I don't think current Mac users care, but rather, current Windows users that are tempted to get Intel Macs yet wanting to 'play it safe' by being able to boot Windows.
My intuitive understanding is that with Grado headphones, they're rather "conductive". You can think of headphones (and other electronic devices) as water pipes. Grados are wide pipes.
So whatever electronic device is driving them needs to be able to push a lot of current through them, in essence it needs to have many electrons on reserve and to be able to shunt them quickly through the headphones. The more energetic the sounds you're reproducing, the more current you need on hand. Drums, for instance.
An iPod mini and an iPod shuffle are nice examples of similar devices that are built differently with regard to current handling. Both have a rather even frequency response, that is, the sound is neither muffled nor overly bright. Due to the electronics involved in pushing electricity into the headphones, the iPod shuffle is (perhaps surprisingly) far better at delivering PUNCHY bass and the WHAM (the attack) of drums.
The result is that music sounds equally bright / muffled compared between Minis and Shuffles, but the Shuffle will deliver more "power" in the sound. More pop and bang. (This doesn't necessarily mean a louder volume.) Think of a fireworks explosion: there's the sound itself, recognizable even through a telephone receiver, and there's the BANG of it, which is much harder to reproduce.
A special headphone amplifier can be used, and this makes devices like the iPod mini whose capacity current delivery capable of making sounds as "big" as more robust devices like the Shuffle. The approach is that the source device (a Mini, for instance) is made to drive the amplifier cirquit, which is "easier" for the source to drive than a pair of headphones, and the headphone amp then takes care of pushing current into the headphones with its beefier cirquit.
Disclaimer: my understanding of this phenomenon may not be accurate, and may even be completely wrong. To get a feel for the idea, I suggest listening to a wimpy sound source connected to a pair of current-hungry headphones like Grados, and then comparing it to the same headphones connected to a headphone amp that has lots of current to throw around.
Also, I've noticed that people are saying that different models in the Grado line have different requirements for amplification. This is incorrect, AFAIK, as the driver (the electronics) inside all of Grado headphones is essentially similar, the difference lies in the housing and the *quality* of the drivers, picked from different bins in the Grado factory.
The earth is plentiful - there is enough to go around. All of us could have every need fulfilled. There is no need to tread on others to get what you or your family needs. Only out of greed would you fight your fellows for more.
Your lack of empathy both saddens and frightens me.
Apoptosis is a system that terminates cells that are in risk of becoming cancer cells. A marked increase of cells that are activating this system does not bode good, IMO.
We seem a little tender today, don't we?
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Come now, there's no need to let your feelings be hurt... by a book review.
But still I agree with you, partly: badmouthing is not needed to contrast praise.
The business smartypants have figured that a focus group of nerds will buy a LOT of "merchandise" and will be easy to create stuff for. No more difficult-to-capture subtle coolness, just stuff musclebound freaks and magic and/or technology on a DVD and its going to sell millions. Then make bendy animal versions of the main characters, sell millions of that. Then make a collectible card game, sell millions more.
This just means that nerd marketing is a good investment. The truly cool people will not participating.
Everyone is debating whether Counter Strike is making people violent or not.
I'd think gun ownership itself would be something to look at, maybe.
People get carried away. Not having guns around is a good way to keep things from getting serious.
I just don't understand why people want to own machines for killing other people. Even if a side-effect of the machines is that they frighten other people.
I've been thinking about this. The only way I can think of to get more artists and graphic designers to use Linux is for the 31337 coders to create and improve programs that artists and graphic designers use.
This is happening, slowly. I can draw well, and I've had my eye on Sodipodi for a while. I'm probably not the only one.
This range of programs would probably be all kinds of media programs that don't take excessive programming knowledge to put to use. Video, audio, and graphics programs.
I was talking to my graphic design friend the other day about unix things like LaTeX and he was at least mildly interested.
I imagine that some of the artist types we want to see use and then improve linux would like Sodipodi, for example.
