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Skype Founder Interviewed On Engadget
prostoalex writes "Niklas Zennström, the ever-elusive CEO of Skype, is interviewed by Engadget. Turns out Skype currently has more than 13 mln users in 200+ countries. The interview also discusses the future of Skype and VOIP applications in general."
Ok, this lil program is closed-source but works with little lag, and decent sound.
;P )
We know that there's nothing special about the audio, it's known.
We know that there's nothing different about the latency of the lines (software cant change network hardware on telco side
Can somebody explain why we couldnt do something like this by using UDP packets over a tunnel? GnomeMeeting should provide the rest..
TCP's the killer here. Drop it and you have less lag (no negotiate).
Ok, first of all, I must say:
:)
;)
I love Skype. Really.
Since I got it working I have been calling my family for affordable prises. It makes it possible for me to call my parents, my grandparents, my siblings in Norway, and allso Friends studying in other countries all over the world. And for this I love Skype..
But!!!
There is always a but.
Skype has introdused a rather strict paying system, and in fact, it markt me as a possible fraud, thus making it impossible for me to pay.
Why?
Because I managed to use my credit card in a country from which it didn't origin. And; I did this three times, thus blocking it for ever beeing used at Skype.
This is all well and fine, as Skype must secure themselves and their customers. BUT; They inform about this nowhere. In their questions and answers, not even in their live help. I spendt one week talking to customer support, trying to get things to work, but instead of beeing honest and tell me that, sorry, I don't think it is going to work they had me try again tomorrow.
At the end of the week they were nice enough to tell me that all IP's from Argentina was blocked. Too late
So. Allthough they provide a nice new service, they still lack in customer support.
All grudges aside, I had a friend in norway buy credits for me, and now I am a happy ignorant skype user
Besides access to a lot of cool technologies, it offerred one of the only places around where you could go & call out (albeit cryptically):
"Hey, anybody out there wanna talk to me right now?"
Of course, there were many more males prepared to jump the entry hurdles into Ham Radio, then as now.
But, today, we have Skype... Since September 2004, I've had the pleasure of meeting:
- a plastic surgeon (from India) in Israel
- a Palestinian woman in Jordan
- a Swedish-speaking student in the Far North of Sweden, with whom to practice my Swedish
... all via Skype!
;-/
I've also used a Kenwood TS-2000 HF / VHF / UHF transceiver remotely (it's a bit like the now dated JavaRadio, but with Transmit Capabilities for licensed Hams).
ALL I NEED TO KNOW IS:
What do I need to provide so as to be able to use Skype exclusively on an Intranet?
Has anybody done this -without- an Internet connection?
Skype seems a bit bloated though; the Windows executable weighs in at just over 10 MB. For a small VoIP application, I find this pretty rediculous. How could they possibly make it take up so much space?
The invented fasttrack, not Kazaa. Thats like blaming the car companies for people drinking and driving. They sold their idea, then end purchaser choose what to do with it -- not them. Come on, we've been through this before.
Wow, that's really extra terrestial, as I thought that ther are only 192 international recognised countries !