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Here is a collection of talks from Barack Obama, which originally came from the whitehouse.gov website. I am calling them "fireside chats" because they are a lot like Franklin Roosevelt's weekly talks on the radio, way back when. I doubt the media will carry these talks now, but they are available on the internet, and I see a need to make them available to as many people as possible. These are converted versions which can be played by any computer that has Quicktime 4 or better, and a CPU clock rate of at least 100 Mhz, even if they are connected to the internet only with dial-up. The data rate is only 48 K bits per second. The quality of sound and image is nowhere near as good as the original, because of the extreme compression necessary to make it pass through a dial-up modem in a reasonable amount of time, but the original format can't be played on dial-up or with old computers. |