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Re:Tesla CEO Musk on Battery Factor, Model X, Apple [video] by ahsteele on Thursday February 20, 2014 @12:08AM (#7269010)
Agreed, I hate this trend. So many websites are now opting for video over written content. I can skim an article / blog post and glean most of the salient points. Video makes that impossible.
Re:Tesla CEO Musk on Battery Factor, Model X, Apple [video] by mandeepj on Thursday February 20, 2014 @01:06AM (#7269166)
That is the same reason I don't like learning from videos.
Re:Tesla CEO Musk on Battery Factor, Model X, Apple [video] by christmasday on Thursday February 20, 2014 @01:17AM (#7269215)
Theres a definite difference...Learning step by step to a voice and visual instructed teacher (in my opinion) is much more clear than having to read something and reread it to really understand it.
Re:Tesla CEO Musk on Battery Factor, Model X, Apple [video] by 001sky on Thursday February 20, 2014 @04:41AM (#7269887)
This is true <in person>, when you have confidence that the presenter is of high quality and on target. It's not true generally, because in reality the needle/haystack problem. Line of sight is better for parralel processing than serial/ sequential a/v.
Re:Tesla CEO Musk on Battery Factor, Model X, Apple [video] by throwawaymsft on Thursday February 20, 2014 @03:49AM (#7269702)
If the medium is visual (knitting, a sport, etc) then video is great. But a math lecture is probably better as text, with images/diagrams.

How often are videos remade to fix poor examples? How often is text fixed? (Where's the ever improving video version of Wikipedia?)

Re:Tesla CEO Musk on Battery Factor, Model X, Apple [video] by TeMPOraL on Thursday February 20, 2014 @02:03AM (#7269347)
IMO it's much worse. It's slower, less knowledge-dense and you can't jump around and learn the things you need the way you like. Reading and re-reading is a feature IMO, not a bug, and videos have all the drawbacks of sitting in the classroom without providing any of the benefits (you can't, say, ask the video for clarification).