It's a question of carrots. If you want linux to look / feel nicer, go work on a program that an artist would use.
Also, people should note that while said soup-kitchen advocate is busy nagging the neighborhood beautification crew, his hands ain't stirrin' no pots for the homeless folks.
(This is probably obvious. I just wanted to put it into a few pompous words:) )
What is holding Linux back on the desktop is that coders will do what benefits them.
Without getting paid to do programming, people add the features that they want to see. The people that do not code do not get their most-wanted features added, except by chance.
People who program tend to like virtual desktops, as they are used to that kind of environment. It is likely that they learned to program in that kind of an environment.
If and when people that want another method for managing windows can and do program it themselves, that's when it's going to happen.
If you need to do something well, it doesn't matter *what* tool you're good with that can do the job, just *that you are* good with it.
For people to like what you're playing, you don't need vinyl.
FYI, I do know what I'm talking about.
Vinyl is just a format. The touch and mystique is mostly in the head of whoever is handling it, the people listening to the music don't know the difference.
Valid point, but if you have digital music files, you can see the peak info directly. It is actually superior to "reading" the vinyl, which needs at least decent illumination to be possible.
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You said: "VMware for Mac OS X"
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This is similar:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallels_Workstatio
http://www.parallels.com/
Some say it's faster than VMWare (less emulation). Haven't tried it myself.
I don't think current Mac users care, but rather, current Windows users that are tempted to get Intel Macs yet wanting to 'play it safe' by being able to boot Windows.
Be sure to pick up some of that MillionthMonkey stock as well, as he is currently performing rather well.
Self-replying is fun.
I'd like to add this:
I LIKE my Grado SR-325 headphones when they're connected to my Powerbook, but I LOVE them when they're connceted to a good amp.
My intuitive understanding is that with Grado headphones, they're rather "conductive". You can think of headphones (and other electronic devices) as water pipes. Grados are wide pipes.
So whatever electronic device is driving them needs to be able to push a lot of current through them, in essence it needs to have many electrons on reserve and to be able to shunt them quickly through the headphones. The more energetic the sounds you're reproducing, the more current you need on hand. Drums, for instance.
An iPod mini and an iPod shuffle are nice examples of similar devices that are built differently with regard to current handling. Both have a rather even frequency response, that is, the sound is neither muffled nor overly bright. Due to the electronics involved in pushing electricity into the headphones, the iPod shuffle is (perhaps surprisingly) far better at delivering PUNCHY bass and the WHAM (the attack) of drums.
The result is that music sounds equally bright / muffled compared between Minis and Shuffles, but the Shuffle will deliver more "power" in the sound. More pop and bang. (This doesn't necessarily mean a louder volume.) Think of a fireworks explosion: there's the sound itself, recognizable even through a telephone receiver, and there's the BANG of it, which is much harder to reproduce.
A special headphone amplifier can be used, and this makes devices like the iPod mini whose capacity current delivery capable of making sounds as "big" as more robust devices like the Shuffle. The approach is that the source device (a Mini, for instance) is made to drive the amplifier cirquit, which is "easier" for the source to drive than a pair of headphones, and the headphone amp then takes care of pushing current into the headphones with its beefier cirquit.
Disclaimer: my understanding of this phenomenon may not be accurate, and may even be completely wrong. To get a feel for the idea, I suggest listening to a wimpy sound source connected to a pair of current-hungry headphones like Grados, and then comparing it to the same headphones connected to a headphone amp that has lots of current to throw around.
Also, I've noticed that people are saying that different models in the Grado line have different requirements for amplification. This is incorrect, AFAIK, as the driver (the electronics) inside all of Grado headphones is essentially similar, the difference lies in the housing and the *quality* of the drivers, picked from different bins in the Grado factory.
Usually, the reason you think something is pretentious is that you don't understand all the big words.
Grandparent is actually saying something. Can't accuse him of pretentiousness.
