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DIY Projector Plans Released
vroom writes "Lumenlab, a rapidly-growing website dedicated to the art of building LCD projectors, has just released its guide on how to build your own projector. The guide used to sell for $19.99, along with entrance to the "Premium Forums," where like-minded DIYers work together to constantly push this obsession forward. Not sure if building your own LCD projector is for you? Not a problem anymore. Just download the official torrent file of the guide and you're good to go. If you want to roam with the others in the Premium Forums, however, you'll still need to buy a membership."
"Middle-Age-Crisis-Ridden Father-in-Law/Community College Electrical Engineering Dropout"
You ARE aware that you, too, will age? And that not everyone graduated from M.I.T.? Only about ten percent (it's a small number, too lazy to look it up) of Americans get a college education, and a tiny fraction of those went to the elite schools.
Most people get their training from technical schools or community colleges, and people DO occasionally want to learn something after they are twenty-five years old. And damned few middle-aged people have the cash to wander into CalTech to learn electrical engineering, and frankly not many would hire them afterwards, even if.
The population is rapidly ageing. YOU are ageing. Get used to older people learning new things, because they will be pretty much everyone.
The world cannot be run by and for teenagers and twentysomethings pretending to be teenagers. I used to think it could be, but time just kicks you inna fork, and I learned.
I'm curious what all you yunguns think will happen when you turn forty. Suicide? Retirement? Retirement with suicide?
God, what happens if life extension becomes a reality? I hope LE comes with rejuvenation, 'cause then I can use my l33t oldman skills to steal the girlfriends of all the hapless 22 year old dudes. Delusional fantasy revenge is the best revenge.
Seriously, elitism and ageism won't be much of a help where we are all going. The U.S. (and everywhere else where population growth is stabilizing or reducing) will need to integrate a hell of a lot of older people with the will to learn new things, and we also need people who learn skills at non-l33t places like community colleges, like how to fix cars and industrial machinery and build things, as well as the hotshots from top tier college programs.