Piggybacking on this comment -- the person who you had an argument with on the Internet would never admit you were right, and there's never a satisfying conclusion to these sorts of things -- so I'll do it on their behalf, as an unrelated third party: You were right. :)

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? ;)