You're all smoking crack, sinning, and going straight to hell.
It's not about aesthetics or balance, it's about loving Jesus Christ, recognizing that he died on the cross so your cheating heart can be forgiven, and jumping through every single hoop so you can stand at the pearly gates thinking you got into heaven just so Jesus can jump out and say "Boo!" right before you descend into the flaming pits of hell.
I know you weren't trying to attack me. Sorry if I came off edgy, years as a mechanic have made me pretty edgy when people whip out books and references and stuff to show me wrong where my experience guides me to what I know is right.;) I've worked alongside so many ASE certifications that I had to teach righty-tighty-lefty-loosy to that I've pretty much lost confidence in most certifications and the documentation that gives certification. (Similar experiences with MCSEs and a smattering of others in various fields)
Yeah, you're right about the tire wear. I find that with most aftermarket tires the tires wear right about perfectly inflated like I said. However, that's only most. 17" tires aren't most aftermarket tires.;) If you're running any sort of specialized tire (and if you have a real sportscar this means you) then you do have to look a bit harder at what you do with them. I figure that if someone's running a specialized tire then they know where to look for what and I just ask them what they want it set at and let it be on their shoulders whatever happens.;)
But believe you me, I've dealt with a number of people driving luxury cars (Cadillacs seem to be the biggest violator) that buy the car brand new, look in the owner's manual, deflate the tire accordingly, and then come into the shop wanting us to figure out why they're getting such bad gas mileage. Then they want to fight over tire pressure. Sorry, if you're running your tires at 20 pounds when the damn thing says 44 you can't complain about bad mileage.;) (or uneven wear, for that matter)
I give a shit. I've been doing tires for years, and I guarantee you that if you follow the manufacturer's recommended tire pressures on aftermarket tires you're gonna fuck yourself over one way or another. I've seen it too many times to count.
If you want the best ride, go half what the sidewall says. If you want the best mileage, go what the sidewall says.
I'd also point out that I didn't say the sidewall listed the manufacturer's recommended tire pressure, I specifically continually referred to it as the max pressure and recommended you fill your tires to that pressure. It gives you a ride that is still pretty smooth (depending on the car, some cars just won't ride smooth no matter what) and also gives you the best compromise of city/highway mileage, and finally when you have to always check it hot you will be guaranteed to never exceed the max rated pressure of the tire.
The turbo is driven by exhaust gases, so it's being driven by gases that are moving at the speed the engine was going when that gas was burned. The engine could now be going at any arbitrary speed, higher or lower, so the turbo isn't necessarily going to compress anything. Quite the contrary, there's a few valves to regulate this using either engine vacuum or computer pulses (or other methods).
Fact is, if you floor it and then take your foot off it and the turbo kept cranking without any check valves the engine would stall.
At cruising speed the turbo usually shuts down almost completely. Most turbo engines don't need the air compressed at cruising speed at all, only for acceleration. Which is all turbos are really used for in regular cars.;) Racing's a different story, but a turbo won't affect your top speed as much as the rest of your drivetrain, so unless you're doing the quarter mile you probably aren't even worried about a turbo to win the race.
Look in the door jam, glove box or on the back of one of the sun visors for the manufacturers' recommended tire pressure. Usually around 30-34 psi. Don't go by "max pressure" on the sidewall of the tire.
Nope. Use the max pressure on the sidewall of the tire. The places you've suggested will speak *only* of the tires that were installed on the car by the manufacturer. Worse yet, some cars will put low numbers like 22psi or less, to give you a smoother ride, and eat up your gas mileage like there's no tomorrow.
Using the number on the sidewall of the tire you're guaranteed to always have less than the maximum pressure the tire is rated for. Why? You may ask.
I will tell.;) The max pressure rating is for cold tires with cold air. Unless you're like me and you happen to have an air compressor in your driveway, you'll have to drive to a place to get your tires checked, and they'll be hot (or at least hotter than cold).
