Dusty Chalk

Lamest response ever.

Okay, then I'll stop. I'm not sure I'm ready to get into it with you guys, and my opinions are not so strong and well-formed, and I am not so eloquent to convincingly phrase them that I feel like posting them for your evisceration. HTML bandwidth << pirated porn bandwidth.

Says the man with 10,256 posts, some of which are, in their entirety, " ".

Yeah, but that takes longer.

So now I have to pay for their stupidity? Fuck that. I don't think you guys understood that that question was "leading" -- the next question is "so they should be allowed to take recreational drugs that have the side-effect of being fatal, merely for recreation? Despite the fact that the drug itself undermines their ability to judge whether or not the drug is "fatal"? Again, I'm not sure I'd go that far. Still, the answer to grawk's question is obviously "No", but they can limit it by limiting the ability for their access to lethal recreational drugs. Notice I have not stated my own opinion on whether or not I agree with most of these things, I'm just asking questions for the most part. So fuck you, you fucking name-calling hippies.* *For those of you who still don't "get" me: Yes, the irony is intentional, and yes, I know that "fuck that" counts as stating an opinion.

So people should be allowed to commit suicide if they like?

I'm not sure I entirely agree with this. Your judgment is impaired, which also means that your judgment to judge whether or not your judgment is impaired is impaired. There are some drugs that are so strong, that once taken, the recipient will do anything to get more of it -- including become a non-productive member of society, nee, a destructive member of society -- you sure you want to say that people have a right to take that in an uncontrolled manner? I'm not sure I'd go that far.

Oh, and a design opinion: black goes with anything.

Fixed it for you.

I'll be watching it with headphones.

The short answer is, "no". Track down one of the blow-up images of a pair of headphones to get you started -- everything comes into play at such close quarters -- even the decision as to what material the pads are made out of affect the sound. Some headphones have multiple screens (the headphone equivalent of speaker grills) to fine tune the sound, as well as multiple materials behind the driver. I can't fine one right now, but try to find one of those blow-up diagrams of a pair of headphones just to give you an inkling of the sort of thoughts that go into the design of a pair of headphones.

Are you going to sing along? When I was young...I never needed anyone...and love was just for fun...

That's deceptive as hell -- what were the populations of the two countries at the time of the study? The Netherlands is a much smaller country than the US. Per Capita would be much more useful.

Yeah, I had a package like that once. It went like this: (nothing)...(nothing)...(nothing)...Delivered!

There's a lot of good stuff in there. Light explosives now....and....now. Sell mute. Duck. Cresc. or not.

Or you could just pretend there's someone in the room who doesn't know the words...and no sense of melody... ...and a really low voice...

Focal and Dali both have speakers at most major price points that are competitive. Aurum Cantus also interests me. I'd also give the Quad L or L2 series a listen.

Yes they do.

Huzzah, you beat me to it. Let us know how it goes.

If you're worried about security, then I go back to grawk's point about the $30 dongle, or perhaps using encrypted in your internal wireless network, or perhaps you're not the target market for this computer (and by "you", I don't mean "Todd", I mean the generic "person not buying this laptop"). Firewalls 'n' stuff.

QFU

Not really -- they put bluetooth and wireless into it; Ethernet is so last year.