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Manual transmission generally is more fuel efficient than automatic transmission. According to fueleconomy.gov, on most identical models with the same engine, just chosing the manual transmission instead of automatic will result in a car that is significantly more fuel effecient. So my question is, why hasn't somebody easily combined the advantages of both by putting a regular manual transmission in the car, and then make all of the clutching and shifting done completely automatically by a computer and some electro-machanical robotic arm?! It seems like a brilliant idea to me and I can't see how this would be prohibitively expensive to deveolop or have any other drawbacks.
Many automakers develop either "tiptronic" automatic transmission based systems with manual gear selection by the driver, or "semi-automatic" manual transmission systems which automatically apply the clutch. But that doesn't have the advantage of fully automatic cars and the fuel effeciency and lower cost of a manual gearbox.
So if nobody has invented this completely automatically controlled manual gearbox, why not??— Preceding unsigned comment added by Roberto75780 ( talk • contribs)
You can even improve your fuel efficiency on an automatic cars by easing off the gas when the engine gets over 2000 rpm, causing the car to shift, and then applying the gas again slowly once it has done so. μηδείς ( talk) 22:29, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
In the event of an appolytiptic scenarion, what would be the best currency in the case "money" (i.e. paper, gold, silver, etc) was deemed worthless? Quinn ❀ BEAUTIFUL DAY 04:11, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
Id just assume everyone would be screaming for their lives and just grab the last bits of everything they could Accdude92 ( talk) 05:19, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
I'd probably still value my iPhone above all possessions and human interaction, even if lack of electricity means it's reduced to just being a smooth paperweight. Come to think of it, that happens every few hours now. -- Dweller ( talk) 10:07, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
Batteries. Looie496 ( talk) 18:20, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
Bullets. μηδείς ( talk) 19:42, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
If people are still capable of trade, the world hasn't ended. 99.2.148.119 ( talk) 04:58, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
How can you see the road beneath the Google street view car if the camera is mounted on a car? Accdude92 ( talk) 05:18, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
Given that there is a clear line of 'blur' when looking down I would suspect they use angle-images from before the car reaches that part and then stitch it all together to appear as though it was taken all at the same time. ny156uk ( talk) 07:01, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
Some of those images could be automatically composited with images of the road underneath the camera car from the previous and/or next set of photographs. 99.2.148.119 ( talk) 04:55, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
Today, when I plugged in my laptop charger into the wall socket,I immediately heard a buzzing/crackling sound and smelt something burning. When I pulled the plug out, I saw the one of the three pins had become a bit blackened. I plugged it into another socket in another room, and the laptop recognised the charger and started charging itself as usual. So I guess my charger hasn't been damaged. It's working, right? Or is there something wrong that I should get fixed? Was the burning because of some problem with the charger, or the wall socket?? Will this have any future repurcussions on the life of my charger? 110.225.183.63 ( talk) 09:36, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
I have just been reading the biographies of current and still living (though retired) justices of the US Supreme Court, and was (and remain)puzzled to see that the official website of the US Supreme Court repeatedly describes them as having practiced law in xxxxx Law Practices prior to appointment as Associate Justices. I live in the UK and have worked within the Scottish Judicial system and have always worked on the principle that lawyers and doctors and architects etc., practised their professional services within a practice. Is this not the case in the USA? 94.172.117.205 ( talk) 11:58, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
I am curious as to the appeal of taking snuff recreationaly as its main function seems to cause the participant to sneeze. Do some people find sneezing entertaining or something? Googlemeister ( talk) 14:52, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
All of the windows in my school say Arm-R-Clad Safety Tempered by Hordis Bros Inc or Arm-R-Clad Safety Tempered by C-E Glass (the newer part of the building has the one's that say C-E Glass). Out of curiosity, I Googled it and it appears as if Hordis Brothers was swallowed up by HGP Industries (which was apparently later swallowed up by Oldcastle), and that C-E Glass stands for Combustion Engineering and they were swallowed up by Asea Brown Boveri, who was later swallowed up by Alstom. So my question is, what happened to the Arm-R-Clad brand and is it still being produced by someone? 64.31.57.3 ( talk) 21:55, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello, this is awkward, oh boy. I've got the social skills of a loaf of bread. if, say, I want to meet someone on the weekend (a co-patient at a therapeutic institution), and I suggest to meet at the library where I'm going to go to anyway, but that someone happens to be a member of the opposite sex, should I say in the e-mail I'm not trying to hit on them - which I really aren't, and I don't feel like getting the sack (being turned down) because of them thinking that I was and creeping them out. Why am I trying to arrange to meet a member of the opposite sex on the weekend in the first place? Well, I don't - actually, anyone else I know (who of them there are not many:) is unavailable - thus, any company would do and I know that the person frequents that library, too. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.226.2.154 ( talk) 22:04, 22 July 2011 (UTC) by therapeutic I meant mental.
