If you can't see a difference in the ease of entry into programming and consumer robotics today vs. 30 years ago, you are insane.

There are all kinds of tube amp plans and kits available from other sources.

It is a niche market that has taken off in the last couple of years. Look around.

A record number of amateur radio operators...in 40 years the population of amateur radio operators has increased from ~.15% of the population to ~.23% of the population, and the vast majority of that growth was 20 years ago.

The 90's saw 189,000 new licenses added. The next decade the number dropped to 17,000 new licenses.

It is a dying hobby. I'm sorry if that upsets you, but with the constant shrinking of non-user servicability of nearly all of the modern electronics that youth might be interested in, it is only going to drop more.

I think it is less that "people" aren't interested in how things work, anymore, and more that nobody cares about amateur radio or clunky robots.

The modern generation of people who would have been building Heathkit things years ago are building weird stuff out of Lego robotics or writing software, or any number of other outlets for inquisitiveness and ingenuity that didn't exist 30 years ago.

This doesn't make cable subscriptions more attractive.

All it does is make hulu less attractive than it already is.

You mix up cause and effect.

high fps "looks cheap" because you are used to it only in context of cheap productions, while you are used to 24fps content to look "not cheap" because you are used to it feature films.

If you gave Uwe Boll the kind of money and backing that gets thrown at Michael Bay, they would be essentially the same person.

Kurt Sutter is basically the same guy, too.

Here is a novel idea. Play the games you bought for the original PSP on the original PSP that you still own.

So crazy it just might work...

Also has the advantage that it is basically untraceable... i mean, what to you want, google it?

Which makes it even more pointless... cou could just drop the ashes out of a plane. Same result.