\n| \n In the dream we are sitting in the audience of a conference of super
\n computer geniuses, covering it for the Dowbrigade News, although we understand
\n almost nothing of what is being said in the presentations.<\/p>\n After the current presenter, who resembles a cross between Albert Einstein
\n at his disheveled best and Christopher Lloyd in "Back to the Future"
\n finishes
\n his speech, he asks for questions from the audience, and we, quite against
\n our will, raise our hand.<\/p>\n Someone brings over a microphone, and we hear ourself asking, as if
\n with the voice of another, "Uh, well, I just rented three Video CD’s
\n and can’t figure out how to play them on my iBook. When I double
\n click on the CD Icon I just see four folders called and inside are files
\n with
\n formats I don’t recognize like .DAT and .NFS. How can I get these movies
\n to play on my computer?"<\/p>\n Einstein pins us with a withering look of absolute disdain and says,
\n "Young man, you are obviously at the wrong conference. I suggest
\n you try something for computer illiterates trying to get started in the
\n field."<\/p>\n We stumble shamefacedly towards the ballroom exit, but as we go a kindly
\n and slightly familiar looking man comes up, puts his arm around our shoulder,
\n and says in a low voice, "Don’t worry about it, old Schleisermeister
\n is full of himself. I had that same problem myself – it’s really quite
\n simple. All you need to do is…."<\/p>\n At that exact moment we were awakened by a loud snoring snort from Norma
\n Yvonne’s side of the bed. Somewhat annoyed and still half asleep we shoved
\n her shoulder and mumbled, "I can’t believe you woke me up, he was about
\n to tell me how to watch the movies…"<\/p>\n "Whaa?" sez Norma Yvonne.<\/p>\n We reach for the iBook to write this note. How can we get these movies
\n to play on our computer? Are we asleep or awake? If somebody writes us
\n with the answer, will we wake up before we can read it? <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the dream we are sitting in the audience of a conference of super computer geniuses, covering it for the Dowbrigade News, although we understand almost nothing of what is being said in the presentations. After the current presenter, who … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |