Will the company stick with the system? Facebook added and changed features through the years, but they never discarded the underlying platform. Google suddenly had their whole Wave and Buzz things and then just as suddenly abandoned them. Who can be expected to be around for the long haul?
I saw three concerns from people who wanted to see if Google+ could be better than Facebook.
1 It's new and cool and has a buzz about it. Does that also mean easier to use, faster, and more fun? 2 Is it better at honoring privacy concerns? 3 Is it from a more accountable organization than Facebook?
The answer to all three questions - No, not particularly. Therefore, no compelling reason to abandon the existing enormous user base available on Facebook.
Let's look a little closer at the privacy concerns. G+ "gave" with the introduction of Circles, groups of people who could be shown some updates but not others. G+ "took away" with talk of requiring government documents to authenticate the ID of all users.
I'm appalled, but not surprised. There are two possibilities here. Either Stallman is so socially incompetent that he does not realize how profoundly offense his comments are, on so many levels, and he has nobody to inform him how to be considerate and gracious towards others; or, he is aware of the offensiveness of his remarks, and does not give a damn about how petty, childish, trite, and irresponsible they show him to be, as he pisses away his opportunity of a lifetime to win support and positive regard for his movement.
Either possibility - the clueless lack of empathy, or the intentional hostility towards those who do not think identically to him - disqualifies him as legitimate moral leader of anything, let alone a revolution to change the world into following his ethical high ground.
I've been sympathetic to his cause for decades, but I've now had it with him. I would now no longer even be willing to join his parade to honor the local dogcatcher.
Some might say, if you criticize, let's see you do better. All right. Here is the statement Stallman should have made, as official position of the EFF. I retain copyright to this statement, and explicitly forbid any use of my words to benefit the EFF.
What Stallman should have said:
Steve Jobs died at an age while many expect, and receive, further decades of opportunity to make their mark on the world. Let us share our sympathy with his family, friends, and colleagues, as they mourn someone close and dear to them. Despite his life being cut short early by tragic illness, Steve made a mark on the world that has profoundly affected and inspired millions, whether or not they are in the computer technology field. He combined his own ideas with many of the best, most original, creative ideas, discoveries and inventions of many others, starting with Steve Wozniak in the 1970's and continuing through to leadership of what became the world's highest-valued company.
Because he passionately felt certain about his visions, Jobs was relentless and sometimes confrontational in driving himself and others towards their fulfillment. As a consequence, many technological developments were commercialized, brought to market, and promoted in a way that appealed to millions of customers worldwide.
The original successes of Apple Computer were based on marvelous wonders of technical efficiency that were just starting to become widely known and widely affordable: more highly integrated computer chips, and more user-friendly software. Wozniak combined these in an ingenious way to make a little machine that delighted the Homebrew Computer Club. Woz continued these developments with a machine more accessible to the masses, the Apple II, complete with its own self-contained keyboard, case, power supply, and programming language.
A major part of this machine's success was that both hardware and software were completely documented and customizable. Hardware was available for others to customize through building accessory hardware that plugged into the open slots of the machine, without any need to pay a royalty fee, work around a patent, or send a portion of the revenue to Apple after signing a non-disclosure agreement. Software was also available to be understood and built upon. Hardware schematics and source code were both published as part of the standard package of manuals that came with the initial generations of the Apple II.
Jobs had the opportunity to learn about leading research being done in a large corporate setting, at Xerox, where many ingenious, visionary, inventive people integrated existing research ideas from industry and from higher education research into computers. The Xerox team then went beyond these past ideas to new concepts about how computers could be user friendly, fun, interactive, collaborative, and understandable.
A key ingredient of the Xerox research was complete publication of the source code, accessible to any user to read and modify and extend. In this way, the Xerox researchers worked wit
Development on Metro will allow apps to be sold in Microsoft's upcoming app store. Whether you personally like or respect it, there will be many millions of computer users on Windows 8 who will buy apps this way..Net spans a huge range of computer languages, tools, and API's from both Microsoft and third parties. Many of the languages, tools and API's are free and open source. There is a ten year history of updates and compatibility that let developers trust Microsoft's ongoing commitment to.Net..Net can be used to make several types of software, including command line utilities, Web sites, Web services, GUI apps, in-database logic, etc. When used properly,.Net facilitates dividing a large software project into modules that can be separately developed, maintained, and upgraded by multiple teams. The teams can coordinate and re-use each others' work, even if they use different programming languages.
