I have the non-studio version and while they are amazing headphones, after one test listen of the Studio version, I had to preorder immediately.
They satisfy every one of your requirements: They have great noise isolation, even frequency response (they're studio 'phones made for mixing/mastering), ridiculously comfortable and extremely durable. Even if the frequency response is not 100% perfect to your taste, they take to EQing really well and will literally vibrate your skull before they distort. They're extremely efficient (good for mobile devices) and can play ridiculously loud without even breaking a sweat.
The only downside is the cost: $269 with a mic ($249 without). But they're seriously the last set of headphones you'll ever have to buy. They're that good.
As far as I can tell from this whole story, FunnyJunk "just" wants TheOatmeal to remove the negative talk about FunnyJunk from TheOatmeal and all sites under the owner's control, which - to an extent - I can understand.
FunnyJunk also wants TheOatMeal to pay $20,000 in "damages", which is completely insane.
Even texting without looking at the phone is hugely distracting, because your mind is on the message you're writing and not on the road.
You may be looking at the road while texting, but you're not actually taking it in, and if you need to react, it takes a significant amount of time for your brain to change focus from the message to the road.
So for your own and everyone around you's sake, please stop texting while driving.
At first, that's how it is. But when you've been driving or otherwise piloting your own vehicles for years and years, it feels wrong to not be in control.
I don't like being a passenger. Not that I don't trust the driver, I wouldn't have gotten in the car if that was the case. But it just feels wrong.
When people fuck up, it's usually a soft failure mode. You can mitigate this almost completely by keeping safe distances and being alert. 99,9% of all bad driving can be spotted relatively easily. Swerving, jerky corrections and so on are telltale signs.
When computers fuck up, they fuck up hard and unpredictably.
People tend to fuck up in human ways though. Overconfidence, lack of confidence, misjudged distances, distraction. All of these are relatively easy to spot.
When computers fuck up, you don't know what the hell is going to happen.
Oh yes, because completely giving up manual control of where you're going is obviously the same thing as going to different form of transport where the driver is still given manual control of the vehicle.
I'll let you in on a secret, being in a vehicle you're not controlling yourself is uncomfortable and feels off. You don't anticipate bumps, corners etc. the same way. People will obviously have to learn to deal with this someday, but while I still have a choice, I choose to be in control myself. I trust my abilities to handle my vehicle in a competent manner.
Either way, planes have highly-skilled and trained pilots on board in case of emergencies. Self-driving cars will have Suzy Q. Soccermom and Brian J. Roadrage, who will be so busy twittering and playing angry birds that they probably wouldn't even notice the alarm.
I agree 100%, it's an attitude problem and people need to grow up and realize that piloting 2+ tons of steel and rubber at legal road speeds is not something to be taken lightly, no matter how easy it is these days.
Which is precisely why I don't use a bluetooth headset and why my phone doesn't leave my pocket as long as the engine is running. It's also the reason why I buckle my seat belt etc. before I even turn the key.
I don't care how important people think they are, 99,9% of all phone calls and 100% of all text messages and emails can wait until the destination is reached and the car is stopped. Make it illegal to use any kind of phone (even with a headset), tv, microwave, GPS etc. while the car is moving, and give out special permits to people like doctors who genuinely need to be available 24/7.
Stock traders and other businessmen can suck it. If they're really that important (they aren't), they probably already have a chauffeur.
Even better. Somehow make distracted driving looked down upon in society and you'll only need to fine the assholes who already drive drunk.
You also need a dual link DVI cable (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Visual_Interface#Connector), otherwise your cable will be the limiting factor.
In theory, single link DVI can just barely handle 1920x1200@60hz. In practice, I experienced visual artifacts such as flickering colored pixels until I got a dual link cable.
Luckily, dual link DVI-I cables are relatively cheap, so there's no reason not to get a fully-wired cable anyway:-)
It's kinda tangential, but I have a 1920x1200 TFT, which I have been extremely happy with for the last 5 years (P-MVA panel, so full 32bit color). Last year, it started to get ornery on me. It wouldn't display right until it warmed up, very much like if the vertical hold on a CRT failed. Finally it completely gave up and wouldn't even turn on anymore.
