*fuck* windows
you know, i REALLY hate windows. i mean, sure i started out as a mac user, but *please*.
so let me get this straight. we've got the program stashed in a folder that you're not supposed to look at, the system even tells you not to, but it's there, and the exe file that starts the program in there. and don't even get me started on the whole *exe* file thing. let me get *this* one straight too. here we have 200 files in a folder somewhere that you're *not* supposed to touch, and they don't do anything, at least nothing particularly *useful* when you try to use them, they just hang out and say error.
*why* may i ask is any of this shit even here? i mean, why didn't all the programmers back in the day that saw someone put out a program with 50 extra files that you could only do anything with if you were a programmer but you don't want anyone to steal your code right? cuz that's industrial espionage! but there the files are... just hangin there like your balls in the wind, not doing any good but to the single group of people that you really don't want able to see what you did anyways.... o_o .... um, what? What do you mean no one knows why we did it this way? What is that a readme? What it's just a list of bug fixes? the help file? dude, that shit's *useless*!!!
so then you take this group of files... but no, really *why* did we do this to ourselves? i mean, when you programmed in basic, you had a file name you typed so that you didn't have to write the code each time you wanted an action to happen. you had a name for a collection of commands, a program mind you, one word! stash it in a folder! you're good! but, hellllllllllll no! y'see we seemed to have just taken a fucking shotgun and a 5th of Jim Beam to the organizational structure, just to START.
so here we are! years down the line! *someone* calls the bullshit and makes an icon for the program. a few other things are there, useful settings files you need to trash now and again because they become corrupt, but everything's hidden behind the one name, just like we always planned it. anything else smacks of just sheer *need* for clutter!
the world uses more computers and a section of the world breaths a sigh of relief and buys the shit religiously. but then the rampant diseased hoard of zombie-wombats wanders over and steals the interface!!! but they don't.... not really. I mean the only thing mac and mac users can do is just sit back and laugh our collective fucking asses off as the world realizes it's hideously flawed, even when it's working.
i mean... you have a program hucked into a folder, with a whooooooooooooole buncha files, that you can't use... but the computer tells me not to look at it, oh yea... there's a bunch of files over here, just *don't mess with them* like telling a 3 year old to put down the firecracker, just won't happen.
but then you have shortcuts! to the exe file! which, when you look at it, is barely over 50k and can be renamed to aaaaaaaaaany thing you want? i mean, doesn't this look suspiciously like a shortcut? so the first set of icons set up in the start menu is really the second shortcut to the program (that diseased shittery of hacked files over in the folder you're not supposed to look at) but *that's* not enough either!!!
*then* some programs put ANOTHER ICON back out in the *main* part of the start menu! a 3RD icon!!!! but NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! 3 ICONS AREN'T GOOD ENOUGH FOR YA ARE THEY?!?!?!?!? SHIT, THEN WE HAVE THE QUICK LAUNCH ICONS!!!! OOOH AND THE ONES IN THE SYSTEM TRAAAAAYYYYY!!!!!?!?!?!?!?!?! OH FUCK! DON'T FORGET THE *SPECIAL* PROGRAMS THAT YOU HAVE SHORT CUTS ON THE DESKTOP FOR AS WELL! JESUS FUCKING CHRIST BEFORE THE WHOLE ORDEAL IS OVER YOU'VE GOT AN INSTALL PROGRAM THAT JUST CAME OVER AND SHIT ON YOUR GOD DAMN COMPUTER! YOU DON'T WANT TO TOUCH ANYTHING OTHER THAN THIS TINY LITTLE GROUP OF ICONS OVER HERE ON THIS ONE SIDE THAT IS REALLY COMPLETE AND UTTER *SHASH* THAT SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN CREATED, *EVAAAAAAR*
*PERIOD*
i'm not quite too sure how the fuck i got conned into using windows, but this whole interface is a rampant screaming hoard of degenerate files suffering massive incipient stupidity. god damnit!
so let me get this straight. we've got the program stashed in a folder that you're not supposed to look at, the system even tells you not to, but it's there, and the exe file that starts the program in there. and don't even get me started on the whole *exe* file thing. let me get *this* one straight too. here we have 200 files in a folder somewhere that you're *not* supposed to touch, and they don't do anything, at least nothing particularly *useful* when you try to use them, they just hang out and say error.