The runtime prevents or intercepts many types of programming mistakes, while automatically adapting the software to run on different types of hardware. There are many options for caching, optimization and debugging, so that a.Net software infrastructure can be deployed in many different types of environments through configuration rather than by throwing away code.
A huge number of developers are available, along with consultants, books, training materials and so forth. The majority of all of these advantages are also available to open source developers, through the Mono project's re-implementation of.Net as free and open source. Developers with adequate skills to work on modules are easy to find, and less expensive than developers for some other types of software development.
You might prefer other approaches, but it's clear that for many shops, one can consider or even adopt.Net and still be in one's right mind.
I think that article submitters should be scorable, just as comments are. If you want to set your front page to show stories with a score of 0 or less, then you'd see this kind of article. If you move the slider towards the higher setting, you'd not see this kind of timewaster.
Slashdot just did a survey, that asked whether readers would recommend Slashdot to others. Here is a perfect example of why I answered No to that question, and would have picked Hell No if that option had been in the survey. An increase in job postings for.Net is newsworthy on a "news for nerds" site. Totally ignorant, misinformed, clueless, stupid, arrogant and worthless editorializing, in the article and the headline, is not at all news for nerds, nor is it stuff that matters. Not only is the commentary about Metro completely wrong, so is the "home for newbies" slant. The linked article clearly indicates that more than 70% of resume searches in.Net are for developers with at least four years of experience. Obviously it's impossible to have four years experience with Metro, but it is entirely possible to have been using.Net for a decade now. The article has no mention at all of Metro. The article also mentioned an utterly ignorant, untrue, trite fear of.Net developers: that their skills do not carry over to other platforms. I guess this means a lot of fearful.Net developer who have never heard of Java? Where does Slashdot get the editors to approve this kind of junk?
>5 year history on the site. (Actually, >10 year.) Currently a daily visitor after a few years of inactivity.
best: The moderation system lets high quality comments be identified by the community, and the viewing software lets the user choose between highly rated comments and a broader range of comments.
I understand the site's source code is free somewhere, but people are on their own to implement a clone. (As opposed to, say, StackOverflow actively sponsoring additional sites using the code base.)
worst: The moderation system should extend to the selection of articles, as with Reddit. Too often, editors allow poorly written, confusing, unimportant, irrelevant or ranting screed packed articles to be featured. The community should be able to prioritize which stories are featured. I don't object to continuing to have a page that would show the choices of editors. If readers are not convinced that the editors add value by selecting the best stories, than the editors would ultimately fade away into irrelevancy.
Also, there needs to be basic housecleaning. For example, the home page sidebar features links to Cringely's PBS site which has been out of service for three years now, but not to Cringely's current blog which has ongoing updates. Why this utterly careless indifference towards obsolete links?
recommend: No, I would not recommend the site. I occasionally forward individual articles. The combination of zealousness, arrogance and ignorance amongst the most obnoxious of the basement-dwelling or college-age Linux zealots is tremendously unappealing for anyone who has a life, or who even aspires to have a life. I would not want to suggest that anyone subject themselves to that on a regular basis. Quite frankly, there is plenty of "news for nerds" here but very little "stuff that matters."
contact info: You really mean that you can't automatically look up who posted survey answers while logged in with their user account at the site? C'mon, that's the kind of thing that open source is supposed to make easy!
Would you like to live next to a pigeon dairy? Would that be better or worse than living next to a cow dairy? I lived just up from a cow dairy a few years ago. At least the cows didn't fly up to my house, pooping all the way.
I'd like to see this training video on KhanAcademy.org. Non-frequent flyers might also like to learn how to survive. If they survived, maybe they would even go on to become frequent flyers. Profit!
The Scheme programming language began as a research and teaching project at MIT in 1975. Since then, it has become very influential among advanced researchers and designers of programming languages. It's also had some successful use in industry. Scheme is defined by a Report on Scheme; this is the 7th Revision of that report, thus R7RS. This hour long talk about the latest revision will be of interest to three groups of people: 1. Those who already familiar with Scheme, Lisp, or functional programming, and who want a preview of the just-about-finished new version of Scheme. 2. Those who would like to get a nice overview, which gives a taste of the mindset and software tools that comprise the world of Scheme. Compare & contrast with how your favorite language works! Learn something new! Whee, what a rush! 3. Those who would like to see a nicely done technical talk, which gives a little bit of history, a little bit of politics, and quite a few technical explanations and examples in context. If you're not interested in any of these three things, then this isn't the talk for you. The video can be followed without any prior understanding. I think that just the slides will be totally confusing for those who are not already familiar with Scheme.
