Yes. I had just gotten The Complete Sherlock Holmes and had decided to re-read the stories. If I understand your comment, you don't have to be a teen to enjoy Doyle. I recently bought another, digital copy of the stories for my Android phone to read on the plane.
I'll ditto the Shazam recommendation. Captain Marvel appealed to a younger set, and his alter-ego was a young teen. (As were those of Captain Marvel Junior and Mary Marvel, or whatever her name was.)
I bought a huge paperback compendium of "Shazam" comics a few years ago. B&W, but still good stories.
Incidentally, have you been watching Young Justice? The setup is that a junior justice league is formed from all the sidekicks -- robin, aquaboy and so forth. (The story predates the coming of Starfire to earth and the forming of Teen Titans.)
Captain Marvel is a recurring character. As portrayed in this series, he is a full member of JLA and considered an adult by the other JLA members, (sometimes asked to "babysit" the junior members) but his dirty little secret, apparently hidden from the other adults, is that although he has an adult body as CM, he still retains the intellect and emotions of Billy. He therefore commiserates more with the junior JLA members, because he has similar desires and has shown similar lack of judgement.
At 3 years old he should be able to read himself - why do you need to read to him?
Reading to your kids is a great experience for both you and the kid. I started reading to my daughter before she turned one year old. It helped her fall to sleep. To start with, since she wasn't actually listening, I read her whatever I happened to be reading. I wonder sometimes if that was a mistake, and she spent nights awake in her bed, listening for the hellish howling of a gigantic hound on the moors...
Later we went through every one of the Terry Pratchett stories and a lot of the Heinlein juveniles. This went on until sometime last year, when she became a senior in high school, and was too busy for me to read to her anymore. I regret that.
There used to be a Shazam! comic, (DC's Captain Marvel) that was oriented more towards young kids. I don't know if it still exists.
Personally, I started my daughter, who was not much older than that, on Mage. If she didn't understand something, we stopped and talked about it. It's actually pretty amazing what kids can process.
When she entered her teens, Matt Wagner had finally come out with Volume 2. Daughter was really excited and wanted me to read it to her. I was a little surprised that she had remembered the first story.
> While I don't disagree with your overall points, this analogy misses the point. If everyone goes to the "restaurant across the street," then this restaurant goes out of business... and unfortunately, the torrent "restaurant across the street" doesn't actually make steaks. They simply go to this restaurant (while it still exists) and make copies of their steaks. But if this restaurant disappears, then the 'competing' torrent "restaurant across the street" also has no steaks.
I think this analogy misses the point a little. You can live without steak from either restaurant. TV is entertainment, it's not the breath of life. If there's less of it,...shrug...
As for Doctor Who, I believe it's funded by the BBC, which means it's ultimately taxpayer funded. Even if every content provider in the US went belly up, one could still torrent Dr Who. And I personally gave up on Game of Thrones as soon as I realized it's a soap opera with swords. And not enough swords.
Smart move to sell off the company to cable companies, or is it a trap by cable companies? Subscribscriptions will certainly drop once this gets rolling and devalue their service. That would be to the cable companies advantage. Only reason I have cable tv now I because my wife watches programming Hulu simply doesn't carry (or didn't). I'd dump my channels and pay for the less expensive Hulu in a heartbeat if I could.
You're doing it wrong. I put up a big antenna, got a solid signal on all (free) network HD channels, put a roku box ($99 non-recurring) on her TV with a netflix subscription (streaming only, $7.99/mo), and turned off the cable. Because we just plain couldn't afford $100+ a month for fucking TV in a down economy. She was fussy for a few weeks but eventually got over it.
It's.... only.... TV. It's not, like, air.
A lot of the gap was time based rather than content -- stuff that's on TV this season is on Netflix next season. So you just wait, and it becomes available eventually. For the rest, unless it's showing emergency routes out of the city, it's not important.
True. Parenthetically, I don't understand why fiber isn't available more places. It's a much more elegant solution than DSL or cable modem.
Cable modem always seemed to me a kludge to re-use existing cable TV infrastructure. Cable TV as a service is rapidly becoming moot, so I don't see the point in running more 72 ohm cable.
As you surmised, wall mount racks are switch only. I went through the same intellectual process and saw no solution but to buy a floor standing rack. It sits in my garage and is accessible from both sides. Mine has a large enough footprint to be stable, but if you get one of those skinny spidery racks, you should sink some bolts into the floor to make sure you don't have a sudden gravity-induced catastrophic failure.
If your equipment has redundant supplies, you should plug them in separate circuits. I did this after a GFI blew and took out my servers. I wasn't even aware that the GFI in the master bath was on the same circuit as the plug in the garage.
If you're interested in battery backup, instead of a dedicated UPS, consider a true sinewave inverter (available on amazon) and a couple of marine batteries (available almost anywhere) fed by a heavy duty battery charger. Why? Because it's easier to switch to solar later if you're so inclined.
Congratulations, Hulu, you've just rendered yourself irrelevant.
This sounds like the same mistake cable providers have been making going back to the old horrible days of TCI. The business model was based on the assumption that users were trapped in the service with no competitive options, and the service provider therefore had wide latitude in the services and pricing structure they felt like providing.
Service providers either haven't figured out yet that this just isn't true anymore, or they have some bizarre idea that the majority of TV consumers are old enough and un-savvy enough to be unable to find alternatives. Hulu would therefore be seen as a blip on the radar that the cable providers need to tweak to retain their iron grip on their user base.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but Mr. and Mrs TV Tray, the last vestige of humanity that still watches TV in real time, are reducing in numbers. Some are finding alternatives like Roku boxes with the help of their kids and grandkids, and overall that generation is dying out.
I truly believe that the majority of us who are cable free and internet savvy see the need to pay for our programming, but we refuse to participate in the old cable TV business models. An effort to force us is an automatic fail, because the alternative they're driving us to is *free*, and there is no way in hell they can compete against that.
> or an always-open backdoor for the Chinese intelligence agencies?
I'd like to point out that an always-open backdoor for the Chinese intelligence agencies would very shortly after release be an always-open backdoor into this technology for absolutely everyone. I don't see them doing this, but if they did, it'd be entertaining.
> even if the people who write the law have only good intentions, it provides substantial legal cover to others who might not
It's important to remember; It's difficult to grant broad new powers to government or corporations and confine these powers only to the people who agree with your personal philosophy.
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Yes. I had just gotten The Complete Sherlock Holmes and had decided to re-read the stories. If I understand your comment, you don't have to be a teen to enjoy Doyle. I recently bought another, digital copy of the stories for my Android phone to read on the plane.
I'll ditto the Shazam recommendation. Captain Marvel appealed to a younger set, and his alter-ego was a young teen. (As were those of Captain Marvel Junior and Mary Marvel, or whatever her name was.)
I bought a huge paperback compendium of "Shazam" comics a few years ago. B&W, but still good stories.
Incidentally, have you been watching Young Justice? The setup is that a junior justice league is formed from all the sidekicks -- robin, aquaboy and so forth. (The story predates the coming of Starfire to earth and the forming of Teen Titans.)
Captain Marvel is a recurring character. As portrayed in this series, he is a full member of JLA and considered an adult by the other JLA members, (sometimes asked to "babysit" the junior members) but his dirty little secret, apparently hidden from the other adults, is that although he has an adult body as CM, he still retains the intellect and emotions of Billy. He therefore commiserates more with the junior JLA members, because he has similar desires and has shown similar lack of judgement.
Incidentally, with Mage volume 1, I left out the part about the puppy.
At 3 years old he should be able to read himself - why do you need to read to him?
Reading to your kids is a great experience for both you and the kid. I started reading to my daughter before she turned one year old. It helped her fall to sleep. To start with, since she wasn't actually listening, I read her whatever I happened to be reading. I wonder sometimes if that was a mistake, and she spent nights awake in her bed, listening for the hellish howling of a gigantic hound on the moors...
Later we went through every one of the Terry Pratchett stories and a lot of the Heinlein juveniles. This went on until sometime last year, when she became a senior in high school, and was too busy for me to read to her anymore. I regret that.
Just kidding!
There used to be a Shazam! comic, (DC's Captain Marvel) that was oriented more towards young kids. I don't know if it still exists.
Personally, I started my daughter, who was not much older than that, on Mage. If she didn't understand something, we stopped and talked about it. It's actually pretty amazing what kids can process.
When she entered her teens, Matt Wagner had finally come out with Volume 2. Daughter was really excited and wanted me to read it to her. I was a little surprised that she had remembered the first story.
> While I don't disagree with your overall points, this analogy misses the point. If everyone goes to the "restaurant across the street," then this restaurant goes out of business... and unfortunately, the torrent "restaurant across the street" doesn't actually make steaks. They simply go to this restaurant (while it still exists) and make copies of their steaks. But if this restaurant disappears, then the 'competing' torrent "restaurant across the street" also has no steaks.
I think this analogy misses the point a little. You can live without steak from either restaurant. TV is entertainment, it's not the breath of life. If there's less of it, ...shrug...
