[Gllug] Geforce2

[Les Till]

Tushar Joshi wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 05:34:53PM +0000, David Damerell wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 23 Jan 2002, Tushar Joshi wrote:
> > >How exactly is a gearbox better than an automatic!? Apart from cramp in the
> > >left foot when changing from 1st to 2nd 300 times a second? 8o)
> >
> > Automatic gearing for bicycles has never caught on, because there's a
> > certain increase in friction; for a given speed there's more than one
> > gear you might want to use depending on whether you're accelerating
> > hard, cruising, planning to increase speed slowly, or whatever; and
> > gear changes cause unpredictable fluctuations in the drive power.
> >
> > I believe that motor cars suffer from all these issues too, but to a
> > lesser degree, which is what makes automatics a feasible alternative.
> 
> feasible? or infeasible? But on automatics you can still force it to use
> gears 1,2 and on some 3 and 4, you just don't need to use a clutch. Just
> move the gear forward and backwards instead of in weird left right motions
> :) I just feel that the difference between automatics/manuals is like linux
> and windows in some cases.
> 
> Tushar
> 
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Those wierd motions are the reason why the manual gearbox is known as a
'Christian gearbox'.
Seems the current discussion is well into politics just thought I'd
introduce religion.
 Les

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