Re: Mind's Eye Windows Eight

Lots of stuff doesn't work - start up and shut down remain dicey, the
laptop's mousepad doesn't shut down automatically when I plug my mouse
in - the lis of such annoying bits is long. Microsoft (after two fob-
offs) told me to use F8 to do some debugging. I'd rung to tell them
F8 didn't work! I wouldn't touch the thing with a bargepole unless
you have a commercial reason for needing to.

On 24 Nov, 20:07, Allan H <allanh1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually MS is trying to get control of the gaming market ,,  by
> getting game programers to set their programs that they only operate
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> On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 6:21 PM, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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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> |_D Allan
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> I am a Natural Airgunner -
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>  Full of Hot Air & Ready To Expel It Quickly.

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