Yeah, 30 days free....but you can't play until you give up a credit card number or enter a code for a time card. You enter in your activation key for your new account, then they go "Great! Now how will you be paying? You can't play until you give us a credit card number or a time card number."
So.... 30 days free, one question asked, but it's a doozie.
Really, you've got some nerve, accusing me of being functionally illiterate.
Sir, I thoroughly doubt your idea that Chuck Norris is the cause of natural selection and evolution! Please point me to the relevant peer-reviewed journal showing this to be the case!!
Love how Blizzard has this big "First month free!" plastered over the WoW box, but when I got home and was ready to play, it turned out I had to drive back to the store to get one of their 30 dollar time-cards before I could play my new game, only to find that I'm asked to level grind for days and days on end, with the justification that "People would win the game(they're continuing to pay for) too quickly if it was paced properly!".
Love how I only continue giving money to companies who earn it, rather than weasels who try to first lie into my pocketbook, then cheat me out of an enjoyable game experience to stay there.
Poor game developers. I feel for them. I really do. Oops, I just spent all my money on games by companies that want to make fun games(I'm looking at you, Nintendo!). I'm off!
I don't know the answer to your question, but I'll be sure to check my Liptak. Websites are great for amateurs, but some of us actually do this for a living, and I'd hate to think about the consequences if one of my control loops went nuts and all I had to say for myself was "But wikipedia said it was supposed to be that way!"
Actually, MOST heated wire sensors have two wires -- even the ones for flow. See, in order to actually use a heated wire sensor accurately, you've got to calibrate out the specific heat of the gas you're testing, or changes in the substance will produce shifts in your reading despite the air flow being the same. Generally, those ones will take a second heated wire, and stick it in the airstream with a baffle which eliminates the air velocity, in order to calibrate out changes in specific heat. If you were qualified to be 'calling me out', you'd know that. In this case, they do the opposite, they have a reference and they've got a sample, and instead of calibrating to eliminate specific heat from the sample, they calibrate it to eliminate velocity.
Don't worry though, I'll consult my Liptak at work tomorrow, and I'll get back to you.
Maybe the United States is like a third world soviet banana republic, then. It's not like that everywhere.
My country takes drinking and driving very seriously. You WILL go to jail on your second conviction, and the conflict of interest presented by having the police working for the same level of government that collects the tickets doesn't exist.
It seems to me that there would be relatively fixed ratio of blood alcohol:mouth alcohol. If you've got science to say otherwise, speak up. Otherwise, it's your word versus theirs, and they've got the instrument engineers and medical technicians.
It also seems to me that bread in your teeth wouldn't hold a huge amount of alcohol, and it would flash off relatively quickly anyway -- quickly enough that if you had been caught, you've probably just finished consuming alcohol recently, so you'll probably blow.3 or something lethal, which will give you a pretty easy alibi: You had wine with dinner at the resturaunt, and weren't intoxicated, but you were tested right away. Again, science needed. Show it, or they've got the instrument engineers and medical technicians.
Finally, diabetics may register 0.03 sober, but why? If it's because their body naturally metabolises sugars into alcohols, or because their bodies don't metabolise alcohols correctly below concentrations of 0.03, then it doesn't matter if they haven't had enough to drink to make it seem like they're really that drunk because their BAC could be 0.8. Again, science needed. Show it, or they've got the instrument engineers and medical technicians.
There's a line between reasonable and unreasonable prosecution.
Your judge-dredd style deontological ethics are fine in a perfect world, but where nobody is getting hurt, it's just milking the working stiffs for no good reason.
To be fair, I had to do a triple or quadruple-take when I saw 1kW supplies for sale. I remember when a regular PSU was 250W, and that'd do for whatever you wanted to do. seeing a 1kW PSU makes me seriously wonder about whether I'd want a hyper-modern PC in my home.
Back in the days when science first began to re-emerge after the dark ages, early Christian scientists found that the only way to escape persecution was to start with simple, verifiable hypotheses, and build from there. It's how the modern, highly systematic, scientific method was born. The greeks, for all their brilliant insights, lived very much in their own heads, which is why things like Democritus' theory of the atom was never as popular as the theory of four elements. Even though one was more correct, the other was more popular, and there was never anything but ideas at stake.
Psychology and sociology, as sciences, they're more like the greeks. They form these sweeping, general theories, without any attempt to understand the frameworks in place. They'll sometimes stumble across an amazing revelation (Just like Alchemists discovered many things about chemistry despite understanding none of it), but in the end, I can't help but think that it'll be the biochemists who finally build the best model for the mind. Trying to understand the brain through the study of being a person inside that brain is like trying to understand motor vehicles by driving your car around. Sure, you'll get some insights, but I'd bet my last dollar that the guy who rips the car apart and puts it back together a million times is going to know it far better than you'll ever know it by driving it a million miles.
