Re: Quality Control
You have purchased a prestige product manufactured by a Chinese sweatshop worker.
Why wouldn't you take it to a back street repair shop? They normally have a better idea about how to fix these things.
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Sensor on the back is great when holding your phone but a real pain when it's sat on your desk and you don't want to have to pick it up to quickly reply to a message.
Sensor on front is great if phone is on a desk or (depending on size of phone) got both hands free.
It's not quite like the old days of nokias where you could pop the battery off in half a second and have the new fully charged spare on in the same amount of time. The longest part of the process was the phone booting back up again.
I had user training for a new piece of warehouse management software last year.
It consisted of someone coming in saying "it's a bit like the old software", me pointing out I'd never used the old software (cost per user licence and very low chance of me actually needing it).
He then promptly clicked through some unintelligible things on screen, declared that to be training and left.
I didn't have to worry about the poor training though because the implementation of the new software was so bad and buggy that they stopped trying to use it after 2 days. When I left 8 months later they still hadn't got it up and running.
I can totally understand the "hang on to get your pound of flesh" out of the previous employer. I was moving jobs and a combination of timing and sheer bloody mindedness meant that I wanted to get my bonus from the previous employer even though I'd be earning twice as much at the new place. I didn't believe they deserved to hold on to my bonus money. They wouldn't re-invest it in the business or employees, it would just go towards the director's annual Bentley upgrade.
But PAGE was a rite of passage for undergrad biosciences!
Having to remind the poor stupid darlings not to keep prodding the nice squidgy gel with a bare finger because it was still laced with un polymerised cumulative neurotoxin...
Was more fun doing large 2D SDS-PAGE protein separations because we'd wash the gel plates in hot water and detergent then, while still hot, rinse them down with ethanol. Wouldn't actually cast the gel until the next day so we had time to sober up again. 2D-LC makes the proteins far more recoverable but it takes the fun out of things a bit.
^This
An original, significant contribution to knowledge.
Plenty of PhD colleagues that got to the end of 3 years and had stacks and stacks of results that showed that something doesn't work, but have still improved understanding of a topic.
There's a good movement to have research papers that document test methods that don't work (but are theoretically sound) because people don't normally talk about that part. Helps prevent a dozen groups working in the same field all trying the same wrong things wasting time and money.
I get annoyed with the over supply of regional power cords with things now.
You have to hang on to things in case you need to send the whole lot back but invariably end up with a cupboard and multiple drawers full of various european and american ended cables that a manager says you should probably hold on to just in case.
During an annual spring clean they normally find their way to an appropriate waste stream and off site.
I may change my opinion on this soon though as I'm working in a country that uses the British 3 pin and european 2 pin plugs pretty much interchangeably and I never know what kind of plug socket I'm going to encounter next.
Google give me products and services, I invite it in to my life.
Facebook I don't want interaction with but it is bundled on my work phone. You can't get rid of it* and yet: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/22/facebook_data_leak_no_account/
I have no idea what information they are collecting in a shadow profile for me.
* (I can if I root/do my own thing but not going to do that with a work supplied device)
It's great! I hand all of my data over to Google and they give me nice products and services. They know where I am and where I need to be, make sure I arrive on time for meetings, flights, restaurant bookings (which may be suggestions based on my previous dining trends). Produce pretty collages reminding me of things I did on this day X years ago that I may have forgotten. They're pretty good at identifying my dog in my pictures (and manage to exclude pictures of other very similar looking black dogs). They have all my emails and attachments indexed so with their search mastery I can find an obscure email from a decade ago. Good calls on my music tastes, amusing videos I might like to watch on YouTube and they've stopped trying to inject sport stories in to my news feed.
They know me better than my ex did after 10 years.
And by handing my money direct to them for these phones it also means it has never had Facebook or Instagram or any other (un)social media installed on it. Not even as a factory loaded thing where you can only uninstall updates (but it somehow still snoops on you).
Until they have to do the standard press release because they forked up:
Our Customers, who art worldwide,
We take the protection of your personal data very seriously,
and we are committed to protecting the privacy and security of all the data entrusted to us,
For ever and ever,
Amen
(Credit to Alister)
I was in a meeting with a colleague when the marketing department revealed that "next month we are excited to be launching 3 new products!". It was news to us as the R&D chemists that would normally make such products.
It turns out a careless conversation between one of our managers and a sales person had escalated and resulted in 3 theoretical products being put to market.
iPlayer content is neither BBFC rated R18 nor contains the percentage of material to make any of this law apply to it.
Likewise All4 and the Channel5 streaming services with their occasional titillating documentaries about the adult industry, wouldn't make up the required amount of content to have an impact.
I've helped with vetting CVs to select who to put forward for interviews in the past.
We would let a few of the obvious BSers through because we wanted to hear how they performed in the interview (sometimes testing practical skills in the lab).
Frequently they were fresh graduates and therefore "experts" on everything they've heard about at Uni but have no practical experience.
Would that be the Dunning-Kruger effect?