The only catch is, if you live in a place that actually has seasons (so, nowhere in the southwest or the south) then you'll need to check your tires at least once a week starting in the springtime and heading into early summer. Then you can drop back to once a month again. The higher summer temperatures could cause any extra air you have from adding air in the wintertime to expand enough to push your tires beyond the max rating, although it's unlikely to pop them.
Most tires will still go another 14-18psi over the max rating with no trouble, albeit with a noticeable loss of traction. Whenever I take a trip I usually throw 5 more pounds in my tires to get better mileage on the highway (the longer the trip the more I worry about it, that stuff will add up over the length of the trip, and if I can have another $20 at the end of the trip not spent on gas that means I can buy more soda for the ride back;) )
But when it comes right down to it, the only reliable spec you have for the tire you're filling is the spec moulded into the tire. All other specs are unreliable because there's no way to verify that they refer to exactly your tire.
Or, if you have a PalmOS PDA (like me) you can use FuelLog to record your gas purchases and see what your mileage is every time you fill up, look at pretty graphs, and so forth.
I used it religiously until my wife stopped telling me the numbers to put in.:( It's worth buying a palm just to use this program.;) (I'm *not* a developer for this program, just a fanatic user)
The purpose of language is to convey meaning. If meaning is conveyed through the use of a sound, then the purpose of language has been fulfilled. Thus, that sound is a form of language.
Eh? The purpose of language is to convey specific meaning. That's how come words have specific meanings (yes, even in English). What would the point of language be if I told you to pass the sugar and you thought I said "You fucking bitch you ruined my life!"
Music has no specific meaning that can be determined in its expression. Certainly I mean something when I write a passage of music, but you probably won't understand what I meant when you listen to it. You'll still get the emotional overtones and so forth, and you might get some visualization along those lines, but...
Well, with language the language carries it's meaning with it. You have a store of your own that will closely match mine, so when I write these words you will understand each word. You still have to piece them together, analyze their relationships, spell-check, and then hopefully the understanding you will achieve is the meaning I'm trying to convey.
Music is different than that. It lacks a store of definitions, for one thing. It also varies from person to person. Take a regular rock song. Two guitarists play the same riff, but neither one of them plays it exactly the same. The bass player plays the same riff, but it's completely unlike either guitarists. The drummer plays the same riff, and it's also completely unlike the rest of the band. The singer's worthless, they always are. What you bring to the song when you listen to it is your own life experiences. What I bring to the song when I write it is my own life experiences. Since two people can't experience the same life, then it's not possible for two people to pull the exact same meaning from a piece of music. Many will come close, and lyrics help a lot (no matter how worthless singers are), but no one will be the same in this regard. Music is more personal, while language is social.
but if you can't respect all genres of music, that tells me you really don't understand anything about music at all.
Respecting genres of music is like respecting religion. There's no point to it, and no practical value in doing so, other than if you don't, you might offend the liberals.;)
After all, when was the last time you were moved by sheet music? Or even midi, for that matter.
Perhaps you're missing something. I've long held that thoughts happen when you're dreaming music, and I've long held that thought is not dependent on language, and the only reason music doesn't work well for actual communication (besides the emotional stuff) is because there isn't a common vocabulary. I frequently play my guitar to work something out in my head, and I'll follow a complete train of thought, complete reasoning, and when I reach the conclusion, *then* I'll try to phrase it in english, but *only* if I need to communicate the conclusion. Otherwise, I just keep it as is and act on it.
The point is that when you read a piece of sheet music, you generally read it in the old-fashioned non-speed-reader fashion. That is, you sound the notes out in your head. When you do that, you are performing the music for yourself, and you are hearing the piece (probably hearing it more perfectly than it can be played). I've been moved many a-time by reading sheet music.
Midi is a completely different story, though. I've tried plugging myself in to the network, but try though I might I just can't get those electrical pulses to my brain, so I can't even start trying to read it in its native form.
Oh wait, you mean moved by listening to a synth playing midi? Well, to all outward appearances, the music is still being performed, albeit by a machine. You must remember that a person thought the music and composed it, possibly that same person transcribed it to midi, or someone else did, and the thoughts are still coming to you even if the computer is the medium through which it comes. But it's still coming.
