I have seen fake job posts where I reply and immediately I get an email saying work needs to be done to image like 4 systems... oh don't worry I will email you the cashiers check.
Or I get a link to another site that asks for a job application and social security... you know for a background check. It is some bogus job site with something like jobs.bankofamerica.jobs.com etc. With my resume they have everything about me, my phone, name, address, email address, except the social security number. With that they can steal my identity.
So yes it is worth the $75 check to these criminals. One of the first things I do is always do a google search for the name of the company. Second I do a search with the keywords verbatim and yes I have come across at least 4 times similiar posts "Hey need this laptop reimaged with XP, this workstation with that, etc." all on scamboard websites.
They exist on monster.com too and it is a lesson for anyone applying for jobs. I sometimes even do a google search for the name of a person if its an HR contact to make sure they actually work for the company. You would be surprised scammers stealing identity would do that too and pay the posting fee.
I am no lawyer (would appreciate it a lawyer to comment on this) but it seems obvious that CraigsList would be liable for user content if they claimed they owned it. People have been raped, murdered, robbed, and had identity stolen, from that website. I cringe when I apply for jobs using it as I know bad guys use it as well but I have to work right?
If I were a lawyer for these victims I would be drooling at the fact that CL claims they own that post and all its content in that scam!
Funny how everyone single wow player I know had their account hacked. Even from those who ran it from a mac or used wine to run it on linux. All had keyloggers my ass! It is an inside job and it is well known in wow circles as I do not know anyone who has a level 85 character without a keyring.
Does that mean Google can be fined if it ignores the users' request for the Do Not Track? What is the difference between this and Safari? I wonder because the comments in that story suggested that website operators can use it an an opt in and ignore it otherwise. I wonder if it would then be a liability to do so?
He was being sarcastic I am sure. I understand how people's brains get hardwired to reflexes and habits and resist change which is what caused the vi vs emacs wars in the Unix community a decade ago. But to start anew imitating the different mode from 1970s teletypes with only 300 broad connections in 2012 is strange which is why vim has editing modes. But ide's and other tools have things like debuggers and other tools you can use integrated in, in a more modern sense. Of course emacs users claim they have that. But it is a bunch of macros in lisp to cli tools like gnu db. Surprisingly I found out that vi has some tools too like make and even cc if I remember properly. Shockingly I found out you can even do a:cl projectx in win32 and it will use visual c++ clink utility to compile.
Textmate is a more modern text editor and borderline ide that has nice add on features for the mac.
Vim is an editor from a different time frame. I prefered that to emacs because I memorized the keystrokes and offered great Windows support a decade ago. Nowdays people tend to prefer ide's or editors like Notepad++ which is what I use on Windows an aptana and dreamweaver for more details things. It is bizaare though to go into edit mode and out of it in 2012. Same is true with emacs today. I suppose if you out of habbit been doing it for 15 years you would go crazy doing it any other way I suppose.
What does Textmate have that other editors don't? I know its popular on MacOSX? I wonder I should leave notepad++ if it is ported to win64?
Yes. It keeps my computer secure from rootkits and with Office 2013 and win 7 I can put restrictions on files in groups and have documents timebomb which is nice too.
I do not like the implementation of this as an OEM or MS can decide for me which OS to sign. This would be great if keys could be installed from the internet using something like SOA so that way I could run Linux or even my own os signed! That probably wont happen in future releases of UEFI but one can hope.
Or they hope it will screw Google over. That sounds more of a typical MS behavior but it would hurt Bing too as I do not know of any non IE user who uses that over Google?
Look who decided to enter the browser wars again. Still the lowest of the main browsers, and just a few over some handhelds browsers, so not that bad at all.
Oh god the consoles page saddens. Even televisions have higher stats than they do, what the hell man, what the actual hell? That is embarrassing. (I don't think PSP can even run that page at all, probably get a out of memory or not allow the changing of any elements/styles) Hell, PHONES have better browsers. They have no excuse when they are around the same prices. Why the hell do they even bother going with Netfront if they don't even bother going all the way? No wonder they are dying.
