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do you have a resume loaded with all your experience ready? if so, spend the time to load it onto the following sites:

Monster
hot jobs
Dice
Career Builder
and www.yourlocalnewspaper.com

Don't worry about your one year at a company so far, people will understand it was your first job, you got your experience and 'want to find somewhere to build your career' (or at least that's a line that used to work).

Unless you're a lame NFL Head Coach who's original team fired your a$$, no one is going to come looking to give you a job. Stay up late one night, get yourself online and order and extra shot of caffeine in the AM.

Kinda makes you wonder what reverse enginners, keygen programmers, and software crackers are going to do when they have to pirate a web service instead of a normal app.

All the employer-paid job hunting sites such as Monster , HotJobs , Dice , and CareerBuilder make job hunters look at the same job again and again. JobFan has posted raw data and summaries here showing that fully 75% of postings are duplicates. And more than 40% are posted by recruiters. That just ain't right!

I think we can all agree that market share and game sales is what all 3 major console manufacturers are aiming for. Considering that the Gamecube is the only console that has effectively stifled large-scale piracy as a result of their non-standard storage media format, I think this is long overdue. Nintendo is confident that the majority of the people that buy a system will definitely buy games. And that is the bottom line.

Looking for a Linux/Windows/Mac admin/support tech monkey in the Los Angeles area? Please see my resume.

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  Looking for a Linux/Windows/Mac admin/support tech monkey in the Los Angeles area? Please see my resume.

...if you are a hardcore gamer. Sorry people. That's just the way it is.

Valve can hardly be blamed for trying to defray enormous development costs by concentrating on the platform the vast majority of gamers will use.

Linux on the destkop has made tremendous strides, particularly in the last two years, but it's still a long way from being able to draw mainstream gaming developers from spending a significant portion of development time to have their games run on it.

Do I like this? Of course not. But all we can do as a community right now is continue to support those developers that do release official Linux clients with our wallets. We can also continue to help our friends and family make the leap to our OS of choice. Linux will get there. It's just going to take some time. But blaming developers for not releasing Linux clients will get us nowhere. They will jump on board on their own when a substantial user base is there who purchase games for Linux. If you have any doubts about that theory, just look at IT industry giants like IBM, Sun, and Dell and their about-faces in the course of the last decade concerning Linux support.

One last point, as far as I'm concerned, Mac users have had much more to caterwaul about than Linux users. The treatment they've received from game developers pales in comparison.

Looking for a Linux/Windows tech monkey in the Los Angeles area? Please see my resume.

This was a very unscientifically performed study. Job availability for scheme included entries such as:

Outside Sales Consultant

Help wanted: CTO at another doomed bigcorp.
NewsPosted by CmdrTaco on Sunday September 29, @11:16AM
from the meet-interesting-people-and-kill-them-deja-vue dept.
Gill_Bates writes "It looks like american nuclear power group are looking for a CTO. I'm intrigued by the sentence that reads "Builds prototypes and evaluates alternatives for renewable power sources, windmill warfare, solar energy "protection" , etc." other job descriptions including the phrase "Warfare"(80)?

This will prove to be an interesting match

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If they don't want any more resumes, they should stop posting listings on job sites...

i saw the article yesterday and laughed as i read it.

i mean, the bay area gold rush is over. you're not going to get those $150/hr html consulting gigs anymore. The job market is tight. but not too tight. a quick search on hotjobs.com shows a ton of job openings. and even though craigslist doesn't have hundreds of postings a day in the prgrammer / sysadmin area, they ususally have 4 or 5 new ones every day. i have more friends at companies that are doing well than i have friends who have been layed off, and everyone i know has at least one "backup" job in case their current employer folds. and the people in the article are web designers (of which there are too many period) and asp/vb programmers? give me a break. if you've got a few years of c/c++ experience, you'll land something really quick. the people that are having the worst time are the corporate/middle management folks, who have no tech skills whatsoever, and the "i studied cs in college but i've never done any practical coding before" types.

Personally if I were in your situation I would go ever to a couple of job sites and search for companies willing to sponsor H1 visa's. Pages such as Hotjobs, Dice, Monster, all have options for foreigners to break into corporations via sponsorships.

Speedygrl has a comprehensive listing of job search engines and companies.

I've never dealt with looking for positions in other countries but soon I will be asking the same question when I get close to moving to Sweden, so I'm curious to these answers as well.

Hope that helped a bit.

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DOH! I knew that. I really did. This must be a corollary of the law that says a post with a spelling correction will have a spelling mistake in it. Well, at least it was a linguistic mistake, not a physics or math one.
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If you're going to have a planet that's the same density as this one, you're going to have a problem with us living on it. Our planet (Sol, Terra, Earth, Third big rock from the sun) is about 8,000 miles in diameter, therefore about 25,000 miles in circumference.