I opened it up and located a couple of very obviously blown capacitors in the power supply. I replaced them with about $5 worth of good-quality parts and it's been perfect every since.
I really like this monitor, I've taken the time and calibrated it properly, it's great for images, text, movies and games and I'm so relieved that it only took a couple of hours and a few bucks to bring it back to life.
No, it's a good example of how dictatorships and tyrannies disguised as socialist/communist governments and nations have always been afraid of the intellectuals, the ones who are able to see through their deceits and lies.
Socialism is sound. Using it merely as a tool to disguise your own increase in personal power, while deceiving the common man with lofty promises, is not.
Clueless? You claim that I'm seeing socialism everywhere, and then go on to claim that everything in your life is due to socialism. Make up your mind. You probably don't even know what socialism is, do you? I'll wait while you look it up on wikipedia.
I have a better idea. Let's wait until you have read Das Kapital (there are multiple very good English translations available), because you obviously have no clue at all about what socialism is.
Socialism, at its core, is the communal ownership of the means of production and communal management of the economy. That's the simplified version, but nowhere does it state that citizens should be oppressed, or that there should be a ruling party that controls everything. Quite the opposite in fact. If you read Das Kapital, you would understand that the basis of a socialist society is to empower the workers by making all of them owners of the means of production, thus preventing oppression from a social and economical elite.
Everything else that the USSR, PRC, DPRK are widely criticized for (with good reason!) are the results of tyranny and oppression, caused by the fact that their leaders never bought into the socialist philosophy themselves, but only saw it as a way to gain more personal power.
Do not blame the philosophy of socialism for the greed and failings of a few human beings. They are only human, after all.
At least you acknowledge that socialism is a terrible idea that has a been the single most catastrophic failure in human history.
Way to misunderstand his statements. Try reading+comprehension next time instead of jumping to conclusions because a certain trigger word causes you to froth at the mouth in impotent rage.
Socialism works. Strict "concrete" communism (USSR-style) didn't, mostly due to it actually being a dictatorship under the guise of communism. Get your terms right instead of using "socialism" to mean "anything I don't agree with".
I live in socialist Scandinavia and you know what? It's paradise. I get paid to educate myself and I have no fear when quitting my job or starting a new business, because I know that even if I fail, my society's safety nets will kick in, help me get back on my feet and give me another chance. Try living without fear some time, it's fantastic.
Thank you for your salient points regarding my personality. If this is the way libertarianism is to be promoted, no one will have to worry about it ever taking over.
I will now exercise my freedom to ask you to shut the fuck up and subsequently ignore you, since you obviously have no clue about how to conduct a civilized conversation.
Nice ad hominem you've got there, but I don't want to control anyone.
All I want is for people to contribute to the society that helped them achieve their current station in life. Unfortunately, since it's most profitable to exploit people and not give a single dime back, some people refuse to give anything unless they're made to do so. We know these people as libertarians, people who refuse to give because they think hardcore individualism is the way forward, in the erroneous belief that no one helped them reach their current station in life. They couldn't be more wrong.
Silly little man, it's not about being owned by anyone, it's about contributing to the society that helped you reach your current, comfortable station in life.
Despite your "me, me, me and me alone" ranting, you didn't get there by yourself. Not by a long shot. But in the black and white libertarian world view, everyone is an individual, completely untouched and unspoiled by the help of others. Good luck with that.
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There can only be one set of headphones that satisfy your needs:
http://www.aiaiai.dk/tma-1-studio
I have the non-studio version and while they are amazing headphones, after one test listen of the Studio version, I had to preorder immediately.
They satisfy every one of your requirements: They have great noise isolation, even frequency response (they're studio 'phones made for mixing/mastering), ridiculously comfortable and extremely durable. Even if the frequency response is not 100% perfect to your taste, they take to EQing really well and will literally vibrate your skull before they distort. They're extremely efficient (good for mobile devices) and can play ridiculously loud without even breaking a sweat.
The only downside is the cost: $269 with a mic ($249 without). But they're seriously the last set of headphones you'll ever have to buy. They're that good.
And they look cool as fuck.
Give Galactic Civilizations II a try, you'll be amazed by the AI at higher difficulty settings.
As far as I can tell from this whole story, FunnyJunk "just" wants TheOatmeal to remove the negative talk about FunnyJunk from TheOatmeal and all sites under the owner's control, which - to an extent - I can understand.
FunnyJunk also wants TheOatMeal to pay $20,000 in "damages", which is completely insane.
Even texting without looking at the phone is hugely distracting, because your mind is on the message you're writing and not on the road.
You may be looking at the road while texting, but you're not actually taking it in, and if you need to react, it takes a significant amount of time for your brain to change focus from the message to the road.
So for your own and everyone around you's sake, please stop texting while driving.
Well, two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts sure do!
At first, that's how it is. But when you've been driving or otherwise piloting your own vehicles for years and years, it feels wrong to not be in control.
I don't like being a passenger. Not that I don't trust the driver, I wouldn't have gotten in the car if that was the case. But it just feels wrong.
When people fuck up, it's usually a soft failure mode. You can mitigate this almost completely by keeping safe distances and being alert. 99,9% of all bad driving can be spotted relatively easily. Swerving, jerky corrections and so on are telltale signs.
When computers fuck up, they fuck up hard and unpredictably.
Good point, actually.
People tend to fuck up in human ways though. Overconfidence, lack of confidence, misjudged distances, distraction. All of these are relatively easy to spot.
When computers fuck up, you don't know what the hell is going to happen.
Oh yes, because completely giving up manual control of where you're going is obviously the same thing as going to different form of transport where the driver is still given manual control of the vehicle.
I'll let you in on a secret, being in a vehicle you're not controlling yourself is uncomfortable and feels off. You don't anticipate bumps, corners etc. the same way. People will obviously have to learn to deal with this someday, but while I still have a choice, I choose to be in control myself. I trust my abilities to handle my vehicle in a competent manner.
Not if I can help it.
Either way, planes have highly-skilled and trained pilots on board in case of emergencies. Self-driving cars will have Suzy Q. Soccermom and Brian J. Roadrage, who will be so busy twittering and playing angry birds that they probably wouldn't even notice the alarm.
I agree 100%, it's an attitude problem and people need to grow up and realize that piloting 2+ tons of steel and rubber at legal road speeds is not something to be taken lightly, no matter how easy it is these days.
Which is precisely why I don't use a bluetooth headset and why my phone doesn't leave my pocket as long as the engine is running. It's also the reason why I buckle my seat belt etc. before I even turn the key.
I don't care how important people think they are, 99,9% of all phone calls and 100% of all text messages and emails can wait until the destination is reached and the car is stopped. Make it illegal to use any kind of phone (even with a headset), tv, microwave, GPS etc. while the car is moving, and give out special permits to people like doctors who genuinely need to be available 24/7.
Stock traders and other businessmen can suck it. If they're really that important (they aren't), they probably already have a chauffeur.
Even better. Somehow make distracted driving looked down upon in society and you'll only need to fine the assholes who already drive drunk.
I like to do things myself, I don't want self-driving cars or self-anything most things, actually.
I've worked in IT for years in various functions. I do not trust computers to drive my car for me.
You also need a dual link DVI cable (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Visual_Interface#Connector), otherwise your cable will be the limiting factor.
In theory, single link DVI can just barely handle 1920x1200@60hz. In practice, I experienced visual artifacts such as flickering colored pixels until I got a dual link cable.
Luckily, dual link DVI-I cables are relatively cheap, so there's no reason not to get a fully-wired cable anyway :-)
It's kinda tangential, but I have a 1920x1200 TFT, which I have been extremely happy with for the last 5 years (P-MVA panel, so full 32bit color). Last year, it started to get ornery on me. It wouldn't display right until it warmed up, very much like if the vertical hold on a CRT failed. Finally it completely gave up and wouldn't even turn on anymore.