My Android phone has like 147. It is quite modern thank you very much.
First off, (I am not an IE lover here or a troll as I am just correcting the anti IE noise) html5test.com tests obscure things the website makers would like to see discussed on some mailings list. It is not w3c at all nor is all of recommended in anyway!
To say it is inferior to a handheld device like my galaxy s or someone said does not qualify as even modern is lubricious. Both Chrome and Firefox last summer has lower scores! Basically 10 months behind does not make it ancient on a standard people discuss in their mailing lists.
That 327 score includes gradients, transformations, webworkers, h.264, and other things. It does not include some api's for indexing and webcam. I believe they could be used for hacking purposes and until a secure implementation is proposed probably is best it doesn't include it.
IE 10 already has a score of 319 in html5test.com, while MS is trying to position IE as a great browser again.
Again!? Implying it was great once? What have I missed? I've been in web development for around 12 years now, and I most certainly do not remember ever having many nice things to say about IE. Or do you mean great, as in having the majority monopoly-based userbase?
10 years ago how well did Netscape 4.7 do CSS compared to IE 6?... thats what I thought.
Soulskill edited my entry as I put a whim of sarcasm stating slashdotters and webmasters favorite browser (sarcasm intended). Needless to say I remember IE 6 frustratingly and angrily beating Netscape quite well as it was the first browser to support the proper box model as long as it didn't go into quirks mode. I wanted Netscape to win but 10 years ago went to IE 6 and it was a better browser. IE 5 was not bad either and invented AJAX. IE 6 is just well very old and not meant for anything but simple 50k websites with 2 or 3 tiny 25k pics with a css that is about half dozen lines or less usually specifying fonts or something silly. Not the bloated sites we have today. The things it does wrong are were very cutting edge and not standardized in 2001. It is similiar to alot of css 3 stuff I see with different arguments for color picking a gradient for example. W3c will pick one syntax in 10 years times and one of the browsers today wont be standards complaint with it in the future. IE 6 shouldn't have been used for so long.
MS let it rot and did not fix the rendering bugs nor the huge security risks as MS thought we would all be using Vista and IE 7 by 2005 (2004 was Longhorns original date if I remember correctly) and the delaying made things worse.
Anyway give MS credit for at least trying to make a somewhat decent browser and making your life as a web developer easier. IE 10 is supposed to be truly competitive to Firefox and Chrome which is good for METRO developers. Remember people like your Mom, grandparents, Chinese, and corporate employers wont ever switch no matter how much we beg. At least let them enjoy a somewhat similar browsing experience you have at home. I saw a benchmark testing emca javascript and IE 10 was the most compliant browser out there. It will make everyone's life easier if people use 1 standard for the internet and IE is catching up finally.
They still do. But HR works with the bean counters for salary caps. In those years above it was very easy to get someone qualified willing to work for 40k a year as their other option was divorce and moving in with their parents as employers shed 1 million jobs a month
Well that is the going rate here for fresh college grads. I try to ask for at least 15 and I am turned down everyime as they want someone to work for 12/hr. However, my experiene is system administration and technical support. It has been 9 months and everyone bulks as desperate out of work people jump on these sadly.
While the apps run on the hard drive due to the low capacity. To me it is not worth it to watch your os boot faster. Windows 7 loads in about 35 seconds on my computer which is only a Phenom II and not a fancy i7 or anything.
What also is not addressed in the article is the reliability of the SSDs. Flash ram is not a permanent solution and will die due to the limited number of writes. If you use mysql or MS access or run low on space and use XP that thing will be dead in a matter of months. It can only handle so much paging and writes before it dies. Tricks in the firmware move the write bits to random places in memory to prevent this but as it fills up the paging needs to keep to keep hiting the same memory addresses.
I am going to wait for a few years until they use a different memory technology that can have unlimited writes as well as larger capacities. It is not worth it to me yet.
If it is maintained at all like their Xenix product now called OpenServer I am sure everything is 20 years old and has not been updated in years. Seriously it like a timewarp on that thing! Does Unixware even come with x11R6 from 1999 yet or is it still X11R5?... and here I am criticizing XP for being a decade old.