As for Doctor Who, I believe it's funded by the BBC, which means it's ultimately taxpayer funded. Even if every content provider in the US went belly up, one could still torrent Dr Who. And I personally gave up on Game of Thrones as soon as I realized it's a soap opera with swords. And not enough swords.
Right, consider the cable TV providers as "jobs saved or created".
Smart move to sell off the company to cable companies, or is it a trap by cable companies? Subscribscriptions will certainly drop once this gets rolling and devalue their service. That would be to the cable companies advantage. Only reason I have cable tv now I because my wife watches programming Hulu simply doesn't carry (or didn't). I'd dump my channels and pay for the less expensive Hulu in a heartbeat if I could.
You're doing it wrong. I put up a big antenna, got a solid signal on all (free) network HD channels, put a roku box ($99 non-recurring) on her TV with a netflix subscription (streaming only, $7.99/mo), and turned off the cable. Because we just plain couldn't afford $100+ a month for fucking TV in a down economy. She was fussy for a few weeks but eventually got over it.
It's.... only.... TV. It's not, like, air.
A lot of the gap was time based rather than content -- stuff that's on TV this season is on Netflix next season. So you just wait, and it becomes available eventually. For the rest, unless it's showing emergency routes out of the city, it's not important.
Qwest has fiber, and Frontier currently owns a good part of formerly Verizon fiber infrastructure.
I don't have Verizon fiber.
But oddly enough, two local phone companies in my area (verizon and qwest) managed to make a successful go of it.
True. Parenthetically, I don't understand why fiber isn't available more places. It's a much more elegant solution than DSL or cable modem.
Cable modem always seemed to me a kludge to re-use existing cable TV infrastructure. Cable TV as a service is rapidly becoming moot, so I don't see the point in running more 72 ohm cable.
As you surmised, wall mount racks are switch only. I went through the same intellectual process and saw no solution but to buy a floor standing rack. It sits in my garage and is accessible from both sides. Mine has a large enough footprint to be stable, but if you get one of those skinny spidery racks, you should sink some bolts into the floor to make sure you don't have a sudden gravity-induced catastrophic failure.
If your equipment has redundant supplies, you should plug them in separate circuits. I did this after a GFI blew and took out my servers. I wasn't even aware that the GFI in the master bath was on the same circuit as the plug in the garage.
If you're interested in battery backup, instead of a dedicated UPS, consider a true sinewave inverter (available on amazon) and a couple of marine batteries (available almost anywhere) fed by a heavy duty battery charger. Why? Because it's easier to switch to solar later if you're so inclined.
It might be a trial balloon, to test reaction.
Congratulations, Hulu, you've just rendered yourself irrelevant.
This sounds like the same mistake cable providers have been making going back to the old horrible days of TCI. The business model was based on the assumption that users were trapped in the service with no competitive options, and the service provider therefore had wide latitude in the services and pricing structure they felt like providing.
Service providers either haven't figured out yet that this just isn't true anymore, or they have some bizarre idea that the majority of TV consumers are old enough and un-savvy enough to be unable to find alternatives. Hulu would therefore be seen as a blip on the radar that the cable providers need to tweak to retain their iron grip on their user base.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but Mr. and Mrs TV Tray, the last vestige of humanity that still watches TV in real time, are reducing in numbers. Some are finding alternatives like Roku boxes with the help of their kids and grandkids, and overall that generation is dying out.
I truly believe that the majority of us who are cable free and internet savvy see the need to pay for our programming, but we refuse to participate in the old cable TV business models. An effort to force us is an automatic fail, because the alternative they're driving us to is *free*, and there is no way in hell they can compete against that.
I have fiberoptic internet to the house. Does that count?
Lessee.... Nokia bets heavily on Windows 7, a few months later Samsung overtakes Nokia. Coincidence?
Yes, but not that well. I think we need a better solution.
> or an always-open backdoor for the Chinese intelligence agencies?
I'd like to point out that an always-open backdoor for the Chinese intelligence agencies would very shortly after release be an always-open backdoor into this technology for absolutely everyone. I don't see them doing this, but if they did, it'd be entertaining.
To Gantman: I dare you. I double dog dare you.
Still possible...
Not even "well funded". $2,400 (the alleged price) is, like, two middle-class house payments.
> even if the people who write the law have only good intentions, it provides substantial legal cover to others who might not
It's important to remember; It's difficult to grant broad new powers to government or corporations and confine these powers only to the people who agree with your personal philosophy.
Exactly. Any choke point is an opportunity. And TSA has created the mother of all choke points.