But ultimately, Mr Gates predicted, spam would be killed through the electronic equivalent of a stamp, also known as "payment at risk".
This would force the sender of an e-mail to pay up when an e-mail was rejected as spam, but would not deter senders of real e-mail because they could be confident that their mail would be accepted.
"Microsoft is pursuing all three approaches, and spam will soon be a thing of the past," Mr Gates asserted.
I'm going to create several hotmail accounts, send hundreds of e-mails between them, and then reject them as "spam".
Buying American is looking better for Old Europe all the time.
But buy what?
One of the reasons the dollar is falling is because of the trade deficit with Europe is the low competitivity of the US on manufactured goods (compared with Japan and Europe on premium items, and SE Asia on cheaper stuff). Why do you think Americans buy European manufactured goods, and not the opposite?
While the service sector is now making 75-80% of GDP, and manufacturing only 20%, raw materials and manufactured goods (ie physical stuff, not services) still accounts for most of world trade. (If service outsourcing is all the rage now, it's still only a tiny part of the global outsourcing phenomenon.)
Hence, countries that neglected manufacturing see their trade balance degrade; and as the trade deficit worsens, so does the exchange rate.
Indeed, buying American is cheaper than ever for Europeans ; but Europeans hardly have anything to buy that is made in America. Because you guys abandoned manufacturing long ago, and prefered to go the easy, "focus on the next quaterly earnings" way and outsourced manufacturing, instead of actually investing hard cash into what was needed to develop better value propositions - which was the Right Thing, on the long term.
Consumers and corporations both go to wherever the lowest price is.
What about lowest price AND best quality? The Japanese took over the sedan segment not because they are cheaper (how many Yugos do you see around in this day and age;p), but rather because Toyotas and Hondas are vastly superior to American models in quality and reliability, while pricing was similar - ie great price/quality ratio.
Detroit sedans (almost) disappeared because the Big Three didn't want to bother with investing enough into improving the quality of their products and thought the "Buy American" motto would be enough. (yet another example of "short term profit causes long term catastrophe")
It is however pretty interesting to notice that Detroit was able to survive by focusing into a segment of the market where the Japanese's core competencies didn't bring them the massive edge they had onver Americans in the sedan business - namely SUV's.
To make a long story short, whining don't make a killer out of a loser, better value propositions do.
Please someone enlighten me and tell me why paper is wrong!
Europeans countries all use paper vote (one paper sheet per candidate / option), and you know what?
One hour after poll stations close, 90% of the ballots have already been counted. Two hours after, 95% have been counted. While polling stations typically close at 6 or 7pm, almost-final results are announced at the 8 or 9 o' clock news.
All were hand-counted. And I'm not speaking or Luxemburg, I'm speaking of 60 to 80 million people nations like the UK, France or Germany.
Indeed the US has 3 times as many ballots to count. But it also has 3 times as many people to count them.
Now, optical-scanning devices would sure help cut those two hours to 10 minutes. But anything more than that is a/ unneeded b/ unreliable and c/ costly.
However we might have to really start worrying about this if a standardization of cell phones similar to the standardization of desktop computers happens.
As long as the standards remain different, cell phones aren't likely to be as affected as computers.
DoCoMo blocks about 55 percent of the one billion text messages that reach its servers each day because of suspicious return addresses or attachments. Another 26 percent of those messages are blocked by DoCoMo users who have programmed their handsets to turn back unwanted mail or spam.
Looks like the state of the cell phone is getting close to the dire state of the net in Japan.
And the 3G revolution is now coming our way.
Be afraid. Be very afraid. Especially those with a pay-for-incoming-SMS/e-mails (or pay-for-received-data) scheme.
Huh... never heard of Elite and its two sequels?
THAT was exactly what you mean. THAT still is THE ultimate game.
If it went online multiplayer and with 'modern' gfx it'd be a true revolution.
Just what imagine if someone spread a polymorph virus (inside the email) propagating like a worm virus and starting a DDOS attack on the domain where the email address is Or a virus masquerading as an antivirus update... It'd be really the end of the Internet as we know it for a good week, wouldn't it?
