Yes. Fuck Macintosh OSs. They are horrible unintuitive pieces of crap. Why? Here’s an example.
I walked up to the labs today, in an effort to make sure I produce some work today. However, there is one key problem with this. The computers in my lab are all Macintoshs. I have been sparingly using this computer as I went through my book, using Google documents to create presentations (fortunately, I don’t have to use any Mac Powerpoint-like software).
Anyway, I started up Google Documents (through Safari, which is another area of frustration, as opposed to Firefox) and started bullet-pointing key ideas. Then I arrive at an equation in the PDF, which cannot be properly written in Google Documents, so I do what I normally do (on my Windows machine, anyway) and attempt to take a screenshot. Oh no! Macs don’t have the print screen key. Well, I’ll attempt to copy the screen using the Edit->Copy command. Perhaps that will take a screenshot of the PDF. Now, to paste it into some sort of image editing program. WAIT! Mac doesn’t have one of them. Not a simple-to-use one anyway. Mac, known for its awesomeness at editing images and all that design stuff, doesn’t even have a basic Paint program. Lovely…
Well, the internet will have the solution! I search for a Mac paint program and find a program that states it is similar to MS Paint. Works for me! I download it, then try to start it up.
Move this program to the Applications folder
Where the fuck is that! But I then remember something about it being in the Finder (the hell is Finder anyway?! I assume it is similar to Explorer for Windows, in that it controls everything). I find it, open it up, and drag the file in.
ACCESS DENIED!
Macs by themselves infuriate me, but when coupled with an access restricting laboratory environment, using them is torture. After several attempts, I couldn’t get it to work. So, I must find an alternate solution. Surely one can take a screenshot on a Mac. A quick Google reveals that you can, through several options: Shift+Command+Ctrl+3 or Shift+Command+Control+4+Space. Who the fuck comes up with this shit?! Why does taking a screenshot require 4 or more keys to be pressed? Windows has a convenient (well, not convenient, but it exists) key called ‘Prt Scr’. One press, and you have a screenshot. Surely the creators of Mac could have assigned a different key combination, perhaps something more intuitive? Maybe Shift+Command+S?
Well, I tried this demonic combination, but nothing happened! It allegedly takes a shot of the screen and dumps the file to the desktop, but nothing appeared there. Getting to the desktop is annoying enough as well. F11 is the only way I can get there, and even then, there are windows hovering about the edges of the screen. F11 sure is intuitive, you white, rounded-edge-loving pricks! Anyway, at this point, I gave up in frustration, and decided to return home and work there (after this post, of course).
So Mac, why no print screen key? You have F13 and F14, which, I’m sure are very useful, maybe as useful as all the other function keys! You remove print screen, a harmless key in no-one’s way, but leave Caps Lock? FUCK I HATE MACS!
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5/29/09 @ 11:53 am #
You’re so hot when you’re ranting about trivial things. Let’s do the secks.
5/30/09 @ 12:43 pm #
I allow Macs one concession: Their character map. It can be sorted into groups (mathematical, arrows, etc), whereas the Windows one has a very basic sort function.
But that doesn’t make up for this indignation!