Feynman's Messenger Lectures AVAILABLE AGAIN!

[Nevyle]

Are you serious? Bill did this??

shit.......

*wispering* thanx Bill.....

But you still have a long way too go

[simplytaty]

Thank you, Bill Gates. Who knew he had the right to those lectures!!!

[Proteus6684]

Thanks for reminding me richard feynman is dead!!

[racastilho]

Hurray! Feynman and Gates are my heroes!

[thyorison]

It uses Bill Gates' special proprietary video software. It does not work on Linux.

This just confirms that Bill Gates is the devil

[Blammo25]

OMG THANKS! UB AWESOME!

[gamesbok]

Google Project Tuva to find the Feynman lectures.

[owensm6]

dude whats the link?

[gorikuri]

Thanks for sharing the link ;-)

[MIKNITRAM]

Thanks for the info. I have been purchasing the audio versions of his lectures

on audible.

[harvellt]

@MIKNITRAM Me too! Super cool, super cool, slowly getting super expensive.

[diwr]

Awesome lectures! Let's hope Bill makes available the remaining lectures... these 7 leave me wanting more!

[DeflocculatedDentist]

I had like the same reaction when I saw that, because I hadn't watched them but had only heard good things. And now, even though its one in the morning, I'm about to watch as many as I can before dozing off (I just watched the first one and was searching youtube so I didn't have to deal with the annoying clicking sound on the microsoft version)

[Kerpal2253]

yeah I thought I loved B.G. too, but they only show the first 7 letures and the REALLY interesting stuff comes after that. I'm so mad now.

[ka02143]

hi, i share ur excitement about having the lectures back. i first saw the messenger lectures at MIT when a club was showing them and i was amazed as u were. they are incredible. and i was so pissed when the lectures were removed from google. ok enough talk, now ill go find them and watch them :)

[AbdultheImpailler]

did you just have an orgasm RA? lol

[grimshawr]

thank you. i am a senior majoring in chemistry. i am shooting for a phd in physical chemistry and feynman is one of my biggest influences.

[spawnfan101]

How many takes did you require to get that gleeful laughter right?

[RodHullIOnceWasHim]

Just watching the first one and his awkward movements keep causing me to have to skip back to listen to what he was saying...

He just seemed to be doing an impression of a T-Rex (chapter 5 on this MS thing) which caused me to stop, rewind and post this comment...

Loving it so far despite this amusing observation... Thanks again...

[lovelyirene2001]

You have a creepy but funny laugh. :)

[RodHullIOnceWasHim]

Fantastic, guess where I'm going now... :) Cheers man...!!

[SaintCog]

Thanks for sharing, watched 1st hour yesterday but now getting a Runtime Error everytime I go back.Anyone else having similar problems?

[SpiralOut11235]

Yea I saw the first 3, now I have no picture when I go back to watch more.... I'll let you know if I fix it

[grenangle]

TY for that link. Fantastic stuff.

[mintyformula]

dude you laugh like chucky

[Chibling]

numa numa

[keuche]

numa numa yay numa numa numa yay

[TheFallibleFiend]

Approx t=29M30s of 2nd video, F explains why science is different from philosophy.

[dvide]

Ah thanks for sharing this

[Deathless2288]

thanks a lot for showing this to us

[MrDanJC]

I'm so glad the bbc doesn't start programs with that sound anymore. That is really annoying.

[Geodge]

Project Tuva? Fitting: another mind-boggling phenom brought to my attention by the amazing Richard Feynman (me and probably most every one of us in the US who have ever heard of it ) - Tuva singing.

watch?v=DY1pcEtHI_w

Thanks RabidApe!!

[harshm2u]

I love love love Feynman!  Annnnnddddd.... Gates, of course!

[ratholin]

Yay! Don't you love it when the rich kids share their toys? Well Gate's big aim in his charity work has been towards education so this is pretty awesome. I mean it's not as good as Steve Jobs teaching little chinese children how to build overpriced computers for pennies on the dollar but it's all good.

