With high priced music and high risk even associating with use of purchased music, I have been out of the market since this started. Maybe customers will return in Canada. This is worth watching. I don't buy music because I can't use it for slideshows at weddings, dance party (public performance), etc. It is all restricted to private home use only. Really puts it in the buggy whip centrury. All the new internet uses are prohibited. Why purchase it?
Hostess has recently had some of the highest priced snack cakes in the supermarket. Their sales have fallen off. There is competition in the free market. The union wanted a bigger slice of pie from a smaller pie. The company knew it couldn't survive a labor strike. The union was not recognizing the situation. The company cut the losses instead of bleeding to death and is putting the assets on the market.
Fast forward to the new soak the rich plan Obama has for what 1.6 Trillion Dollars? The pie they plan on bleeding will rapidly vanish. The high income folks will no longer make high income here with the high overhead. Businesses will shutter and the capitol will rapidly move to more friendly to business markets.
Is your employeer leaving town? Why would they stay. Those dependant on the government will stay and sign up for all the bailouts and handouts they can get. Those stuck with the skyrocketing bill will move assets elsewhere.
Network everything. Not everything has to live on or under your desk. My desk has the computer, Monitor, and local peripherals such as keyboard, mouse, speakers. Everything else is networked and out of the way. This includes NAS, Printer, VOIP SIP adaptor, router, modem, etc. Most of the rest of the stuff is on a shelf in the closet.
Some are unwilling to repeat the mistakes of the past. Others are ignoring the past hoping for another outcome.
Employers are already hiring part time employees instead of full time because of the new health care requirements. The intent was to provide more health care. The reality is more have multiple part time jobs and NO health care. I won't provide a link to the health care story. It's easly found searching the news. Our great job recovery is low wage, low hours, low benifits work.
Raising taxes to maintain or increase social entitlements will result in job losses.
Unfortunately (Fortunately for us) too many false positives is a failure of the system to maintan market leadership.
Remember the DAT recorder? Copy protection worked. Nobody bougnt it. They bought something eles that worked instead. Nobody use it to master home bands because it could not effectively be used to edit down master studio recodings for a home studio. The hard disk recorder replaced it. DAT was dead in the cradle with a DRM knife in it's heart.
Remember the Sony Mini DIsc? Serial copy protection.. Very limited market penetration. MP3 and recordable CD's quickly ate it's market for lunch. It was a nice recorder for gig logs, but little else. Locking the digital on disk, unable to re-master in digital form was a show stopper.
Class A amps are the least effecient. Class AB is common for high fidielity, but still run in a transistors linear reigon generating heat.
The high power car stereo industry has been using switch mode PWM transistors to drive high power sub bass for a long time. This is not new tech. It is new tot he cell phone industry. Class D is switched Mode PWM. Class G&H are variable Switched mode power supplies that vary the voltage provided to the amplifiers to increase effeciency.
These classes do not have the frequency range and noise floor of Class AB amplifiers.
This nonsense is why I have not flown since they started this. If enough did the same, the airlines would have to make changes to get customers again. Simply traveling and not putting up with this should not be a reason to have a criminal record.
I can deal with this as a "Requirement" to fly. I don't fly. Take a car, bus, or train. Don't go through any checkpoints. If you don't go to your destination because of TSA blocks, ask the venu to be changed.
This made a visit to a courthouse much easier recently when I had to drop off some records for the court. I did not go through security, but simply announced I was there just to drop off paperwork. I announced I had keys and a pocketknife and could not proceed past security, and had securiity call the person from their office to receive the paperwork. The paperwork cleared screening, I didn't need to.
Asterisk running a simple voice mail server with a human test works fine on my landline. Press 1 to leave a fax, press 2 to ring me, or stay on the line to hear the menu again. Most robocalls can't follow simple instructions. Most family and frinds have no problems. Too bad the smart phones don't have an app for that that I am aware of.
Would playing a stereo too loud in a public place be a copyright violation for making available? Maybe they can use this to outlaw loud car stereos and mandate the use of headphones in cars.
Signs of this are races that turn out to be very close within 1/2 percent as they stuff just enough to tip the result. Seen an excess of extreme close races lately? The probability of a high percentage of very close races is slim. Seeing many very close races under 1% spread is a statistical indication of rigged elections.