Maybe he should go find that place where other people who suffer genetic mutations can go and find solace and education from the cruel world. You know, that place run by a bald man called Xavier?
This is the first X-men post I've seen, and I had to post it. Man, it was so obvious, too. I would've put "First X-Man?" as the headline or something had I submitted the story.;)
OH it's not that bad. You just have to raise your activity level to match your metabolism. If I don't do 30 hours/week of hard physical labor, I skinny up real badly. On the other hand, doing the 30 hours/week of hard physical labor only bulks me up if I eat 2 pounds of meat each day (not to mention the potatoes and crap that go with it). Right now, though, my upper arms are about 3 inches in radius, and while it's larger than they've been in a few years, it's not as big as they've been.
The trick is to play geek for fun, not for a living.;) Right now I'm selling barbecue in a few farmer's markets, so three/four times a week I'm hefting heavy shit either setting up or tearing down (it's a 400 pound operation and I have to set up and tear down for every appearance I make each week).
But it's still *not* the junkyard. I looked like a body builder back then, and could even lift most automatic transmissions by myself and carry them (granted I could only lift them up to knee height, but I could bench them to full reach), and some of the small 3 or 4 cylinder engines I could lift. The job itself sucked, but I got pretty tough working it.;)
The problem is that I look at that all the time, and I always read it. I know a stick is 8 tablespoons, and I *think* it's 1/4 cup. It says so right there, and I look at it all the time, but I can never remember it. If I could just remember it, I'd know the conversion from tablespoons->cups.;)
Um, your "rebuttal" and my post are not mutually exclusive. Having balls doesn't mean you can't be afraid of shit, it just means you don't let fear dominate you. Compare that guy to George Bush, eh?
Um, these were prices in southern New Mexico 8 years ago. The same time period saw 10 gram bags in Texas for $25. Maybe it's true, then, that everything's bigger in Texas.;)
Except that absolutely *none* of your conversion examples are practical in any meaningful sense.
Contrarily, I can eyeball a foot, then I can eyeball a quarter of it and know that it's 3 inches, write it on my paper, go buy a piece of wood that measures 3 inches, and then nail it on the end of my dick to give my wife more pleasure.
Well, if what you're *raised* with is the system you should use, then I'd personally prefer a system based in powers of 2. I can make those conversions faster than I can Imperial or Metric. And it makes so much more sense than powers of ten anyway.
Oh yeah. 13mm = 1/2 inch. 14mm = 9/16 inch. 10 mm = 3/8inch (actually 10mm is slightly larger) 11mm = 7/16 inch
I forget what 15mm and 17mm are, and 18mm is obviously even with an imperial size, but I've never worked out which one because none of my imperial sockets go that high.
Don't forget, though, that mechanics can only tell bolt/nut sizes. Just because I know what a 12mm bolt head looks like doesn't mean I can measure out a centimeter with my fingers, whereas I can usually measure an inch with my fingers pretty accurately.
So the road signs in Japan are also printed in the roman alphabet with Arabic numbers? Otherwise why would you make that mistake? (Not to mention that I can't remember the last roadsign I saw that abbreviated miles to m, since miles are abbreviated to mi, but most roadsigns either just put "miles" or don't put a unit because everyone knows it's miles)
A sure sign is when you buy a quarter-bag and your dealer tells you he sells them as 8 grams and you just have to kick his ass for shorting you.
I was so shocked to see a man actual trying to keep his self-respect while quoting me $35 for 8 grams and telling me it was a steal at that price. Then I realized he didn't have any self-respect, that's why he was selling pot!;)
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Where are my mod points when I need them? I agree with that
Maybe you shouldn't have mod points, eh? Do you mod down posts you don't agree with?
You're all smoking crack, sinning, and going straight to hell.
It's not about aesthetics or balance, it's about loving Jesus Christ, recognizing that he died on the cross so your cheating heart can be forgiven, and jumping through every single hoop so you can stand at the pearly gates thinking you got into heaven just so Jesus can jump out and say "Boo!" right before you descend into the flaming pits of hell.
Or something like that.
