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Skype Meetings!
« on: January 23, 2010, 06:50:43 pm »
Hey all!

Let's get together for some Skype meetings!

Look for me.

I am james_laserboy.

Fabulously original name. Don't you think?

What is YOUR Skype name?

James.  :)
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Re: Skype Meetings!
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2010, 07:35:56 pm »
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« Last Edit: January 23, 2010, 07:38:36 pm by BlinkenLights »
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Re: Skype Meetings!
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2010, 08:24:20 pm »
I don't know how it works.
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Re: Skype Meetings!
« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2010, 08:34:11 pm »
Get Skype.

http://skype.com

Install it.

Make sure you have a decent mic and speakers or headphones.

Headphones are better because there is no feeback echo into your mic.

Sign up and find your friends!

You do not need a mic and headphones to sign up. You can communicate with just text chat. But that sux.

If you have a webcam, it is very good about transmitting your image to other Skype users.

If I can figure it out, anyone can!

I'm not saying I'm stupid. I just don't think like anyone else I know and I'm incredibly narrow-minded and simply refuse to see things any other way. That is probably my most charming characteristic.

James.  :)
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Re: Skype Meetings!
« Reply #4 on: January 23, 2010, 08:56:54 pm »
Hmmm.  Sounds a lot like a telephone.
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Re: Skype Meetings!
« Reply #5 on: January 23, 2010, 10:10:58 pm »
Yes. But the sound quality is often much better and it's free all over the whole world.

Plus, it is easy to create a group of people and all be in the same conversation.

James.  :)
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Re: Skype Meetings!
« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2010, 11:47:35 pm »
id:  fabfavreau

Sounds like fun!
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Re: Skype Meetings!
« Reply #7 on: January 24, 2010, 12:31:03 am »
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Hmmm.  Sounds a lot like a telephone.

  Back in the 70's when Ma Bell was omnipotent (when you didn't even own your own phone, as it was leased to you
just as the freaking Nazi cable and satellite providers lease DVR's today), I remember seeing a phone book cover
featuring a vision of the future of telephony, where you had BOTH sight and sound. I also remember watching a PBS
show called The Electric Company where we were taught in grade school to learn the metric system, because by 1980,
the US was going to switch over (I can still remember the jingles)... ;D ;D ;D

  Here we are, decades later with the internet, and Skype seems to help realize the vision mentioned above (no thanks
to what's left of Ma Bell). My nephew uses it to keep in touch with his wife in the Philippines...

  What I don't get in this 'modern era' is the fascination with texting on a cell phone. I absolutely HATE typing on a
real keyboard (let alone a tiny cell kb); I've been known to write docs down on paper and scan them as an image to
send to someone! TTY, a keyboard-based communication via telephone was developed for the specific needs of the deaf...
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Re: Skype Meetings!
« Reply #8 on: January 24, 2010, 02:20:49 am »
Hey james you can also crash the PL if you wanted.. in a way.. there's an IRC room #PL

It would be jolly good fun
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Re: Skype Meetings!
« Reply #9 on: January 24, 2010, 02:24:14 am »
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(no thanks to what's left of Ma Bell).

Yea! F*&k them and their ASCII, UNIX, C, C++ and several other fundamentally useless things.

James.  :)
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Re: Skype Meetings!
« Reply #10 on: January 24, 2010, 04:48:24 pm »
OK!

We have a few people who are Skype connected.

So let's make some kind of schedule.

I don't have a decent nipple-cam yet, but that doesn't matter. One of the nice features of Skype is the ability to share your Desktop. So if YOU want to run LaserBoy, it is possible for me to see your running application and I can help to guid you through it.

James.  :)
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Re: Skype Meetings!
« Reply #11 on: January 24, 2010, 05:48:52 pm »
How about tonight!   Sunday 23rd January.... I have been trying to use laserboy to make beams and abstracts.  I am so confused... about how to use laserboy...

You know we should sit down and do a record a desktop with voice and what not ... and put it on youtube...

A video How-To do something useful with LaserBoy...
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Re: Skype Meetings!
« Reply #12 on: January 24, 2010, 05:52:35 pm »
I feel your pain, my brother!

LaserBoy was carefully designed to be as frustrating and agonizing as possible.

Have you gotten to the 'rotating knives' yet?

Or that thing that comes out and pokes you in the eye?

I would be very happy to help you!

I'm talking to 'new guy' now!

I'm still getting some download from this connection. I have a few things I need to do before I tie myself to my computer. But, I am really looking forward to talking with you soon!

James.  :)
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Re: Skype Meetings!
« Reply #13 on: January 24, 2010, 08:07:47 pm »
Quote from: drlava on January 24, 2010, 02:20:49 am
Hey james you can also crash the PL if you wanted.. in a way.. there's an IRC room #PL

It would be jolly good fun

I guess that would be OK. Depends who's on at the time. Despite my reputation, I'm really not a trouble maker. I'm not really interested in people who are not interested in me, unless they're spoutin' shit about me!

James.  :)
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Re: Skype Meetings!
« Reply #14 on: January 24, 2010, 08:50:40 pm »
They talk about you all the time and they go around claiming that PL collectively invented the sound card DAC.  They also like to have nightly discussions about the ILDA file format and why it should have started at format 4 to begin with.
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