I've wasted something like $300, testing out sub-$60 headphones, and I have found absolutely nothing matching the quality of the Kicker HP541s.
I'm not a fancy audiophile, I won't draw line graphs for you with frequency response, because that's all tripe anyway (most adult humans can't hear over 18 KHz), but I will tell you that they are the best pair of cans you can get for anything less than $100.
The bass is phenomenal at high volumes (Kicker, heh), the sound is very crisp and flat, the earcups are made of genuine leather, they also spin 180 degrees to sit outwards, so if you have a portable amplifier like the Fiio, and I think this is the best test - you can raise the volume enough that they become actual speakers sitting on your neck, and they DON'T DISTORT or crack! Also, make sure your media library is FLAC, or at least 256 kbps MP3. You will hear the artifacts in your music with any bit-rate anything less than that.
For a cheaper alternative, without the $400-pair-of-headphones feel like the Kickers have, I'd recommend the Sennheiser 202's, which are in the $20-$30 range.
All of that energy is currently being generated by the internal combustion engines in vehicles from the petroleum-derived fuels.
In essence, they already create a decentralized energy grid, utilized only for transportation, complete with supply and distribution infrastructure which is several times larger in magnitude in overall energy consumption than the primary grid.
That demand HAS to make its way onto the primary grid eventually, or else we'll hit a brick wall at high speed (pun intended) when we suddenly realize that the global stockpiles of oil have dried up.
Regular people don't care about the operating system, hardware, or what the underlying technology is. They just want to browse the Internet, talk to their peers on Facebook about XYZ, and read/write e-mail. My grandmother is using LinuxMint on her wireless workstation. She has no idea, what in her words "A Linux" is; but she knows how to click the "Internet" square, and it browses her favorite news sites.
On the MSN Gaming Zone, I downloaded a map editing tool called QARK. I figured out on Q2DM1 (The Edge), that there was a game bug involving hitting the space-key (jump) multiple times on different surfaces, would cause you to 'double jump, triple jump' and so forth. It was the most obvious in attempting to get the ultra-health pack in the corner of the main room where you'd also grab the chaingun and combat armor. I implemented this on the very first map I ever created called q2dm_jump1. Little did I know what I would start.
Someone followed after my heart in Counter-Strike: Source and through some sort of fluke figured out that holding down walk on a slope causes you to slide on it. Surf anyone?
"Ethernet Port Priority:
You may control your data rate according to which physical LAN port your device is plugged into. You may assign Priorities accordingly for devices connected on LAN ports 1 through 4."
How about we solidify our carbon into blocks (such as adding calcium as previously mentioned), and then just hurl the whole damn thing directly into the sun, or into the void of space?
I mean, it can't be that bad if it just burns up into nothing after contacting the sun..:P
Prepare yourself, fellow geeks. We shall be the ones responsible for constructing the colonial ships that will take our fellow peers to new planets. This time, instead of extracting gold from our new 'colonies', we're going to be getting oil. Which, if history repeats itself; we're going to end up with a "new" United States located on the planet Titan.:)
If all males are procreating with female robots all day on the planet, and all of the females are procreating with the male robots on the planet, then no ACTUAL procreation is happening; thereby reducing the human population count severely each generation, and perhaps within 300 years, the human race will not exist anymore.
Or perhaps, this may be a blessing - and a way to reduce the drastically increasing population counts on Earth. You know, because we're on the brink of overpopulation? (Japan and China being some of the most densely populated places on Earth, forcing families to only have 1 child, or pay extra for more..)
Controlling devices with the mind is just the beginning. Next, Wolf believes, is what he calls "network-enabled telepathy" - instant thought transfer. In other words, your thoughts will flow from your brain over the network right into someone else's brain. If you think instant messaging is addictive, just wait for instant thinking.
This is a godsend for us D&D players. Imagine, you no longer have to intricately describe the environment to your players, you simply visualize it and they are inside of it.
My god, we'll forget about reality and be living in the dreamworld 24/7.
How do you send troops to the United States from Russia?
Plane? No. Anti-Air.
Boat? No, Large Navy.
Tunnel? Sure, why not.
They build a tunnel to Alaska, where Cananda is, and since the U.S has no percieved threat from Cananda, the security will be minimal as opposed to coastal defenses.
Instead of building their trains or sending trucks, we'll see tanks and soldiers come out from underneath that tunnel, take back Alaska for Russia and then set up a forward base there. Afterward, they'll begin their push downward and rally Canadians for their cause.:)
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Oh holy hell. I didn't even know!!
I've wasted something like $300, testing out sub-$60 headphones, and I have found absolutely nothing matching the quality of the Kicker HP541s. I'm not a fancy audiophile, I won't draw line graphs for you with frequency response, because that's all tripe anyway (most adult humans can't hear over 18 KHz), but I will tell you that they are the best pair of cans you can get for anything less than $100.