*why* may i ask is any of this shit even here? i mean, why didn't all the programmers back in the day that saw someone put out a program with 50 extra files that you could only do anything with if you were a programmer but you don't want anyone to steal your code right? cuz that's industrial espionage! but there the files are... just hangin there like your balls in the wind, not doing any good but to the single group of people that you really don't want able to see what you did anyways.... o_o .... um, what? What do you mean no one knows why we did it this way? What is that a readme? What it's just a list of bug fixes? the help file? dude, that shit's *useless*!!!
so then you take this group of files... but no, really *why* did we do this to ourselves? i mean, when you programmed in basic, you had a file name you typed so that you didn't have to write the code each time you wanted an action to happen. you had a name for a collection of commands, a program mind you, one word! stash it in a folder! you're good! but, hellllllllllll no! y'see we seemed to have just taken a fucking shotgun and a 5th of Jim Beam to the organizational structure, just to START.
so here we are! years down the line! *someone* calls the bullshit and makes an icon for the program. a few other things are there, useful settings files you need to trash now and again because they become corrupt, but everything's hidden behind the one name, just like we always planned it. anything else smacks of just sheer *need* for clutter!
the world uses more computers and a section of the world breaths a sigh of relief and buys the shit religiously. but then the rampant diseased hoard of zombie-wombats wanders over and steals the interface!!! but they don't.... not really. I mean the only thing mac and mac users can do is just sit back and laugh our collective fucking asses off as the world realizes it's hideously flawed, even when it's working.
i mean... you have a program hucked into a folder, with a whooooooooooooole buncha files, that you can't use... but the computer tells me not to look at it, oh yea... there's a bunch of files over here, just *don't mess with them* like telling a 3 year old to put down the firecracker, just won't happen.
but then you have shortcuts! to the exe file! which, when you look at it, is barely over 50k and can be renamed to aaaaaaaaaany thing you want? i mean, doesn't this look suspiciously like a shortcut? so the first set of icons set up in the start menu is really the second shortcut to the program (that diseased shittery of hacked files over in the folder you're not supposed to look at) but *that's* not enough either!!!
*then* some programs put ANOTHER ICON back out in the *main* part of the start menu! a 3RD icon!!!! but NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! 3 ICONS AREN'T GOOD ENOUGH FOR YA ARE THEY?!?!?!?!? SHIT, THEN WE HAVE THE QUICK LAUNCH ICONS!!!! OOOH AND THE ONES IN THE SYSTEM TRAAAAAYYYYY!!!!!?!?!?!?!?!?! OH FUCK! DON'T FORGET THE *SPECIAL* PROGRAMS THAT YOU HAVE SHORT CUTS ON THE DESKTOP FOR AS WELL! JESUS FUCKING CHRIST BEFORE THE WHOLE ORDEAL IS OVER YOU'VE GOT AN INSTALL PROGRAM THAT JUST CAME OVER AND SHIT ON YOUR GOD DAMN COMPUTER! YOU DON'T WANT TO TOUCH ANYTHING OTHER THAN THIS TINY LITTLE GROUP OF ICONS OVER HERE ON THIS ONE SIDE THAT IS REALLY COMPLETE AND UTTER *SHASH* THAT SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN CREATED, *EVAAAAAAR*
*PERIOD*
i'm not quite too sure how the fuck i got conned into using windows, but this whole interface is a rampant screaming hoard of degenerate files suffering massive incipient stupidity. god damnit!