I seem to be a slow mover. 5-8 years between job changes.

a few taps with a hammer, a little Bondo, some paint and everything will be just fine.

We don't need to print small one room huts in the U.S. We have more than enough old shipping containers lying around to fulfill this requirement.

Based on the number of concrete buildings that collapse in China due to earthquakes, I suspect it's not as durable as you think.

Replaced the 3-way bulb in a lamp with a Cree LED 3-way bulb. They think very highly of their product... and price it accordingly. If it doesn't exhibit any issues I'll start converting all the CFLs I bought 5 or 6 years ago to LEDs as they need to be replaced.

The light does work on 120V.

They've already announced that they're no longer going to build their own hardware. The color Nook HD and Nook HD+ series is going to be replaced by a re-branded Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.

How do you plan to handle delivery? An Earth sized chunk of carbon might require delicate handling as it is drop shipped on your home. BTW, a signature will be required.

I didn't miss the point. That was sarcasm. And, for what it's worth, the employer didn't see it that way -- they insisted I work to a project completion schedule and on-call schedule that required 80 hour work weeks. Either I got the work done or they wrote me up for missing deadlines. I would have left but I had no other job to leave to (there was a recession, remember). As soon as an opportunity presented itself, I was out of there.

what were we talking about? sorry tired. Hey, my 80 hour work-weeks are what kept me employed during the recession. They couldn't fire me -- I was doing too much work for next to no pay. Yeah, I made a few mistakes. But I fixed 'em. Sure, my salary history will work against me when I go apply for another job. At least I stayed employed in my field. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need some more coffee before I pass out at my desk.

Yeah... that meme is getting old. Some of us are married over 20 years now. I started reading /. in 2000. Lost my older UID when I left for a few months, came back, but couldn't recover my password because I no longer worked at the company that owned the email address I registered with. UID name I'm using dates back to the mid-'80s. Some of us have been around a while.

Trust me dude. You might have it better... My wife is definitely not a morning person. Nothing like waking to the sound of your wife shouting at the children to get your day started right...

and you think that'll stop Chinese manufacturer's from selling them equipment?

intel fabs are in the U.S. The packaging, the wire bonding. That's done in Malaysia. But you have a point. Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, Germany, and a number of others have facilities that are quite capable of making high quality high performance processors.

oil is not getting cheaper, it's getting more expensive. The only reason the recycling of plastics and depolymerization of biomass is becoming "economical" is that the cost of crude pulled from the ground is exceeding the threshold for processing these other materials.

You start with one 10 ton/day reactor. Next quarter you build a 50 ton/day reactor. Then you build a 250 ton/day reactor. Then you build a 1000 ton per day reactor. Once you hit maximum scale that's economical, you reproduce the reactor and work on efficiency. Most petroleum refineries are not one big giant crude oil distillation unit. They're many systems working in parallel. And there's more than one refinery...