeria for running the captions on their sets and keeping the sound off so that the sets were ignorable.
So would I. My adored ex-father-in-law was run off the road and nearly killed once by an inattentive driver. His story of what happened makes me wonder how anybody with a valid license could be that idiotic and unaware of others around them, making me wonder if the guy was drunk at the time. Sadly, he was never caught so I don't know what happened.
Fortunately, ex-FIL is fine and around to tell about it.
I lived in De Land (20 minutes' drive to the west down Hwy 17-92) and I made a point of staying OUT of Daytona during that week. I made the mistake once of forgetting that it was bike week one weekend, driving down there to visit a store, and waiting 15 minutes (timed by the dash clock) for the motorcycles to thin out enough for me to turn onto the main road.
My ex-father-in-law (adore him!) is a motorcyclist, but he's not a "biker". He always wears a helmet and makes a point to be careful and courteous when on the road, and he doesn't have loud pipes. If all of them were like him, there'd be no problem with them. Sadly, they're not.
Not wearing a helmet's fine, hurt yourself if you want, but don't expect the rest of us to cry over you (or pay your ER bills) when you get hurt and a helmet could have helped you. There's a reason that bicyclists, motorcycle riders, rollerbladers, etc. are strongly hinted at to wear helmets. For their own good!
My Golf is not a piece of shit, thank you very much. And I'm not necessarily trying to get a loud exhaust (I'm not) and I am not trying to drive fast like every riceboy out there (I'm not, I'm actually a very polite driver and I don't speed) and I love my Golf.
Not everybody is trying to drive a zillion miles an hour, be incredibly noisy, or have a thumping bass stereo. There are people like me who want improvements over the factory equipment that don't fall into any of the above stereotypical categories. I'm one of them.
Maybe you don't like VWs, but I love mine. It's just what I need and want, but it's obviously not what you need. Therefore, you can cram that attitude up your ass.
Exactly. I mod my car, but I don't mod it in such a way that it's a problem to anyone else on the road. No thumping stereo (I'm hearing-impaired anyway), no excessive neon (that's tasteless anyway). just stylish stuff. And while I've just gotten started, any extra "go" I add (exhaust, cam, intake, etc) will be matched with some extra "stop" (upgraded brakes) which a lot of people overlook.
There's a difference between doing something that actively bothers others and something that doesn't.
Funny, I'm even more tempted to squish them because the loud noise is really fricking annoying. I'd like to see those idiots get tickets for being a nuisance. Isn't that why we have noise regulations?
A guy with a Civic where I work does this, and he's not even trying. I think he might have a Borla, too, but I'm not sure. I've heard very good things about those, but I'm not sure what I'm going to put on my Golf 4 just yet.
It was kind of funny. He gunned his engine slightly to climb the ramp to the next level of the parking garage and two alarms started squealing.
That's cool. I don't mind at all, just was wondering, in general. I hope you enjoyed the pictures? If you had any favorites or categories you liked, feel free to send me an email, and it's kinda nice to get comments like yours that tell me people recognize the things I've photographed. I do it as a hobby so feedback is greatly appreciated.
Thanks for the recommendation! I'll check them out along with Dotster.
The funny thing is that you can change all the contact info on the Register.com interface as well -- and none of them have that outdated info. Maybe there's some kind of profile about me that's separate from the site -- I don't know; I'll wait to see what they say before I do anything more.
Eh, not many stalkers chase the ones with their noses in sci-fi books all the time with geek t-shirts on, either!
However, I'm stumped... some of the info that that site showed me is WAY out of date and I can't figure out how to access it in the register.com interface (the 'registrant' stuff). I sent them a support request asking them how the heck they have all my old info and where in their GUI I can change it.
Gnarrrr! I might end up changing registrars at this rate, although I'd have to make sure I wouldn't lose the remaining time on the registration or anything.
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Where were blogs (specifically livejournal) mentioned here? (and businesses are starting to blog too, love it or hate it).
You had it right the first time -- "foot-pounds" is correct in the (horrible) US system. In the (better! and I live in the US) metric system, it's "Newton-meters".
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I tried to teach him. Harrumph.
I am planning at this point to trade in my auto 2.0 for the Golf 5 TDI when it's available (since I no longer have to share the car with a non-stick driver... my ex-husband refused to learn) so I'll definitely be joing TDIclub and chipping the car when I've got it (I've heard great things about the TDI chips.) I want a fun-to-drive car that is efficient at the same time.
VWVortex.com has some great discussion forums, although the main model-specific forums, especially the Golf/Jetta forums, are mostly full of "what rims should I get?" and suchlike, which is a shame because I keep finding that requests for actual help are buried under such junk. It's quite frustrating to check back a while after a request to find two pages of rim polls burying your post past the 1-3 pages most people bother to read. Some people resort to adding a photo to their post to get the camera icon next to their thread so people will open it even if the photo is unrelated to the help request.
... which has probably already been tried, with no success.
... although the sad fact still is that fewer people traffic those forums so you'll have to wait longer than you should for a real answer.
