I would imagine that there's a very large number of companies that already have Microsoft Word and don't already have Acrobat Standard or Professional. Certainly all of the companies I worked in that had Acrobat above Reader level had one licence, so they could edit PDFs. They certainly didn't have a copy on every machine, like they did with Word.
Now, do they go for the candidate who has the CV that they can already mark up, or do they go for the guy who makes them spend £245 + VAT — for each machine — to get the same functionality, except it's in a different program that works differently and they have to spend time working out how to do what they already know how to do in Word?
Unless they can see that the sun shines out of your arse just by looking at your CV, your application's likely to get tossed. If you're really lucky, they might come back to you and ask you to send a.doc file instead.
Here you go - £549.99 for the 60Gb, though you have 3 mandatory games as part of that. Which may change, so you can't even order on the basis that the games sound like fun, since you might get three completely different ones.
Frankly, at that price, Sony can go piss up a rope, Blu-Ray or no Blu-Ray.
If this gets in, simply write to the companies that advertise in shows marked "unskippable", and inform them that you're now boycotting their products because they're supporting this.
Better yet, form a pressure group with a catchy name to organise letter writing campaigns and boycotts. Get the campaign sufficiently high-profile and you'll get the non-geek audience's interest, too — then you'll enough letters coming in that, provided people actually follow through with the boycotts, it won't be worth marking an ad break as unskippable because nobody will want to buy the space.
If religious groups can get shows they don't like pulled by boycotting the companies that advertise in them, we can get companies to demand that their ads aren't put in breaks marked unskippable. At least it would be using their tactics for something useful:)
How many hackers do you think will be searching for that disable code now so they can be the next thing on CNN?
Easy to do, too. Convice the user to run an executable (or use Yet Another IE Security Hole[tm] to run it), and have it change their licence code to a known blocked one. Force a reboot, and blammo...
You seriously have no stores that don't play background music?
Here in the UK, ASDA is the only major chain that does that. (They're owned by Wal-Mart, funnily enough, though they had background music for a few years before the takeover.)
No wonder so many people are wandering around with earbuds permanently in. At least that way you get to choose what you listen to — and with no adverts, either...
Given that it only affects Yahoo Mail users reading through the web interface, I'd say their clients probably do run Javascript:)
Yahoo sanitises emails to disable Javascript, but the worm exploits a bug in their code in order to get around this restriction.
The sane option, of course, would be for webmail clients to just operate in plain text mode - convert any text/html parts to text/plain (lynx -dump, perhaps) before the user sees them. I suspect a large number of people would complain that they couldn't see the pretty colours, though...
And the sheer number of hacks around to disable this thing already leads me to believe that the only reason we aren't all on botnets right now is the mere good graces of the hacking community.
Or, you know, the fact that some of us are on Macs. Or running Linux:)
We've had a machine here at work fail WGA, even though it's a legit licence. Fortunately, the box in question is due to be turned into an IPCop box in a week or two, so no biggie.
The part that worries me is that it sets a precedent - will all sorts of other companies feel free to plaster your machine with 'you haven't paid' banners that pop up every 15 minutes now that Microsoft's done it and not been flamed to a crisp?
Of course, when you resume, all your stuff is already open and exactly how you left it. Rebooting means having to remember what apps were open, what files were open in those apps, and where you were in those files.
You're OK if hibernate works on your system, of course. But I've got it enabled on this Windows box, and still don't get the option to actually use it. So, unless I want to write down what I was doing at the end of each day (clue: I don't) the machine gets to suck electricity overnight.
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Opera has voice recognition...
(except it's only supported on Windows. Lazy!)
Good points - I agree entirely. Especially with the last sentence :)
I would imagine that there's a very large number of companies that already have Microsoft Word and don't already have Acrobat Standard or Professional. Certainly all of the companies I worked in that had Acrobat above Reader level had one licence, so they could edit PDFs. They certainly didn't have a copy on every machine, like they did with Word.
Now, do they go for the candidate who has the CV that they can already mark up, or do they go for the guy who makes them spend £245 + VAT — for each machine — to get the same functionality, except it's in a different program that works differently and they have to spend time working out how to do what they already know how to do in Word?