"Errata" is plural. An individual item on the list is an erratum.
If you're going to be pedantic, might as well be accurate while you're at it. This was the only erratum in your otherwise perfect essay. Don't worry, I won't ask for a recall.
I'd hate to have to be the one checking that code for a buffer overflow.
What a terribly written review!
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Paragraph 1 "a clear idea of how any why Mono was started" - that would be a clearer idea than I get about what this sentance was supposed to mean.
Paragraph 2 "gives the reader some heads up about what can be used instead of their conventional development tools and makes sure you start off on solid grounds." Is this ABOUT the reader ("THEIR tools") or TO the reader ("YOU start off"... on more solid grounds than this shaky, shifting sentance structure)?
Paragraph 3 "introduce the author to C#" - I'd hope the author was already introduced, so that the author could introduce the READER to C#.
Paragraph 4 "general assembly cache (GAC)" No, it's the Global Assembly Cache, at least in Microsoft's version of.Net. Just checked (in less than 60 seconds): it's "global assembly cache" in Mono as well.
Then a few somewhat coherent paragraphs, until we get to:
"makes sure the uses knows how to pick"... As the USER, I'd like to pick the USES of the software.
"connect and utilize databases"... Utilize literally means, "put to use for a purpose that is not the intended design." You can USE a screwdriver to turn a screw, or UTILIZE a screwdriver to pound in a nail. You can USE a database to create, select, update, and delete information. You can UTILIZE a database to fill out a marketing buzzwords list or take up space on a disk.
"if the reader is new to XML, then he / she will be pleased" There's already a way to say this well in English: "Readers new to XML will be pleased." I'd be pleased to read a review that looked more like English, less like XML.
If the quality of the review represents what the book is about, I'd prefer to not waste my time with book or subject matter. Unfortunately, I can't get back the time I wasted reading this incredibly lousy review.
In the mid 1980's, I knew a software engineer at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who worked on a multi-year JPL project for the FAA. The project was to replace the obsolete voice communication system for air traffic controllers. The new system had touch screens with onscreen menus and buttons were dynamically reconfigured depending on the controller's workload. It worked correctly, and the engineer enjoyed describing to me how it worked. This was all before there was any version of Windows. If I recall correctly, they developed on MODCOMP minicomputers running VMS but deployed on an embedded system with an in-house design for task switching, not a complete OS. I might be fuzzy about the technical details at this time, but a FOIA request should be able to retrieve them for the intensely curious.
I do clearly remember that the working system was presented to the FAA in Moneterey, and the FAA then terminated the contract and hired IBM to start over from scratch on a new system. Rumor was that this was a political payback. I should emphasize that's just a rumor I heard. Looks like Harris eventually got the contract. I wonder if any of the original code from JPL was ever deployed.
If you think a military job would appeal to you anyway (i.e. you don't define yourself by being a non-conformist peacenick, etc.) then it's a good option to consider.
A friend of mine who was in the US Army a few years ago said that when he enlisted, he got a choice: he could either pick his job, or his location. He chose to work in a particular country of interest to him, and had a lot of lousy jobs in a place he loved. On the other hand, when my brother joined the Navy he chose his job (welding) and they chose his locations (Guam, where American sailors were welcomed, and Sicily, where they were hated). During his training, he and his wife spent their last dime to get a home by the base he was told he'd be at for a year, and at literally the last day they relocated him a day's drive away.
I wouldn't be surprised if in the future, there will be IT support analyst jobs travelling with journalists who make a living from individual subscribers to their online news services: a one-person (or few-person) news agency. The geek would keep the capture/edit/upload system running 24x7.
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Will the company stick with the system? Facebook added and changed features through the years, but they never discarded the underlying platform. Google suddenly had their whole Wave and Buzz things and then just as suddenly abandoned them. Who can be expected to be around for the long haul?
I saw three concerns from people who wanted to see if Google+ could be better than Facebook.
