Ipod impressions

Posted on March 28, 2006

Things I don’t like about my ipod video (no order)
1) battery life. I can use it for one, maximum two days.
2) no way to change volume without playing, I have to take my earphones out before playing songs.
3) user interface often gets stuck.
4) difficult to rate songs
5) I want to skip audio books, but there are no way to edit “random song play list”.
6) Expensive accessories
7) no way to replace the battery (why does it have it to be so slick if it has to be always in a case, to protect it from scratches?)
8) no lightweight full-featured itunes replacement
9) proprietary USB cable
10) It takes long time for windows to recognize and mount it.
11) no way to set brightness level.
12) Very easy to scratch front and back.
13) Instead of time, often shows “ipod”.
14) No biper/vibrator to notify about appointment.

Things that I like:
1) 30Gb of storage
2) Navigation menu, and wheel.
3) size, weight.
4) pauses when headphones are removed.
5) calendar & person contacts
6) Album art
7) Itunes organized by mp3 collection.

Would I buy it, now that I used for almost one semester? No. It’s not perfect and, ipod hype is unjustified, but it is a good mp3 player, so I’ll keep it.

00strange

Posted on March 24, 2006

My friend 00strange aka David started a blog. He is a Concordian too, and he is interested in 3D graphics and space navigation algoritms. Good luck with that blog David.

Groupwork

Posted on March 22, 2006

DBTF

Posted on March 22, 2006

I don’t know what to think about this development before the fact (DBTF) methodology (book). It promises to solve all the software engineering problems, and was used to develop some very interesting and important applications.
Besides the methodology, I think this article hightlights some of the very important problems of current software development practices.

Benefits of education in numbers

Posted on March 22, 2006

Student Rates of Pay for 2006
Effective January 1, 2006
Post Secondary

Observation

Posted on March 22, 2006

I was reading a book about risk management (”Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects“) and there was this except:

“The Early Adopters were …. But Fidellity and Scwab decided to run directly toward thouse risks, while Merrill Lynch chose to run away from them. The result was that Fidelity and Schwab grew aggressively in the nineties while Merrill Lynch struggled to stay even.” more here.

One book in the references section cought by eye:

U.S Marine Corps Staff. Warfighting: The U.S. Marine Corps Book of Strategy

And this is what I found in that book:

This can mean lanching a surprise attach or it can mean getting a new product years before competition, as was the case with Merrill Lynch’s Cash Management Account [CMA] … By 1980, when asked what the future held for banking, a well respected competitor of ours said, “Look at Merrill Lynch, that’s the future.”.

So the moral is: watch what you quote, don’t predict the future and stay humble ;-).

Demonstration

Posted on March 18, 2006

Another thing I hate: People with loudspeakers who exercise their right of free speech in from of the library building.

Hmm: “A demonstration is the public display of the common opinion of an activist group, which often deal with politics, economics, and society, or the issues related to it. Thus, such an opinion is demonstrated to be public and significant by gathering in a crowd, usually at a symbolic place or date, associated with that opinion.”

I wonder what are they demonstrating: nobody knows what’s written on their banners, or what they are screaming and singing about… I guess is a some kind of social picnic.

Concordia elections compain.

Posted on March 15, 2006

I guess it this time of the year again; social science people are trying to get elected so that they can get power to do whatever they plan to do. That’s all good and dandy but I think that I don’t understand something: one group is experienced but unconscious, another is conscious but inexperienced, and yet another one is trying to focus to become conscious and get some experience. For whom do I vote for?

Schrödinger’s cat

Posted on March 5, 2006

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