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I dont pay for skype so I cant really complain if its down. But what about those who pay? I would be really pissed if I had a ton of skype credit and couldn't call.
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you're welcome. it's a pretty bad outage though. we're fixing it.
Is it still true that parts of Skype are written in Delphi? If so, can you comment on which part(s), and why that choice was made?
As to why it was chosen, I can briefly list my (biased) opinion as to the benefits of Delphi: an easier to use language than C++, proven IDE and framework, a lot of third-party code and components available, but without sacrificing low-level control to a VM.
Why are we down on Skype for their first outage in three years? My cable internet, electricity and cell phone service all fail more frequently than that. Once in three years seems pretty damn reliable to me, especially considering that I pay literally nothing to use Skype.
My landline at home has never* had an outage in 27 years. * that I'm aware of
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My landline is a digital phone form my wonderful cable company It's less reliable than the internet connection from the same company - "network is experience connection difficulties"
That is not what is generally meant by "landline".
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My landline at home has never* had an outage in 27 years. * that I'm aware of
Landlines are from a different era of expected reliability. They carry their own power because it was considered too unreliable to depend on your home's electricity.
Why are we down on Skype for their first outage in three years? My cable internet, electricity and cell phone service all fail more frequently than that. Once in three years seems pretty damn reliable to me, especially considering that I pay literally nothing to use Skype.
My landline at home has never* had an outage in 27 years. * that I'm aware of
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sadly and ironically the blog is also down :( good luck to fix the bug, you have a great product!
Here's cached version: ===================== 22nd December 2010 Peter Parkes Skype downtime today Skype structureEarlier today, we noticed that the number of people online on Skype was falling, which wasn’t typical or expected, so we began to investigate. Skype isn’t a network like a conventional phone or IM network -- instead, it relies on millions of individual connections between computers and phones to keep thing…
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My landline at home has never* had an outage in 27 years. * that I'm aware of
You've never had a bad connection? Or you dial a number and it doesn't go through and you have to try again? Or no trunk lines available when calling internationally?