Actually... maybe Crimo$oft's proits are pretty HUGE, but their stock prices are even huger... Is Crimo$oft not as overvalued as Red Hat?
On the very day the evil empire gets split up it'll be time for all "noisy" people on the orld to unite and to buy the OS "Baby Bill" (just think there are enough "noisy" billionaires, millionaires, more-or-less rich or poor people that would be ready on invest some bucks into his project...) Let's hope that governments will offer tax incentives, like they do with the Red Cross or wth US Aid... :D
Hey at last an issue where France is more advanced than the US!
Yes such a thing does exist!
OOPS!
I'd better say SHOULD be more advanced. For the government does have a programm forcing state outlets (eg schools) to use Linux, yet try to explain a teacher that barely knows how to use a VCR without erasing the tape more than 1 in 3 times:-D how to use a Crimo$oft OS, let alone an Unix! :D
No I think it's just the old "hug to better smother" trick... Imagine what would happen if Crimo$oft ever decided to release a Linux ditro Their marketing machine would be able to convince Mr-John-Doe-behind-his-desktop that THEIR Linux be THE ONLY REAL Linux, and then it would be over for us because it would be the end of the openness of the OS They can do it. Will they? I Hope not
Sure it's a shame (I'll stay polite) this MPAA suit! Personaly I won't buy any DVD before long, for I have THE only one movie ever, it's called Matrix:-D Maybe we are heading in that direction after all... maybe they should add cyborgs in the script of Matrix 2:-D I can't understand why those MPAA guys are suing the DeCSS team, for THEY did leak the encryption code too! Maybe we should unplug them out of their dream and let them fall into the sewer they belong to (who said I have seen too often Matrix?)
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... or merely free e-mail services?
But ultimately, Mr Gates predicted, spam would be killed through the electronic equivalent of a stamp, also known as "payment at risk".
This would force the sender of an e-mail to pay up when an e-mail was rejected as spam, but would not deter senders of real e-mail because they could be confident that their mail would be accepted.
"Microsoft is pursuing all three approaches, and spam will soon be a thing of the past," Mr Gates asserted.
I'm going to create several hotmail accounts, send hundreds of e-mails between them, and then reject them as "spam".
Buying American is looking better for Old Europe all the time.
But buy what?
One of the reasons the dollar is falling is because of the trade deficit with Europe is the low competitivity of the US on manufactured goods (compared with Japan and Europe on premium items, and SE Asia on cheaper stuff). Why do you think Americans buy European manufactured goods, and not the opposite?
While the service sector is now making 75-80% of GDP, and manufacturing only 20%, raw materials and manufactured goods (ie physical stuff, not services) still accounts for most of world trade. (If service outsourcing is all the rage now, it's still only a tiny part of the global outsourcing phenomenon.)
Hence, countries that neglected manufacturing see their trade balance degrade; and as the trade deficit worsens, so does the exchange rate.
Indeed, buying American is cheaper than ever for Europeans ; but Europeans hardly have anything to buy that is made in America. Because you guys abandoned manufacturing long ago, and prefered to go the easy, "focus on the next quaterly earnings" way and outsourced manufacturing, instead of actually investing hard cash into what was needed to develop better value propositions - which was the Right Thing, on the long term.
Consumers and corporations both go to wherever the lowest price is.
;p), but rather because Toyotas and Hondas are vastly superior to American models in quality and reliability, while pricing was similar - ie great price/quality ratio.
What about lowest price AND best quality? The Japanese took over the sedan segment not because they are cheaper (how many Yugos do you see around in this day and age
Detroit sedans (almost) disappeared because the Big Three didn't want to bother with investing enough into improving the quality of their products and thought the "Buy American" motto would be enough.
(yet another example of "short term profit causes long term catastrophe")
It is however pretty interesting to notice that Detroit was able to survive by focusing into a segment of the market where the Japanese's core competencies didn't bring them the massive edge they had onver Americans in the sedan business - namely SUV's.
