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Posted on: My New MP3 Player
November 06, 2008, 10:49 PM为什么？
Posted on: My New MP3 Player
November 06, 2008, 07:15 PMAfter Jenny's call to write about experience with MP3 playes, I had hoped to read some about that here. So here's mine.
I have used two players made in China - SanDisk's Sansa Clip and the older, stick shaped version. They work OK, but there are two 欠缺处:
1. Volume. When I listen to ChinesePod in a bus, it's hard to hear anything over the background noise. The volume is clearly softer than that of other (music) MP3 files or of the built-in radio. I tried getting louder headphones but could not find any.
2. Movement in the file. I often want to go back some 5 seconds to listen to a sentence again, and it turns out the newer model is not good at that. Sometimes it jumps to the next lesson, which means that it takes me several minutes to find again where I've been before. The newer model also has a zoom-like effect, which means that it first rewinds very slowly (rewinding 1 sec only goes back 0.1 sec), but it has several "gear shifts" with substantial increases of speed. When a lesson is 20 minutes long, it's very hard to move from 15:00 to 5:00, because it will be so fast that it already jumps to the previous lesson when you release the rewind key. I understand that that may be a great thing for music, but I would prefer an MP3 player that's less specialized for listening to music only.
I need to comment the statement above "an apple a day keeps the doctor away": To the contrary - the one time I used an Apple with my MP3 player, it broke it! (What happened was: I plugged it into my friend's Apple's USB port to upload a few files, and when I pulled it out the Apple rudely chided me with an error message that I shouldn't have done so without properly saying goodbye. Next thing I know, I can't do anything with my MP3 player anymore. Neither play, nor plug it into the Apple, nor plug it into my own computer. It just doesn't respond anymore. Now, I remember this goodbye thing from the stone age of computing, but that Apple was just a year old!) So much for the alleged user friendliness of Apple.
Posted on: How's business?
October 24, 2007, 09:34 AMI'm new here, so I may be doing something wrong, but it seems that this lesson isn't displayed when you're looking for Lessson tagged with 'business'.
Posted on: Death by Ninja
November 17, 2008, 07:20 AMI wonder how many of the people who are picking on Peter's occasional tone mistakes actually speak anywhere near as well as he did; he was certainly much better than Ken. (I hope that saying this doesn't get me the 忍着 customer service ;-) I, for one, can still learn a lot from him. In fact, he was sort of a role model for me. So I identified with him, and his fate feels almost as if it happened to me.
I also found it disturbing at a level beyond the story (which aeflow brought up in a humorous way): One thing I really enjoy about CPod is that I normally feel it's fun for everyone involved. Apparently, Peter's speaker got fired abruptly, which pops my bubble.
I agree with huibert and xiaohu, and I would like to see a similar series at the intermediate level.