Oooh! And when you get email on this service the computer will play a sound. Yeh... umm... how about "you've got mail!" ? Oh yeh.... I'm in America and we'd all be online. What should we call this subscription service?

How much do you think it would take to get Kareem to march around as the harbinger again with the bell?

Well that's good to hear. I use a web based softphone to connect to a FreeSWITCH instance. I sure do hope they block me and I have an "accident".

Umm... do you know how retail works? It's not the up to the store. There's a little more involved but basically the margin is the difference between how much the store got said item and its MSRP (manufacture suggested retail price). If the store got a laptop for $800 but it's MSRP is $824.99 you'll begin to see that in order to make a decent profit it would need to sell hundreds of units. Now throw your attachments in there where it costs almost nothing for the company do. That $199 3 yr extended warranty really costs the company $19. On let's say 5 of these sales: (($824.99 - $800) + ($199 - $19)) x 5 ~ $1025... that's a lot more impressive than just 5 lone laptop sales giving the store a revenue of $125. CHA-CHING!

BOB SLYDELL
Y'see, what we're trying to do here, we're just trying to get a feel
for how people spend their day. So, if you would, would you just walk
us through a typical day for you?

PETER
Yeah.

BOB SLYDELL
Great.

PETER
Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late. I use the side
door, that way Lumbergh can't see me. Uh, and after that, I just sorta
space out for about an hour.

BOB PORTER
Space out?

PETER
Yeah. I just stare at my desk but it looks like I'm working. I do that
for probably another hour after lunch too. I'd probably, say, in a
given week, I probably do about fifteen minutes of real, actual work.

And now I'm going to go burn the building down cuz I got moved again