From: Joseph McAllister
On Jun 1, 2010, at 20:13 , William Robb wrote:
> Is that a Tom or a Queen you would prefer???
> This sounds like a case of you only get to do what Steve thinks you
> should do.
> Now I realize that Paul won't believe me, but a few years ago I was
> talking about computers with an acquaintance who is both a Mac user
> and an idiot. I mentioned something about file extensions and he
> didn't have a clue what I was talking about.
> He said (and I paraphrase) "we don't use file extensions on Macs,
> we just click the icon and it opens.
> Apparently Macs just know what the file is by magic....
As you probably already know, the Mac OS gives the user a choice of
showing the file extensions or not. The premise being, as you say, you
just click on it and it knows what app to launch to view it. Just like
in Windows.
Except that on the school's Macs just clicking on a PEF file doesn't
bring up Bridge or Photoshop. It brings up some weird file preview I've
never seen before.
If you actually want to open the file to work on it, you have to drag
its icon to the tool bar, which is hidden somewhere on the side of the
monitor, and drop it on the appropriate program icon.
Plus, the mouse on a Mac SUCKS!
The file ends up getting dropped on the desktop making two or three
virtual copies that are a mess to clean up and get rid of when I'm
trying to get shut down so I can go to my next class.
And why does EVERYTHING I do require me to respond to an additional
dialog box confirming I actually want to do what I just told it to do?
The majority of what you see and how it's used in Windows was borrowed
from the Mac GUI, and yes, it was borrowed in the first place. Sort of
like when I type this, I am borrowing the use of the alphabetical
letters someone thought up a long time ago as a way to communicate.
Don't have to pay a fee to use them either, other than to read your
distain of people using computers who occasionally wear tie died T's
and don't need to be told that a Doc file is a Doc file. After all,
the ICON is a page with lines of type on it! Something will open when
I click it!
Yeah, apparently Microsoft also got the idea for their dancing
paper-clip and cute little puppy-dog pop-up "assistant" files that
constantly get in the way of actually using the programs for any kind of
productive work.
And every other bit of obstructionist crap Microsoft has introduced
since Windows 3.1 was stolen from Mac as well.
I used to have screaming fits with MS Office before I could figure out
how to nuke any kind of auto-formatting. But at least the NON-MS Office
programs didn't have that bullshit.
Not so the Mac. Except on the Mac there is no way to turn off the
auto-formatting. You don't have the permissions.
It just seems like there's some kind of Apple design philosophy that if
the computer looks cool enough there's no need for you to actually be
usable to use it, and that if you do presume to use it, you aren't
supposed to think of doing anything Steve Jobs hasn't already done.
It's not just me. All of the instructors have Macs hooked up to
projectors so they can show us how to get things done, and they all
spend half their time struggling to get the the programs to open.
I've yet to see any of them to get an image to open in Photoshop on
first try. Same problems I have ... Oops I clicked it and it's opened
the wrong program. Close that one and drag it onto the Photoshop icon.
Where did the toolbar go? Where did the file land when it fell off the
mouse pointer on the desktop? Finally got it open, did what I wanted to
do to it, and want to save it to a certain location.
You can't get to that location from the program. You have to save it to
the desktop. But the desktop isn't really the desktop because the
program is running full-screen although it LOOKS like it's running in a
window it's not really and where did the damn file go now?
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