Re: Amusing story

2015-07-02 Thread Stephen Price
Are you sure he sent you the wrong data? Did your heart rate go up as intended? Did you check every link? On Thu, 2 Jul 2015 at 14:00 Tom Rutter therut...@gmail.com wrote: Reminds me of a time I worked for a big phone company and someone (note i don't say accidentally or by mistake here) sent

Re: Amusing story

2015-07-02 Thread Tom Rutter
Reminds me of a time I worked for a big phone company and someone (note i don't say accidentally or by mistake here) sent the client evidence of them being ripped off On Thursday, 2 July 2015, David Richards ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com wrote: Spam aside (innuendo not intended), that's a pretty

RE: [OT] Not so amusing phone story

2015-07-02 Thread Ken Schaefer
You should get a Windows Phone. There are no apps for it, so nothing ever changes. Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Friday, 3 July 2015 11:27 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Not so amusing phone story Yeah,

Re: [OT] Not so amusing phone story

2015-07-02 Thread Greg Keogh
Yeah, when we get major updates to desktop software there is traditionally plenty of warning as you read about it magazines and get preview releases. Phones through don't seem to have the same culture, stuff just arrives, and there are so many apps from so many vendors that I suppose there's no

Re: [OT] Not so amusing phone story

2015-07-02 Thread Stephen Price
Hey leave me out of this. ;) You already know my views on how Greg K should be hired by all major companies as a tester. If it can't get past Greg then its a fail. We'd all benefit. On Fri, 3 Jul 2015 at 07:50 David Connors da...@connors.com wrote: On Fri, 3 Jul 2015 at 09:22 Greg Keogh

RE: [OT] Not so amusing phone story

2015-07-02 Thread Ken Schaefer
From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Friday, 3 July 2015 1:07 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Not so amusing phone story Ken, lol. so true. There are some underlaying questions that need answering. Like WHY are we still

Re: [OT] Not so amusing phone story

2015-07-02 Thread David Richards
Greg, I don't think this is an Android issue but rather a more universal people issue. I have a development nexus 5 and I was notified about the OS upgrade but chose not to do it because I need it to be on the OS version its on now. The notification is sitting there still, taunting me to

Re: Amusing story

2015-07-02 Thread Stuart Kinnear
Amazing what sample data generators come up with these days. - Stuart On 2 July 2015 at 14:54, Grant Maw grant@gmail.com wrote: Guys Not really a .net specific post, but I thought I'd share anyway. I'm working on a database at the moment that is used to record heart rates and other

Re: [OT] Not so amusing phone story

2015-07-02 Thread mike smith
On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Greg Keogh gfke...@gmail.com wrote: Here's a TGIF story that hints at a deep technical and business/culture problem with Android phones and Google. I don't think this problem is so bad on other phone brands, is it? * Last December I downloaded several app

Re: [OT] Not so amusing phone story

2015-07-02 Thread Stephen Price
Perhaps. I do believe that most of our imposed limitations are artificial fabrications to monetise. By creating a perceived shortage of something, creates an inflated value that would not otherwise have existed. Who says it's worth that? If it was suddenly it was found that there is no shortage of

RE: [OT] Not so amusing phone story

2015-07-02 Thread Ken Schaefer
Bandwidth (and the infrastructure and operations) to support it isn’t free or unlimited. Given that, you need some way of recouping the cost. You could charge everyone the same and rather by queue (you just have to wait for your data), or you can ration by usage (use more, pay more). Bandwidth

Re: [OT] Not so amusing phone story

2015-07-02 Thread David Connors
On Fri, 3 Jul 2015 at 11:27 Greg Keogh gfke...@gmail.com wrote: I was unfortunately wedged by the urgency of showing someone my pictures and taking photos and suddenly discovering the dramatic UI changes and didn't have time to sit down calmly, take a stress pill and think things over. You

Re: [OT] Not so amusing phone story

2015-07-02 Thread David Connors
On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Greg Keogh gfke...@gmail.com wrote: I never said I dislike Material Design, it's actually quite pleasant (until something else becomes the fad and it all changes overnight). I was only unhappy that it arrived without warning. I can see how you missed it. [

Re: [OT] Not so amusing phone story

2015-07-02 Thread Stephen Price
Perhaps his Ad blocking filtered out the warning messages? On Fri, 3 Jul 2015 at 13:12 David Connors da...@connors.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Greg Keogh gfke...@gmail.com wrote: I never said I dislike Material Design, it's actually quite pleasant (until something else becomes

Re: [OT] Not so amusing phone story

2015-07-02 Thread Bec C
There should be a setting to disallow updates on mobile data. I know iOS has this. It's saved me so many times On Friday, 3 July 2015, Greg Keogh gfke...@gmail.com wrote: Here's a TGIF story that hints at a deep technical and business/culture problem with Android phones and Google. I don't

Re: [OT] Not so amusing phone story

2015-07-02 Thread Greg Keogh
You already know my views on how Greg K should be hired by all major companies as a tester. If it can't get past Greg then its a fail. We'd all benefit. Unfortunately, I'm not practically valuable for testing due to religious reasons: I'm a resistentialist

Re: [OT] Not so amusing phone story

2015-07-02 Thread Greg Keogh
I didn't upgrade the OS during stress time, that happened last December when I didn't read the BEWARE OF THE DOG notification. I never said I dislike Material Design, it's actually quite pleasant (until something else becomes the fad and it all changes overnight). I was only unhappy that it