Sir William of Gates

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1485717,00.asp


I heartily endorse this attitude!


**hides from Cheeky Brit SL husband**

Knighthoods are silly, you dont get to joust anymore. Jousting is cool. Unless you lose. Then it would suck. Can you tell its getting pretty close to my bed time?

I'd joust Sir Gates. I'd joust Eggy too, anyone got a jousting arena set up? A good joust every now and then could be great fun.

Joust is a fun word, joust joust joust. Knighthoods are kinda pointless, its just something to put on your letterhead. Its not really an honor anymore, I feel bad for Sean Connery and anyone else whose respectfull and was knighted.

Sincerly,

Grand Hippo Tamer Excelsior Shazaam Oz Spade

Well there goes the credibility of knighthoods.

Bill Gates held back PC developement for so long with the memory limits of MS-DOS.

Here is a link that works

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1485717,00.asp

Not sure if you guys have heard this or not, but you know how he's been saying he'll get rid of spam within the next 4 years or something rediculous like that? I read the other day that it's because he plans on making e-mail chargeable. Someone should knock him off his horse if you ask me.

Yes lets charge for a dated protocol rather than update it!

Actualy I'd rather not have Microsoft write the new email protocol... don't people already charge for email?

And I guess instead of calling people I don't know "Sir" I'll have to use "Hey you" as not to make England mad.

The charge will be per e-mail so that when spammers mass mail people it'll cost a pretty penny. If you're paying for your e-mail service.. really sorry to hear that.

Per e-mail?! HAH, good luck with that Sir Billy Boy, that service would last all of one month.

And heck no I'm not paying for my email, lol. I use Hotmail, Yahoo, and my ISP one. I'm just asuming someone out there charges for email somehow already.

I highly doubt anyone would be willing to pay for email since theres so many available free ones.

wasn;t the cost in cpu time?
I heard that when you send an email to someone for the first time it will take 2 minutes to send the email and take up a pretty majority of the cpu time, then reciever can authorize receipt and sending email to that person will take normal time. This way mass email will take a long long time.

Thats what i heard anyway.

Well what I heard ... (LOL this is sounding rediculous hehe)

First off its in the 'Microsoft and someothercompany have said they will investigate email payments as a method to prevent spam' stages. As in they announced they were going to start thinking about thinking about it.

Second, the way it would work would be a receiver triggered event. Sorta like COD only not I guess. Heh. You receive an email and you have a button you push called 'CHARGE HIS A55!!11!' which then charges the emailer like one tenth of a cent.

Problems: Spammers don't leave their return addresses correct! They spoof em all the time. Some unfortunate [email]bob@bob.com[/email] is gonna get charged like 6million dollars for spam he never sent. The only way around that is to parse the email and do investigative work with every single instance. Even then some spammers now (and more if this were to happen) use virus infected machines not only to send the spam emails, but to host the websites too!

That means that they need to (gasp) update the protocol ... but if they update the protocol then they don't need to charge per email to stop spam.

It is a stupid idea.