"Jim Whitehead" <ejw@cse.ucsc.edu> writes:
> The CD player we have combines play and pause in a single button, but
> doesn't provide *instantaneous* feedback that the button was pushed, instead
> requiring you to wait until the music starts, 5-10 seconds. This is a UI
> disaster. Since Tatum doesn't get feedback right away, she presses the
> button again, thereby pausing the CD before it even plays. She'll only ever
> get music if she presses the button an odd number of times. This happens a
> surprising amount of the time, since she eventually hits the button again
> when the music doesn't play.
Nice to hear that somebody else does this too.
--
Karl Anderson      kra@monkey.org           http://www.monkey.org/~kra/

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On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Tom wrote:
> A groys gesheft zol er hobn mit shroyre vus er hot, zol men bay im nit
> fregn, un vos men fregt zol er nisht hobn, and if that aint the truth
> nutin is.
A nice curse. Don't get "shroyre", though.

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> Now for Benjamin, yea id love to have something like the amazingly cool
> Fisher Price My First (cd, casset, vasectomy, dirtybomb) products. Perhaps
> the My First Cd might work...time to let ebay do the walking.
Sony makes such a line of products.
My father was legendary for his abilty to break things.  His 'thumbs of death'
would rival anything a toddler could do to devices.  After countless numbers of
Walkman devices having their lids broken or buttons pressed into oblivion I
found the Sony devices.  I got him a "My First Sony" (be afraid of the
marketing) CD player.   It was /fire engine red/ but was completely
indestructible.  I hacked a headphone jack into it and gave it to him.  He
complained of it's looks but used it nonetheless.  I also gave him a pack of
headphones as there's no such things indestuctible headphones that aren't
obscenely bulky.
Now that we're riding up the curve of an ever increasing geezer population, how
soon before device makers get wise?  Not to be morbid, but would the marketing
be "My Last Sony"?  <ducks and runs>
-Bill Kearney