[time-nuts] OT - Feynman lecture series on Physics hosted by Microsoft

[Brooke Clarke]

Hi Mike:

Yes, I installed Silverlight.  I haven't tried the saving for off line, but 
plan to because the .avi files (after renaming) do not play.

Have Fun,

Brooke Clarke
http://www.prc68.com

Mike Monett wrote:
> time-nuts-request at febo.com wrote:
>> Hi:
>>
>> I've been watching these in IE6 at the
>> http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva
>> web page.  When I added it to my Favorites an option comes up "Make available
>> offline" with options for related web pages.  I didn't know IE6 had that
>> feature.  But did not use it since the .avi versions are available.  But this
>> is a handy thing to know about.
>>
>> Have Fun,
>>
>> Brooke Clarke
>> http://www.prc68.com
> 
> Brooke, how do you get IE6 to show anything? I get a blank page with a few
> Microsft links in the upper left corner. I tried the latest release of
> Opera 9.64 and it shows the same thing. Do you have to install SilverLight?
> If so, is this format also used to view offline?
> 
> Carnegie Mellon has a description of the 7 lectures in the series at
> 
> http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2005/03/the_feynman_lecture/
> 
> I've been trying to find Lecture 3: The Great Conservation Principles. This
> seems fundamental to everything we are doing - flicker and the other noise
> sources, drift, random walk, etc. But I have not found any source on the
> web so far. I did find more lectures in YouTube that were not referenced
> elsewhere. They are part of the Messenger series, but the quality is poor.
> The lectures are broken into separate files, and some have long breaks with
> no video or sound.
> 
> I really would like to get the whole set. Feynman often refers to previous
> lectures in the series, but without seeing them it's hard to get a complete
> picture. Too bad there is no converter for Silverlight. Which, btw, I found
> an excellent free converter at
> 
> http://www.nchsoftware.com/prism/
> 
> It works great! They have about 60 other free programs ranging from
> accounting and inventory software to camera monitoring software that looks
> for scene changes.
> 
> Everything I've tried so far works very well. My Win98 machine went
> unstable and I had to reboot a couple of times, but I'm not sure that
> wasn't caused by a multimedia program that crashed every time I tried to
> move the file cursor.
> 
> If you can, let me know if MS uses Silverlight to save the files. I suspect
> that will be the case. If so, it might be worth creating a separate WinXP
> installation in VirtualBox just to watch the files. A bare XP installation
> is only a couple of GB. The entire Feynman series might be 4GB or so.
> That's not much on a 500GB disk. And the quality would have to be better
> than YouTube:)
> 
> Mike
> 
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