Ubuntu loosing its popularity

[Ernest Doub]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:24 AM, J <dreadpiratejeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:36, Art Edwards
> <edwardsa at icantbelieveimdoingthis.com> wrote:
> > Interesting that you brought up push button drive. That ended up being a
> > gimmick that was dropped a few years later by all the major auto makers.
> > I had a 1963 Dodge Dart with push button drive. Not a great innovation,
> > really. IMHO, either is the dock in Unity.
>
> Only because the shifter on the stalk and in the console were "more
> familiar" and not as strange.  However, if you notice today's vehicles
> are slowly coming back to push button drive.
>
> There's been push-button AWD/4WD for some time now, and high end and
> even some lower end cars are coming with push-button or spinny-knob
> automatic transmissions.
>
> So really, if you're saying that Unity is the Push Button Automatic,
> well, then it will eventually become accepted.
>
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The reason for going to "push button drive" in automobiles has to do with
the increasing cost reductions made possible by using electronic controls
instead of mechanical linkages.
Since the underlying systems are all monitored and controlled through
integrated circuits it now just makes sense to adopt that control scheme
for automatic transmissions.
Manual transmissions still require a mechanical linkage for gear changing.
Any of the so called auto/manual trans setups is just an automatic
transmission with an override on the automatic part.
Now if they would just start using a linux based system for the super wiz
bang toys instead of the microsoft system...
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