There's little question in my mind that there are high quality IT workers outside of the U.S.. The problem for us is that we cannot compete at the wages that foreign IT workers get. For example, a Russian programmer with a PhD in math or physics might be getting $8/hr. How do I know? Lost my programming job to these guys.
If we want to compete, forget about working for someone else. If we want to stay in IT in this climate , it's time to become entrepreneurs. During the 13 months it took me to get a new full time job, I started my own company so that I could continue to code my own stuff. I haven't made any money on my creations just yet, but I've put the framework in place. And when I do hit it big, it'll be all mine and not some backstabbing corporation's.
Never wrote any backdoors per se. The closest was an ISAPI web app that needed to have certain users set up in order to work. I created the users in the installation application and later added an administrative user that was supposed to be created by the web master. Well, the web master didn't always keep up with this on new machines, so I just added it to the installation program (with approval).
That was years ago, but I wouldn't be too surprised if the user was still in there somewhere.
It's a decent gamble as long as they don't sink too much money into it and understand that it is purely promotional.
In these parts, putting a few machines in Gameworks and Dave and Busters might help them stay on the radar. But the old 80's style arcade scene is pretty dead.
To top it off, if they develop online arcade games that run over XBox Live allowing play with other arcade players and perhaps even console players at home, it could be quite a spectacle. Then put it on big screens at the arcade pumpin out game music and trash talk in surround sound and maybe they'll have something there.
I remember that infamous issue too. It's funny though that only a year or two later, Byte itself turned up dead. Too bad really, Byte was one of my favorite mags.
In any case, with the growing popularity of Linux, it really doesn't make sense to say Unix is dead. Granted, a gaggle of lawyers will tell you Linux is not Unix, but in practice the diffs are minimal.
This sounds like a good way to spread viruses. Imagine all of those AOL CDR-ROMs lying around in your building's mail lobby being picked up and loaded with trojan horses say and then put back in the lobby all with friendly AOL logos already on them. Even if they had been originally shrink wrapped, most users who 'd be interested in signing up for AOL wouldn't think twice about sticking the CD into their PC and running it.
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There's little question in my mind that there are high quality IT workers outside of the U.S.. The problem for us is that we cannot compete at the wages that foreign IT workers get. For example, a Russian programmer with a PhD in math or physics might be getting $8/hr. How do I know? Lost my programming job to these guys.
If we want to compete, forget about working for someone else. If we want to stay in IT in this climate , it's time to become entrepreneurs. During the 13 months it took me to get a new full time job, I started my own company so that I could continue to code my own stuff. I haven't made any money on my creations just yet, but I've put the framework in place. And when I do hit it big, it'll be all mine and not some backstabbing corporation's.
Never wrote any backdoors per se. The closest was an ISAPI web app that needed to have certain users set up in order to work. I created the users in the installation application and later added an administrative user that was supposed to be created by the web master. Well, the web master didn't always keep up with this on new machines, so I just added it to the installation program (with approval).
That was years ago, but I wouldn't be too surprised if the user was still in there somewhere.
It's a decent gamble as long as they don't sink too much money into it and understand that it is purely promotional.
In these parts, putting a few machines in Gameworks and Dave and Busters might help them stay on the radar. But the old 80's style arcade scene is pretty dead.
To top it off, if they develop online arcade games that run over XBox Live allowing play with other arcade players and perhaps even console players at home, it could be quite a spectacle. Then put it on big screens at the arcade pumpin out game music and trash talk in surround sound and maybe they'll have something there.
This is great news! But wait...I've yet to see an XBox version of Dora the Explorer or Clifford. My daughter will be seriously bummed...
I remember that infamous issue too. It's funny though that only a year or two later, Byte itself turned up dead. Too bad really, Byte was one of my favorite mags.
In any case, with the growing popularity of Linux, it really doesn't make sense to say Unix is dead. Granted, a gaggle of lawyers will tell you Linux is not Unix, but in practice the diffs are minimal.
This sounds like a good way to spread viruses. Imagine all of those AOL CDR-ROMs lying around in your building's mail lobby being picked up and loaded with trojan horses say and then put back in the lobby all with friendly AOL logos already on them. Even if they had been originally shrink wrapped, most users who 'd be interested in signing up for AOL wouldn't think twice about sticking the CD into their PC and running it.