Actually, you wouldn't believe the difference a microsecond makes. The thing called groove is made out of pure microsecond shifts ...
The earth is plentiful - there is enough to go around. All of us could have every need fulfilled. There is no need to tread on others to get what you or your family needs. Only out of greed would you fight your fellows for more.
Your lack of empathy both saddens and frightens me.
He wasn't talking about control of smokers - he was talking about the corporations who profit from being evil and the law that lets them do so.
I say he's german, and that he's speaking through Google / Altavista. Quite remarkable, actually.
Thanks for sharing. I readily admit to the fact that I am discussing this on an emotional level with a layman's knowledge of cellular biology.
I've been admiring your sig for a while, btw.
I think the key words are "a marked increase".
Apoptosis is a system that terminates cells that are in risk of becoming cancer cells. A marked increase of cells that are activating this system does not bode good, IMO.
Come now, there's no need to let your feelings be hurt ... by a book review.
But still I agree with you, partly: badmouthing is not needed to contrast praise.
I disagree with the post.
The business smartypants have figured that a focus group of nerds will buy a LOT of "merchandise" and will be easy to create stuff for. No more difficult-to-capture subtle coolness, just stuff musclebound freaks and magic and/or technology on a DVD and its going to sell millions. Then make bendy animal versions of the main characters, sell millions of that. Then make a collectible card game, sell millions more.
This just means that nerd marketing is a good investment. The truly cool people will not participating.
Everyone is debating whether Counter Strike is making people violent or not.
I'd think gun ownership itself would be something to look at, maybe.
People get carried away. Not having guns around is a good way to keep things from getting serious.
I just don't understand why people want to own machines for killing other people. Even if a side-effect of the machines is that they frighten other people.
I've been thinking about this. The only way I can think of to get more artists and graphic designers to use Linux is for the 31337 coders to create and improve programs that artists and graphic designers use.
This is happening, slowly. I can draw well, and I've had my eye on Sodipodi for a while. I'm probably not the only one.
This range of programs would probably be all kinds of media programs that don't take excessive programming knowledge to put to use. Video, audio, and graphics programs.
I was talking to my graphic design friend the other day about unix things like LaTeX and he was at least mildly interested.
I imagine that some of the artist types we want to see use and then improve linux would like Sodipodi, for example.
It's a question of carrots. If you want linux to look / feel nicer, go work on a program that an artist would use.
Also, people should note that while said soup-kitchen advocate is busy nagging the neighborhood beautification crew, his hands ain't stirrin' no pots for the homeless folks.
:) )
(This is probably obvious. I just wanted to put it into a few pompous words
What is holding Linux back on the desktop is that coders will do what benefits them.
Without getting paid to do programming, people add the features that they want to see. The people that do not code do not get their most-wanted features added, except by chance.
People who program tend to like virtual desktops, as they are used to that kind of environment. It is likely that they learned to program in that kind of an environment.
If and when people that want another method for managing windows can and do program it themselves, that's when it's going to happen.
It's a question of carrots.
Most people do not have the required visual memory and attention span to do this.
People are irrational.
Religion often fails to prevent that, sadly. It can, though.
(But other things can, too.)
My "funny" "joke" got ruined.
There was supposed to be a link to furnitureporn.com. Never mind.
Well, we've heard of armchair sexology, so why not?
If you need to do something well, it doesn't matter *what* tool you're good with that can do the job, just *that you are* good with it.
For people to like what you're playing, you don't need vinyl.
FYI, I do know what I'm talking about.
Vinyl is just a format. The touch and mystique is mostly in the head of whoever is handling it, the people listening to the music don't know the difference.
Valid point, but if you have digital music files, you can see the peak info directly. It is actually superior to "reading" the vinyl, which needs at least decent illumination to be possible.
Have you tried Traktor?
The reviewer liked the sound quality. He didn't sound particularly audiophile-ish, though.
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