I am diagnosed with multiple myeloma by a local oncologist that is treating me with oral medication "alkeran". I would like to recveive an e-mail with information about alkeran (pills), and all other oral medications used for multiople myeloma patients including old as well as new, and meds. Still in testing phase waiting approval for human usage,with males. I am 78 years old,caucasian, ljving in florida for >40 years. Of cause, the answers in response to this inquiry will be interpreted in non-specific general areas of cancer patient treatments. Thank you, THANK YOU, <email redacted> — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.185.237.166 ( talk) 23:58, 22 July 2011 (UTC) I redacted your e-mail address to discourage spam. Cuddlyable3 ( talk) 00:37, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
Where does the "the" in its name come from? Unlike the US, the UK, and the Netherlands, there doesn't seem to be any logical reason for adding it. -- 134.10.114.238 ( talk) 23:59, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
I agree with Jayron. English tends to use "the" for regions -- "The South," "The Vendée," "The Triangle," etc. Ukraine had pretty much always been a region of a larger country. It was this "regional" association that I'm guessing brought Ukraine to ask the world to stop calling it "The Ukraine" in the early 1990s. -- Mwalcoff ( talk) 02:22, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
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Manual transmission generally is more fuel efficient than automatic transmission. According to fueleconomy.gov, on most identical models with the same engine, just chosing the manual transmission instead of automatic will result in a car that is significantly more fuel effecient. So my question is, why hasn't somebody easily combined the advantages of both by putting a regular manual transmission in the car, and then make all of the clutching and shifting done completely automatically by a computer and some electro-machanical robotic arm?! It seems like a brilliant idea to me and I can't see how this would be prohibitively expensive to deveolop or have any other drawbacks.
Many automakers develop either "tiptronic" automatic transmission based systems with manual gear selection by the driver, or "semi-automatic" manual transmission systems which automatically apply the clutch. But that doesn't have the advantage of fully automatic cars and the fuel effeciency and lower cost of a manual gearbox.
So if nobody has invented this completely automatically controlled manual gearbox, why not??— Preceding unsigned comment added by Roberto75780 ( talk • contribs)
You can even improve your fuel efficiency on an automatic cars by easing off the gas when the engine gets over 2000 rpm, causing the car to shift, and then applying the gas again slowly once it has done so. μηδείς ( talk) 22:29, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
In the event of an appolytiptic scenarion, what would be the best currency in the case "money" (i.e. paper, gold, silver, etc) was deemed worthless? Quinn ❀ BEAUTIFUL DAY 04:11, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
Id just assume everyone would be screaming for their lives and just grab the last bits of everything they could Accdude92 ( talk) 05:19, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
I'd probably still value my iPhone above all possessions and human interaction, even if lack of electricity means it's reduced to just being a smooth paperweight. Come to think of it, that happens every few hours now. -- Dweller ( talk) 10:07, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
Batteries. Looie496 ( talk) 18:20, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
Bullets. μηδείς ( talk) 19:42, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
If people are still capable of trade, the world hasn't ended. 99.2.148.119 ( talk) 04:58, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
How can you see the road beneath the Google street view car if the camera is mounted on a car? Accdude92 ( talk) 05:18, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
Given that there is a clear line of 'blur' when looking down I would suspect they use angle-images from before the car reaches that part and then stitch it all together to appear as though it was taken all at the same time. ny156uk ( talk) 07:01, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
Some of those images could be automatically composited with images of the road underneath the camera car from the previous and/or next set of photographs. 99.2.148.119 ( talk) 04:55, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