There are a couple of physics items to take into consideration when designing sound suppression. You either need to attenuate the sound by absorbing the energy, or reflect is by preventing transmission.
Materials that absorb sound yet transmit light are limited.
To reflect the sound to prevent transmission is a good option. A mass change works well. This is most often used in recording studio windows. Two or more plates of thick heavy glass resist acceleration by the sound pressure wave. A gap between layers of glass provides poor sound coupling between layers of glass.
Keep copies of your old software. I needed to recover some family history letters that was saved in Microsoft Works format for Windows 3.1 that was on floppy. To recover them, I built a Win 3.1 machine to run Star Office (legal copy saved with book and box) so I opened the files in Star Office with the import function to save formatting and then saved them in MS Word 97 format. From there I could transfer them off floppies. (Win3.1 does not support USB) Keep some older hardware handy.
With the software changing formats, we were able to make dead tree copies as well as save it in newer formats.
This is the reason there is a race for high performance chips that draw little power. Your tablet may sip power and take a few seconds to render a Facebook page, but the server sending milliions of pages needs to sip little power too. Whoever makes the best server chips wins.
This type of scam is quite common. Why is this news? The anti scam sites are full of stories of these scammers being baited to annoy then. Plug the text phrase into Google and you should find it reported verbatum on anti scam sites and scam baiting sites.
The ones complaining are the ones who have to pay 10 cents a minute or more for you to hang out in a sex chat room or MLM marketing meeting for an hour. A $6.00 a week or more on a unlimited cell plan makes some customers unprofitable. Free phone services that are not advertised as a phone service such as many SIP, Skype, Magic Jack, Google Voice, etc. don't eat the cost. They simply either don't complete the call, or have a termination in the rural exchange so it is a local call not subject to the tariff. To pull the latter off, caller ID is scrubbed and a local number is provided to the termination.
If you use any of the free conference calls, Try calling with Magic Jack, Google Voice, or other low cost alternative phone service. The call either won't go through, or your caller ID will be altered for you.
I use Google Voice and a SIP phone. I have to use a cell phone and use minutes on my plan to call a conference call.
AT&T tried to avoid completing calls, but due to the fact they provide phone service, they were required by law to complete the calls and pay the tariff.
First is to do the math. Just like a bank account, there needs to be a balance. Just like the bank, you can store some savings.
Batteries are sized in Amp Hours when buying deep cycle batteries. Batteries that list cold cranking power are lower capacity and built for a momentary high current load. They are not designed for deep cycle use.
Look at your supply side. If you turn off the headlights, wipers, heater fan, defroster, air conditioner, all those unused loads are excess generation capacity for use, but there is a catch, while the engine is running and not at just an idle. Alternator capacity is reduced at an idle. Headlights are about 60 watts each. The heater fan is about 200 Watts, Rear Window Defogger, 60 Watts.
Volts X Amps in DC = Watts.
Shutting off the headlights is enough capacity to run a typical larger flatscreen monitor. Shutting off the AC/Heater fan is enough to run a PC, etc.
A larger inverter is quite efficient so don't assume a 1KW inverter will draw 80 Amps all the time. Advice is go larger on the inverter to deal with startup current many devices use. Forget the 75-300 Watt sizes and start with a 1KW or larger. Follow the installation instructions on wire size and length.
I have done two inverter installs in vehicles of mine. Both are 1KW in size. My Prius has a trunk mounted inverter that is used in place of a portable gas generator for many odd jobs including camping. I use LED and or CFL lamps (120V is much easier to find than 12 V) Laptop computers, musical instruments and PA amplifiers, flatscreen TV, and a vacuum cleaner. 12 volt car vacs just don't work nearly as well as a dirt devil hand vac.
My second install is in a 29 foot motorhome. I found the AC outlets are on 2 breakers. The driver side includes the kitchen and bathroom. I left that on the generator or shore power for use with hair dryers, coffee makers, waffle irons, and other power hogs. The other side of the motorhome is all on the inverter. This powers LED desk lamps, the flatscreen TV, and outlets for cell phone chargers, laptops, DVD player, etc. I put a 19 inch flat screen TV up front in place of the original tube set, this doubles as a rear view mirror with a backup camera. A flatscreen TV eliminates the need for a DTV converter box. It only draws 40 Watts.
