The Ctrl.-V Game (Cont.)
Aug 10, 2011 4:33:21 GMT -6
Post by maxxfordham on Aug 10, 2011 4:33:21 GMT -6
Hmm... I don't like it when threads get locked even before they've fallen off from the front page of the list. I never got to play the Ctrl.-V Game in the original thread, so I'll play in this one.
But how do you win it?
Heheh, CAwas, for someone who didn't know about the X10 hosting forums you mentioned that you pulled this game from, at www.x10hosting.com/forums/, they might end up going here instead:
forums.x10.com/.
Haha!
Also, I like that you used "{PASTE}" and "{/PASTE}" as if they were HTML/forum programming code tags! Maybe I'll use them, too.
In a question I asked at Yahoo! Answers (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110802205140AAt7BWs), I added details as a follow-up response, and as a precaution against loss, every time I write something long in a form, just before I send it, I copy it down in case I have to paste it if the posting attempt should go awry. So when I saw the game thread here, this backup copy of that follow-up response is what happened to be in my clipboard at the time (which I'll precede with a copy of the question headline and initial additional details, and the answer):
Hey, auto. trans. drivers, can you tell the difference between the sound of your vehicle and of a stickshift?
Here's a question just for curiosity and the fun of it:
As a stickshift driver, I've been able to tell the difference between the way the engine of one sounds while accelerating through its gears and the way an automatic's engine sounds during its acceleration. (I don't mean the voice characteristics of the engine itself, of course, because those aren't connected; but I just mean the differences between the way it sounds between speeding up in one gear and the next). But I've been curious if those of you who have little or no clue how to drive a manual transmission have still heard the differences in the way the two sound when they drive off.
So... can ya tell? And if so, what do you think the differences are?
Will you come back near the end of this to see my response of if you're correct, and what additional detail I might include? Thanks, if so.
(Only answer, written by "Fusion"
Anyone who can drive a stickshift will know the difference with an auto... one has a slight drop in revs the other is obviously a manual clutch shift... but not all drivers would know this....
(Then my follow-up response as pasted from my precautionary backup copy which was in my clipboard when I saw this game here--instead of being pasted as it shows in Yahoo! Answers itself, being broken and continued.)
(And as an homage to CAwasinNJ, the "paste tags"
{paste}
Hey, Fusion,
Obviously the engines with both types of transmission have to have a drop in revs from one gear to the next, since of course that's how the systems work. (Otherwise they'd be pointless.) so... I don't know if that detail does it justice. But... since there isn't much more time left, I'll go ahead and answer:
Manual transmission:
1. There's sometimes a bit of an up-to-down rev right at the beginning of take-off, if the speed of pressing the fuel pedal wasn't perfectly with the speed of engaging the clutch.
2. Between gears, as the clutch is disengaged, we can hear the engine's revs drop down to idle just before the transmission enters the next gear and the clutch is reengaged.
3. We can hear a bit of a pause of engine acceleration during the shifting, while the clutch is disengaged.
Automatic transmission:
1. While a good stickshift driver can often eliminate the "up-down" revs from the beginning of take-off, we'll *never* hear this with an automatic.
2. The engine doesn't have time to drop down to idle before entering the next gear.
3. There's no pause in acceleration between gears--the engine acceleration from gear to gear switches instantly.
Thanks, Fusion, for being willing to put an answer to this one just for the fun of it. If you want, you can add an edition to your answer in response to this if you have seen this in time (in the last several hours this is open). Well, that was a bit less than fun; hardly anyone came forward to offer up their answer just for the amusement of it. Hmm, I guess I'll try again sometime down the road.
{/paste}
But how do you win it?
Heheh, CAwas, for someone who didn't know about the X10 hosting forums you mentioned that you pulled this game from, at www.x10hosting.com/forums/, they might end up going here instead:
forums.x10.com/.
Haha!
Also, I like that you used "{PASTE}" and "{/PASTE}" as if they were HTML/forum programming code tags! Maybe I'll use them, too.
In a question I asked at Yahoo! Answers (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110802205140AAt7BWs), I added details as a follow-up response, and as a precaution against loss, every time I write something long in a form, just before I send it, I copy it down in case I have to paste it if the posting attempt should go awry. So when I saw the game thread here, this backup copy of that follow-up response is what happened to be in my clipboard at the time (which I'll precede with a copy of the question headline and initial additional details, and the answer):
Hey, auto. trans. drivers, can you tell the difference between the sound of your vehicle and of a stickshift?
Here's a question just for curiosity and the fun of it:
As a stickshift driver, I've been able to tell the difference between the way the engine of one sounds while accelerating through its gears and the way an automatic's engine sounds during its acceleration. (I don't mean the voice characteristics of the engine itself, of course, because those aren't connected; but I just mean the differences between the way it sounds between speeding up in one gear and the next). But I've been curious if those of you who have little or no clue how to drive a manual transmission have still heard the differences in the way the two sound when they drive off.
So... can ya tell? And if so, what do you think the differences are?
Will you come back near the end of this to see my response of if you're correct, and what additional detail I might include? Thanks, if so.
(Only answer, written by "Fusion"
Anyone who can drive a stickshift will know the difference with an auto... one has a slight drop in revs the other is obviously a manual clutch shift... but not all drivers would know this....
(Then my follow-up response as pasted from my precautionary backup copy which was in my clipboard when I saw this game here--instead of being pasted as it shows in Yahoo! Answers itself, being broken and continued.)
(And as an homage to CAwasinNJ, the "paste tags"
{paste}
Hey, Fusion,
Obviously the engines with both types of transmission have to have a drop in revs from one gear to the next, since of course that's how the systems work. (Otherwise they'd be pointless.) so... I don't know if that detail does it justice. But... since there isn't much more time left, I'll go ahead and answer:
Manual transmission:
1. There's sometimes a bit of an up-to-down rev right at the beginning of take-off, if the speed of pressing the fuel pedal wasn't perfectly with the speed of engaging the clutch.
2. Between gears, as the clutch is disengaged, we can hear the engine's revs drop down to idle just before the transmission enters the next gear and the clutch is reengaged.
3. We can hear a bit of a pause of engine acceleration during the shifting, while the clutch is disengaged.
Automatic transmission:
1. While a good stickshift driver can often eliminate the "up-down" revs from the beginning of take-off, we'll *never* hear this with an automatic.
2. The engine doesn't have time to drop down to idle before entering the next gear.
3. There's no pause in acceleration between gears--the engine acceleration from gear to gear switches instantly.
Thanks, Fusion, for being willing to put an answer to this one just for the fun of it. If you want, you can add an edition to your answer in response to this if you have seen this in time (in the last several hours this is open). Well, that was a bit less than fun; hardly anyone came forward to offer up their answer just for the amusement of it. Hmm, I guess I'll try again sometime down the road.
{/paste}