The bass is phenomenal at high volumes (Kicker, heh), the sound is very crisp and flat, the earcups are made of genuine leather, they also spin 180 degrees to sit outwards, so if you have a portable amplifier like the Fiio, and I think this is the best test - you can raise the volume enough that they become actual speakers sitting on your neck, and they DON'T DISTORT or crack! Also, make sure your media library is FLAC, or at least 256 kbps MP3. You will hear the artifacts in your music with any bit-rate anything less than that.
For a cheaper alternative, without the $400-pair-of-headphones feel like the Kickers have, I'd recommend the Sennheiser 202's, which are in the $20-$30 range.
All of that energy is currently being generated by the internal combustion engines in vehicles from the petroleum-derived fuels. In essence, they already create a decentralized energy grid, utilized only for transportation, complete with supply and distribution infrastructure which is several times larger in magnitude in overall energy consumption than the primary grid. That demand HAS to make its way onto the primary grid eventually, or else we'll hit a brick wall at high speed (pun intended) when we suddenly realize that the global stockpiles of oil have dried up.
Regular people don't care about the operating system, hardware, or what the underlying technology is. They just want to browse the Internet, talk to their peers on Facebook about XYZ, and read/write e-mail. My grandmother is using LinuxMint on her wireless workstation. She has no idea, what in her words "A Linux" is; but she knows how to click the "Internet" square, and it browses her favorite news sites.
This laptop looks delicious.
Let's just hope that the actual game is at least half as creative as this was. "The Sin of Wrath is yours." Lol.
On the MSN Gaming Zone, I downloaded a map editing tool called QARK. I figured out on Q2DM1 (The Edge), that there was a game bug involving hitting the space-key (jump) multiple times on different surfaces, would cause you to 'double jump, triple jump' and so forth. It was the most obvious in attempting to get the ultra-health pack in the corner of the main room where you'd also grab the chaingun and combat armor. I implemented this on the very first map I ever created called q2dm_jump1. Little did I know what I would start. Someone followed after my heart in Counter-Strike: Source and through some sort of fluke figured out that holding down walk on a slope causes you to slide on it. Surf anyone?
When's the RIAA going to stop suing families and finally go for the homeless people? ;)
"Ethernet Port Priority: You may control your data rate according to which physical LAN port your device is plugged into. You may assign Priorities accordingly for devices connected on LAN ports 1 through 4."
dd-wrt.com
Enjoy.
How about we solidify our carbon into blocks (such as adding calcium as previously mentioned), and then just hurl the whole damn thing directly into the sun, or into the void of space?
:P
I mean, it can't be that bad if it just burns up into nothing after contacting the sun..
I heat my house in Winter using my overclocked PC.
:D
I'm sure that I'm saving quite a lot of energy compared to traditional heating systems.
Prepare yourself, fellow geeks. We shall be the ones responsible for constructing the colonial ships that will take our fellow peers to new planets. This time, instead of extracting gold from our new 'colonies', we're going to be getting oil. Which, if history repeats itself; we're going to end up with a "new" United States located on the planet Titan. :)
If all males are procreating with female robots all day on the planet, and all of the females are procreating with the male robots on the planet, then no ACTUAL procreation is happening; thereby reducing the human population count severely each generation, and perhaps within 300 years, the human race will not exist anymore.
:)
Or perhaps, this may be a blessing - and a way to reduce the drastically increasing population counts on Earth. You know, because we're on the brink of overpopulation? (Japan and China being some of the most densely populated places on Earth, forcing families to only have 1 child, or pay extra for more..)
Food for thought.
Come on, average people have an attention span greater than 2 minutes.
You have to try harder than that, MPAA. Make it more like 15-30 minutes of 'loading'.
*cough* (while not secretly collecting private information and uploading via satelite unaware of owner's knowledge) *cough*
"Cisco has reversed their previous claims that the 802.11n standard was not ready for business use."
If you use a wireless network in a serious buisness environment, you deserve what's going to happen.
This is a godsend for us D&D players. Imagine, you no longer have to intricately describe the environment to your players, you simply visualize it and they are inside of it.
My god, we'll forget about reality and be living in the dreamworld 24/7.
Personally, I'm suprised that anyone accepts the Office 2007 format.
1st place - Thermaltake Big Typ VX
2nd place - Scythe Miné
3rd place - Tuniq Tower 120
4th place - Titan Amanda
5th place - Zalman 9700
I had a horrible chill about Gattaca as soon as I read the title. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/
How do you send troops to the United States from Russia? Plane? No. Anti-Air. Boat? No, Large Navy. Tunnel? Sure, why not. They build a tunnel to Alaska, where Cananda is, and since the U.S has no percieved threat from Cananda, the security will be minimal as opposed to coastal defenses. Instead of building their trains or sending trucks, we'll see tanks and soldiers come out from underneath that tunnel, take back Alaska for Russia and then set up a forward base there. Afterward, they'll begin their push downward and rally Canadians for their cause. :)
Look, it's even put Slashdot as my home page! Isn't that nice. :P
Losing the right to defend yourself.
Excellent!
And you thought Easter Eggs were just there for kicks. ;)