iPod shuffle Review

My original iPod classic has suffered a terrible defect. The 3.5mm jack has come loose. Now this is a problem. None of the headphone fit in it. I will have to have the 3.5mm jack replaced. Now as this was a gift and I will take it to an Original Apple showroom and have it replaced. That will take some time until then I will need a replacement. I jumped on the apple site and started to review all the mp3 players that I wanted to buy.

My 5 years of experience had told me that having a screen on an mp3 player is as useless as having a TV inside a fridge. What’s the point?  My last iPod was too heavy and was always a point of worry. I had to be a little careful as to not break the screen and stuff. It was not very outgoing. And I mean I cannot take it jogging or to the gym. Yes I know that I do not go to the gym but I want to have the option open. What if one day I decide to?
Now I also recently brought some high quality 320kbps songs from Flipkart. So I was all the more eager to try them out. They sound so good. I can hear so many sounds that I had not heard before.  So my requirements were Light and Easy to carry/maintain and No screen.

Thanks to Steve Jobs (Peace be upon him!) and his God damn marketing skill, whenever someone says a mp3 player an iPod comes to mind. Nothing else matters. Until and unless someone comes with an Android Mp3 player. I wonder why has not someone come up with this idea ? May be because there is not a good enough music store like iTunes. Any way I wouldn’t know about that.
So what did I settle for? It was an iPod shuffle. Why? It was the cheapest. !!!!   It is 2 GB. More than enough to get my favorite tracks on it. Lets face it. I can not remember the last time I listened o my entire 80 GB music collection.
Also it was light and small enough. I could clip it on to my T-Shirt and start running  or gym-ing. It had no screen and can fit almost anywhere.
Now on to The Good The Bad and The Ugly

The Good.

Lightweight, small, can clip anywhere and hang on to it.

The Bad
There is no place to get a grip to clip the damn thing on. You will have to struggle to have it clipped on. The older iPod had some space to hold on to, to clip it.

A little place to get a grip to press open the clip

No place to grip and press open the clip.

The Ugly
May be this is just me.  Whenever I need to change the song I have to look at the iPod as I get mixed up with the “Next” from the “Previous” to “+” to “-”. You do not know where your fingers are. You lose a sense of place on the shuffle. You cannot tell which side is up and which side is down.
For example on my iPod classic I had the screen. I knew which side to press for the next song as the screen as my reference. This is not available on the new shuffle. In the old one it was available but not on this one. You can tell by the screen shots.
There is a button right on top whose job is to read the name of the song that is played and the singer. Thanks to the English accent of the bot it kills the fun in it. I am yet to understand the point and purpose of the button. May be if I feel the sudden urge need to know the name and the singer of the song I can press the button. It’s like a panic button. Although the thick English accent will make it impossible to understand it. I think that button is redundant.

 

Your fingers get used to the shape and you know where the "next" and "previous" buttons are.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Flipkart Music Store,Flyte, A Review

Flipkart Music.
Flipkart recently started selling Mp3 online and I was one of the first customers. I have not been a very great fan of pirated stuff. Well, when I could not afford it, it was Okay ( I guess), but now that I can and  I will buy original stuff.

Buying music from Itunes always hurt me. Each song would cost me INRs.50 and when I could buy the entire CD for INR.60. It was not much of an incentive for me to buy. None the less I had brought Wadali brothers album for $17 AUD. Ouch.!

With Flipkart the music was cheap and reasonably priced at  INRs.6 to INR.9 (3 to 6 Cents) per song and anything from Rs.28 to Rs. 150 ($3.00) for an album, So here is my experience about the shopping process and where they can improve.

I brought 30 songs including albums and singles. I mostly look for 320kbps. The singles I brought were in 320kbp. Where I got ripped off was when in albums. Where most of the songs were in high quality, not all songs are in 320 kbps.  I did not realise that. It was only after I brought it I realized my grave mistake. I wrote a series of emails to the Support staff, they were not particularly useful. Mostly apologizing and bullshit but doing nothing to rectify the problem.

 

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Flipkart Customer Support <cs@flipkart.com> wrote:
Dear Tejaswy,
Order ID: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

We understand your concern and sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused. We completely agree that this hasn’t been your best shopping experience. However, we will ensure such issues do not recur in your future orders.
—-Truncated—-

Regards,
Soniya
Flipkart Customer Support
www.flipkart.com
The Online Mega Store!