1 It's new and cool and has a buzz about it. Does that also mean easier to use, faster, and more fun?
2 Is it better at honoring privacy concerns?
3 Is it from a more accountable organization than Facebook?
The answer to all three questions - No, not particularly. Therefore, no compelling reason to abandon the existing enormous user base available on Facebook.
Let's look a little closer at the privacy concerns. G+ "gave" with the introduction of Circles, groups of people who could be shown some updates but not others. G+ "took away" with talk of requiring government documents to authenticate the ID of all users.
I'm appalled, but not surprised. There are two possibilities here. Either Stallman is so socially incompetent that he does not realize how profoundly offense his comments are, on so many levels, and he has nobody to inform him how to be considerate and gracious towards others; or, he is aware of the offensiveness of his remarks, and does not give a damn about how petty, childish, trite, and irresponsible they show him to be, as he pisses away his opportunity of a lifetime to win support and positive regard for his movement.
Either possibility - the clueless lack of empathy, or the intentional hostility towards those who do not think identically to him - disqualifies him as legitimate moral leader of anything, let alone a revolution to change the world into following his ethical high ground.
I've been sympathetic to his cause for decades, but I've now had it with him. I would now no longer even be willing to join his parade to honor the local dogcatcher.
Some might say, if you criticize, let's see you do better. All right. Here is the statement Stallman should have made, as official position of the EFF. I retain copyright to this statement, and explicitly forbid any use of my words to benefit the EFF.
What Stallman should have said:
Steve Jobs died at an age while many expect, and receive, further decades of opportunity to make their mark on the world. Let us share our sympathy with his family, friends, and colleagues, as they mourn someone close and dear to them. Despite his life being cut short early by tragic illness, Steve made a mark on the world that has profoundly affected and inspired millions, whether or not they are in the computer technology field. He combined his own ideas with many of the best, most original, creative ideas, discoveries and inventions of many others, starting with Steve Wozniak in the 1970's and continuing through to leadership of what became the world's highest-valued company.
Because he passionately felt certain about his visions, Jobs was relentless and sometimes confrontational in driving himself and others towards their fulfillment. As a consequence, many technological developments were commercialized, brought to market, and promoted in a way that appealed to millions of customers worldwide.
The original successes of Apple Computer were based on marvelous wonders of technical efficiency that were just starting to become widely known and widely affordable: more highly integrated computer chips, and more user-friendly software. Wozniak combined these in an ingenious way to make a little machine that delighted the Homebrew Computer Club. Woz continued these developments with a machine more accessible to the masses, the Apple II, complete with its own self-contained keyboard, case, power supply, and programming language.
A major part of this machine's success was that both hardware and software were completely documented and customizable. Hardware was available for others to customize through building accessory hardware that plugged into the open slots of the machine, without any need to pay a royalty fee, work around a patent, or send a portion of the revenue to Apple after signing a non-disclosure agreement. Software was also available to be understood and built upon. Hardware schematics and source code were both published as part of the standard package of manuals that came with the initial generations of the Apple II.
Jobs had the opportunity to learn about leading research being done in a large corporate setting, at Xerox, where many ingenious, visionary, inventive people integrated existing research ideas from industry and from higher education research into computers. The Xerox team then went beyond these past ideas to new concepts about how computers could be user friendly, fun, interactive, collaborative, and understandable.
A key ingredient of the Xerox research was complete publication of the source code, accessible to any user to read and modify and extend. In this way, the Xerox researchers worked wit
the year of desktop Java, or the year of desktop Linux?
I wonder if phones and tablets will totally replace desktops, before either Java or Linux "takes over the desktop."
Development on Metro will allow apps to be sold in Microsoft's upcoming app store. Whether you personally like or respect it, there will be many millions of computer users on Windows 8 who will buy apps this way. .Net spans a huge range of computer languages, tools, and API's from both Microsoft and third parties. Many of the languages, tools and API's are free and open source. There is a ten year history of updates and compatibility that let developers trust Microsoft's ongoing commitment to .Net. .Net can be used to make several types of software, including command line utilities, Web sites, Web services, GUI apps, in-database logic, etc. When used properly, .Net facilitates dividing a large software project into modules that can be separately developed, maintained, and upgraded by multiple teams. The teams can coordinate and re-use each others' work, even if they use different programming languages.
The runtime prevents or intercepts many types of programming mistakes, while automatically adapting the software to run on different types of hardware. There are many options for caching, optimization and debugging, so that a .Net software infrastructure can be deployed in many different types of environments through configuration rather than by throwing away code.