On the energy side, the original motohome lights were power hogs. The 1187 bulbs draw 2.1 Amps each or about 25 watts. Using the inverter, I use 1.5 to 7 Watt LED lamps instead. The main dining area ceiling light has 2 bulbs, so the TV actually draws less than the original "Dome Light". With one or two LED lights on, I can run the TV all night on battery on the 2 deep cycle RV batteries. This saves lots of gas as I don't need a generator running burning 1/2 gallon of gas an hour just to run the TV and a few lights.
As mentioned in another post, a separate cabin battery is highly recommended. After running the PC and monitor all night, you will want a way to start the engine. Use a battery isolator so you charge both sets of batteries.
This is true. I wanted stand alone internet. Bundled with basic cable the bundled package was lower cost than Internet alone. This and throttling were the 2 reasons I dropped them as soon as DSL came into my area. For 2/3 the price, I get 3X faster Internet (6 Meg instead of 2 Meg down). They call once in a while wanting me to return. I told them all they needed to do was give me a fair package in the monopoly market. I don't continue a relationship with a bad partner just because they have to compete now. They showed their colors as a bad partner, end of story.
Movies have started to improve with THX certification. Over compressed crud doesn't pass muster. Now if we can get THX certified CD recordings to match.
An explosion sounds impressive in the movies due to the dynamic range. An explosion on McGuyver does not rattle anything because it is compressed so talking is loud enough. If TV didn't compress programs, the commercials would be at explosion levels.
I've learned to bait them to increase there time cost. If everyone wrote them back, they would be overloaded with non paying contacts. Set up a bait email account and always write them back using a ficticious persona.
One to send me my inheritance asked for my details including my photo.
I wrote back and asked about the format needed for the photo. Is a family portrait needed? Would a snap at the beach last summer be OK?
They took the time to read my reply and write a personalised reply requesting a passport photo.
I wrote back saying I didn't have a Passport Photo so I need to get one taken. String them out and waste their time. Google Scambaiting for more info.
Never fake and send government ID such as a passport or drivers license. It's illegal in many locations. Find excuses to delay forever till they give up.
Many people are thinking that if I am not near a microphone, it is hard to record my conversation and pick it out of a room full of people. This is normally the case. There is a recent technology advancement being used in sports using a phased microphone array.
If you record each microphone as a seperate track, and maintain timing syncronasation of the tracks, you can steer the array after the event to pick out individual conversations in a crowd.
Live or recorded, the beam forming can be steered either way.
The article was too thin on details to confirm if this is the tech being used, but I I was going to impliment recording for a room full of people that needed later seperation to review the drug lord converstaion, this is the tech that could do the job.
A for privacy, there is littel chance anyone would steer the array from the stored recording to have any interest in what you were saying to the lady next to you that isn't your spouse.
You can use Skype if you wish. Somehow I see alternatives gaining traction.
SIP protocol for VOIP supports video from several vendors for free. Some SIP providers provide free VOIP gateways to/from Skype and Google Talk.
You can ring my POTS phone plugged into a SIP ATA (analog telephone adaptor) suchas a Linksys PAP2T from Skype, Google Talk, SIP, or a plain POTS phone for free. No ads, no Skype-In expense. I call all of US and Canada for free dialing with Google Talk. No cost for Skype out.
Other than the optional Linksys box purchase, the calls are free.
SIP provider with free Skype gateway - ippi.fr Free US DID number for free in calls from POTS - IPKall Free calling to US and Canada linked to IPKall number and SIP -- Google Voice (limited locations) Free SIP softphone for Linux as an alternate to the Linksys box - Ekiga.net or Twinkle.
Why pay for Skype-in or out minutes? Ads are optional.
Slashdot Mirror
With high priced music and high risk even associating with use of purchased music, I have been out of the market since this started. Maybe customers will return in Canada. This is worth watching. I don't buy music because I can't use it for slideshows at weddings, dance party (public performance), etc. It is all restricted to private home use only. Really puts it in the buggy whip centrury. All the new internet uses are prohibited. Why purchase it?
Hostess has recently had some of the highest priced snack cakes in the supermarket. Their sales have fallen off. There is competition in the free market. The union wanted a bigger slice of pie from a smaller pie. The company knew it couldn't survive a labor strike. The union was not recognizing the situation. The company cut the losses instead of bleeding to death and is putting the assets on the market.
