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Ferre
27-10-2009, 08:29 AM
For those with an interest in the reality we are living in;

Lawrence M. Krauss (http://krauss.faculty.asu.edu/)

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Atom
27-10-2009, 12:14 PM
It's taking me forever to download that sucker, it seems my ISP is doing magic tricks today, but fear not, I'll not give up the ship.

Atom
30-10-2009, 11:11 AM
Ferre, that guy is almost as clueless as I am. But at least he tries, I'll give him that.

Halo
30-10-2009, 03:13 PM
It's taking me forever to download that sucker, it seems my ISP is doing magic tricks today, but fear not, I'll not give up the ship.
DL or stream?


Ferre, that guy is almost as clueless as I am.
Both more knowledgeable than myself. :sqconfused:
I wish understood mathematics better.

Love the brief summary of string theory at 49:40 :sqlaugh:

Atom
30-10-2009, 04:13 PM
DL or stream?Say what now? Didn't you open the link?

Both more knowledgeable than myself. :sqconfused:
I wish understood mathematics better.

Love the brief summary of string theory at 49:40 :sqlaugh:Yeah I thought that was funny too, a few funny remarks about psychology as well, lol.

Muddy
30-10-2009, 04:26 PM
Say what now? Didn't you open the link?

He's wondering if you meant you were trying to download the video to your hard drive and then watch it from there, or if you were watching it live online as it streamed.

Atom
30-10-2009, 04:32 PM
He's wondering if you meant you were trying to download the video to your hard drive and then watch it from there, or if you were watching it live online as it streamed.I don't know how to save a flash video on my hard drive.

Muddy
30-10-2009, 04:33 PM
Well that answers that then.

Atom
30-10-2009, 04:35 PM
Right. How do you do it? I don't find any help in the right click menu.

Muddy
30-10-2009, 04:43 PM
Which browser are you using?

Atom
30-10-2009, 04:44 PM
FF 3.5.3

julien_simon
30-10-2009, 04:47 PM
IE 2

Atom
30-10-2009, 04:48 PM
EI EI O

Cryren8972
30-10-2009, 04:49 PM
and on that farm they had a duck

Atom
30-10-2009, 04:50 PM
EI FF Opera

Atom
30-10-2009, 04:54 PM
I don't know, I guess I should have some damned plug-in installed or another, this internet is really something ain't it, and these computers, gawd.

Muddy
30-10-2009, 04:56 PM
You can download and install a plugin for FF for free. I have been using: Ask and Record Toolbar Loader :: Add-ons for Firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11402).

However many more can be found here: Download Management :: Add-ons for Firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:1/cat:5).

Just a matter of making sure it's compatible with 3.5.3 and does what you want.

Atom
30-10-2009, 04:58 PM
Ok thanks, Muddy, will do.

Rankenstein
12-11-2009, 11:04 AM
Can't watch that now, I'm at work, but:

It's been known for many years that the universe's net energy could be zero. There's the old story of Gamow casually mentioning, during a stroll with Einstein, that one of his proteges calculated that a star's rest energy is exactly opposite to its gravitational energy. Net energy = zero, in other words. Einstein stopped dead in in his tracks, he realised that the same could apply to the universe.

Feynman came up with one of my favourite physics quotes:
"Created and annihilated, created and annihilated, what a waste of time"
which is nice in the context of this thread.

julien_simon
12-11-2009, 11:34 AM
Can't watch that now, I'm at work, but:

It's been known for many years that the universe's net energy could be zero. There's the old story of Gamow casually mentioning, during a stroll with Einstein, that one of his proteges calculated that a star's rest energy is exactly opposite to its gravitational energy. Net energy = zero, in other words. Einstein stopped dead in in his tracks, he realised that the same could apply to the universe.

Feynman came up with one of my favourite physics quotes:
"Created and annihilated, created and annihilated, what a waste of time"
which is nice in the context of this thread.

wow - I must have been sleeping - didn't see you here.

Welcome my friend!

Rankenstein
12-11-2009, 12:16 PM
Hi julien, good to 'see' you :)

ewomack
12-11-2009, 09:47 PM
I'm totally down with entropy... totally...

ewomack
12-11-2009, 09:52 PM
But in the end I believe everything is fundamentally made of nougat...