A huge number of developers are available, along with consultants, books, training materials and so forth. The majority of all of these advantages are also available to open source developers, through the Mono project's re-implementation of .Net as free and open source. Developers with adequate skills to work on modules are easy to find, and less expensive than developers for some other types of software development.
You might prefer other approaches, but it's clear that for many shops, one can consider or even adopt .Net and still be in one's right mind.
I think that article submitters should be scorable, just as comments are. If you want to set your front page to show stories with a score of 0 or less, then you'd see this kind of article. If you move the slider towards the higher setting, you'd not see this kind of timewaster.
If the editor needs a new gig, I'm sure there's room for them at Slashdot!
Slashdot just did a survey, that asked whether readers would recommend Slashdot to others. Here is a perfect example of why I answered No to that question, and would have picked Hell No if that option had been in the survey. An increase in job postings for .Net is newsworthy on a "news for nerds" site. Totally ignorant, misinformed, clueless, stupid, arrogant and worthless editorializing, in the article and the headline, is not at all news for nerds, nor is it stuff that matters. Not only is the commentary about Metro completely wrong, so is the "home for newbies" slant. The linked article clearly indicates that more than 70% of resume searches in .Net are for developers with at least four years of experience. Obviously it's impossible to have four years experience with Metro, but it is entirely possible to have been using .Net for a decade now. The article has no mention at all of Metro. The article also mentioned an utterly ignorant, untrue, trite fear of .Net developers: that their skills do not carry over to other platforms. I guess this means a lot of fearful .Net developer who have never heard of Java? Where does Slashdot get the editors to approve this kind of junk?
Dear me, that's quite the goof. They should have used a Microsoft Access database to keep track of which OS to install on each device.
>5 year history on the site. (Actually, >10 year.) Currently a daily visitor after a few years of inactivity.
best:
The moderation system lets high quality comments be identified by the community, and the viewing software lets the user choose between highly rated comments and a broader range of comments.
I understand the site's source code is free somewhere, but people are on their own to implement a clone. (As opposed to, say, StackOverflow actively sponsoring additional sites using the code base.)
worst:
The moderation system should extend to the selection of articles, as with Reddit. Too often, editors allow poorly written, confusing, unimportant, irrelevant or ranting screed packed articles to be featured. The community should be able to prioritize which stories are featured. I don't object to continuing to have a page that would show the choices of editors. If readers are not convinced that the editors add value by selecting the best stories, than the editors would ultimately fade away into irrelevancy.
Also, there needs to be basic housecleaning. For example, the home page sidebar features links to Cringely's PBS site which has been out of service for three years now, but not to Cringely's current blog which has ongoing updates. Why this utterly careless indifference towards obsolete links?
recommend:
No, I would not recommend the site. I occasionally forward individual articles. The combination of zealousness, arrogance and ignorance amongst the most obnoxious of the basement-dwelling or college-age Linux zealots is tremendously unappealing for anyone who has a life, or who even aspires to have a life. I would not want to suggest that anyone subject themselves to that on a regular basis. Quite frankly, there is plenty of "news for nerds" here but very little "stuff that matters."
contact info:
You really mean that you can't automatically look up who posted survey answers while logged in with their user account at the site? C'mon, that's the kind of thing that open source is supposed to make easy!
With speeds this fast, now Grandma can easily download all the user-friendly bits to make this the Year of the Linux Desktop!
Would you like to live next to a pigeon dairy? Would that be better or worse than living next to a cow dairy? I lived just up from a cow dairy a few years ago. At least the cows didn't fly up to my house, pooping all the way.
... I think this mistreatment would keep any conscientious vampire up all night with worry.
I'd like to see this training video on KhanAcademy.org. Non-frequent flyers might also like to learn how to survive. If they survived, maybe they would even go on to become frequent flyers. Profit!
The Scheme programming language began as a research and teaching project at MIT in 1975. Since then, it has become very influential among advanced researchers and designers of programming languages. It's also had some successful use in industry. Scheme is defined by a Report on Scheme; this is the 7th Revision of that report, thus R7RS. This hour long talk about the latest revision will be of interest to three groups of people:
1. Those who already familiar with Scheme, Lisp, or functional programming, and who want a preview of the just-about-finished new version of Scheme.