[SilentMike0]

Bill Gates did a lot of bad things and also a lot of good things. Life is complicated that way. You can dislike the bully tactics that Ms employed under Gates (and continues to employ) and like many of the things he chose to do with his wealth. Bill Gates and Ms royally screwed the computer industry, but Bill Gates used a lot of the money he made doing that for doing good things. This is not the first time in history that something like this has happened.

[RabidApe]

Yup. Check out the story of Alfred Nobel if you haven't already.

[SilentMike0]

The robber barons...

[TheFallibleFiend]

Great news. Loved FLOP I, among others.  This will be fun.

[lovasip]

The sound does not work for me.

It is based upon Silverlight not Flash.

Still a good move from Bill Gates.

[ManicEightBall]

Feynman was really cool. Everyone could learn something from him (physics aside).

[philhellenes]

I wonder if Gnophilist knows. Hope so.

[RabidApe]

I sent him a tweet!

[2bsirius]

I love the fact that you do this research for the rest of us...

You comment about Feynman's not telling people WHAT to think about physics but HOW to think about physics should maybe be applied to lots of other areas as well.

[ZerqTM]

I second that motion these lectures are really really good RabidApe

i am really enjoying watching them though i dislike the silverlight app.

Microsoft needs to start accepting open standards!

that being said i think flash needs to be replaced by an open standard.

The internet must be free for all to develope and use!

with out open source there can be no independant peer review of code.

Open source = proper sciense and freedom

[AntiSisyphus]

Thanks for this.

[mortensjoegren]

Just to bad the page requires silverlight, it makes it unusable on my computer.

I don't use Windows, so silverlight isn't available and moonlight is several versions behind.

[arcooke]

Thanks for the heads up.. I just watched the first video.. that guy's a real pleasure to listen to.

[Bozeman42]

He's my intellectual idol.

[CousinoMacul]

Science is all about the how. The details of the what are always changing.

[Mjhavok]

That fact that it isn't open source isn't a fault of the OS. It was a choice by MS not to make it so.

[CousinoMacul]

I'm sorry, but how is that excuse different for any other attribute of an OS. If an OS is difficult to use, is that the fault of the OS, or of the people who made it? If any OS has an unpleasant aesthetic, is that the fault of the OS, or of the people who made it? If an OS is incompatible with certain software, is that the fault of the OS, or of the people who made it?

I prefer Open Source software; I avoid MS products whenever possible.

[Mjhavok]

If there was security holes or it couldn't load blue ray discs properly that would be a fault in the OS.

You don't see the difference between this and the fact that its not open source?

[CousinoMacul]

No, I don't see the diference. What I see is you taking the attributes that are important to YOU and saying that they are an "essential" part of the OS (hence, "blaming the OS"?????). Then taking the attributes that YOU don't consider important and relegating them to somehow being external to the system.

cont ...

[CousinoMacul]

... cont

The difference betwen Open Source and proprietary is that Open Source means that you can "open it up, tinker around, improve it, share your ideas, etc.) Can't you see that some people might value that as much if not more than whether it can load blue ray discs properly?

[Mjhavok]

If they realeased the same OS as open source it would still be the same OS when they release it. Even if you could improve it yourself since it is open source.

[AntiSisyphus]

That is like saying that sex with the hooker isn't good because she makes you pay for it.

[CousinoMacul]

Whether it's good or bad is a subjective judgment, but I would argue that sex with a hooker is a different kind of experience because it's a transaction.

But you're completely missing the point. The draw of Open Source (for advocates) isn't that you can get it for free; it's all about the free and open exchange of ideas. We see Open Source vs. Proprietary as a question of liberty, and MS are definitely the villains in this drama.

[AntiSisyphus]

"We see Open Source vs. Proprietary as a question of liberty"

Are you not confusing liberty with entitlement?

[mogulwraith]

can't speak for whomever you are responding to, but my thoughts on this are similar and the reasons are many. One being, as a developer, it bothers me that I pay a few hundred dollars for software I cannot change or fix to suit myself. I'm talking about professional software mostly, which I would prefer to customize for productivity reasons.