Then there are the large number of people who, frustrated by this and by the search function that seems to be totally incapable of actually finding anything, post a nice query that obviously took some time to set up, only to be greeted by people who post "Use the search" or screenshots of the forum software toolbar with huge arrows pointing to the search function
So, I recommend the forums, but use the more-specific forums for your problem
How about iSyncing?
No ad traffic to submit if nobody can read the page! ;) Unless, of course, you use Mirrordot. Which for some inexplicable reason is not actually mirroring the site... just linking to it. Which kind of ruins the point of mirroring.
This is why spacecraft design should be "open sourced" and put up for download so that engineers everywhere can review it and point out problems.
Contractors should be heavily punished if their designs fail -- make them pay to redesign and refly, for instance. "You can cram your agreement up your ass because we paid to buy this from you and because it's on a publicly funded spacecraft. We're posting this on the web now so stop whining."
And why do we keep buying from Lockheed when they've fucked up so many missions in the recent past? JPL knows how to build stuff that actually works. Lockheed apparently doesn't. How about Boeing and the other companies out there that can do it?
And I agree... these idiots couldn't be bothered to even explain their mistake.
Here's what I preordered (put a down payment on, and will be called when it arrives in the shop):
Half-Life 2: Collector's Edition | EBgames.com
Here's why:
- DVD means no CD-swap-dance. Why are apps still shipped on CD when DVD burners and readers are so inexpensive and nearly all new systems come with at least a DVD reader? I figure this is worth $45-50 to me.
- When my ex-husband and I split up we divided things pretty fairly and he got some of the games and I got some of the others (he got furniture too because he needed it more than I did) and he got the original. So since this version includes a remake of the first game, which I can replay before starting HL2, it's worth an extra $15 or so just for that.
- I'm a science geek so a T-shirt with the symbol for half-life on it is definitely going into my T-shirt pile, and worth $20.
- Maybe I might eventually actually play Counter-Strike, although maybe not, I tend to like to play games solo or with small groups of friends, although that even only rarely.
- The book I will read part of (I try not to use walkthroughs unless I really am stuck) and I like concept art, 'how it was done' stories, and so on. Worth $5 or so for me.
So it more or less breaks out to be even and a decent deal for stuff I will mostly actually play, read, or wear. I have a lot of T-shirts as it is, but some of them are a bit on the small side or just aren't as neat, so as I get new shirts, older (smaller, shrunken, worn etc) ones wander down to the local Goodwill. (Besides, I work at a university and I'm sure a couple physics types will do a double-take at the shirt!)
But was it over international waters or not? Only your MiG pilot knows for sure ...
Any time! And I'm sorry that you came away with an impression that I hadn't meant to leave. Glad it's cleared up.
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Idiots suck.
I left you a comment over in the other thread.
:) Surprise! A female car buff! Sadly, you are right in this thread and the other one: far too many people ignore the basic safety rules of the road and what it means to exercise restraint and not bother others with anything you do, including noise. It's depressing how often perfectly normal people become inconsiderate jerks once they touch something that has wheels and an engine.
However, it should be kept in mind that not all exhaust systems are annoyingly loud and seem to be designed just to make the maximum amount of noise. A couple of people in my local VW club have installed exhausts that actually aren't all that loud; they sound different, but aren't creating offensive noise levels and in fact are very quiet unless driven in such a way that they can be heard -- but the stock exhaust system is audible in the same circumstances anyway. This is what I am looking at doing.
Their main purpose is to flow a little better and restrict the engine a little less. The car I've got has a relatively small engine compared to some of the optional ones that were offered. I chose to get the less expensive, more reliable, cheaper to own and operate engine with the knowledge that it'll never be a racer (I don't aim to drive fast anyway; as I said in my other post, I believe in being courteous to others on the road in any case, and there's more to driving than just being fast) but there are things that can be done to make it drive a bit better and reach a bit more of its potential. If I wanted to get a loud exhaust just to make noise, could I? Sure. But that's not what I'm planning. I do know exactly the kind of moron you're thinking of, though, and the fart-can exhausts annoy me just as much as they do you.
I'm also a she.
You insensitive clod, I already wear a hearing aid!
And you know what? I'm a hell of a lot more attentive than a lot of other motorists out there. I don't talk on the phone or anything else while in a car. I drive. I'm out there to drive for some other purpose or for fun and I follow the rules of the road and I look out for others around me, literally and figuratively.
Yes, I know you were being generic and I'll admit there are a lot of idiots out there on the road, but there have been times when a motorcyclist has cut me off, created his own "lane", weaved in and out of traffic, who knows what. People that do that give all motorcyclists a bad name. And while there's something to be said for modifying your vehicle to sound nice, there are times when I actually find myself distracted by the ridiculous excessive noise. Since I have bad hearing, if *I* think I'm in a situation where I think something is making excessive noise, then anyone with normal hearing will find it intolerable. I've been in those situations, where even ONE motorcycle is intolerably loud -- to ME. Fortunately, those seem to be in the minority by a fair bit; something that's THAT loud crosses over into nuisance-to-others territory.