2. Those who would like to get a nice overview, which gives a taste of the mindset and software tools that comprise the world of Scheme. Compare & contrast with how your favorite language works! Learn something new! Whee, what a rush!
3. Those who would like to see a nicely done technical talk, which gives a little bit of history, a little bit of politics, and quite a few technical explanations and examples in context.
If you're not interested in any of these three things, then this isn't the talk for you.
The video can be followed without any prior understanding. I think that just the slides will be totally confusing for those who are not already familiar with Scheme.
"Errata" is plural. An individual item on the list is an erratum.
If you're going to be pedantic, might as well be accurate while you're at it.
This was the only erratum in your otherwise perfect essay. Don't worry, I won't ask for a recall.
just asking...
I'd hate to have to be the one checking that code for a buffer overflow.
Paragraph 1 "a clear idea of how any why Mono was started" - that would be a clearer idea than I get about what this sentance was supposed to mean.
.Net. Just checked (in less than 60 seconds): it's "global assembly cache" in Mono as well.
Paragraph 2 "gives the reader some heads up about what can be used instead of their conventional development tools and makes sure you start off on solid grounds." Is this ABOUT the reader ("THEIR tools") or TO the reader ("YOU start off"... on more solid grounds than this shaky, shifting sentance structure)?
Paragraph 3 "introduce the author to C#" - I'd hope the author was already introduced, so that the author could introduce the READER to C#.
Paragraph 4 "general assembly cache (GAC)" No, it's the Global Assembly Cache, at least in Microsoft's version of
Then a few somewhat coherent paragraphs, until we get to:
"makes sure the uses knows how to pick"... As the USER, I'd like to pick the USES of the software.
"connect and utilize databases"... Utilize literally means, "put to use for a purpose that is not the intended design." You can USE a screwdriver to turn a screw, or UTILIZE a screwdriver to pound in a nail. You can USE a database to create, select, update, and delete information. You can UTILIZE a database to fill out a marketing buzzwords list or take up space on a disk.
"if the reader is new to XML, then he / she will be pleased" There's already a way to say this well in English: "Readers new to XML will be pleased." I'd be pleased to read a review that looked more like English, less like XML.
If the quality of the review represents what the book is about, I'd prefer to not waste my time with book or subject matter. Unfortunately, I can't get back the time I wasted reading this incredibly lousy review.
In the mid 1980's, I knew a software engineer at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who worked on a multi-year JPL project for the FAA. The project was to replace the obsolete voice communication system for air traffic controllers. The new system had touch screens with onscreen menus and buttons were dynamically reconfigured depending on the controller's workload. It worked correctly, and the engineer enjoyed describing to me how it worked. This was all before there was any version of Windows. If I recall correctly, they developed on MODCOMP minicomputers running VMS but deployed on an embedded system with an in-house design for task switching, not a complete OS. I might be fuzzy about the technical details at this time, but a FOIA request should be able to retrieve them for the intensely curious.
I do clearly remember that the working system was presented to the FAA in Moneterey, and the FAA then terminated the contract and hired IBM to start over from scratch on a new system. Rumor was that this was a political payback. I should emphasize that's just a rumor I heard. Looks like Harris eventually got the contract. I wonder if any of the original code from JPL was ever deployed.
BSD is the concept album. Linux is a bunch of singles.
If you think a military job would appeal to you anyway (i.e. you don't define yourself by being a non-conformist peacenick, etc.) then it's a good option to consider.
A friend of mine who was in the US Army a few years ago said that when he enlisted, he got a choice: he could either pick his job, or his location. He chose to work in a particular country of interest to him, and had a lot of lousy jobs in a place he loved. On the other hand, when my brother joined the Navy he chose his job (welding) and they chose his locations (Guam, where American sailors were welcomed, and Sicily, where they were hated). During his training, he and his wife spent their last dime to get a home by the base he was told he'd be at for a year, and at literally the last day they relocated him a day's drive away.
I wouldn't be surprised if in the future, there will be IT support analyst jobs travelling with journalists who make a living from individual subscribers to their online news services: a one-person (or few-person) news agency. The geek would keep the capture/edit/upload system running 24x7.
What losers! I much prefer to be duped by shallow promises of a better tomorrow.
How much does it cost?
those someone-has-a-crush-on-you sites I haven't found those yet. Please tell me how to discover who has a crush on me!