I know you weren't trying to attack me. Sorry if I came off edgy, years as a mechanic have made me pretty edgy when people whip out books and references and stuff to show me wrong where my experience guides me to what I know is right. ;) I've worked alongside so many ASE certifications that I had to teach righty-tighty-lefty-loosy to that I've pretty much lost confidence in most certifications and the documentation that gives certification. (Similar experiences with MCSEs and a smattering of others in various fields)
Yeah, you're right about the tire wear. I find that with most aftermarket tires the tires wear right about perfectly inflated like I said. However, that's only most. 17" tires aren't most aftermarket tires. ;) If you're running any sort of specialized tire (and if you have a real sportscar this means you) then you do have to look a bit harder at what you do with them. I figure that if someone's running a specialized tire then they know where to look for what and I just ask them what they want it set at and let it be on their shoulders whatever happens. ;)
But believe you me, I've dealt with a number of people driving luxury cars (Cadillacs seem to be the biggest violator) that buy the car brand new, look in the owner's manual, deflate the tire accordingly, and then come into the shop wanting us to figure out why they're getting such bad gas mileage. Then they want to fight over tire pressure. Sorry, if you're running your tires at 20 pounds when the damn thing says 44 you can't complain about bad mileage. ;) (or uneven wear, for that matter)
I give a shit. I've been doing tires for years, and I guarantee you that if you follow the manufacturer's recommended tire pressures on aftermarket tires you're gonna fuck yourself over one way or another. I've seen it too many times to count.
If you want the best ride, go half what the sidewall says. If you want the best mileage, go what the sidewall says.
I'd also point out that I didn't say the sidewall listed the manufacturer's recommended tire pressure, I specifically continually referred to it as the max pressure and recommended you fill your tires to that pressure. It gives you a ride that is still pretty smooth (depending on the car, some cars just won't ride smooth no matter what) and also gives you the best compromise of city/highway mileage, and finally when you have to always check it hot you will be guaranteed to never exceed the max rated pressure of the tire.
One word, latency.
The turbo is driven by exhaust gases, so it's being driven by gases that are moving at the speed the engine was going when that gas was burned. The engine could now be going at any arbitrary speed, higher or lower, so the turbo isn't necessarily going to compress anything. Quite the contrary, there's a few valves to regulate this using either engine vacuum or computer pulses (or other methods).
Fact is, if you floor it and then take your foot off it and the turbo kept cranking without any check valves the engine would stall.
At cruising speed the turbo usually shuts down almost completely. Most turbo engines don't need the air compressed at cruising speed at all, only for acceleration. Which is all turbos are really used for in regular cars. ;) Racing's a different story, but a turbo won't affect your top speed as much as the rest of your drivetrain, so unless you're doing the quarter mile you probably aren't even worried about a turbo to win the race.
Look in the door jam, glove box or on the back of one of the sun visors for the manufacturers' recommended tire pressure. Usually around 30-34 psi. Don't go by "max pressure" on the sidewall of the tire.
Nope. Use the max pressure on the sidewall of the tire. The places you've suggested will speak *only* of the tires that were installed on the car by the manufacturer. Worse yet, some cars will put low numbers like 22psi or less, to give you a smoother ride, and eat up your gas mileage like there's no tomorrow.
Using the number on the sidewall of the tire you're guaranteed to always have less than the maximum pressure the tire is rated for. Why? You may ask.
I will tell. ;) The max pressure rating is for cold tires with cold air. Unless you're like me and you happen to have an air compressor in your driveway, you'll have to drive to a place to get your tires checked, and they'll be hot (or at least hotter than cold).
The only catch is, if you live in a place that actually has seasons (so, nowhere in the southwest or the south) then you'll need to check your tires at least once a week starting in the springtime and heading into early summer. Then you can drop back to once a month again. The higher summer temperatures could cause any extra air you have from adding air in the wintertime to expand enough to push your tires beyond the max rating, although it's unlikely to pop them.
