If all mining pools stop including transactions then the whole blockchain will be worthless, and miner do not want that. It is a kind of delicate equilibrium.
You should try again, be more disciplined, more eager to learn. Ask your coworkers for advice, every job has his own particularities about what they expect from you.
I used to participate in a team that proposed problems for mathematical competitions for middle schoolers. The mathematical part was easy, but it took time to find something interesting for out target students. But the really hard part was writing the problems without ambiguities. But still after the tests we found cases where there were misinterpretations.
If everybody is misinterpreting your documentation then probably it is your documentation that is wrong. Intel engineers are involved in the linux open source kernel development, if they were not able to interpret correctly those documents then it is a bit too much to expect other to understand it correctly.
No. I've a small computer in my hand which is highly programable and very likely there are several apps in the store for such functionality. Having to carry a special hardware doesn't sound enticing.