I opened it up and located a couple of very obviously blown capacitors in the power supply. I replaced them with about $5 worth of good-quality parts and it's been perfect every since.
I really like this monitor, I've taken the time and calibrated it properly, it's great for images, text, movies and games and I'm so relieved that it only took a couple of hours and a few bucks to bring it back to life.
My old AGP 7600 GS could drive a 2560x1600 display all day long. All you need is dual link DVI.
My current GTX 460 has two of those plus HDMI, but I'm fairly comfortable with my 1920x1200 display for now.
No, it's a good example of how dictatorships and tyrannies disguised as socialist/communist governments and nations have always been afraid of the intellectuals, the ones who are able to see through their deceits and lies.
Socialism is sound. Using it merely as a tool to disguise your own increase in personal power, while deceiving the common man with lofty promises, is not.
Clueless? You claim that I'm seeing socialism everywhere, and then go on to claim that everything in your life is due to socialism. Make up your mind. You probably don't even know what socialism is, do you? I'll wait while you look it up on wikipedia.
I have a better idea. Let's wait until you have read Das Kapital (there are multiple very good English translations available), because you obviously have no clue at all about what socialism is.
Socialism, at its core, is the communal ownership of the means of production and communal management of the economy. That's the simplified version, but nowhere does it state that citizens should be oppressed, or that there should be a ruling party that controls everything. Quite the opposite in fact. If you read Das Kapital, you would understand that the basis of a socialist society is to empower the workers by making all of them owners of the means of production, thus preventing oppression from a social and economical elite.
Everything else that the USSR, PRC, DPRK are widely criticized for (with good reason!) are the results of tyranny and oppression, caused by the fact that their leaders never bought into the socialist philosophy themselves, but only saw it as a way to gain more personal power.
Do not blame the philosophy of socialism for the greed and failings of a few human beings. They are only human, after all.
he's much richer than I am, so he must be right.
Pretty much the best description of libertarianism I've ever hear.
People like Ari are the people libertarians look up to, because they're rich, ruthless and successful. I see a huge problem with that.
Oh well, apparently socialism causes you to not close HTML tags properly. I can live with that.
At least you acknowledge that socialism is a terrible idea that has a been the single most catastrophic failure in human history.
Way to misunderstand his statements. Try reading+comprehension next time instead of jumping to conclusions because a certain trigger word causes you to froth at the mouth in impotent rage.
Socialism works. Strict "concrete" communism (USSR-style) didn't, mostly due to it actually being a dictatorship under the guise of communism. Get your terms right instead of using "socialism" to mean "anything I don't agree with".
I live in socialist Scandinavia and you know what? It's paradise. I get paid to educate myself and I have no fear when quitting my job or starting a new business, because I know that even if I fail, my society's safety nets will kick in, help me get back on my feet and give me another chance. Try living without fear some time, it's fantastic.
pieces of shit like yourself
Thank you for your salient points regarding my personality. If this is the way libertarianism is to be promoted, no one will have to worry about it ever taking over.
I will now exercise my freedom to ask you to shut the fuck up and subsequently ignore you, since you obviously have no clue about how to conduct a civilized conversation.
Good day, sir.
Nice ad hominem you've got there, but I don't want to control anyone.
All I want is for people to contribute to the society that helped them achieve their current station in life. Unfortunately, since it's most profitable to exploit people and not give a single dime back, some people refuse to give anything unless they're made to do so. We know these people as libertarians, people who refuse to give because they think hardcore individualism is the way forward, in the erroneous belief that no one helped them reach their current station in life. They couldn't be more wrong.
Silly little man, it's not about being owned by anyone, it's about contributing to the society that helped you reach your current, comfortable station in life.
Despite your "me, me, me and me alone" ranting, you didn't get there by yourself. Not by a long shot. But in the black and white libertarian world view, everyone is an individual, completely untouched and unspoiled by the help of others. Good luck with that.
And you don't see a pattern there?
You get shouted down because you're on a smart geek site instead of in the libertarian echo chamber you're used to.
I wish you had a username.
That way I could put you on ignore and not have to read your childish libertarian dribble ever again.