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Microsoft Celebrates Feynman 50-year Anniversary
Julie188 writes "A couple of years ago Microsoft acquired the rights to the famed filmed lecture series by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman and posted them online for all to see via its Project Tuva site. As part of the 50-year anniversary of the lectures, the Project Tuva site now includes commentary from MIT physics professor Robert Jaffe. Project Tuva still requires Silverlight (alas, not HTML5), but does offer some nifty features for the aspiring physics student, such as search and the ability to take notes."
It's a shame no one will get to see it...
Don't have it and never will. Just another failed MS-only tech. They still beating on that dead horse?
It's only in the Microsoft net. Due to the requirement to use Silverlight.
Silverlight only?
Actually I'm saying thanks to the submitter because I completely missed this part of the copyright problem.
If the only "authorized copy" of some Grade AA Must-Have item is buried it that cabinet with the Beware of Leopard sign, that could instantly flash us to IE6 2.0 problems for hundreds of proprietary blobs!
My first Journal Entry ever, in 8 years! http://slashdot.org/journal/365947/aphelion-scifi-fantasy-horror-poetry-webzine
Anyone have a torrent link?
Of course, torrents would be appreciated. :)
Charge a few bucks to cover costs.
While Silverlight loaded the above Tuva link in IE, I watched "Richard Feynman - The Relation of Mathematics & Physics. Part 1" on YouTube in Firefox. And uh yeah, it's still loading. Thanks Microsoft.
Please, tell us how Silverlight is awesome, blah blah blah.
Man, I cannot wait for HTML5 to end this bullshit. For the record, I also hate Flash, and download YouTube videos to desktop to view them.
Holy shit with the Silverlight bashing. I can see that content just fine, as one commenter said previously; I also use Netflix (Win7 w/IE9).
What does FOSS have for a web framework that is a viable alternative to Silverlight or Flash?
I run FreeBSD on an older P4 box, and I consider nspluginwrapper + Flash + Linux emulation to be pretty much equivalent to Flash in Windows. However, I think that only works for Flash, and you all hate Flash too.
Seems to me that competition is good, and having competing (albeit commercial) frameworks to choose from is a Good Thing[TM] IMHO. Where's the FOSS alternative, and which major site's require me to use it for the best experience? Find me something worthwhile that forces me to use it, whatever it is, and I'll use it.
"Project Tuva still requires Silverlight"
They'd be better sending it out on 5.25" floppies, more people would see it.
Holy HELL, how the bleeping bleep does our society allow this gem to fall into the hands of this corporate BLEEPING BLEEP to distribute only to users of Winblows / IE. We suck, as a species we have failed.
We used Feynman's intro physics book back when I was in college, and though I got an A in every physics course I ever took, I found that book completely baffling. Instead of being logical and straightforward, it was full of mathematical sleight-of-hand, bringing new variables from nowhere, because "we can call this anything we want!", and magically proceeding the final equation. Entertaining, maybe, but as far as understanding the material it was completely useless. He's just one more celeb I can do without.
Jesus Christ on stick, you people disgust me. Not a single comment about the content of these lectures, the life and theories of the man, it's all about how Microsoft pooped in your pool by putting this up in the same format Netflix uses. Seriously.
Poor means hoping the toothache goes away.
...we will celebrate 50-year annivesary of Microsoft -- by removing Windows support from the last piece of still-maintained software.
Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.
And I call it a piece of art because the man was a damn artist when it came to explaining physics.
The universe in a glass of wine.
Searching for it returns nothing.
I know you can look it up by the section of the class, but come on natural language search is the new pink.
I'll stick to the bad recordings passed around by CIT students for the past quarter century.
It's been years since Bill Gates did anything of value at MS, and it's been years since MS was anything like "the Borg". I wonder if slashdot will ever grow up enough to get rid of the idiotic icon they use to tag Microsoft stories. Google is the real "Borg" now yet they get away with a shiny green robot.
Please, slashdot - we are not the "radical" teenagers anymore (well, some of us) and it'd be great if you guys became a bit more adult. You are looking a bit ridiculous this way.
"50-year anniversary" is as redundant as ATM machine, PIN number, etc.
And while I'm off-topic, they're not celebrating 50 years (or "50 year-years", if you're the headline writer) of Feynman; they're celebrating 50 years of his Lectures.
[Off to mow the lawn with my lawn-lawnmower.]
Phase 1. Collect underpants.
Phase 2. ???^H^H^H Think real hard.
Phase 3. Profit.
'Surely your'e joking Mr Feneyman'
A darn good read.
I'd rather be riding my '63 Triumph T120.
