[R] use R Group SFBA April meeting reminder; video of Feb k

[Rolf Turner]

I get to the video screen OK --- there's a large greenish sideways
triangle waiting to be clicked on.  I do so; there's a message that
says it's downloading, with a little progress bar.  That seems to
complete quite rapidly.  Then nothing for a while.  Then an error
message on the video screen saying ``Fatal error --- video source
not ready.''  Then that error message goes away.  Long wait.  Then
I get audio, but never any video.  Give up.

I'm using Firefox on an Imac; the ``About Mozilla Firefox'' button
on the Firefox dropdown menu says I've got Mozilla 5.0, Firefox 2.0.0.2
--- whatever that means.

Bottom line --- I can't watch the video.

But that's the story of my life.  ***Nothing*** ever works for me! :-)
Except R, which *mostly* works.

	cheers,

		Rolf Turner

On 31/03/2009, at 12:49 PM, Ted Harding wrote:

> On 30-Mar-09 23:04:40, Jim Porzak wrote:
>> Since Sundar beat me to it w/ Firefox 3 test, I checked with IE 7.0 -
>> works fine for me there also.
>>
>> -Jim
>
> Interesting! I'm using Iceweasel 2.0.0.19  (Firefox under another
> name) on Linux. I'll have to check out what blocks it has activated!
> I put on a fragrantly scented facemask and started IE up on Windows.
> Going to the same URL, I now find a big "video screen" just below
> the line:
>
> The R and Science of Predictive Analytics: Four Case in R -- The Video
>
> And it duly plays.
>
> But at the same place in my Firefox, I only see a little button
> inviting me to "Get Adobe Flash Player". But I already have that
> installed for Iceweasel!. Well, maybe it needs updating. Let me
> try that ... It says "Adobe Flash Player version 10.0.22.87" and
> I have flashplayer_9 already there, so ... (some time later) I now
> have flashplayer_10 installed, but I still get the same result.
> Hmmm ....
> Well, thanks for helping to locte what the problem might be!
> Ted.
>
>
>
>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Sundar Dorai-Raj  
>> <sdorairaj at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Could be that you have some sort of ad filter in your browser that's
>>> blocking the video? It appears just fine for me in Firefox 3.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Ted Harding
>>> <Ted.Harding at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>> On 30-Mar-09 22:13:04, Jim Porzak wrote:
>>>>> Next week Wednesday evening, April 8th, Mike Driscoll will be
>>>>> talking
>>>>> about "Building Web Dashboards using R"
>>>>> see: http://www.meetup.com/R-Users/calendar/9718968/ for details &
>>>>> to
>>>>> RSVP.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also of interest, our member Ron Fredericks has just posted a well
>>>>> edited video of the February kickoff panel discussion at  
>>>>> Predictive
>>>>> Analytics World "The R and Science of Predictive Analytics: Four
>>>>> Case
>>>>> Studies in R" with
>>>>> _ _ * Bo Cowgill, Google
>>>>> _ _ * Itamar Rosenn, Facebook
>>>>> _ _ * David Smith, Revolution Computing
>>>>> _ _ * Jim Porzak, The Generations Network
>>>>> and chaired by Michael Driscoll, Dataspora LLC
>>>>>
>>>>> see: http://www.lecturemaker.com/2009/02/r-kickoff-video/
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> Jim Porzak
>>>>
>>>> It could be very interesting to watch that video! However, I have
>>>> had a close look at the web page you cite:
>>>>
>>>> _http://www.lecturemaker.com/2009/02/r-kickoff-video/
>>>>
>>>> and cannot find a link to a video. Lots of links to non-video
>>>> things, but none that I could see to a video.
>>>>
>>>> There is a link on that page at:
>>>> _How Google and Facebook are using R
>>>> _by Michael E. Driscoll | February 19, 2009
>>>> _<http://dataspora.com/blog/predictive-analytics-using-r/>
>>>>
>>>> Following that link leads to a page, on which the first link, in:
>>>>
>>>> _<(March 26th Update: Video now available)>
>>>> _Last night, I moderated our Bay Area R Users Group kick-off
>>>> _event with a panel discussion entitled "The R and Science of
>>>> _Predictive Analytics", co-located with the Predictive Analytics
>>>> _World conference here in SF.
>>>>
>>>> leads you back to where you came from, and likewise the link at
>>>> the bottom of the page:
>>>>
>>>> _<A video of the event> is now available courtesy of Ron Fredericks
>>>> _and LectureMaker.
>>>>
>>>> Could you help by describing where on that web page it can be  
>>>> found?
>>>> With thanks,
>>>> Ted.
>>>>
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