I graduated in 2010 with a BS in Computer Science and managed to have a Software Developer job lined up beforehand. I started with a pretty bottom barrel salary at $40k for a local startup. I have leveraged some fairly good demand here in the Northwest to now be starting in a new position next week making $75k, in a city where the average household income is $39k. Moving up is all about getting your foot in the door and then using your experience to move around where there is demand for good developers. Now, I may not be anywhere near the $200k talked about in the article, but my salary compared to my cost of living is pretty good whereas I would venture a guess that those close to that upper range are living in places where the salary to cost of living ratio probably isn't a lot different than where I'm at right now.

Given the first sentence of the post, it appears that OP is that consultant.

Not sure if this addresses your particular issues, but I use f.lux and it has totally saved my eyes. I periodically lower the settings on it, which continues to help with my eye strain and I'm so used to it I forget it is running most of the time.

You seem to be horribly misinformed. Sony still has yet to start manufacturing on the PS3 so it looks like all of them will have the slower GPU. http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/21/ 1235256