Superpelican

You would expect a well-built, modern (and hackable?) iPod Classic successor (with support for streaming services, but traditional UI) to be a nice Kickstarter idea?

Yes, in the Netherlands they were very popular too with pupils in the last grades of primary school and the first grade of secondary school. They are a relatively cheap entry into the iOS ecosystem (with for example popular games) and Apple devices until recently provided status...

My BlackBerry Classic (like most BlackBerrys) has a dedicated play/pause button between the volume buttons. It's one of the things I love about it :) I can pause my music without turning on the screen.

The people over at head-fi.org seem to love FiiO. I recently read a review of the X1 and it seems to have exceptional build quality too!

Having switched to OS X about a year ago after years of Linux usage, I can say that personally I really like the case insensitivity OS X has by default. It doesn't whine every time I accidentally (don't) press caps lock. Case sensitive file systems must be the dumbest invention ever. Who is seriously going to distinguish his/her files by capital and non-capital letters? "Test.txt" and "test.txt" should be the same!

Would you mind elaborating your answer? It currently isn't clear to which question you are answering yes. ;)

>When could your problem be dominated by sequencing? It often is in embedded systems, where you're sequencing external hardware to get it to do real-world things. I mean, yes, you could write all that in a monad, but if that's the dominant thing you need to control, what does it gain you?

That was exactly what I was referring to with the Arduino board example ;)