To make a long story short, whining don't make a killer out of a loser, better value propositions do.
Then simply use a sheet with several "bubbles" to fill and read them with that optical scanning device.
Fast, reliable, and painless.
(set up rules to select what counts as a "filled". Darkness-based for instance. No more pregnant chads again please !)
Please someone enlighten me and tell me why paper is wrong!
Europeans countries all use paper vote (one paper sheet per candidate / option), and you know what?
One hour after poll stations close, 90% of the ballots have already been counted. Two hours after, 95% have been counted.
While polling stations typically close at 6 or 7pm, almost-final results are announced at the 8 or 9 o' clock news.
All were hand-counted. And I'm not speaking or Luxemburg, I'm speaking of 60 to 80 million people nations like the UK, France or Germany.
Indeed the US has 3 times as many ballots to count. But it also has 3 times as many people to count them.
Now, optical-scanning devices would sure help cut those two hours to 10 minutes. But anything more than that is a/ unneeded b/ unreliable and c/ costly.
nggh make that 81% /cry
However we might have to really start worrying about this if a standardization of cell phones similar to the standardization of desktop computers happens.
As long as the standards remain different, cell phones aren't likely to be as affected as computers.
DoCoMo blocks about 55 percent of the one billion text messages that reach its servers each day because of suspicious return addresses or attachments. Another 26 percent of those messages are blocked by DoCoMo users who have programmed their handsets to turn back unwanted mail or spam.
Looks like the state of the cell phone is getting close to the dire state of the net in Japan.
And the 3G revolution is now coming our way.
Be afraid. Be very afraid. Especially those with a pay-for-incoming-SMS/e-mails (or pay-for-received-data) scheme.
Was wondering since the wrt54g sold there seem to be different from the US ones...
(they're using different drivers, and linksys' website claims flashing an EU model with a US firmware will destroy it...)
Anyone tried yet? (don't want to have to buy another one hehe)
Huh... never heard of Elite and its two sequels? THAT was exactly what you mean. THAT still is THE ultimate game. If it went online multiplayer and with 'modern' gfx it'd be a true revolution.
Just what imagine if someone spread a polymorph virus (inside the email) propagating like a worm virus and starting a DDOS attack on the domain where the email address is Or a virus masquerading as an antivirus update... It'd be really the end of the Internet as we know it for a good week, wouldn't it?
Actually... maybe Crimo$oft's proits are pretty HUGE, but their stock prices are even huger...
Is Crimo$oft not as overvalued as Red Hat?
On the very day the evil empire gets split up it'll be time for all "noisy" people on the orld to unite and to buy the OS "Baby Bill"
(just think there are enough "noisy" billionaires, millionaires, more-or-less rich or poor people that would be ready on invest some bucks into his project...)
Let's hope that governments will offer tax incentives, like they do with the Red Cross or wth US Aid...
:D
Hey at last an issue where France is more advanced than the US!
:-D how to use a Crimo$oft OS, let alone an Unix!
Yes such a thing does exist!
OOPS!
I'd better say SHOULD be more advanced. For the government does have a programm forcing state outlets (eg schools) to use Linux, yet try to explain a teacher that barely knows how to use a VCR without erasing the tape more than 1 in 3 times
:D
No I think it's just the old "hug to better smother" trick... Imagine what would happen if Crimo$oft ever decided to release a Linux ditro Their marketing machine would be able to convince Mr-John-Doe-behind-his-desktop that THEIR Linux be THE ONLY REAL Linux, and then it would be over for us because it would be the end of the openness of the OS They can do it. Will they? I Hope not
Sure it's a shame (I'll stay polite) this MPAA suit! Personaly I won't buy any DVD before long, for I have THE only one movie ever, it's called Matrix :-D Maybe we are heading in that direction after all... maybe they should add cyborgs in the script of Matrix 2 :-D I can't understand why those MPAA guys are suing the DeCSS team, for THEY did leak the encryption code too! Maybe we should unplug them out of their dream and let them fall into the sewer they belong to (who said I have seen too often Matrix?)