Fast forward to the new soak the rich plan Obama has for what 1.6 Trillion Dollars? The pie they plan on bleeding will rapidly vanish. The high income folks will no longer make high income here with the high overhead. Businesses will shutter and the capitol will rapidly move to more friendly to business markets.
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/share-this-massive-list-of-post-election-firings-and-layoffs-with-everyone-you-can
Is your employeer leaving town? Why would they stay. Those dependant on the government will stay and sign up for all the bailouts and handouts they can get. Those stuck with the skyrocketing bill will move assets elsewhere.
Network everything. Not everything has to live on or under your desk. My desk has the computer, Monitor, and local peripherals such as keyboard, mouse, speakers. Everything else is networked and out of the way. This includes NAS, Printer, VOIP SIP adaptor, router, modem, etc. Most of the rest of the stuff is on a shelf in the closet.
There is a curve where you raise rates, the sales decline and the projected income fails to materalize.
http://lewrockwell.com/williams-w/w-williams92.1.html
Some are unwilling to repeat the mistakes of the past. Others are ignoring the past hoping for another outcome.
Employers are already hiring part time employees instead of full time because of the new health care requirements. The intent was to provide more health care. The reality is more have multiple part time jobs and NO health care. I won't provide a link to the health care story. It's easly found searching the news. Our great job recovery is low wage, low hours, low benifits work.
Raising taxes to maintain or increase social entitlements will result in job losses.
You can tax those with a full time job. What do you do when nobody has full time work and entitlements? Eventually we will max out the nation's credit card and become unable to even make interest payments. The hocky stick is not Global Warming, it is the fiscal cliff.
http://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2012/03/next-scary-hockey-stick-chart.html#.UJf5guJ2PgM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_fiscal_cliff
Unfortunately (Fortunately for us) too many false positives is a failure of the system to maintan market leadership.
Remember the DAT recorder? Copy protection worked. Nobody bougnt it. They bought something eles that worked instead. Nobody use it to master home bands because it could not effectively be used to edit down master studio recodings for a home studio. The hard disk recorder replaced it. DAT was dead in the cradle with a DRM knife in it's heart.
Remember the Sony Mini DIsc? Serial copy protection.. Very limited market penetration. MP3 and recordable CD's quickly ate it's market for lunch. It was a nice recorder for gig logs, but little else. Locking the digital on disk, unable to re-master in digital form was a show stopper.
Continued spending full speed ahead over the fiscal cliff.
If Romney wins, with the Paul Ryan VP, cutbacks would be a requirement.
Class A amps are the least effecient. Class AB is common for high fidielity, but still run in a transistors linear reigon generating heat.
The high power car stereo industry has been using switch mode PWM transistors to drive high power sub bass for a long time. This is not new tech. It is new tot he cell phone industry.
Class D is switched Mode PWM.
Class G&H are variable Switched mode power supplies that vary the voltage provided to the amplifiers to increase effeciency.
These classes do not have the frequency range and noise floor of Class AB amplifiers.
Sometimes advertising that you are taking photos is inviting trouble. Visit a spy shop and pick up something less obvious. Sunglasses maybe?
This nonsense is why I have not flown since they started this. If enough did the same, the airlines would have to make changes to get customers again. Simply traveling and not putting up with this should not be a reason to have a criminal record.
I can deal with this as a "Requirement" to fly. I don't fly. Take a car, bus, or train. Don't go through any checkpoints. If you don't go to your destination because of TSA blocks, ask the venu to be changed.
This made a visit to a courthouse much easier recently when I had to drop off some records for the court. I did not go through security, but simply announced I was there just to drop off paperwork. I announced I had keys and a pocketknife and could not proceed past security, and had securiity call the person from their office to receive the paperwork. The paperwork cleared screening, I didn't need to.
More people should do this.
Asterisk running a simple voice mail server with a human test works fine on my landline. Press 1 to leave a fax, press 2 to ring me, or stay on the line to hear the menu again. Most robocalls can't follow simple instructions. Most family and frinds have no problems. Too bad the smart phones don't have an app for that that I am aware of.
Would playing a stereo too loud in a public place be a copyright violation for making available? Maybe they can use this to outlaw loud car stereos and mandate the use of headphones in cars.
