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Comment Re:Another reason not to buy Surface (Score 1) 561

by jseale (#42435679) Attached to: Why Linux On Microsoft Surface Is a Tough Challenge

As if you needed another reason.

Exactly. Solution? Don't buy a Surface if you want to run Linux / Android on it.

It's so deliciously simple.

I don't like Win8 either.

Guess what? I haven't bought it.

Just more reason to double-down on ultrabooks running Windows 7. I'm sure these'll be going the way of the dinosaur sometime down the road. But these look to be just the ticket for anyone who wants a dual-bootable PC with a near tablet-like form factor

Comment Re:License-wise, yes; functionally? Probably not. (Score 1) 183

by jseale (#41760459) Attached to: Microsoft Surface Review: a Tale of Two Tablets

Everyone keeps saying how Windows RT and the Surface is terrible for businesses because you can't use Office RT for profit or you can't manage the devices with group policies, you can't run legacy software.... well yeah. That's what the Surface Pro is for... hence the "Pro" moniker. Surface Pro does absolutely everything a Windows 8 desktop does. Sure it's going to be heavier and cost a little more, but that's the price you pay for all that extra functionality.

Not to mention having to wait three months to get one. Microsoft's idea of not simultaneously releasing Surface with RT and Surface with 8 Pro is completely stupid!

Comment Re:Mobile bandwidth (Score 1) 261

by jseale (#41760379) Attached to: The UK's 5-Minute 4G Data Cap

Also considering the initial startup costs, just to break in would be very difficult. Cell towers are not cheap, nor the network wot support them.

Not to mention much less real estate to put up towers in the UK as compared to the good ol' USA, unless you plan on installing them in the Scottish highlands. where they'd most surely become loch-ness monster food. Aye!!

Comment Re:as long as you have a good network link (Score 1) 283

as long as you have a good network link and you better hope it's cap free and don't even think of roaming as it can cost $10 or more pre MEG!!

Sure makes me long for the days of 'muni-wi-fi', wi-fi you could access from nearly anywhere in the city for free. A big thing from about 2006-2008, most cities scrapped the project after it bled cash.

Comment Re:Like who again? (Score 1) 446

by jseale (#41402085) Attached to: Motorola Seeks Ban On Macs, iPads, and iPhones

Both are equally guilty of bullshit.

...and meanwhile Microsoft's Windows 8/RT team is probably sitting idly by somewhere watching all this 'bullshit' and laughing their asses off. Windows 8 and RT will give iOS and Android a run for their money. Maybe not at the outset, but eventually.

Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 228

by jseale (#41168855) Attached to: Lexmark To Exit Inkjet Printer Market

A dual boot option is much more appealing when all the hardware just works and generally faster than in Windows. Ok not for everyone I know but it is a big negative when people find their printer isn't going to work in Linux.

If you're going to install a printer on a Linux system, make it an HP. Ubuntu and HPLIP especially seem like they were made for each other, nowadays anyway. HPLIP works fine in Fedora as well. Not sure about it on the other distros though.

Comment Re:Windows 8 is not a catastrophe.... (Score 1) 880

Windows 8 is a catastrophe only for those who use it with a keyboard and mouse. For the rest of us, it is the greatest desktop operating system.

That is if you're willing to wait for the OEMs to come forward with tablets that'll run Windows 8. Microsoft is sure to charge a pretty penny for both versions of Surface and will more than likely do anything to hold back OEMs' releases of tablets.

Comment Re:And nothing of value was lost... (Score 1) 329

by jseale (#40557933) Attached to: Google Killing Off Mini, Video, and iGoogle

A tool built almost entirely in javascript doesn't work with a JAVASCRIPT BLOCKER?!?!?!?!?11111111

That's just crazy talk.

But seriously, expecting to browse the modern web with noscript enabled just isn't sane.

No duh! If you're so afraid of being rained on by the web's foreign particles, use a text-based web browser like Lynx.

Comment Re:Oh but they ARE fixing iTunes (Score 1) 332

by jseale (#40508393) Attached to: Adobe Stops Flash Player Support For Android

Flash's death would have been better if HTML5 were a more realistic competitor.

Oh, so now you're going to dump on lazy coders who don't want to even touch HTML5 just because it's 'new' or because they don't wan't to uproot the Flash architecture on their websites for fear of ending up with a load of crap they have to clean up afterwards. The only answer to this problem would be to keep the Flash version of the site running and have the HTML5 version running alongside with some kind of Flash detection engine written into the site's code. It'd be messy and would have to be done for quite some time, but it'd work.

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