Its a shame that these wonderful lectures are owned by such a pariah of a company. Oh, they offer anyone, anyone at all to cough up body and soul for the opportunity to see them. Its like having to wade through a chest-deep latrine in order to get some sani-wipes. If there were any 3rd party version of these lectures online, that would be the place to go for them.
I remember that I got a copy from a friend in high school on a collection of ripped CD's that I might just as easily have not gotten my hands on. It is the single-most inspiring series of lectures many people will ever hear in physics for the target audience of entry level university physics progressing towards graduate physics (save maybe the early lecture on how to take a derivative of displacement, which showed the time of the series). About damn time that it is freely available to the general public.
...browser.
So, since when has Microsoft ever had a problem with Silverlight running in Chrome? I've been to many Silverlight sites with no issues whatsoever. Why is this one in particular discriminating? The link it even tries to send me to points out that Silverlight is installed and working fine.
The issues around digital formats are preservation and accessibility. If I cannot guarantee that I can preserve my access to certain data [for example "proprietary software", "plays-for-sure", etc] then I am forced to memorize or transcribe the data so that I can have that guarantee.
Just like spoken word, written language and mathematics, computerized information systems are an extension of mind. For some combinations of people and data, an exchange of more convenience for less reliability is a bad trade.
as for the "content" your post
Moonlight is a joke. I don't know why microsoft thinks they can get anywhere promoting this.
Your opinion about the opinion of steve jobs... pretty poor editorial, basically worthless.
Guess what if it was available in an open format, you could in fact "watch them when you don't have net access" or actually "whenever and wherever you please".
Use this extension to change Chrome's UA string to something this Tuva site will accept. I changed it to IE8 and installed the latest version of Silverlight for good measure.
Nick
RTFA, they say. Here' the FA is wrong -- the lectures are not owned by Microsoft, but are the personal property of Bill Gates who has made them available to Microsoft.
You have to laugh at the way genius wannabees, like the ones who run Microsoft, are so desperate to associate themselves with a real one. Some things you simply cannot buy. One cannot help but think Feynman would scorn Microsoft's uninspired products.
an ill wind that blows no good
yes check tpb
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3636781/Feynman_NZ_lectures_and_Nova-Horizon-Misc-Videos
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3279186/The_Big_Richard_P_Feynman_Collection
It's about an extra $250 per seat on MS Windows to get a version of X-Windows running on it that is as good as what you get on linux. That adds up quickly enough and graphing on Excel sucks badly enough that linux or similar becomes the obvious solution in that situation to all but the hardest core fanboy that pirates his software anyway.
Microsoft to acquire full rights to all footage of the fucking moon landing?
No - it's not an attack on MS exclusively. The very fact that such milestones can be considered anything but the wealth of the commons shows a legal, political, and social disconnect to the benefits that pushed civilisation forward. Will a water utilities company retrospectively buy the rights and know-how to the aqueduct? Suppose Vinton Cerf and friends had convinced DARPA that packet switching was a failure, only to close ranks in a private enterprise? There comes a time when certain artifacts of human endeavour are simply the 'property' of all.
Well - I'm worn out after that rant. I'm off to claim all instances or agriculture and animal husbandry before some other bastard beats me too it.
42. That's how many zeros are in the ratio between gravitational attraction and electrical repulsion. We already knew the answer, now we know the question.
Being such an iconoclast, at best he'd probably think M$ ownership of his lectures to be ironic. More likely, incredulous and contemptuous.
Sig.: Tabula Rasa
The videos are hard to watch due to the cracking sounds. Microsoft support actually acknowledge this issue about a year ago, but it was never fixed. So it seems to be more about Bill Gates legacy and using Feynman for imortatily than anything.
I see some people have also discovered that there are many disjoint internets being produced by the venders trying to take over the world. You know who is doing this to people.
But take note that Google payed for the bandwidth that I used to view the set of you-tube meda using my open source software. I leave it to you to figure out Where the better Internet is. and why you might have to think hard about not voting with your dollars for the people that would fracture the Internet.
Thank-You!!
Why don't you all just quit whining like little school girls and search a bit? Seriously, the whole "X is evil cause it won't play on my Y" is tired. Feynman would be ashamed of your lack of flexibility you impish neckbeards.
http://www.cosmolearning.com/video-lectures/law-of-gravitation-an-example-of-physical-law-16-9939/
(which is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euGp9quNqLU)
Ask them, it is not X windows. it is not X.
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They did not a nice domain x.org.
And you missed the point I am not talking about the X Windowing System. I am talking about Apple Computers. Where the Apple, does not want Flash to run.
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