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Open Culture: Bill Gates Puts Richard Feynman Lectures Online

  • Praveen · 5 months ago
    Why cant he just put em on youtube? he wants us to install Silver light?
  • Jonathan Roberts · 5 months ago
    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...
  • Just Looking · 4 months ago
    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.
  • Phill Rogers · 4 months ago
    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
  • Gene De Lisa · 4 months ago
    site is still down.
    concept: A+
    implementation: F-