For home use I'm usually in zsh (god I love that tab completion for non-server use), and bash on my servers save for a few which run ksh because of vendor requirements.

"A balanced set of headphones are technically superior to an unbalanced set if perfect sound reproduction is your metric."

Seriously. When I'm in a *nix box, it's always terminal, all the time. I don't install GUI's on my boxes because of the additional bloat.

You do realize that classical music is used for rating headphones, yes? It's not because I listen to it exclusively, it's because it provides opportunities to see if there is enough clarity and definition of sound to do things like determine if you can tell violins from violas from cellos, or tell the horns apart. Read professional headphone reviews. It's not a matter of "superiority," it's stated because it's a tool in determining quality. Given you didn't know that, I'm pretty sure most of your other points are moot about determining fidelity. I'd rebut your statement about frequency response, but I think this image does a much better job. You sound like you're A) butthurt because someone is saying a brand you don't like is technically inferior, and B) like you simply have no idea what you're talking about.

Wow, way to have a completely tangential conversation. Sorry if I pissed in your punch, but your generalizations about music tastes of the populace, and desires of the market while completely ignoring actual facts about the hardware make me pretty sure you need to reread what slashdot is - news for nerds. Some of us are audiophiles. Some of us are musicians. Some of us are sound techs. A lot of us DO care about those numbers on the back of the box, and what they translate to when you experience the music. I'd rather pay for balanced headphones which can listen to anything and sound incredible for a fraction of the price than pad some business man's pockets for selling a subpar product. But hey, keep justifying spending too much for an inferior product to yourself. No one is saying "I am superior because I buy a different brand than you," I'm saying that this product is inferior for a number of technical reasons. Please join the conversation that is actually going on, not the one you want to have. Thank you.

They're really not that great. They're built for a single type of music (things that go thump). Try listening to something like an Opera or a Symphony and they'll quickly fall to shambles. They're unbalanced, there's no definition of sound, the soundstage is only decent on the low end, the frequency response is worse than you can find on most earbuds... they're pretty bad. And they're overpriced.

I wanted to try Kiva, but I had no interest in seeing a lot of risk and no benefit. They didn't provide any interest to you for lending your money, but you assumed risk if the person you loaned to didn't pay them back. Has that changed?

Seriously, that's what I'd like to know. Kiva allowed you to donate, but you couldn't make a profit off the loans you provided. So, what about this? Can I back a loan and earn interest off of it? I love the idea of this if it could be turned into an 'everyone wins' situation - i make money, the business person starts a business and makes money, the broker in the middle makes money.

This is slashdot, news for nerds. The proper anatomical term is "anus."

I feel the same way! I have the ability to disable ads but I never bother. If people are looking to monetize their website and they offer a decent enough product for me to go there over and over I don't mind them making some money for their efforts.

You really need to learn US history a bit better. About US training and sending people to kill protesters, google "Kent State massacre." About the US invading and rigging an election, google "Operation AJAX" and learn a heck of a lot about why almost every country in the old WWI mandate hates us. As for not destablizing Mexico, maybe not to annex it, but destablizing. Google "atf gunwalking scandal."

If it's like most Russian firearms, there are almost inevitably clones being produced in China. Look at the SKS and AK. (I am saying this as someone who is ignorant of the GM-94 so I could easily be wrong here).

If you think that "a few legal, widely owned semi-automatic rifles" are the only guns owned out there, you're in for a pretty rude awakening. There are a LOT of guns out there that are owned less-than-legally by both criminals and aficionados alike. Just take a look at any large drug bust in the US where weapons are seized, you'll be amazed to see what sort of fun firearms people who flout the law can collect.

I'm really interested in this - could you dummy down the second statement? I get that electrons are flowing through a semiconducter towards the transistor, but I'm not sure I follow the "occupy a large area shared between many atoms (non localized)"? Are you referring to electrons flowing from atom to atom via their bonds? Not trying to be pedantic, I just really want to understand what you're saying (and I'm nowhere near an EE, lol).

Exactly what I was going to say. Just because it's 1 atom thick doesn't mean it's 2 dimensional.