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ctwxman writes "A year and a half ago my boss approached me, asking me to finish some college courses to get certification in what I've been doing for the past 20+ years. The courses are offered by Mississippi State University. Since I live in Connecticut, I am taking my lessons on DVD and videocassette with tests, quizzes and helpful advice from TA's online. It didn't take me long to realize how s-l-o-w the whole lecture process was. But with WinDVD4, I started ramping up the speed. It didn't take long to get to 2x normal speed. Other than the lectures taking half the time, I didn't miss anything. Yes, the speech is a little clipped, but these are college lectures. There are no speed demons delivering at the MSU lectern. I posted my 'discovery' to our online student bulletin board and found many other students were scared of the idea. But, for me wearing headphones (important I think), these hyper lessons are just as good as watching at normal speed. Now, The New York Times (sacrifice of eldest child required) has legitimized my claim with this article showing how and why others are rapidly jumping on the high speed watching bandwagon."
there was a remote control so you could fast-forward professors in the lecture hall. Man they're boring!
I know Kung-Fu...
---Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A START
Ialwayswatcheverythingat4xusingmykewlPVRI'vegothoo keduptomyTV.Itsamazing,Igettowatch4XtheTVthatallmy friendsdo,andIusethetimeIsavedtotakeaSpeedReadingc ourseinmyarea.Inowreadbooks4xasfastaseveryone,too. UsingthetimeI'vesaved,I'mworkingonaTimeMachine.Som eofmyfamilythinkI'mcrazy,andthatIalwaystalktoofast now,butIrealizeI'mjustaheadofthetrent.Oh,yeah,I've alsodiscoveredthathittingtheSpaceBarisjustawasteof time-youcanreadthisFINEanyways.Remember,iftimeismo ney,I'mtherichestguyaround.
;-)
Just a thought.
... and you'll get "alternative" music ::ducks::
in a normal windows session, only a small part of the cpu is taxed, leaving excess processing power to be used scanning for viruses/worms, filtering out smb traffic, or simply entering infinite loops.
I'm from MS, so I can say this. The reason that this works is because we talk half as fast.
I wonder what would happen if you watched a speed-reading course from Evelyn Wood this way. Would you finish before you even started?
It reminds me of the limerick:
There once was a lady named Bright,
Who could travel far faster than light
She set out one day
In a relative way
And came back the previous night
Tim
Ok, so I did this in middle school. We had a history teacher that would make us watch so many filmstrips and answer little quizzes about them. It didn't take us long to figure that we could cut the time it took to grind through a 20-minute filmstip by playing the 33rpm record at 45rpm.
Hey kids: Remember vinyl record? No? Damn, I'm getting old.
Boss: I want you to get certification in what you've been doing for the past 20+ years.
Me: Fuck off you talentless, ugly jerk. Hire someone better if you want to, it would be a blessing to me. (Me gets back to work)
Network 23 has announced new high speed commercials, aka "blipverts," applying similar technology, albeit with the occasional side effect.
Who moderates the meta-moderators?
Why do this?
Blar.
.. because of my superior brain processing power.
"Old man yells at systemd"
The estimated viewing time for this training video is 15.62 minutes.
More than 18 minutes -- Check the security videotape, see just what this employee was up to (e.g. possible unauthorized restroom break).
16-18 minutes -- Employee is a methodical worker, may sometimes get hung up on minor details.
15.63-16 minutes -- Asswipe. Not to be trusted.
Exactly 15.62 minutes -- Smartass. Needs attitude counseling.
14-15.61 minutes -- Employee is an efficient worker, may someteimes miss emportant details.
10-14 minutes -- Keep an eye on this employee; maybe developing slipshod attitude.
6-10 minutes -- Time for an employee conference and possible attitude counseling.
Less than 6 minutes -- Disable fast-forward button on the user's video player, re-block Slashdot.org on the company firewall.
...Now, The New York Times (sacrifice of eldest child required) has legitimized...
Before I clicked on the link I sacrificed my eldest childing hoping to be able to read the article. but when i got there it just wanted my NYT username and password. I read through the TOS and nowhere did it say anything about Sacrifices. I demand that you pay for your false information. I need a replacement firstborn so the wife doesn't find out!
Do you Gentoo!?
Personally, I think the best thing a Uni student will ever own is a variable speed notetaker.
:)
Also known as a pen?
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
"I put my 20-minute workout tape on twice as fast, so it only took ten minutes." -- Ghostbusters
Some professors deliver their lectures. They pay close attention to pacing, they give students time to take notes, they engage students. I wouldn't recommend listening to these profs at high speed, especially if you're taking notes.
Others just drone. I'd fast forward these anyway.
The question really is: is it about the process or the information? Depends on the teaching style, and so should your approach.
Benny Hill pioneered this technology in the 70s
If I seem short sighted, it is because I stand on the shoulders of midgets
Quick! Patent that idea now!
"There are a dozen opinions on a matter until you know the truth. Then there is only one." - CS Lewis (paraprhase)
Is that seeing this refutation a week or two back one time was apparently enough to add a new "text parsing" routine to my brain. I didn't have any problem reading this at all this time through, and didn't have to stop and think about which way the letters were scrambled. In addition to parsing jumbled text, I can apparently now read text where the inner contents of the words have been flipped left to right without thinking about it.
Thank you, slashdot! Maybe if we keep escalating this, we'll all be able to read high-order encryption without even blinking.
When my youngest brother was about 4 years old, every day he'd wake up and watch at least one of the Star Wars trilogy in the morning which one of my other brothers had gotten on VHS.
Soon, he had them each memorized, and would speak the lines along with the characters and jump around like he was in the movie.
But this took a lot of time, and being a busy four year old, he, like our OP, started watching them in play-fastforward. And he'd jump around yelling out the every line in the movie at double speed.
To entertain guests me or my brothers would feed him a couple lines from those movies and he'd take off and start performing - double speed theater.
He rarely missed a line, and even had much of the Jabba-the-Hut sounds memorized correctly.
He's a teenager now, and when I last asked him about this, he says he's forgotten and can't remember any of the lines.
But I'm pretty sure he's lying...