Let's see. 3 times the diameter, so 27 times the volume? Gravity would be 9 times as big? It's been a long time since my last physics class, so someone correct me here. I don't relish weighing a ton.
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I agree with your estimation that things like heating, food, and lodging are essential while phone and internet access are not. There are however, many fallacies in your little post.

Heating with wood is far more detrimental to the environment than most of the other methods. Including nuclear power. As someone who worked in the nuclear industry for 10 years, you're just going to have to take my word on that. (Yes, there are some dirty reactors still in operation but we actually know how to build them right these days. The fact that no one is doing so is unfortunate. Coal fired power plants are even worse on the environment. Ever visit a strip mine?)

Your friends have a lot of money. Adding solar power to a house is expensive and probably not worth the money in most states in the US. The southwest, Texas, Florida perhaps. Not many other places. Gas stove? Gas costs money. They hunt for their food? On their own land? What would happen if all 300 million of us had to hunt for our food. Your friends' lifestyle is only sustainable because the rest of us live differently.

The fact that you can survive without phone or internet access doesn't say anything about your quality of life.

First let's look at lifestyle. If you're the loner type, then moving to a house in the woods might be the thing for you. Man (and woman) is a social animal. Most (>70% I believe) of the US lives in an urban area. We want to be around other people. We want to communicate. Picking up the phone and calling any one of my friends at any time is a convenience and definitely improves the quality of my life.

Secondly, let's look at money. If you're not rich, how do you achieve a lifestyle of no phone/net access. How many professions (or ways of making money) are left without using the phone or harming the environment. Damn few. You can live in your shack in the woods and proclaim you're not harming the environment, but what do you do for a living?

And lastly, I believe you're incredibly shortsighted. Right now it's not necessary to have net access. I'm not sure that's going to be true in 50 years. You'll likely get everything but the essentials via the net. Music, books, entertainment, interactive games, etc. You'll be able to get by without it, just like you can get by without a phone today. The Amish do so. Doesn't mean the rest of us want to live that way.

Perhaps in this day and age online access shouldn't be subsidized, but I see a point in the not too distant future when it becomes necessary. I know that phones are still subsidized for low-income families. I believe that will happen for 'net access also.

You can proclaim your friends as having less kharmic debt to nature than most of us but the only thing that allows them to do so is the rest of us living differently. 100 million people hunting and searching for fire wood for their families would shortly deplete our forests and game.

Your friends are not living an ideal life in any absolute sense. Just in your estimation.
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Yeah, but...

First, he's 15. He's doing this just to get a rise out of someone. He doesn't have anything else to do except pick his zits.

He was already moderated down to '-1 Troll', so anyone who makes decisions based on his advice is probably deserving of that fate.

He probably considers it a victory, since he got a rise out of someone and is therefore more likely to continue posting idiotic crap like this. And anyone looking for CPU purchasing advice and reading /. at -1 is so broken they won't be fixed by your post, no matter how erudite it is.

If someone had moderated him up then yeah, sure, point out the fallacy of listening to him, but in this case the moderation system worked.
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Are you saying that NetSol won't get their $9 off of each domain registered with the new TLD's? Aren't they still controlling the main root servers?

When I registered my domains with register.com (or whoever it was) they took my $15 bucks per, but they had to pony up $9 to NSI. So what, are these new companies that are going to be taking care of the new domains going to set up their own root servers?

I'm not saying you're wrong, but if NSI still gets their $9, I don't know that they would be too upset with having a million new TLD's opened up. If they don't get their cut, then I can see your point, but how's the whole DNS-root-servers-talking-to-each-other thing going to work out? Anyone know?
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Hotjobs.com, one of the companies that spent a chunk of change on superbowl ads also is broke. What they decided to do about this is venture into the brick-and-mortar and have real live career fairs in major US cities for employeers who want to place facies to these online resumes. Hotjobs claims that these career fairs bring it in quick cash infusions of over $100,000 and help with the lost superbowl cash. It seems that lots of dot comms may have to rethink their internet only strategy or vary their business model if they do not plan to crash and burn.

• American Banker
• Americas Job Bank
• Black Enterprise
• Business Week
• Career Pulse
• CareerBuilder*
• CareerCity
• CareerExchange
• CareerMosaic
• Caree rPath
• CareerWeb
• CareerFuture
• CitySearch
• CNET
• Dallas Morning News
• DICE
• EDN
• Hispanic Online
• HotJobs
• Internet.com
• JobOptions
• Monster
• MSBET
• NationJob
• Phillips
• QuestLink
• SelectJobs
• Test and Measurement World
• USAToday
• WETA
• WomenConnect
• Yahoo