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Comment Re: I drive more carefully than you (Score 1) 534

Which is very difficult to do in any significant level of traffic because there always seems to be at least one idiot who gets into the gap. Flipside though, in very dense European traffic (think Belgian rush hour), "parking" yourself a safe distance behind a heavy lorry on the motorway slow lane is ridiculously calm driving, and ironically usually faster than the other two lanes where idiot drivers keep slowing each other down trying to overtake when there is *nowhere to go*.

Plus you get the reduced drag effect to up your MPG to 60-70 in the right car.

Comment Re:It's not always nefarious.... (Score 5, Insightful) 97

You can sort that kind of stuff out in UX testing: you can see what they are doing if you're there, in the room with them, while they are doing it, and your tester knows you are watching them. Instead of this surreptitious "it's for UX reasons, honest, and we buried it on page 24 of the EULA in a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory behind a sign that says "beware of the leopard"*. Can we please start putting users' rights above our own damn convenience as developers? Thanks.

(*Not that it is even IN the EULA in this case, so there's that.)

Comment Re:Wrong end of the "gun" (Score 5, Informative) 167

If you'd even read the article you linked, you would see that the amyloid plaque "cages" are left behind after the infectious agent has been killed, so yes, treating the plaques would actually make great sense - the human body fights off the infection and a non-invasive simple treatment removes the detritus. Of course, the testing will have to reveal how the brain reacts to this, but it could be a great way of staving off dementia.

Comment Re:Nobody wants underpowered fart boxes (Score 1) 151

I'm on my second (C-Max this time, regular Focus hatch the first). It does need to be revved fairly high for torque, but I have never stalled unless I was driving it like it's a 2 litre diesel (as in "expecting it to take off from a standing start in second gear"). You do have to shift gears a bit more often, and I have made my displeasure known to the car verbally when I was in the "suggested" gear for the car and tried to accelerate. It seems to love suggesting going to 6th gear from 40MPH upwards. ONLY if you're doing a constant speed on a level, because even a slight hill will completely take the oomph out until you downshift, usually by at least two gears. I easily hit 45-47MPG with the first one on longish journeys, closer to 40MPG when I was doing lots of tiny trips. About 2-3 MPG less with the heavier, bulkier C-Max. Is it as fun/easy to drive as a bigger engine with more torque? Hell no, it's quite dull, but then it's more or less the textbook "family" car, and I quite like how it seems designed to prevent me from doing anything stupid in a fit of road-rage with my family in the car.

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