Unless they can see that the sun shines out of your arse just by looking at your CV, your application's likely to get tossed. If you're really lucky, they might come back to you and ask you to send a .doc file instead.
Here you go - £549.99 for the 60Gb, though you have 3 mandatory games as part of that. Which may change, so you can't even order on the basis that the games sound like fun, since you might get three completely different ones.
Frankly, at that price, Sony can go piss up a rope, Blu-Ray or no Blu-Ray.
Still waiting for PC and Pocket PC to tank...
If this gets in, simply write to the companies that advertise in shows marked "unskippable", and inform them that you're now boycotting their products because they're supporting this.
Better yet, form a pressure group with a catchy name to organise letter writing campaigns and boycotts. Get the campaign sufficiently high-profile and you'll get the non-geek audience's interest, too — then you'll enough letters coming in that, provided people actually follow through with the boycotts, it won't be worth marking an ad break as unskippable because nobody will want to buy the space.
If religious groups can get shows they don't like pulled by boycotting the companies that advertise in them, we can get companies to demand that their ads aren't put in breaks marked unskippable. At least it would be using their tactics for something useful :)
And right here we have proof that there are, indeed, very few problems that cannot be solved with duct tape.
How many characters wide is CowboyNeal, anyway?
Easy to do, too. Convice the user to run an executable (or use Yet Another IE Security Hole[tm] to run it), and have it change their licence code to a known blocked one. Force a reboot, and blammo...
In that case, I'll hope this Windows box gets replaced with a Mac soon — although I'll probably just do web dev in TextMate in that case :)
Hmm - try to open a PHP file in NVU - from the Open dialog, no less - and it brings it up in Crimson Editor. That was... less than helpful.
Seems to be using Firefox's defaults rather than just opening the file for editing.
Well, if you're working for a web design company and the client specifies that something be done in Flash, then you do need it...
Thanks for mentioning NVU, though - I didn't know about that, and it's got to be better for PHP editing than Crimson Editor.
You seriously have no stores that don't play background music?
Here in the UK, ASDA is the only major chain that does that. (They're owned by Wal-Mart, funnily enough, though they had background music for a few years before the takeover.)
No wonder so many people are wandering around with earbuds permanently in. At least that way you get to choose what you listen to — and with no adverts, either...
Luxi Mono? (also available at your local XFree86 mirror :)
Well, no. They don't care if you listen to it or not.
Just as long as you buy it...
You may be audited, citizen. Keep your receipts!
White LEDs, surely?
Anyway, I thought the Macbook Pro was a toaster. Just turn it on and put it on top of the bread for a few minutes.
Given that it only affects Yahoo Mail users reading through the web interface, I'd say their clients probably do run Javascript :)
Yahoo sanitises emails to disable Javascript, but the worm exploits a bug in their code in order to get around this restriction.
The sane option, of course, would be for webmail clients to just operate in plain text mode - convert any text/html parts to text/plain (lynx -dump, perhaps) before the user sees them. I suspect a large number of people would complain that they couldn't see the pretty colours, though...
Or, you know, the fact that some of us are on Macs. Or running Linux :)
We've had a machine here at work fail WGA, even though it's a legit licence. Fortunately, the box in question is due to be turned into an IPCop box in a week or two, so no biggie.
The part that worries me is that it sets a precedent - will all sorts of other companies feel free to plaster your machine with 'you haven't paid' banners that pop up every 15 minutes now that Microsoft's done it and not been flamed to a crisp?
...and the ones that leave will probably be the ones who are most likely to be able to get another job easily. In other words, the good employees.
Thanks - I didn't even think of trying modifier keys. Wonder why MS did it that way?
You're OK if hibernate works on your system, of course. But I've got it enabled on this Windows box, and still don't get the option to actually use it. So, unless I want to write down what I was doing at the end of each day (clue: I don't) the machine gets to suck electricity overnight.
Yeah. Macs are way better :)
I'm surprised that isn't already out there, TBH... (no, I don't have time to write it myself :)
ObSpinalTap: This one goes up to 2007.
(At least, according to the documentation. I'm not a member — although, looking at what's on there, I think I might well be joining soon :)