Perhaps stores could do a deal with amazon to provide showrooms for products. Commissions on sales etc. this is not a particularly different business model for them.

The quality of slashdot readers is slightly lower but the quantity is much greater.

Seriously, this is a cool project and anyone who has a problem with this kind of thing should have their slashdot account suspended pending a review of their nerd status. I myself made a simple 31 bit processor with FORTH as the OS. It taught me a lot. This is what hobbies are all about. A safe place to experiment with ideas and try something out. I've used that experience to do other things that I wouldn't have even otherwise tried. Supposed "silly" projects can make "serious" projects possible - even if only to broaden your perspective. Might even get you a different job.

Emulation of 32 bit on 8 bit: its guaranteed to be slow in the first few releases due to various bottlenecks... but hey, optimise the data i/o and you could actually make something of this. People used to bitch about how slow serial ports were.

Never really ran on anything until it got onto 386. Everything before that was pure pain.

It's the difference between being told to learn something for yourself *now* versus being told that you have *learn* it to *teach* someone else later.

Those are two very different mindsets. The teacher has to pay more attention so learns more.

That job isn't much different from so many others. technical side + administrative + travel. Good job for someone starting out or wanting a change. An undergrad eng student with a well rounded mind should breeze this. (And be highly employable afterwards!)

On a different note, I get the sense that most of the people commenting now aren't actually techs or even remotely capable of tech unless it's handed to them on a silver platter... oooh there's no documentation.... waaaa! babies. Seriously, if you need everything 100% documented before you can work on it, go and get a job outside IT/engineering. Maybe in a gov bureaucracy or a big corp filling out TPS reports or similar. (Then you'll just complain there's no creative element etc).

Slashdot is full of MBAs. Bitter ones at that. Idiots who would expect 100K for this job. Shit its just basic grad work.

Sounds like a good thing to me. Last time was definitely fun.

The US needs to learn that you are meant to holiday^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hvacation, for at least 4 weeks of every year. Anything less is just slavery (and quite frankly - bad for business).

More likely Europe simply tolerates imperial because its useful for some things or its just plain down to interoperability. In Australia I have no trouble communicating in both. It just comes down to context. eg a discussion about someone's height in cm or feet as well as cm or metres. Building measurements in metres or millimetres.

Anything important is done in metric. I've never heard anyone actually talk in furlongs or chains etc. If you're seriously into imperial you wouldn't talk of distances in hundreds of miles for example

As for bolts - its only because you're so caught up in fractions of inches that there is even an issue. My lathe certainly can't tell the difference...

YMMV :)

ditto. similar method...

i name servers by their coords in the rack then the VMs on them by the application they run /. provide.

i've tried a few other methods. i've just plain lost interest in cutesy names. I figure that a real name should be attached to a real being that knows I exist - not a piece of metal and fancy sand.

Crazy talk. These "backups" will never take off. Why, you'd need twice or many more copies of everything! Storage isn't cheap you know! There would need to be custom hardware, special software to allow simultaneous writes. It would be a maintenance nightmare!

You deal with fire using a bucket of water. Flooding? Get another bucket. Theft? Cut off their hands.

No. I don't help others with luggage. I figure if they packed it they should live with the consequences of overloading.

As for your experiment, that's just bad experimental design from start to finish. The exploratory questions don't make sense.

They are unconcerned about the loss of human life, only the fear it creates.

Mobile phones on the other hand actually cost money.

Seriously, on everything in your post, WTF?!

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