Signs of this are races that turn out to be very close within 1/2 percent as they stuff just enough to tip the result. Seen an excess of extreme close races lately? The probability of a high percentage of very close races is slim. Seeing many very close races under 1% spread is a statistical indication of rigged elections.
There are a couple of physics items to take into consideration when designing sound suppression. You either need to attenuate the sound by absorbing the energy, or reflect is by preventing transmission.
Materials that absorb sound yet transmit light are limited.
To reflect the sound to prevent transmission is a good option. A mass change works well. This is most often used in recording studio windows. Two or more plates of thick heavy glass resist acceleration by the sound pressure wave. A gap between layers of glass provides poor sound coupling between layers of glass.
Keep copies of your old software. I needed to recover some family history letters that was saved in Microsoft Works format for Windows 3.1 that was on floppy. To recover them, I built a Win 3.1 machine to run Star Office (legal copy saved with book and box) so I opened the files in Star Office with the import function to save formatting and then saved them in MS Word 97 format. From there I could transfer them off floppies. (Win3.1 does not support USB) Keep some older hardware handy.
With the software changing formats, we were able to make dead tree copies as well as save it in newer formats.
This is the reason there is a race for high performance chips that draw little power. Your tablet may sip power and take a few seconds to render a Facebook page, but the server sending milliions of pages needs to sip little power too. Whoever makes the best server chips wins.
I stole your first post. It was left in my hotel room.
This type of scam is quite common. Why is this news? The anti scam sites are full of stories of these scammers being baited to annoy then. Plug the text phrase into Google and you should find it reported verbatum on anti scam sites and scam baiting sites.
The ones complaining are the ones who have to pay 10 cents a minute or more for you to hang out in a sex chat room or MLM marketing meeting for an hour. A $6.00 a week or more on a unlimited cell plan makes some customers unprofitable. Free phone services that are not advertised as a phone service such as many SIP, Skype, Magic Jack, Google Voice, etc. don't eat the cost. They simply either don't complete the call, or have a termination in the rural exchange so it is a local call not subject to the tariff. To pull the latter off, caller ID is scrubbed and a local number is provided to the termination.
If you use any of the free conference calls, Try calling with Magic Jack, Google Voice, or other low cost alternative phone service. The call either won't go through, or your caller ID will be altered for you.
I use Google Voice and a SIP phone. I have to use a cell phone and use minutes on my plan to call a conference call.
AT&T tried to avoid completing calls, but due to the fact they provide phone service, they were required by law to complete the calls and pay the tariff.
http://arstechnica.com/business/2007/03/attcingular-blocks-cellular-customers-from-free-conference-call-services/
First is to do the math. Just like a bank account, there needs to be a balance. Just like the bank, you can store some savings.
Batteries are sized in Amp Hours when buying deep cycle batteries. Batteries that list cold cranking power are lower capacity and built for a momentary high current load. They are not designed for deep cycle use.
Look at your supply side. If you turn off the headlights, wipers, heater fan, defroster, air conditioner, all those unused loads are excess generation capacity for use, but there is a catch, while the engine is running and not at just an idle. Alternator capacity is reduced at an idle. Headlights are about 60 watts each. The heater fan is about 200 Watts, Rear Window Defogger, 60 Watts.
Volts X Amps in DC = Watts.
Shutting off the headlights is enough capacity to run a typical larger flatscreen monitor. Shutting off the AC/Heater fan is enough to run a PC, etc.
A larger inverter is quite efficient so don't assume a 1KW inverter will draw 80 Amps all the time. Advice is go larger on the inverter to deal with startup current many devices use. Forget the 75-300 Watt sizes and start with a 1KW or larger. Follow the installation instructions on wire size and length.
I have done two inverter installs in vehicles of mine. Both are 1KW in size. My Prius has a trunk mounted inverter that is used in place of a portable gas generator for many odd jobs including camping. I use LED and or CFL lamps (120V is much easier to find than 12 V) Laptop computers, musical instruments and PA amplifiers, flatscreen TV, and a vacuum cleaner. 12 volt car vacs just don't work nearly as well as a dirt devil hand vac.
