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John Dvorak Hypes Skype
Eh-Wire writes "John Dvorak gets all warm and fuzzy over Skype now that 30,000,000 users have registered for the free Internet telephony service. Dvorak extols the installation as, "smooth and elegant" and continues with, "Without any tweaking whatsoever it works immediately and works better than anything else I've used." Skype has appeared on the radar without pomp and fanfare and it doesn't look like it's going off screen any time soon."
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when he makes painfully, pathetically obvious statements, he gets money. I just get derision, and strange looks.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
But Skype means talking to someone! *shiver*
The 30 million users figure appearing without any 'pomp and fanfare' does ring home when you consider that is roughly half the population of the United Kingdom.
MSN messenger is been horrible recently, with message lag and problems with connecting. Should I use Skype?
P.S. IRC forever.
Skype is amazing, I use it to play online games with my friends, and nothing else has even come close in terms of latency, clarity, and lack of audio break up.
I love it.
Gustave Flaubert "To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity
The company uses the apt catchphrase: "It just works!"
... and will soon be sued by Apple... and maybe Microsoft, too.
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*dial tone*
"Hi honey, when are you coming home for..."
*buzzzzz*
"Automated voice: This service comes with bundled adware. Please listen to this ad and say 'click' at the end of it. Thank you"
"I will be home in a couple of hour. Please make sure...."
*buzzzzz*
"Automated voice: This service comes bundled with spyware. All your conversations will be recorded and used for targeted advertisement"
"byeeeeeeeeeeeeeee....."
fuvoo: watch something
Netcr^H^H^H^H^HDvorak confirms it - Skype is dying.
Oh, I've never actually heard Skype said out loud, or said it out loud myself, but I always pronounce it in my head as "sky pee". I don't know what about it doesn't look like other words like tripe (which I definitely say correctly, not tri-pee, the other way, like trip with a long I).
-Jesse
Nothing says "unprofessional job" like wrinkles in your duct tape.
Since John Dvorak is always wrong, Skype must suck somehow.
I only hope he doesn't praise all VoIP solutions. This could bring dire consequencies to the whole market...
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Now we're gonna have to quit using Skype for fear of losing respect for agreeing with him. Sheesh, the guy needs to keep his nose in his own business.
I am Spartacus
Maybe it could work like Google AdWords.... You talk to your doctor on the phone, and next thing you know your hearing ads for "Herpes medication at discount prices!"
When netcraft confirms it, only then will I believe Skype is dying... *blinks*
It's true no man is an island, but if you take a bunch of dead guys and tie 'em together, they make a good raft.
>We are located in Texas ...
>Now everyone at my company has a Chicago based phone number and we are claiming to have a Chicago-based office of operation because Vonage gives us a VOIP gateway that allows us to 'fake-it.'
Hi. I'm from the Illinois Department of Revenue. Your taxes are late.
You can't talk about Wikipedia's flaws on Wikipedia
This troll is made HILARIOUS by the fact that South Africa is a real country, but "South America" isn't.
I'd like "Continents" for $100, Alex.
I hate grammar Nazi's.
If you want real privacy, use SpeakFreely with your own choice of encryption library.
Or you can do what I do -- SIP running over OpenVPN in UDP mode. There's some per-packet overhead, but using Speex as the underlying codec, bandwidth usage is still quite low.