Again, it's not everybody that goes over the top with exhaust systems or stereos (I'm in this group) and those who do give everybody else a bad name.
I know this is Slashdot, but accusatory attitudes and lumping all drivers into the "moron" category is just as bad as those people who lump all motorcyclists into the "asshole" category. I've got friends and (ex) relatives who are motorcyclists, which is part, but by far not all, of why I don't do that.
I depend on closed captions to watch TV at all, being hearing-impaired, but fortunately the documentaries I love are mostly captioned. It is fantastic to be able to watch TV while out if I choose to -- I made a point of complimenting a local pizzeria for running the captions on their sets and keeping the sound off so that the sets were ignorable.
So would I. My adored ex-father-in-law was run off the road and nearly killed once by an inattentive driver. His story of what happened makes me wonder how anybody with a valid license could be that idiotic and unaware of others around them, making me wonder if the guy was drunk at the time. Sadly, he was never caught so I don't know what happened.
Fortunately, ex-FIL is fine and around to tell about it.
I lived in De Land (20 minutes' drive to the west down Hwy 17-92) and I made a point of staying OUT of Daytona during that week. I made the mistake once of forgetting that it was bike week one weekend, driving down there to visit a store, and waiting 15 minutes (timed by the dash clock) for the motorcycles to thin out enough for me to turn onto the main road.
My ex-father-in-law (adore him!) is a motorcyclist, but he's not a "biker". He always wears a helmet and makes a point to be careful and courteous when on the road, and he doesn't have loud pipes. If all of them were like him, there'd be no problem with them. Sadly, they're not.
Not wearing a helmet's fine, hurt yourself if you want, but don't expect the rest of us to cry over you (or pay your ER bills) when you get hurt and a helmet could have helped you. There's a reason that bicyclists, motorcycle riders, rollerbladers, etc. are strongly hinted at to wear helmets. For their own good!
My Golf is not a piece of shit, thank you very much. And I'm not necessarily trying to get a loud exhaust (I'm not) and I am not trying to drive fast like every riceboy out there (I'm not, I'm actually a very polite driver and I don't speed) and I love my Golf.
Not everybody is trying to drive a zillion miles an hour, be incredibly noisy, or have a thumping bass stereo. There are people like me who want improvements over the factory equipment that don't fall into any of the above stereotypical categories. I'm one of them.
Maybe you don't like VWs, but I love mine. It's just what I need and want, but it's obviously not what you need. Therefore, you can cram that attitude up your ass.
This is why I just happen to know a guy who can get borderline-too-powerful green pointers. ;) He actually owes me one for building him a website...
Exactly. I mod my car, but I don't mod it in such a way that it's a problem to anyone else on the road. No thumping stereo (I'm hearing-impaired anyway), no excessive neon (that's tasteless anyway). just stylish stuff. And while I've just gotten started, any extra "go" I add (exhaust, cam, intake, etc) will be matched with some extra "stop" (upgraded brakes) which a lot of people overlook.
There's a difference between doing something that actively bothers others and something that doesn't.
Funny, I'm even more tempted to squish them because the loud noise is really fricking annoying. I'd like to see those idiots get tickets for being a nuisance. Isn't that why we have noise regulations?
Then there's Daytona Bike Week. Arrrgggghhhh...
A guy with a Civic where I work does this, and he's not even trying. I think he might have a Borla, too, but I'm not sure. I've heard very good things about those, but I'm not sure what I'm going to put on my Golf 4 just yet.
It was kind of funny. He gunned his engine slightly to climb the ramp to the next level of the parking garage and two alarms started squealing.
Of course, I was the only one who noticed.
That's cool. I don't mind at all, just was wondering, in general. I hope you enjoyed the pictures? If you had any favorites or categories you liked, feel free to send me an email, and it's kinda nice to get comments like yours that tell me people recognize the things I've photographed. I do it as a hobby so feedback is greatly appreciated.
:)
Thank you for looking.
That's odd then because it used to work for me and then quit doing so. Perhaps I should check my Adblock settings...
You'd think, eh? Several years is just bizarre, though. I do make sure to update all accounts and stuff when I change contact info.
Thanks for the recommendation! I'll check them out along with Dotster.
The funny thing is that you can change all the contact info on the Register.com interface as well -- and none of them have that outdated info. Maybe there's some kind of profile about me that's separate from the site -- I don't know; I'll wait to see what they say before I do anything more.
Eh, not many stalkers chase the ones with their noses in sci-fi books all the time with geek t-shirts on, either!
However, I'm stumped... some of the info that that site showed me is WAY out of date and I can't figure out how to access it in the register.com interface (the 'registrant' stuff). I sent them a support request asking them how the heck they have all my old info and where in their GUI I can change it.
Gnarrrr! I might end up changing registrars at this rate, although I'd have to make sure I wouldn't lose the remaining time on the registration or anything.