My second install is in a 29 foot motorhome. I found the AC outlets are on 2 breakers. The driver side includes the kitchen and bathroom. I left that on the generator or shore power for use with hair dryers, coffee makers, waffle irons, and other power hogs. The other side of the motorhome is all on the inverter. This powers LED desk lamps, the flatscreen TV, and outlets for cell phone chargers, laptops, DVD player, etc. I put a 19 inch flat screen TV up front in place of the original tube set, this doubles as a rear view mirror with a backup camera. A flatscreen TV eliminates the need for a DTV converter box. It only draws 40 Watts.
On the energy side, the original motohome lights were power hogs. The 1187 bulbs draw 2.1 Amps each or about 25 watts. Using the inverter, I use 1.5 to 7 Watt LED lamps instead. The main dining area ceiling light has 2 bulbs, so the TV actually draws less than the original "Dome Light". With one or two LED lights on, I can run the TV all night on battery on the 2 deep cycle RV batteries. This saves lots of gas as I don't need a generator running burning 1/2 gallon of gas an hour just to run the TV and a few lights.
As mentioned in another post, a separate cabin battery is highly recommended. After running the PC and monitor all night, you will want a way to start the engine. Use a battery isolator so you charge both sets of batteries.
This is true. I wanted stand alone internet. Bundled with basic cable the bundled package was lower cost than Internet alone. This and throttling were the 2 reasons I dropped them as soon as DSL came into my area. For 2/3 the price, I get 3X faster Internet (6 Meg instead of 2 Meg down). They call once in a while wanting me to return. I told them all they needed to do was give me a fair package in the monopoly market. I don't continue a relationship with a bad partner just because they have to compete now. They showed their colors as a bad partner, end of story.
Movies have started to improve with THX certification. Over compressed crud doesn't pass muster. Now if we can get THX certified CD recordings to match.
An explosion sounds impressive in the movies due to the dynamic range. An explosion on McGuyver does not rattle anything because it is compressed so talking is loud enough. If TV didn't compress programs, the commercials would be at explosion levels.
I've learned to bait them to increase there time cost. If everyone wrote them back, they would be overloaded with non paying contacts. Set up a bait email account and always write them back using a ficticious persona.
One to send me my inheritance asked for my details including my photo.
I wrote back and asked about the format needed for the photo. Is a family portrait needed? Would a snap at the beach last summer be OK?
They took the time to read my reply and write a personalised reply requesting a passport photo.
I wrote back saying I didn't have a Passport Photo so I need to get one taken. String them out and waste their time. Google Scambaiting for more info.
Never fake and send government ID such as a passport or drivers license. It's illegal in many locations. Find excuses to delay forever till they give up.
Many people are thinking that if I am not near a microphone, it is hard to record my conversation and pick it out of a room full of people. This is normally the case. There is a recent technology advancement being used in sports using a phased microphone array.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/10/picking_a_singl.html
This has alrady been posted in Slashdot.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/10/11/1838252/high-tech-microphone-picks-voices-from-a-crowd
If you record each microphone as a seperate track, and maintain timing syncronasation of the tracks, you can steer the array after the event to pick out individual conversations in a crowd.
Live or recorded, the beam forming can be steered either way.
The article was too thin on details to confirm if this is the tech being used, but I I was going to impliment recording for a room full of people that needed later seperation to review the drug lord converstaion, this is the tech that could do the job.
A for privacy, there is littel chance anyone would steer the array from the stored recording to have any interest in what you were saying to the lady next to you that isn't your spouse.
You can use Skype if you wish. Somehow I see alternatives gaining traction.
SIP protocol for VOIP supports video from several vendors for free. Some SIP providers provide free VOIP gateways to/from Skype and Google Talk.
You can ring my POTS phone plugged into a SIP ATA (analog telephone adaptor) suchas a Linksys PAP2T from Skype, Google Talk, SIP, or a plain POTS phone for free. No ads, no Skype-In expense. I call all of US and Canada for free dialing with Google Talk. No cost for Skype out.
Other than the optional Linksys box purchase, the calls are free.
SIP provider with free Skype gateway - ippi.fr
Free US DID number for free in calls from POTS - IPKall
Free calling to US and Canada linked to IPKall number and SIP -- Google Voice (limited locations)
Free SIP softphone for Linux as an alternate to the Linksys box - Ekiga.net or Twinkle.
Why pay for Skype-in or out minutes? Ads are optional.
I can see H1N1Virus near here. Same point.