Actually, I read once that pink was considered a very masculine colour until relatively recently in modern times too. It was considered a lighter version of red, which is obviously the man's colour.
4. Social scientists who want to be able to say "boys like blue, girls like pink" as a definite, experimentally proven fact as a part of a greater hypothesis.
I've been studying a lot of works on societies, and they tend to build a lot of big theories out of simple truths.
"Revelation of St. John the Divine", which is of course short for "Revelation of St. John the Divine who was bat-shit insane and wrote a long and ridiculously metaphorical tirade against the Romans which is even more nonsensical than your typical Slashdotters anti-SCO tirades, all because he got booted off out of Rome"
No wonder people shorten it! Proof of Divinity though, how could anyone but God have known about slashdotters and SCO back in the year 30?
The science isn't bad. You're testing the specific heat of a person's breath to determine alcohol content. The implementation may be bad, but the science is just as good as any of the other methods we use to determine what a substance is, which including running it through a long tube then burning it, beaming a ray of light or infra-red light through it, or passing it through a tube and seeing how long it takes to make it through.
I'd argue with you, but it's a moot point. You can't begin to believe the number of drunk drivers on the road at times. If you've ever been driving late at night, right around last call, you're literally very likely the only sober guy on the road.
It's pretty funny, actually. All this witch-hunting, when all you really need is to stick a few cops at the local bars right after last call.
Personally, I always walk to the bar, because I know full well I'm going to be utterly illegal to drive when I walk out.
Just think about all the simple things that could be done to stop drinking and driving without witch-hunts. Makes me wonder why we don't just...you know....do them?
[quote]If it reported 600mph and you got pulled over based on it, you'd probably win in court because your car can't do 600mph.[/quote]
Maybe you're not trying hard enough. You'd be amazed how quick you can get a little Bronco II going with the right know-how and a little bit of rocket fuel.
I've heard of people being 'caught' for simply being a foot past the stop line. A picture is only worth a thousand words. It's not always worth the SAME thousand words.
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Yeah, 30 days free....but you can't play until you give up a credit card number or enter a code for a time card. You enter in your activation key for your new account, then they go "Great! Now how will you be paying? You can't play until you give us a credit card number or a time card number."
So.... 30 days free, one question asked, but it's a doozie.
Really, you've got some nerve, accusing me of being functionally illiterate.
Is this stuff published somewhere, though? If it is, you've pretty conclusively shown that breathalysers are unreasonable and arbitrary devices.
Sir, I thoroughly doubt your idea that Chuck Norris is the cause of natural selection and evolution! Please point me to the relevant peer-reviewed journal showing this to be the case!!
Why do I get the feeling you really just learned this all through the South Park episode?
Ah, because you're saying "El Ron".
Love the moralistic rant.
Love how Blizzard has this big "First month free!" plastered over the WoW box, but when I got home and was ready to play, it turned out I had to drive back to the store to get one of their 30 dollar time-cards before I could play my new game, only to find that I'm asked to level grind for days and days on end, with the justification that "People would win the game(they're continuing to pay for) too quickly if it was paced properly!".
Love how I only continue giving money to companies who earn it, rather than weasels who try to first lie into my pocketbook, then cheat me out of an enjoyable game experience to stay there.
Poor game developers. I feel for them. I really do. Oops, I just spent all my money on games by companies that want to make fun games(I'm looking at you, Nintendo!). I'm off!
I don't know the answer to your question, but I'll be sure to check my Liptak. Websites are great for amateurs, but some of us actually do this for a living, and I'd hate to think about the consequences if one of my control loops went nuts and all I had to say for myself was "But wikipedia said it was supposed to be that way!"
Actually, MOST heated wire sensors have two wires -- even the ones for flow. See, in order to actually use a heated wire sensor accurately, you've got to calibrate out the specific heat of the gas you're testing, or changes in the substance will produce shifts in your reading despite the air flow being the same. Generally, those ones will take a second heated wire, and stick it in the airstream with a baffle which eliminates the air velocity, in order to calibrate out changes in specific heat. If you were qualified to be 'calling me out', you'd know that. In this case, they do the opposite, they have a reference and they've got a sample, and instead of calibrating to eliminate specific heat from the sample, they calibrate it to eliminate velocity.
Don't worry though, I'll consult my Liptak at work tomorrow, and I'll get back to you.
Maybe the United States is like a third world soviet banana republic, then. It's not like that everywhere.
My country takes drinking and driving very seriously. You WILL go to jail on your second conviction, and the conflict of interest presented by having the police working for the same level of government that collects the tickets doesn't exist.
It seems to me that there would be relatively fixed ratio of blood alcohol:mouth alcohol. If you've got science to say otherwise, speak up. Otherwise, it's your word versus theirs, and they've got the instrument engineers and medical technicians.
