Re: Mind's Eye Windows Eight

W8 looks like yet another attempt to stick us with yet another portal
directing us to Microsoft products - via its metro interface that
replaces desktop. I don't like Faceflop, Googleplod or Twatter (which
started as a place to host audio podcasts - am amazing non-starter).
The highlight on these over several years was Gabby tagging me as a
rabbit in a weird building in Berlin.
I'm rid of the metroface through a bit of cheap software. One can
understand why these conglomerates want to shoehorn an advertising-
based business model into our social activities. These days I watch
all commercial TV via Tivo to fast forward he ads and increasingly do
the same with BBC to evade their promos. I-google lets me rid myself
of the standard bimbo products of all browsers. I use gmail in order
not to give out my 'serious' email address. I guess we essentially
want to freeride on the technical provision.

Wikipedia gets stick for not being sufficiently peer-reviewed. In
terms if the subjects I 'teach' it is more accurate than textbooks and
the material publishers provide if you recommend their texts to
students (it's very difficult not to when 'exams' are based on the rot
- much of which is trashed in wider academic peer review). A few
academics like Steve Keen (economics and under redundancy threat at
his uni) and Alain de Connes (maths) publish all their work for free
access. I wish I was in a position to do the same - if I allowed free
access my income would go.

In principle I would like Mind's Eye to have wider contribution.
Currently I would say we are open to diversity but actually not
diverse. But we don't want the SNERTs, trolls, flamers and
advertising. One can see how we might 'revamp', but everything I've
tried(like new google groups) seems to vapourise continuity.



On 24 Nov, 15:47, gabbydott <gabbyd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Air gunner full of hot air ready to release it quickly - taking care of
> "Minds Eye"! LOL
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> 2012/11/24 Allan H <allanh1...@gmail.com>
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