Most tires will still go another 14-18psi over the max rating with no trouble, albeit with a noticeable loss of traction. Whenever I take a trip I usually throw 5 more pounds in my tires to get better mileage on the highway (the longer the trip the more I worry about it, that stuff will add up over the length of the trip, and if I can have another $20 at the end of the trip not spent on gas that means I can buy more soda for the ride back ;) )
But when it comes right down to it, the only reliable spec you have for the tire you're filling is the spec moulded into the tire. All other specs are unreliable because there's no way to verify that they refer to exactly your tire.
No shit. First I thought I was being helpful by providing a link to FuelLog in a post higher up.
But then I read your post and realized I had just outgeeked someone.
Now I've outgeeked you by providing a link to these weird "programs" you speak of (well, one anyway).
Now try to outgeek me, just try it baby.
Or, if you have a PalmOS PDA (like me) you can use FuelLog to record your gas purchases and see what your mileage is every time you fill up, look at pretty graphs, and so forth.
I used it religiously until my wife stopped telling me the numbers to put in. :( It's worth buying a palm just to use this program. ;) (I'm *not* a developer for this program, just a fanatic user)
The purpose of language is to convey meaning. If meaning is conveyed through the use of a sound, then the purpose of language has been fulfilled. Thus, that sound is a form of language.
Eh? The purpose of language is to convey specific meaning. That's how come words have specific meanings (yes, even in English). What would the point of language be if I told you to pass the sugar and you thought I said "You fucking bitch you ruined my life!"
Music has no specific meaning that can be determined in its expression. Certainly I mean something when I write a passage of music, but you probably won't understand what I meant when you listen to it. You'll still get the emotional overtones and so forth, and you might get some visualization along those lines, but...
Well, with language the language carries it's meaning with it. You have a store of your own that will closely match mine, so when I write these words you will understand each word. You still have to piece them together, analyze their relationships, spell-check, and then hopefully the understanding you will achieve is the meaning I'm trying to convey.
Music is different than that. It lacks a store of definitions, for one thing. It also varies from person to person. Take a regular rock song. Two guitarists play the same riff, but neither one of them plays it exactly the same. The bass player plays the same riff, but it's completely unlike either guitarists. The drummer plays the same riff, and it's also completely unlike the rest of the band. The singer's worthless, they always are. What you bring to the song when you listen to it is your own life experiences. What I bring to the song when I write it is my own life experiences. Since two people can't experience the same life, then it's not possible for two people to pull the exact same meaning from a piece of music. Many will come close, and lyrics help a lot (no matter how worthless singers are), but no one will be the same in this regard. Music is more personal, while language is social.
Am I making sense? I'm pretty sleepy...
but if you can't respect all genres of music, that tells me you really don't understand anything about music at all.
Respecting genres of music is like respecting religion. There's no point to it, and no practical value in doing so, other than if you don't, you might offend the liberals. ;)
After all, when was the last time you were moved by sheet music? Or even midi, for that matter.
Perhaps you're missing something. I've long held that thoughts happen when you're dreaming music, and I've long held that thought is not dependent on language, and the only reason music doesn't work well for actual communication (besides the emotional stuff) is because there isn't a common vocabulary. I frequently play my guitar to work something out in my head, and I'll follow a complete train of thought, complete reasoning, and when I reach the conclusion, *then* I'll try to phrase it in english, but *only* if I need to communicate the conclusion. Otherwise, I just keep it as is and act on it.
The point is that when you read a piece of sheet music, you generally read it in the old-fashioned non-speed-reader fashion. That is, you sound the notes out in your head. When you do that, you are performing the music for yourself, and you are hearing the piece (probably hearing it more perfectly than it can be played). I've been moved many a-time by reading sheet music.
Midi is a completely different story, though. I've tried plugging myself in to the network, but try though I might I just can't get those electrical pulses to my brain, so I can't even start trying to read it in its native form.
Oh wait, you mean moved by listening to a synth playing midi? Well, to all outward appearances, the music is still being performed, albeit by a machine. You must remember that a person thought the music and composed it, possibly that same person transcribed it to midi, or someone else did, and the thoughts are still coming to you even if the computer is the medium through which it comes. But it's still coming.
If you're a musician, you know that excessive accidentals make the specified key pointless and virtually nonexistent.
