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How? Honestly, page is the worst musician in zep. Granted he write most of the stuff, but bonham and jpj are both exceptional. Page is just page It depends. In the studio I think Page is brilliant. Onstage, John Paul Jones was by far the best of them. At any rate, Schon was the first name that came to mind for me as well.

I have a Studio Robot, which features automatic tuning, a locking Neutrik jack, and, most importantly to me, locking tuners, I have always hated the standard "Gibson Deluxe" tuners and considered them the weak link in the Les Paul line.

The scam is to report the serial number as stolen. The usual response is to give the first few letters and numbers, which are enough to tell year and model information, but not the full serial number.

Almost a candidate for Peter Griffin's Side-Boob Hour here .... True, that's a better top than plain or flame or quilted.

I'm a much better guitarist than Elvis Presley (maybe even when he was alive).

Either plain or flame is fine with me (I wouldn't pay extra for either). I can't stand the look of quilted or spalted toos.

For me it's Kid A followed by OK Computer.

Look at it this way... your machine is ready for the future. When 64 bit OS's, drivers and applications catch up to your hardware you will be ready for them. Both apple and MS are in the same boat here... neither one has a viable 64Bit OS yet. But they both will within the next year or so. And the previously mentioned point about XP (or Vista) not recognizing more than 3GB of RAM is correct. But again, once 64 bit OS's catch up you'll be ready. Yes, a 32 bit OS now and a 64 bit in the future definitely looks like the best way to go.

The machine I am building will have an atholon 64 bit 3 gig CPU with 4 gigs of RAM in it. How would that handle Vista? Very well, 32 bit versions of Vista won't really use all 4GB, some of it is reserved for system use, so you actually get between 3GB and 4GB. As mentioned, if you want to go beyond 4GB of RAM, you would have to go to a 64 bit version of Vista, which would really magnify the driver and software incompatibility issues, but 4GB will wotk with any version. Microsoft quotes 512MB as a minimum and recommends 1GB. From everything I have read, going from 1GB to 2GB is still supposed to improve performace. I am about to upgrade from 1GB to 3GB, but haven't installed it yet. Performance on my machine (Core 2 Dup, 1GB RAM) is much better than my older XP machine, but it had a much slower processor.

Interesting, thank you! I've read reviews where peoples speed drops by 40% once they go with Vista, with systems similar to what I am building. That would seem unacceptable to me. Do you know anything about that? In general it's true that Vista will run slower than XP on similar hardware (there are lots of XP machines that either can't run Vista at all or run it very slowly). There are a few buts, though.... XP tends to really slow down over time as you add and remove applications. It is alos much more susceptible to viruses/spyware. These will slow your system down, as will attempts to prevent them (running Norton, for example, really takes a big hit on your system resources). More importantly, applications which really need speed (primarilty audio and video) are (or are going to be) written to take advatage of two (or four, or eight) processor cores). If you are running something like that, you might well run considerably faster under Vista. A speed penalty, even 40%, won't matter much on apps like word processing, which don't come anywhere close to taxing the processor. There are also ways to speed up Vista easily. Much of the eye candy can be turned off when not needed, and I really like Ready Boost - plugging a thumb drive into a USB port causes a speed boosr - I use an old broken MP3 player for this. I guess threads like this show why Macs are so popular for recording.

Short term, you are going to have lots of issues, with software and audio hardware not being supported by Vista. This is even more true if you run a 64 bit version of Vista. Long term, software and hardware companies will come out with products that work with Vista(they exist now you do have to check whether the ones you want to use will work), and you will, as mentioned, be able to take advantage of lots of memory, dual-core processors, etc.

Catholics are Christians. So are Protestants of all sorts. Christians believe in Jesus as God, rather than as somehting else (Muslims accept Jesus as a prophet, for example). Anyway, can the wackos stop wasting the government's time with these issues? At the very minimun, how about consolidating the nonsense and let Congress get on with things that matter. Propose an amendment banning flag burning by illegal immigrant gay married couples, have a vote, and be done with it.

Richard Thompson