I know the source code is very historic but it is not practical to run it today. The 1977 AT&T source code is freely available if you google it as well as as some ancient PDP-11 C compilers from Denis Ritchie.
Where else am I going to buy that cutting edge modern SCO OpenServer that runs on so many different varieties of hardware that has a steal price of only $1800 for a TCP/IP stack to connect to the internet plus +$799 per core!
No I am dead serious. I have met managers who said they had no sympathy for out of work developers whinning about h1b1 because they refused to work for me without 80k a year! Who the hell do they think they are?... etc
Developers where I am start at 30k a year here in Florida and make up to 65K after 10 years. Nothing more as companies do not want to pay more as they MBA folks get angry when they see someone equaling their salary. With cheaper development overseas it does not make economic sense.
A project manager on the hand might make up to 80k a year. Statistics show 50k is the average for any programmer and any HR department will use that in their hiring decisions. 1999 is over!
Dude, they sell their product with a commodity OS. By definition it is going to be a race to the bottom. If idiots like you wouldn't buy cheap shit and then cry about it companies like Acer would be happy to make better products and charge you twice as much. Of course they can't do that because the manufacturer's product sitting right next to their's in Best Buy that has the identical OS and runs the identical programs has a thinner hinge and is thusly a 20 spot cheaper. Ergo, that manufacturer gets all the sales and Acer is sitting there looking stupid with an unsellable product. Newsflash bub: only Apple can sell expensive laptops and make gobs of money because Apple isn't selling a commodity product. You want OS X, you buy Apple. Period. Acer has no choice but to sell cheap shit as a consequence and Windows computers will always be cheap shit because MS set the market up that way by selling to anybody with a pulse.
Not too. Samsung makes excellent products and Asus too is fairly well for most of their products. They use the same parts as macbooks and is not cheap generic shit. The sole reason why Microsoft came out with the Surface is to competition for Apple quality like Windows products. Acer is crying like a loser.
Also read again? I am refering to Acer being the crybaby. Not me as I buy Samsung and Asus now and wont touch Acer. I am typing this on an Asus computer and I won a Samsung Galaxy S. The sole reason Acer is losing is because their products suck and customers are buying Apple, Samsung, and others.
I used to love Acer back in the 1990s as they had quality products. My CRT 19 inch screen lasted until a few years ago and the color quality and craftmenship was amazing. Today?
They are not the same company. I needed a 2nd source of income a few years ago and worked at an office store. Guess which machines had BSOD on display even! Acer. Guess which ones were always returned? Acer. Guess who has no tablet presence? ACER
Samsung and Asus kicked your ass while they were ants to you at one time. Sorry Acer you lost and it is time to stop blaming others like Microsoft and go fix yourself if you want to compete like Samsung did who had little to 0 presence in your market just a few years ago to one of the top sellers today.
If you're right out of school, go for an internship or something--anything to get work on the resume. You won't be paid as if you had 10 years of experience, so be prepared to get a few roommates or live with your parents---just like we all did when we were just out of school.
Why hire an intern when I can find someone with 2- 4 years experience willing to work for just $39k a year? Yes, they can get those because no one else wants to even talk to them unless they have 8 years experience.
I have not seen an entry level job ad for many years
80K? Really. It doesn't sound like like a lot of money in Baltimore. It's not even a lot of money in Dallas. The strong seniors I know in Dallas are all getting 125K+, and Dallas is certainly less expensive than Baltimore.
No one wants to pay a developer 150K? I don't want to pay 50k+ for a new BMW either, but that's what they cost.
Ha! Keep dreaming.
My brother refuses to hire anyone senior developer for more than 60k a year. His HR department uses government statistics and averages as do 90% of other employers. 80k is a ton of money! No non MBA should make that much with the exception of a few gifted sales people who can rake in more money.
HR departments are used to the great recessions still when they had 100 applicants for each job posted. They are used to offering $40,000 a year, no relocation, and requiring 6 years of experience and prefering a masters degree, because frankly from 2008 - 2011 people out of work would jump at it!
It is now ballencing out but the companies are cheapskates and accountants and HR people are willing to wait it out to find somebody desperate who will jump. Also realize in many ways people are paid less than they were 10 years ago. Sure it might seem crap to you but demand and salaries have really been going down and employers have little reason to offer you more like I described above.
IT is too underfunded. IT got hit with a tripple whammy last decade, first with Active Directory cutting down IT costs as 4 people could do the jobs of 1 through automation and remote work, outsourcers came and elinated whole departments in some companys, and last the great recession had businesses cut to the bone and keep only the bare essentials to keep it from collasping back in 2008.
It makes sense a correction sets in now as companies have terrible outsourced IT operatations who are costing more than saving, many MBAs who evercut ar realizing the place really does fall apart if someone dares to get sick or wants to go on vacation, and last XP is EOL and it is time to recycle obsolete equipment and invest more in their underfuneded infrastructure.
It is not really.com at all as this is normal when the beancounters get aggresive when the owners realize staff is just putting out fires.
If Valve does this, then Steam for Windows would install a partition on the host computer (whether it is a PC, Mac, or a dedicated Linux box) containing Valve's distro, and boot into it to play any Steam game. Programming any computer game would mean coding for Valve's Linux. Suddenly there will be no DLL hell, and no difference between the Mac and PC versions. OpenGL, not Direct3D, would be the standard graphics API (except on XBox).
The APIs could be kept very stable. In fact, Valve already has the policy of making all Flash run on a previous version of Flash to make quite certain of ongoing compatibility. It would be possible to make sure that any game that runs on Valve's present distro will run on all future updates of it.
If anyone can do it, Valve can.
Richard
Then you run into bugs with hardware support like crappy video drivers. Wouldn't it just be easier to make these games for OpenGL for Windows if you want cross platform? Not to mention it is inconvenient to reboot a system. I think Valve is working on a console as then it would make sense as the hardware could be controlled and game makers can target just one platform.
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I have seen fake job posts where I reply and immediately I get an email saying work needs to be done to image like 4 systems ... oh don't worry I will email you the cashiers check.
Or I get a link to another site that asks for a job application and social security ... you know for a background check. It is some bogus job site with something like jobs.bankofamerica.jobs.com etc. With my resume they have everything about me, my phone, name, address, email address, except the social security number. With that they can steal my identity.
So yes it is worth the $75 check to these criminals. One of the first things I do is always do a google search for the name of the company. Second I do a search with the keywords verbatim and yes I have come across at least 4 times similiar posts "Hey need this laptop reimaged with XP, this workstation with that, etc." all on scamboard websites.
They exist on monster.com too and it is a lesson for anyone applying for jobs. I sometimes even do a google search for the name of a person if its an HR contact to make sure they actually work for the company. You would be surprised scammers stealing identity would do that too and pay the posting fee.
I am no lawyer (would appreciate it a lawyer to comment on this) but it seems obvious that CraigsList would be liable for user content if they claimed they owned it. People have been raped, murdered, robbed, and had identity stolen, from that website. I cringe when I apply for jobs using it as I know bad guys use it as well but I have to work right?
If I were a lawyer for these victims I would be drooling at the fact that CL claims they own that post and all its content in that scam!
Funny how everyone single wow player I know had their account hacked. Even from those who ran it from a mac or used wine to run it on linux. All had keyloggers my ass! It is an inside job and it is well known in wow circles as I do not know anyone who has a level 85 character without a keyring.
Yesterday, it was posted that IE 10 will have Do Not Track by default turned on by default.
Does that mean Google can be fined if it ignores the users' request for the Do Not Track? What is the difference between this and Safari? I wonder because the comments in that story suggested that website operators can use it an an opt in and ignore it otherwise. I wonder if it would then be a liability to do so?
He was being sarcastic I am sure. I understand how people's brains get hardwired to reflexes and habits and resist change which is what caused the vi vs emacs wars in the Unix community a decade ago. But to start anew imitating the different mode from 1970s teletypes with only 300 broad connections in 2012 is strange which is why vim has editing modes. But ide's and other tools have things like debuggers and other tools you can use integrated in, in a more modern sense. Of course emacs users claim they have that. But it is a bunch of macros in lisp to cli tools like gnu db. Surprisingly I found out that vi has some tools too like make and even cc if I remember properly. Shockingly I found out you can even do a :cl projectx in win32 and it will use visual c++ clink utility to compile.
Textmate is a more modern text editor and borderline ide that has nice add on features for the mac.
What does it have and what are its weaknesses?
Vim is an editor from a different time frame. I prefered that to emacs because I memorized the keystrokes and offered great Windows support a decade ago. Nowdays people tend to prefer ide's or editors like Notepad++ which is what I use on Windows an aptana and dreamweaver for more details things. It is bizaare though to go into edit mode and out of it in 2012. Same is true with emacs today. I suppose if you out of habbit been doing it for 15 years you would go crazy doing it any other way I suppose.
What does Textmate have that other editors don't? I know its popular on MacOSX? I wonder I should leave notepad++ if it is ported to win64?
Yes. It keeps my computer secure from rootkits and with Office 2013 and win 7 I can put restrictions on files in groups and have documents timebomb which is nice too.
I do not like the implementation of this as an OEM or MS can decide for me which OS to sign. This would be great if keys could be installed from the internet using something like SOA so that way I could run Linux or even my own os signed! That probably wont happen in future releases of UEFI but one can hope.
IE 9 passed all of them. It is a standards compliant browser.
Or they hope it will screw Google over. That sounds more of a typical MS behavior but it would hurt Bing too as I do not know of any non IE user who uses that over Google?
Look who decided to enter the browser wars again.
Still the lowest of the main browsers, and just a few over some handhelds browsers, so not that bad at all.
Oh god the consoles page saddens.
Even televisions have higher stats than they do, what the hell man, what the actual hell? That is embarrassing. (I don't think PSP can even run that page at all, probably get a out of memory or not allow the changing of any elements/styles)
Hell, PHONES have better browsers. They have no excuse when they are around the same prices.
Why the hell do they even bother going with Netfront if they don't even bother going all the way?
No wonder they are dying.
My Android phone has like 147. It is quite modern thank you very much.
First off, (I am not an IE lover here or a troll as I am just correcting the anti IE noise) html5test.com tests obscure things the website makers would like to see discussed on some mailings list. It is not w3c at all nor is all of recommended in anyway!
To say it is inferior to a handheld device like my galaxy s or someone said does not qualify as even modern is lubricious. Both Chrome and Firefox last summer has lower scores! Basically 10 months behind does not make it ancient on a standard people discuss in their mailing lists.
That 327 score includes gradients, transformations, webworkers, h.264, and other things. It does not include some api's for indexing and webcam. I believe they could be used for hacking purposes and until a secure implementation is proposed probably is best it doesn't include it.
IE 10 already has a score of 319 in html5test.com, while MS is trying to position IE as a great browser again.
Again!? Implying it was great once? What have I missed? I've been in web development for around 12 years now, and I most certainly do not remember ever having many nice things to say about IE. Or do you mean great, as in having the majority monopoly-based userbase?
10 years ago how well did Netscape 4.7 do CSS compared to IE 6? ... thats what I thought.
Soulskill edited my entry as I put a whim of sarcasm stating slashdotters and webmasters favorite browser (sarcasm intended). Needless to say I remember IE 6 frustratingly and angrily beating Netscape quite well as it was the first browser to support the proper box model as long as it didn't go into quirks mode. I wanted Netscape to win but 10 years ago went to IE 6 and it was a better browser. IE 5 was not bad either and invented AJAX. IE 6 is just well very old and not meant for anything but simple 50k websites with 2 or 3 tiny 25k pics with a css that is about half dozen lines or less usually specifying fonts or something silly. Not the bloated sites we have today. The things it does wrong are were very cutting edge and not standardized in 2001. It is similiar to alot of css 3 stuff I see with different arguments for color picking a gradient for example. W3c will pick one syntax in 10 years times and one of the browsers today wont be standards complaint with it in the future. IE 6 shouldn't have been used for so long.
MS let it rot and did not fix the rendering bugs nor the huge security risks as MS thought we would all be using Vista and IE 7 by 2005 (2004 was Longhorns original date if I remember correctly) and the delaying made things worse.
Anyway give MS credit for at least trying to make a somewhat decent browser and making your life as a web developer easier. IE 10 is supposed to be truly competitive to Firefox and Chrome which is good for METRO developers. Remember people like your Mom, grandparents, Chinese, and corporate employers wont ever switch no matter how much we beg. At least let them enjoy a somewhat similar browsing experience you have at home. I saw a benchmark testing emca javascript and IE 10 was the most compliant browser out there. It will make everyone's life easier if people use 1 standard for the internet and IE is catching up finally.
They still do. But HR works with the bean counters for salary caps. In those years above it was very easy to get someone qualified willing to work for 40k a year as their other option was divorce and moving in with their parents as employers shed 1 million jobs a month
Well that is the going rate here for fresh college grads. I try to ask for at least 15 and I am turned down everyime as they want someone to work for 12/hr. However, my experiene is system administration and technical support. It has been 9 months and everyone bulks as desperate out of work people jump on these sadly.
While the apps run on the hard drive due to the low capacity. To me it is not worth it to watch your os boot faster. Windows 7 loads in about 35 seconds on my computer which is only a Phenom II and not a fancy i7 or anything.
What also is not addressed in the article is the reliability of the SSDs. Flash ram is not a permanent solution and will die due to the limited number of writes. If you use mysql or MS access or run low on space and use XP that thing will be dead in a matter of months. It can only handle so much paging and writes before it dies. Tricks in the firmware move the write bits to random places in memory to prevent this but as it fills up the paging needs to keep to keep hiting the same memory addresses.
I am going to wait for a few years until they use a different memory technology that can have unlimited writes as well as larger capacities. It is not worth it to me yet.
If it is maintained at all like their Xenix product now called OpenServer I am sure everything is 20 years old and has not been updated in years. Seriously it like a timewarp on that thing! Does Unixware even come with x11R6 from 1999 yet or is it still X11R5? ... and here I am criticizing XP for being a decade old.
I know the source code is very historic but it is not practical to run it today. The 1977 AT&T source code is freely available if you google it as well as as some ancient PDP-11 C compilers from Denis Ritchie.
Where else am I going to buy that cutting edge modern SCO OpenServer that runs on so many different varieties of hardware that has a steal price of only $1800 for a TCP/IP stack to connect to the internet plus +$799 per core!
No I am dead serious. I have met managers who said they had no sympathy for out of work developers whinning about h1b1 because they refused to work for me without 80k a year! Who the hell do they think they are? ... etc
Developers where I am start at 30k a year here in Florida and make up to 65K after 10 years. Nothing more as companies do not want to pay more as they MBA folks get angry when they see someone equaling their salary. With cheaper development overseas it does not make economic sense.
A project manager on the hand might make up to 80k a year. Statistics show 50k is the average for any programmer and any HR department will use that in their hiring decisions. 1999 is over!
Dude, they sell their product with a commodity OS. By definition it is going to be a race to the bottom. If idiots like you wouldn't buy cheap shit and then cry about it companies like Acer would be happy to make better products and charge you twice as much. Of course they can't do that because the manufacturer's product sitting right next to their's in Best Buy that has the identical OS and runs the identical programs has a thinner hinge and is thusly a 20 spot cheaper. Ergo, that manufacturer gets all the sales and Acer is sitting there looking stupid with an unsellable product. Newsflash bub: only Apple can sell expensive laptops and make gobs of money because Apple isn't selling a commodity product. You want OS X, you buy Apple. Period. Acer has no choice but to sell cheap shit as a consequence and Windows computers will always be cheap shit because MS set the market up that way by selling to anybody with a pulse.
Not too. Samsung makes excellent products and Asus too is fairly well for most of their products. They use the same parts as macbooks and is not cheap generic shit. The sole reason why Microsoft came out with the Surface is to competition for Apple quality like Windows products. Acer is crying like a loser.
