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!