Today, when I plugged in my laptop charger into the wall socket,I immediately heard a buzzing/crackling sound and smelt something burning. When I pulled the plug out, I saw the one of the three pins had become a bit blackened. I plugged it into another socket in another room, and the laptop recognised the charger and started charging itself as usual. So I guess my charger hasn't been damaged. It's working, right? Or is there something wrong that I should get fixed? Was the burning because of some problem with the charger, or the wall socket?? Will this have any future repurcussions on the life of my charger? 110.225.183.63 ( talk) 09:36, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
I have just been reading the biographies of current and still living (though retired) justices of the US Supreme Court, and was (and remain)puzzled to see that the official website of the US Supreme Court repeatedly describes them as having practiced law in xxxxx Law Practices prior to appointment as Associate Justices. I live in the UK and have worked within the Scottish Judicial system and have always worked on the principle that lawyers and doctors and architects etc., practised their professional services within a practice. Is this not the case in the USA? 94.172.117.205 ( talk) 11:58, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
I am curious as to the appeal of taking snuff recreationaly as its main function seems to cause the participant to sneeze. Do some people find sneezing entertaining or something? Googlemeister ( talk) 14:52, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
All of the windows in my school say Arm-R-Clad Safety Tempered by Hordis Bros Inc or Arm-R-Clad Safety Tempered by C-E Glass (the newer part of the building has the one's that say C-E Glass). Out of curiosity, I Googled it and it appears as if Hordis Brothers was swallowed up by HGP Industries (which was apparently later swallowed up by Oldcastle), and that C-E Glass stands for Combustion Engineering and they were swallowed up by Asea Brown Boveri, who was later swallowed up by Alstom. So my question is, what happened to the Arm-R-Clad brand and is it still being produced by someone? 64.31.57.3 ( talk) 21:55, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello, this is awkward, oh boy. I've got the social skills of a loaf of bread. if, say, I want to meet someone on the weekend (a co-patient at a therapeutic institution), and I suggest to meet at the library where I'm going to go to anyway, but that someone happens to be a member of the opposite sex, should I say in the e-mail I'm not trying to hit on them - which I really aren't, and I don't feel like getting the sack (being turned down) because of them thinking that I was and creeping them out. Why am I trying to arrange to meet a member of the opposite sex on the weekend in the first place? Well, I don't - actually, anyone else I know (who of them there are not many:) is unavailable - thus, any company would do and I know that the person frequents that library, too. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.226.2.154 ( talk) 22:04, 22 July 2011 (UTC) by therapeutic I meant mental.
I am diagnosed with multiple myeloma by a local oncologist that is treating me with oral medication "alkeran". I would like to recveive an e-mail with information about alkeran (pills), and all other oral medications used for multiople myeloma patients including old as well as new, and meds. Still in testing phase waiting approval for human usage,with males. I am 78 years old,caucasian, ljving in florida for >40 years. Of cause, the answers in response to this inquiry will be interpreted in non-specific general areas of cancer patient treatments. Thank you, THANK YOU, <email redacted> — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.185.237.166 ( talk) 23:58, 22 July 2011 (UTC) I redacted your e-mail address to discourage spam. Cuddlyable3 ( talk) 00:37, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
Where does the "the" in its name come from? Unlike the US, the UK, and the Netherlands, there doesn't seem to be any logical reason for adding it. -- 134.10.114.238 ( talk) 23:59, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
I agree with Jayron. English tends to use "the" for regions -- "The South," "The Vendée," "The Triangle," etc. Ukraine had pretty much always been a region of a larger country. It was this "regional" association that I'm guessing brought Ukraine to ask the world to stop calling it "The Ukraine" in the early 1990s. -- Mwalcoff ( talk) 02:22, 24 July 2011 (UTC)