That's generally referred to as jazz.
But when you do it on purpose, it's called heavy metal.
And when you do it on accident and then claim it's on purpose, it's called rock'n'roll.
But if you don't do it at all, it's called crap. ;)
Maybe he should go find that place where other people who suffer genetic mutations can go and find solace and education from the cruel world. You know, that place run by a bald man called Xavier?
This is the first X-men post I've seen, and I had to post it. Man, it was so obvious, too. I would've put "First X-Man?" as the headline or something had I submitted the story. ;)
OH it's not that bad. You just have to raise your activity level to match your metabolism. If I don't do 30 hours/week of hard physical labor, I skinny up real badly. On the other hand, doing the 30 hours/week of hard physical labor only bulks me up if I eat 2 pounds of meat each day (not to mention the potatoes and crap that go with it). Right now, though, my upper arms are about 3 inches in radius, and while it's larger than they've been in a few years, it's not as big as they've been.
The trick is to play geek for fun, not for a living. ;) Right now I'm selling barbecue in a few farmer's markets, so three/four times a week I'm hefting heavy shit either setting up or tearing down (it's a 400 pound operation and I have to set up and tear down for every appearance I make each week).
But it's still *not* the junkyard. I looked like a body builder back then, and could even lift most automatic transmissions by myself and carry them (granted I could only lift them up to knee height, but I could bench them to full reach), and some of the small 3 or 4 cylinder engines I could lift. The job itself sucked, but I got pretty tough working it. ;)
The problem is that I look at that all the time, and I always read it. I know a stick is 8 tablespoons, and I *think* it's 1/4 cup. It says so right there, and I look at it all the time, but I can never remember it. If I could just remember it, I'd know the conversion from tablespoons->cups. ;)
Ecasound is the best recording application you can get, and it's all console, baby. Wow. ;)
Um, your "rebuttal" and my post are not mutually exclusive. Having balls doesn't mean you can't be afraid of shit, it just means you don't let fear dominate you. Compare that guy to George Bush, eh?
Um, these were prices in southern New Mexico 8 years ago. The same time period saw 10 gram bags in Texas for $25. Maybe it's true, then, that everything's bigger in Texas. ;)
Except that absolutely *none* of your conversion examples are practical in any meaningful sense.
Contrarily, I can eyeball a foot, then I can eyeball a quarter of it and know that it's 3 inches, write it on my paper, go buy a piece of wood that measures 3 inches, and then nail it on the end of my dick to give my wife more pleasure.
Well, if what you're *raised* with is the system you should use, then I'd personally prefer a system based in powers of 2. I can make those conversions faster than I can Imperial or Metric. And it makes so much more sense than powers of ten anyway.
Oh yeah. 13mm = 1/2 inch. 14mm = 9/16 inch. 10 mm = 3/8inch (actually 10mm is slightly larger) 11mm = 7/16 inch
I forget what 15mm and 17mm are, and 18mm is obviously even with an imperial size, but I've never worked out which one because none of my imperial sockets go that high.
Don't forget, though, that mechanics can only tell bolt/nut sizes. Just because I know what a 12mm bolt head looks like doesn't mean I can measure out a centimeter with my fingers, whereas I can usually measure an inch with my fingers pretty accurately.
Hm, so all the other imperial units are defined to be exactly 2.54cm?
Why do we have to worry about that? It's not like they've even discovered fire, let alone anything they need a speedometer for. Sheesh.
So the road signs in Japan are also printed in the roman alphabet with Arabic numbers? Otherwise why would you make that mistake? (Not to mention that I can't remember the last roadsign I saw that abbreviated miles to m, since miles are abbreviated to mi, but most roadsigns either just put "miles" or don't put a unit because everyone knows it's miles)
A sure sign is when you buy a quarter-bag and your dealer tells you he sells them as 8 grams and you just have to kick his ass for shorting you.
I was so shocked to see a man actual trying to keep his self-respect while quoting me $35 for 8 grams and telling me it was a steal at that price. Then I realized he didn't have any self-respect, that's why he was selling pot! ;)