Digital Fundamentally Flawed
So we had a hardware test in Digital Fundamentals in this mornings session.
It's sad that I can complete the test in less than a tenth of the time it took the rest of the class, and be one of the three highest in terms of marks (14/15). I would have gotten perfect, but the first question was a trick-lingo garbage question specific to the lecture I fell asleep to last week. *shrugs*
This class will make me cry, I'm sure of it. The prof is going off in a million directions on innane topics which are meaningless to most of the students. I'm sure that anyone who doesn't understand is only getting more confused.
Also, I'm beginning to think of more reasons why I prefer PCs. Sitting in a mac lab is really beginning to irk me. Normally I'm not a big PC vs Mac person. I know they both have significant strengths and weaknesses, but I'm getting pissed off at the little things that Macs do that prevent me from using them as efficiently.
Like, I can CTRL-Tab through all my active windows in XP. (Or any version of windows, as I recall) And you can Apple-Tab through all active PROGRAMS. Which means I can switch between the Finder and Firefox, but not between two different windows in firefox. Ugh.
And why the hell can't I select a spot in an adress bar (or any text box for that matter), hold shift and press end to select everything after that point? Hell, you can't even hold shift and cursor around in a lot of cases to do selections.
When it breaks down, I find that my biggest issue with Macs is that they are NOT keyboard-solo friendly. Typical user may never notice, but I grew up on DOS and Win 3.1, and I learnt all that stuff. And it's faster, and more convinient that constantly shifting between the mouse and the keyboard.
*Sigh*
Things are well, though. Besides being broke. Anyone want to commission some art? :P
- Kagirinai
It's sad that I can complete the test in less than a tenth of the time it took the rest of the class, and be one of the three highest in terms of marks (14/15). I would have gotten perfect, but the first question was a trick-lingo garbage question specific to the lecture I fell asleep to last week. *shrugs*
This class will make me cry, I'm sure of it. The prof is going off in a million directions on innane topics which are meaningless to most of the students. I'm sure that anyone who doesn't understand is only getting more confused.
Also, I'm beginning to think of more reasons why I prefer PCs. Sitting in a mac lab is really beginning to irk me. Normally I'm not a big PC vs Mac person. I know they both have significant strengths and weaknesses, but I'm getting pissed off at the little things that Macs do that prevent me from using them as efficiently.
Like, I can CTRL-Tab through all my active windows in XP. (Or any version of windows, as I recall) And you can Apple-Tab through all active PROGRAMS. Which means I can switch between the Finder and Firefox, but not between two different windows in firefox. Ugh.
And why the hell can't I select a spot in an adress bar (or any text box for that matter), hold shift and press end to select everything after that point? Hell, you can't even hold shift and cursor around in a lot of cases to do selections.
When it breaks down, I find that my biggest issue with Macs is that they are NOT keyboard-solo friendly. Typical user may never notice, but I grew up on DOS and Win 3.1, and I learnt all that stuff. And it's faster, and more convinient that constantly shifting between the mouse and the keyboard.
*Sigh*
Things are well, though. Besides being broke. Anyone want to commission some art? :P
- Kagirinai