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zipp51, I am afraid their cases are not as good as that. Desktop models (not the tower models) are the mainstay in their line of work. Mostly for government and schools. It is the easiest manufacturing model to fabricate and the cheapest for a small-time business such as this. I think FthrJack is on the right course with his idea to produce high-end towers. Check out the Tyan reseller program and the MALABS affiliation! MALABS is working very close with Tyan on a account. MALABS resellers will receive special discounts if the merger goes through. To all. Watch Tyan Close in 2003!

Drew, I inquired and will know more after the holidays. NeoMods? Tell us more.

FthrJack, Now you got it $$$ Please allow me to be the first to buy the very 1st one off the line with your autograph. Serious!

Shucks, I visited more babes than that on a Friday night in my younger days. w00t

Age: 1,600 years plus Source: Toys Net Worth: $?‡ Hometown: New York City; North Pole Marital Status: Married, no children Born in the fourth century as Nicholas of Myra in Anatolia, now southwestern Turkey. According to legend, gave away bulk of his inheritance to provide dowries for three beautiful--but impoverished--maiden sisters. Famously threw gold through girls' chimney where it landed in their stockings drying by fire. Later Roman Catholic saint. Relics stolen by Italian merchants 12th century; bones now in Bari, southern Italy. Moved to U.S. by way of Holland; settled in New Amsterdam, later New York City. Changed name to Santa Claus, gained weight, grew beard. Toy manufacturing operations at North Pole yielding apparently unlimited wealth. Spends every Christmas Eve trying fruitlessly to give away fortune to little children. Keeping up with the times: Compressive of naughty and nice boys and girls now available on the Web. Passionate interest in artic wildlife: Large reindeer preserve includes rare flying and red-nosed specimens. Member since time immemorial.

Dead Pixels Contrast Ratio 400:1 Is contrast ration and refresh rate the same thing on a TFT monitor? I learned that some TFT monitors have built-in speakers and some do not. People that just want sound without stereo quality speakers or wish to eliminate a set of external speakers may want to look for this when purchasing a TFT monitor. Some TFT monitors come with a button for automatically adjusting the screen settings. This is a must have if you do not understand and/or want to fumble with manual settings. Otherwise, you are forced to manually configure the settings.

Sedative http://www.betadreaming.net/index.php?act=ST&f=7&t=6 Look familiar

Cool. Thanks all.

CDNow had it right when they offered a list of music, you could select individual songs, they would burn them, and mail the CD to you. Or you could download the songs. All at a price. Now they have a deal with amazon.com and it does not seem to work that way.

I don't get it. I see the image. It does not have a link. What am I missing?

What article?

That was started here in Germany and quickly shot down. Again, money.

Sed will like that

I am not condoning the Record Companies or RIAA. After reading my earlier post it kind of sounds like I am. My point is that people will acquire music in the cheapest or easiest method possible. Especially when CD burners make it so easy. Who hasn't pitched in and paid for a CD with a group of friends? How many times have we burned a copy of a copy or had our friend do it for us? Some people have and others have not. It is all the same. But it is so simple and that is why people do it. Now-a-days just about everyone is doing it. That does not make it right from one point of view (Record Companies). Did you know that here in Germany every CD Writer manufacturer has to pay heavy fees for selling their recorders? Two years back Hewlett-Packard was the first manufacturer to pay the bill. Others followed soon after. The fees were in the $100,000.00 plus range per manufacturer. They still sell them, but pay an added fee per recorder. Thats one reason why they are so expensive here. It must be profitable for both the state and the manufacturer. Otherwise the manufacturers would simply stop selling them. Same with CDs. Would record companies stop selling the music if it was not profitable? Enter RIAA and like FthrJack said the Record Companies are in fact RIAA. Sure, they stopped Napster, but not before Napster made a fortune. Napster was in it for the big bucks just like the Record Companies are in it ... for the big bucks. Now that the Record Companies have a watch dog with the law on their side they walk tall and carry a big stick. Are they bigger than the CD Recorder Manufacturers? That is their real target. They just have not reached that level yet. Safeguard your recorders folks!

Gainward is what I use. Cheap GeForce 2 MMX, 64 MB DDR-RAM, vid in/out. Bought OEM for $62.00 about three or four months ago. Works great. www.gainward.de

Here in Germany the major music stores are always full. The most popular stores are MediaMarkt and ProMarkt. The two are technology stores, i.e. Music, PCs, T.V.s, Coffee machines, etc., and the music departments are always full. It has been a private interest of mine for the past year to observe the girls in the music departments. In doing so, I noticed something one day and have been keenly interested since. The people are in small groups of three to four per group. They do two things. One, they pitch-in and buy the CD. Then they go to the CD-R section and buy a box of cheap CDs. Two, they might shoplift a few CDs while only paying for one. I think shoplifting and copying the CDs goes hand-in-hand or CD-in-Pocket. Never the less, the Record Companies loose money.

I have never palyed the games or even seen one for that fact. But I read The Left Behind Series with enthusiasm. Still have not got hold of #10 The Remnant yet.

What is the one most important thing to look for when buying a TFT monitor and why?

Hey that was my daughter w00t

2.42 MB on disk. Right-Click the link and save as, etc. for 56K users that prefer to run it from the hard disk.

That is where I got lucky. My cable provider is Deutch Tekekom. They broke the cable somewhere along the line in my sector cutting off just about everyone and they say they will not fix it because it costs to much money. I am one of only four users in my sector that has access.

Aaron is right. The right way to do it is to buy the keys from Microsoft through the Microsoft OEM System Builder Program. You will receive one CD from M$ and the keys. This allows you to use the CD to install on as many PCs as you want. During the installation you simply use one of the purchased keys. More information is availabale at http://www.microsoft.com/oem Keep it simple and buy a six pack.

One of the funniest things I have seen for a while. w00t They had to do that when filming. To much ad libing and well done at that! Worthy of a few megz on my hd. Cheers xper.