Also read again? I am refering to Acer being the crybaby. Not me as I buy Samsung and Asus now and wont touch Acer. I am typing this on an Asus computer and I won a Samsung Galaxy S. The sole reason Acer is losing is because their products suck and customers are buying Apple, Samsung, and others.
Stop your crying and focus on your products.
I used to love Acer back in the 1990s as they had quality products. My CRT 19 inch screen lasted until a few years ago and the color quality and craftmenship was amazing. Today?
They are not the same company. I needed a 2nd source of income a few years ago and worked at an office store. Guess which machines had BSOD on display even! Acer. Guess which ones were always returned? Acer. Guess who has no tablet presence? ACER
Samsung and Asus kicked your ass while they were ants to you at one time. Sorry Acer you lost and it is time to stop blaming others like Microsoft and go fix yourself if you want to compete like Samsung did who had little to 0 presence in your market just a few years ago to one of the top sellers today.
If you're right out of school, go for an internship or something--anything to get work on the resume. You won't be paid as if you had 10 years of experience, so be prepared to get a few roommates or live with your parents---just like we all did when we were just out of school.
Why hire an intern when I can find someone with 2- 4 years experience willing to work for just $39k a year? Yes, they can get those because no one else wants to even talk to them unless they have 8 years experience.
I have not seen an entry level job ad for many years
80K? Really. It doesn't sound like like a lot of money in Baltimore. It's not even a lot of money in Dallas. The strong seniors I know in Dallas are all getting 125K+, and Dallas is certainly less expensive than Baltimore.
No one wants to pay a developer 150K? I don't want to pay 50k+ for a new BMW either, but that's what they cost.
Ha! Keep dreaming.
My brother refuses to hire anyone senior developer for more than 60k a year. His HR department uses government statistics and averages as do 90% of other employers. 80k is a ton of money! No non MBA should make that much with the exception of a few gifted sales people who can rake in more money.
HR departments are used to the great recessions still when they had 100 applicants for each job posted. They are used to offering $40,000 a year, no relocation, and requiring 6 years of experience and prefering a masters degree, because frankly from 2008 - 2011 people out of work would jump at it!
It is now ballencing out but the companies are cheapskates and accountants and HR people are willing to wait it out to find somebody desperate who will jump. Also realize in many ways people are paid less than they were 10 years ago. Sure it might seem crap to you but demand and salaries have really been going down and employers have little reason to offer you more like I described above.
IT is too underfunded. IT got hit with a tripple whammy last decade, first with Active Directory cutting down IT costs as 4 people could do the jobs of 1 through automation and remote work, outsourcers came and elinated whole departments in some companys, and last the great recession had businesses cut to the bone and keep only the bare essentials to keep it from collasping back in 2008.
It makes sense a correction sets in now as companies have terrible outsourced IT operatations who are costing more than saving, many MBAs who evercut ar realizing the place really does fall apart if someone dares to get sick or wants to go on vacation, and last XP is EOL and it is time to recycle obsolete equipment and invest more in their underfuneded infrastructure.
It is not really .com at all as this is normal when the beancounters get aggresive when the owners realize staff is just putting out fires.
If Valve does this, then Steam for Windows would install a partition on the host computer (whether it is a PC, Mac, or a dedicated Linux box) containing Valve's distro, and boot into it to play any Steam game. Programming any computer game would mean coding for Valve's Linux. Suddenly there will be no DLL hell, and no difference between the Mac and PC versions. OpenGL, not Direct3D, would be the standard graphics API (except on XBox).
The APIs could be kept very stable. In fact, Valve already has the policy of making all Flash run on a previous version of Flash to make quite certain of ongoing compatibility. It would be possible to make sure that any game that runs on Valve's present distro will run on all future updates of it.
If anyone can do it, Valve can.
Richard
Then you run into bugs with hardware support like crappy video drivers. Wouldn't it just be easier to make these games for OpenGL for Windows if you want cross platform? Not to mention it is inconvenient to reboot a system. I think Valve is working on a console as then it would make sense as the hardware could be controlled and game makers can target just one platform.