To which I wrote

Soniya ,
To quote your earlier email,

“However, we will ensure such issues do not recur in your future orders.”

You cannot seem to solve the problem I am having at present, I doubt you will be able to do anything about it in the future either.

The songs I am complaining about were brought in a Album, not brought in single tracks. So it is not totally my fault.

If I were you, I would have raised the issue at the highest levels in your Accounts and Technical dept to give a reimbursement or compensation or store credit. By simply shrugging off your shoulders from the matter, only shows arrogance and high handedness. Given the tough competitive market in online Mp3′s, you guys cannot afford either. And given the fact that I was one of your first customers, I really think that I should be treated with a little more ethics and professionalism. That is a little too much to ask it seems.

Regards
Tejaswy

 

 

Now not to be very picky. If the flipkart guys had promised that whenever they have a 320 Kbps version they will update my library with it that was all I wanted. Instead they want me to pay for the same song again. I am not a fool to pay for the same song twice.
Even in  itunes whenever they have a better quality  song they will update it free of charge. I understand that you cannot refund me the money, at least give me some store credit or something. Don’t throw around words which have been used so many times they have lost their meaning “Apologise” “sorry” et.al.

Now although the songs are DRM free, It is of no big concern to me. I have one Ipod and everywhere I go the ipod goes with me and it docs everywhere. I could not care less if it was DRM free or not.

Although I will admit the 320 Kbps version of the songs are really nice. It was the reason why I want my entire library in 320 kbps. I will not be moving my patronage to Hungama.com, they seem to  have high quality content which is DRM signed. I will join the site. It says $10.00 a month for all the music I can download. That seems a nice deal. Lets see.

 

I have had many pleasant trouble free experiences with Flipkart in the past, with books, phones and bday gifts.. May be this is one of the teething experience of Flipkart Music. I don’t know. Please feel free to share your experiences  here.

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Plagarism Shah Rukh Khan

The picture speaks for itself.

RA.One

Had this been done by some novice who just entered bollywood then probably he would have been forgiven. But vetrans like Shah Rukh Khan  trying to pull some thing off like this then it is just wrong.

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Reservoir Engineering Interview questions 6

43.    Name one advantage of material balance over volumetric methods for determining original hydrocarbon in place.
44.    What are the two limitations of the material balance methods
45.    What does the variable “m’ stands for in the general material balance equation?
46.    If you have an active aquifer but you analyze the material balance equation without considering the influence of a possible aquifer will you tend to overestimate or underestimate the hydrocarbon
47.    What types of adjustments are required to field pressure data before it can be used in a material balance equation analysis?
48.    Your material balance calculation of initial –oil- in-place fr your gas cap oil reservoir shows that OOIP is decreasing with time. What is a possible explanation?
49.    What type of material balance plot is used to analyze volumetric gas reservoir?
50.    What corrections, if any , need to be made to the separator gas production to do material balance calculations for a wet gas reservoir
51.    What corrections, in any, need t be made to separator gas production to do material balance calculations for a retrograde condensate reservoir ?

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Reservoir Engineering Interview questions 5

33.    What is meant by immiscible displacement? Give an example
34.    Why would you want to determine the average water saturation behind the flood front at water breakthrough
35.    Which reservoir would be more likely to have water coning problems? a) thin pay with a low API gravity oil b) thick pay with a high API gravity oil
36.    What is the definition of fluid mobility
37.    Which one of the flowing factors does not improve the displacement efficiency for water injection in a horizontal reservoir
a)    Low oil viscosity
b)    High formation permeability
c)    Water-wet rocks

38.    Which one of these following factors does not promote vertical equilibrium and segregated flow?
a)    Low flood rates
b)    Large fluid densities
c)    High horizontal permeability
39.    Which is likely to have lower mobility ratio  – water influx into a gas reservoir , or water influx  into an oil reservoir with oil wet rocks?
40.    Under what two conditions is diffuse flow commonly found?
41.    A well has calculated fractional flow f water equal t 0.6 . Assuming Bo = 1.35 and Bw = 1.02 what is the corresponding surface water oil ratio (WOR)
42.    Does low vertical/horizontal permeability ratio enhance or retard coning tendencies?

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