Comments on: Bill Gates Puts Richard Feynman Lectures Online http://www.openculture.com/2009/07/bill_gates_puts_richard_feynman_lectures_online_.html The best free cultural & educational media on the web Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:45:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Maddy http://www.openculture.com/2009/07/bill_gates_puts_richard_feynman_lectures_online_.html#comment-14818 Maddy Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:54:19 +0000 http://www.openculture.com/?p=4199#comment-14818 Can anyone help? I once found some old black and white footage of Richard Feynman being interviewed in which he mentioned how hard he had to concentrate and work to understand and achieve what he did. I would love to show this to my students (I'm a maths teacher). It was on Youtube just a minute or two long. It might have been another part of this Feynman interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lytxafTXg6c&feature=related Thanks Maddy Can anyone help? I once found some old black and white footage of Richard Feynman being interviewed in which he mentioned how hard he had to concentrate and work to understand and achieve what he did. I would love to show this to my students (I’m a maths teacher).

It was on Youtube just a minute or two long. It might have been another part of this Feynman interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lytxafTXg6c&feature=related

Thanks
Maddy

]]> By: Ceece http://www.openculture.com/2009/07/bill_gates_puts_richard_feynman_lectures_online_.html#comment-14734 Ceece Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:35:17 +0000 http://www.openculture.com/?p=4199#comment-14734 I've installed Silverlight and it seems to work but the videos take an age to load and won't play continously. I think it's using way too much of my memory I’ve installed Silverlight and it seems to work but the videos take an age to load and won’t play continously. I think it’s using way too much of my memory

]]> By: Jeff Lewis http://www.openculture.com/2009/07/bill_gates_puts_richard_feynman_lectures_online_.html#comment-14574 Jeff Lewis Sun, 01 Aug 2010 17:30:45 +0000 http://www.openculture.com/?p=4199#comment-14574 It's working fine. Perhaps you're blocking Silverlight? As for requiring Silverlight - if you're using YouTube - you're running Flash. Silverlight is a lot kinder on your system than Flash is... As for HTML5 - that's not a widely supported protocol yet so building a site that relies on it - especially the video features - would be kind of mental. Silverlight can do a LOT of things HTML5 can't and it can do the things HTML5 can do more easily. Complain all you want, but until the web gets a powerful, object oriented scripting language that's easily extensable, supports complex graphics (and 3D graphics) in a portable way and allows for a consistent frontend and backend development approach, things like Silverlight will continue to have a place. It’s working fine. Perhaps you’re blocking Silverlight?

As for requiring Silverlight – if you’re using YouTube – you’re running Flash. Silverlight is a lot kinder on your system than Flash is…

As for HTML5 – that’s not a widely supported protocol yet so building a site that relies on it – especially the video features – would be kind of mental.

Silverlight can do a LOT of things HTML5 can’t and it can do the things HTML5 can do more easily. Complain all you want, but until the web gets a powerful, object oriented scripting language that’s easily extensable, supports complex graphics (and 3D graphics) in a portable way and allows for a consistent frontend and backend development approach, things like Silverlight will continue to have a place.

]]> By: Sharon Stevenson http://www.openculture.com/2009/07/bill_gates_puts_richard_feynman_lectures_online_.html#comment-13387 Sharon Stevenson Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:43:09 +0000 http://www.openculture.com/?p=4199#comment-13387 Here we are almost 7 months beyond the last comment noting the site wasn't up and ...it still isn't up. Way to go, Bill. Just one other reason I find myself now routinely referring to Microhard. I was about to write a note to the site about this...but better to leave as is, as testimony to the sad state of philosophy behind Microsoft. Here we are almost 7 months beyond the last comment noting the site wasn’t up and …it still isn’t up. Way to go, Bill. Just one other reason I find myself now routinely referring to Microhard.
I was about to write a note to the site about this…but better to leave as is, as testimony to the sad state of philosophy behind Microsoft.

]]> By: Gene De Lisa http://www.openculture.com/2009/07/bill_gates_puts_richard_feynman_lectures_online_.html#comment-6573 Gene De Lisa Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:10:09 +0000 http://www.openculture.com/?p=4199#comment-6573 site is still down. concept: A+ implementation: F- site is still down.
concept: A+
implementation: F-

]]> By: Phill Rogers http://www.openculture.com/2009/07/bill_gates_puts_richard_feynman_lectures_online_.html#comment-6294 Phill Rogers Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:49:44 +0000 http://www.openculture.com/?p=4199#comment-6294 Bill's web site seemed to be down when I tried (still is) so I Googled and found the lectures already on another site using flash. I'm sure Bill's like links & annotation will be great but in the mean time: http://www.vega.org.uk/video/subseries/8 Bill’s web site seemed to be down when I tried (still is) so I Googled and found the lectures already on another site using flash.

I’m sure Bill’s like links & annotation will be great but in the mean time:

http://www.vega.org.uk/video/subseries/8

]]> By: Just Looking http://www.openculture.com/2009/07/bill_gates_puts_richard_feynman_lectures_online_.html#comment-6217 Just Looking Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:09:11 +0000 http://www.openculture.com/?p=4199#comment-6217 At first I wasn't going to watch these because they require Silverlight and I had avoided it so far. However, they looked too good to pass up. So I decided to install it in a virtual machine that could be deleted when I was done. I've watched the first three so far and they are very very good. I also noticed that Silverlight allows note taking and real time links (only in the first video so far). So, while I wish these were downloadable in a format I could watch off line in VLC, it was worth installing Silverlight in a VM. At first I wasn’t going to watch these because they require Silverlight and I had avoided it so far. However, they looked too good to pass up. So I decided to install it in a virtual machine that could be deleted when I was done.

I’ve watched the first three so far and they are very very good. I also noticed that Silverlight allows note taking and real time links (only in the first video so far).

So, while I wish these were downloadable in a format I could watch off line in VLC, it was worth installing Silverlight in a VM.

]]> By: Jonathan Roberts http://www.openculture.com/2009/07/bill_gates_puts_richard_feynman_lectures_online_.html#comment-6185 Jonathan Roberts Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:48:34 +0000 http://www.openculture.com/?p=4199#comment-6185 Agreed. I'm pleased to see this material made more accessible, but to be universally accessible it would need to be put on the net in a format that anyone can run, on what ever platform they run. YouTube would be better than silverlight given the penetration of flash, but even better would be putting them online using HTML 5 tag... Agreed. I’m pleased to see this material made more accessible, but to be universally accessible it would need to be put on the net in a format that anyone can run, on what ever platform they run. YouTube would be better than silverlight given the penetration of flash, but even better would be putting them online using HTML 5 tag…

]]> By: Praveen http://www.openculture.com/2009/07/bill_gates_puts_richard_feynman_lectures_online_.html#comment-6182 Praveen Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:44:33 +0000 http://www.openculture.com/?p=4199#comment-6182 Why cant he just put em on youtube? he wants us to install Silver light? Why cant he just put em on youtube? he wants us to install Silver light?

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