The "Second" Lecture

This lecture has 3 sections:
1. Xbox Xna
2. Microsoft SilverLight and Surface
3. MDA

Main points summarized by Dr. Ben:
1. Possibilities
2. Doing things before it is done by others (aka "the loser story")
3. Marketing

One of the most important things that I learnt in this lecture is about the newest technology and its application.
When I see the presentation about the Microsoft Surface, it is really an eye-opener.
I saw this technology during the holidays when I visited Singapore Science Centre.
Never would I think that these are actually already used practically already.
This really showed that there is a lot of "Possibilities" available in this world.
Furthermore, the world is also changing and technology advancing in a very fast pace.
What you see today in a documentary or certain research paper that seems very improbable to become reality,
You might be using that technology in just a few years time.
What you see in some movies today, might also become part of your lifestyle in the near future.
The potential of technology can't be underestimated.

Although I am currently not studying a computing course which requires a lot of updating of many new technologies available,
However, but new, weird, special, wacky, odd technologies fascinates me a lot.
Having fun and experimenting with things is one of my hobbies, being able to understand new and upcoming technologies may allow me in my endeavour to maybe think of really new ideas before others think of.
Dr. Ben life story is really quite true.
I thought of a simple example though quite childish before last time.
This world really isn't fair, if I were to live in the past, sitting under an apple tree could just be the thing needed to success.
But now, since many things had already been discovered, so, people now have to work even harder to create "new" things.
Thus, I fully agree with Dr. Ben's story.

Then about SilverLight, I found out something interesting when I did some research on Microsoft Surface.
I found out that Microsoft Surface website is actually using Flash rather than their own SilverLight technology.
Really wondering why they don’t support their own product.....
I really don’t know much about SilverLight, the only knowledge I know about it is when I downloaded the plugin some time last year.
How is the future of SilverLight?
Like the story of Dr. Ben told, Flash has already started before SilverLight. Flash is currently more established than SilverLight.
If it were to success, it would have to be up to the challenge of Flash.

BTW, I got the chance to try the dual mouse playing the keyboard with two mice. Quite fun indeed.
When he showed the keyboard, in my mind was (Dr. Ben, pls don't call me, pls don't call me....).
Suddenly remember that during the speed dating, almost all the paper I fill has the "knows how to play musical instrument section empty", high probability of me getting called...haha
haha....why am I still so shy...
Thanks Dr. Ben for calling me, I want to learn to overcome this...
Quite interesting, but it’s really quite hard to use mouse to play, especially with my left hand.
Still prefer playing on keyboard.
Wondering if the WPF can utilize webcam, user experience will certainly be a lot better if our application can use webcam.
The next assignment is using WPF, should be quite fun and interesting, for now, really hope that it has lot of features and capabilities for us to explore and utilize.
For now just wondering how to market the apps without the huge facebook social network...or maybe we can still use:)

About marketing.
To be honest, I, myself is quite poor at marketing and presenting stuffs.
So the current technique that I use now is to do the job real good so that I don't have to speak much to convince others.
Thus, if something that relies mostly on presentation or improvisation speaking, it will kill me.
So, I experienced and truly understand the importance of marketing.
Can't survive in this world without good marketing skills, really have to learn this quick.


Finally, something learnt not from the lecture, but from blogging, I realise that I am really not well at organizing my thoughts.
There's a lot of thoughts and idea in my mind but I just can't sort it out to present it in a presentable way.
I probably need to install SQL to sort it out:)
Trying to blog things that I want to share about and wanting to make it not so lengthy but still have what all I in it is quite a tough job for me.
So another aspiration for me for this CS3216 module is to learn how to organize all the stuff in my brains and able to express my thoughts clearly to everyone.

About my post topic, I feel that time is also very important, every second in life is very important, many things can happen in a split second. In this module, we are also trying to learn as much as possible in very short time. This second week also is the time we really start to spends lots of time doing assignment, really hope that every second we can learn like “EVERYTHING”...haha
Hope everyone is enjoying their assignment.
Happy Chinese New Year to everyone.
Wish everyone 心想事成，万事如意 in this module.
Wish everyone can make some of their dream come true in this module.


心想事成: May all your wish come true.
万事如意：Best wishes for everything your heart desire