.3 or something lethal, which will give you a pretty easy alibi: You had wine with dinner at the resturaunt, and weren't intoxicated, but you were tested right away. Again, science needed. Show it, or they've got the instrument engineers and medical technicians.
It also seems to me that bread in your teeth wouldn't hold a huge amount of alcohol, and it would flash off relatively quickly anyway -- quickly enough that if you had been caught, you've probably just finished consuming alcohol recently, so you'll probably blow
Finally, diabetics may register 0.03 sober, but why? If it's because their body naturally metabolises sugars into alcohols, or because their bodies don't metabolise alcohols correctly below concentrations of 0.03, then it doesn't matter if they haven't had enough to drink to make it seem like they're really that drunk because their BAC could be 0.8. Again, science needed. Show it, or they've got the instrument engineers and medical technicians.
There's a line between reasonable and unreasonable prosecution.
Your judge-dredd style deontological ethics are fine in a perfect world, but where nobody is getting hurt, it's just milking the working stiffs for no good reason.
To be fair, I had to do a triple or quadruple-take when I saw 1kW supplies for sale. I remember when a regular PSU was 250W, and that'd do for whatever you wanted to do. seeing a 1kW PSU makes me seriously wonder about whether I'd want a hyper-modern PC in my home.
It might be their destiny to become obsolete.
Back in the days when science first began to re-emerge after the dark ages, early Christian scientists found that the only way to escape persecution was to start with simple, verifiable hypotheses, and build from there. It's how the modern, highly systematic, scientific method was born. The greeks, for all their brilliant insights, lived very much in their own heads, which is why things like Democritus' theory of the atom was never as popular as the theory of four elements. Even though one was more correct, the other was more popular, and there was never anything but ideas at stake.
Psychology and sociology, as sciences, they're more like the greeks. They form these sweeping, general theories, without any attempt to understand the frameworks in place. They'll sometimes stumble across an amazing revelation (Just like Alchemists discovered many things about chemistry despite understanding none of it), but in the end, I can't help but think that it'll be the biochemists who finally build the best model for the mind. Trying to understand the brain through the study of being a person inside that brain is like trying to understand motor vehicles by driving your car around. Sure, you'll get some insights, but I'd bet my last dollar that the guy who rips the car apart and puts it back together a million times is going to know it far better than you'll ever know it by driving it a million miles.
Actually, I read once that pink was considered a very masculine colour until relatively recently in modern times too. It was considered a lighter version of red, which is obviously the man's colour.
4. Social scientists who want to be able to say "boys like blue, girls like pink" as a definite, experimentally proven fact as a part of a greater hypothesis.
I've been studying a lot of works on societies, and they tend to build a lot of big theories out of simple truths.
Well said.
"Revelation of St. John the Divine", which is of course short for "Revelation of St. John the Divine who was bat-shit insane and wrote a long and ridiculously metaphorical tirade against the Romans which is even more nonsensical than your typical Slashdotters anti-SCO tirades, all because he got booted off out of Rome"
No wonder people shorten it! Proof of Divinity though, how could anyone but God have known about slashdotters and SCO back in the year 30?
The science isn't bad. You're testing the specific heat of a person's breath to determine alcohol content. The implementation may be bad, but the science is just as good as any of the other methods we use to determine what a substance is, which including running it through a long tube then burning it, beaming a ray of light or infra-red light through it, or passing it through a tube and seeing how long it takes to make it through.
I'd argue with you, but it's a moot point. You can't begin to believe the number of drunk drivers on the road at times. If you've ever been driving late at night, right around last call, you're literally very likely the only sober guy on the road.
They're several times more likely to cause accidents, but they're not usually behind the wheel.
"Oh my god it's a cute asia--ARGH!"
It's a quote from a movie.
"Happy Gilmour".
Your post also is awarded no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
My WITTY COMEBACK was killed by a drunk driver!
I see what the article was talking about. This is TERRIBLE code. Who uses GOTO? Not even BASIC programmers use it anymore!
It's pretty funny, actually. All this witch-hunting, when all you really need is to stick a few cops at the local bars right after last call.
Personally, I always walk to the bar, because I know full well I'm going to be utterly illegal to drive when I walk out.
Just think about all the simple things that could be done to stop drinking and driving without witch-hunts. Makes me wonder why we don't just...you know....do them?
[quote]If it reported 600mph and you got pulled over based on it, you'd probably win in court because your car can't do 600mph.[/quote]
Maybe you're not trying hard enough. You'd be amazed how quick you can get a little Bronco II going with the right know-how and a little bit of rocket fuel.
I've heard of people being 'caught' for simply being a foot past the stop line. A picture is only worth a thousand words. It's not always worth the SAME thousand words.
Most of the time, when a heated wire anerometer fails, it's because it's become an open circuit.