Holy fucking motherfuck on a bicycle

[Nev]

www.skype.com

I heard that someone paid $3.8B to acquire this technology - I think it was eBay or Amazon - I just no longer think it was money poorly spent. This is AMAZING. It's a service that lets one use a microphone and Internet connection to call anyone, in the world, via phone, or to have voice-to-voice chat in realtime with anyone else on the service FOR FREE.

Does anyone have this? I'd like to just make sure mine's working, or see what the quality is like...

[SineSwiper]

I don't see any bicycles! Where is my motherfucking bicycle?!?

[Zeus]

I don't see any bicycles! Where is my motherfucking bicycle?!?

Hey, don't make fun of the technology that will one day revolutionize society and city structures as we know it. If it's good enough for Job, it's good enough for me!

[Shellie]

There was a site called dialpad or something like that that did the same thing a few years ago....except if I recall, the receiving party didnt need the program as well, it just called their phone...it was pretty nifty.

[SineSwiper]

You know, with the advent of cell phones, I don't think anybody gives a shit. Everybody has a cell phone, and unless you talk to people an hour a day, I don't think anybody is really looking to save money.

[Nev]

International businesses do. Their international rates are the cheapest I have ever seen. They have destinations on there If I did a lot of business out of the country I'd be using this like mad - I might anyway...

$0.02/minute to Hong Kong baby!

Of course, I don't know anyone in Hong Kong...yet...

[Shellie]

Just looked up Dialpad.net Thats the site, but it looks like when I used it it was new technology. I guess they were waiting for someone to buy them up. Yahoo owns it now and it's no longer free.

[Nev]

I want this service's baby...I've been using it all morning. Clearer than my cell phone, and cheaper.

Might go buy a Skype-enabled headset this morning. I believe this is easily my first step to becoming an actual cyborg.

[Nev]

There was a site called dialpad or something like that that did the same thing a few years ago....except if I recall, the receiving party didnt need the program as well, it just called their phone...it was pretty nifty.

One can pay for that feature, at rates cheaper than landline service...long distance to a LOT of major industrialized nations is about $0.03/minute.

Many of the smaller industrialized nations are $0.20/minute or less...places like Sierra Leone or whatever can get above a dollar a minute, but I don't even want to think about what normal phone service to these places would cost.

Zeus, do you know anything about this service? I am almost ready to completely agree with you on this - peer-to-peer Internet telephony could change the world.

[Kitch]

Been using Skype a while, it rocks.

VOIP quality is way above Ventrillo or Temaspeak so my friends and I use it lots. It's also completely free to talk to other Skype users and costs the nearest to nothing I've seen to use it to phone anyone in the world.

Google are working on a version too that should even blow Skype away... should be good.