[elvismilk]

Hobbes, versus More, come on, move on

[Mjhavok]

"If an OS is incompatible with certain software, is that the fault of the OS, or of the people who made it?"

Not sure if there is fault at all. It would depend on how prevalent the certain software is.

What I am trying to say is somethings are business decisions made by Microsoft execs and others are software development decisions/programming decisions done by programmers.

[CousinoMacul]

What I am saying is that something developed in an open environment is going to be fundamentally different than something developed in secret by simple virtue of the nature of its development.

[Mjhavok]

Hard to disagree with that.

[Mjhavok]

Additionally I should just state that I am for open source.

[joegocal]

thanks for the link man... too bad I'm on vacation with no Internet tomorrow.

[AlmightyFRACTA]

wow thats fucking awesome. im so watching them. feynman is my favorite physicist

[Jegermeister0]

I didnt like him very much either until the day he quit his last job, dont really remember what, but thats besides the point, I didnt mind he staying or quiting it was the video he made with celebrities that was so funny he grew in my eyes.

Also, his speech at TED made me really like the Microsoft Billionaire.

[CBUEngineer]

His new hurricane prevention patent is badass, too. Dude is major busy evidently.

[PureDagnastyEvil]

Oh this is awesome, I was wondering what happened to those lectures. Thanks!

[SpiralOut11235]

WHOOOOOO! Thanks for the new, man. If anyone wants a good video bio on Feynman, I just put one up the other day.

[Mjhavok]

That is cool, it has subtitles.

[ValeofAldur]

Feynman was an absolutely fabulous teacher. Would have loved to spend a weekend(month? Decade? :P) hanging out with him and talking about all sorts of random stuff.

Wouldn't it be great to be able to pull a 40s/50s/60s era Feynman into today with a time machine, and get to go over all the great stuff we've figured out over the past few decades? Bet he'd have a blast learning what we've discovered, and trying his hand at the new puzzles we've stumbled onto(and music we've made, and, and, and)

[ValeofAldur]

Why didn't your friend just send you the videos directly after he took 'em off google video?

Snail mailed DVDs, DCCs over IRC, making a .torrent of it, or a billion other methods?

[MNICY]

I hate Windows, not Gates ;)

[Mjhavok]

Windows 7 is good.

[MNICY]

No, its not. Just a personal opinion of course. If you like it, all the more power to you. :)

[Mjhavok]

You have tried it? What don't you like?

[MNICY]

The user interface.

[Mjhavok]

It is by far their best OS.

[MNICY]

I am sure that it is. But that is not a reason to use it.

[CousinoMacul]

"What don't you like?"

It's not Open Source.

[Xelico]

Ehhh...matter of opinion there. It's objectively worse in comparison with something like Windows XP in terms of performance.

I dislike Windows 7 because it's the same shit in a different package. It seems to be nothing more than an update of Windows Vista (Windows Vista 2.0). They probably had to change the name to try to bring in more customers.

[AntiSisyphus]

Not it isn't worse than XP. That is an outright lie. Are you the tech correspondent for Fox News?

[Xelico]

Takes up more space (gigs more) for install, (still) includes UAC, uses more resources, and includes a new networking system (homegroup) that's currently not compatible w/ anything outside of itself. Yeah, I'm the tech correspondent for Fox News ladies and gents.

[AntiSisyphus]

Perhaps on your weak ass PC.

[DasAmericanAtheist]

AH! Nice! I can't wait to have some time to watch these!

[CousinoMacul]

What??? Drop what you're doing! ;-)

[DasAmericanAtheist]

I know, I should. . .Is his Six Easy Problems worth getting, you think?

[xxxFaustusxxx]

I've never seen anyone so excited due to lectures

[Mjhavok]

Credit to me for telling you about this.

[RabidApe]

INDEED!!!!

much thanks!

[mnewf2002]

woot first view and comment lol