{"id":1719,"date":"2004-11-18T22:25:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-18T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1719"},"modified":"2017-09-19T10:42:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T15:42:43","slug":"1719","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/18\/1719\/","title":{"rendered":"The Macintosh Conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I prefer PCs to Macs because I&#8217;ve been weaned on them since I was a whelp, through which as a mangled metaphor you can understand I prefer going to the store for a steak to animal husbandry.  So pardon me while I extrapolate on the little things that I&#8217;ve uncovered that are undoubtedly some part of an insidious plot to annoy people who try to use both Macintoshes and PCs on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>In default message boxes, the OK and Cancel buttons are transposed.<\/b><br \/>\nIn Windows, the OK button is on the left; in Macintosh, it&#8217;s on the right.  Crikey, now I have to read the buttons before I just click.<\/p>\n<li><b>The bottom row keys are different.<\/b><br \/>\nOn Windows keyboards, it&#8217;s CTRL, Windows Key, ALT, Spacebar; on Macintosh, it&#8217;s CTRL, ALT, Open Apple (oops, perhaps I have experience on older pre-Macs), Spacebar.  It&#8217;s just a simple transposition, but for those of us who like to do things like use keyboard shortcuts, it means we hit the wrong keys for the shortcuts 90% of the time on our non-dominant platform (Macintosh for me).<\/ul>\n<p>I would wager that someone on one side of the idealogical divide did this consciously.  Also, I thank goodness the Linux set doesn&#8217;t have its own keyboard yet.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, they&#8217;re small things, but when you&#8217;re at the keys for ten or more hours a day, it&#8217;s a little fleck of sand under your contact lens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I prefer PCs to Macs because I&#8217;ve been weaned on them since I was a whelp, through which as a mangled metaphor you can understand I prefer going to the store for a steak to animal husbandry. So pardon me while I extrapolate on the little things that I&#8217;ve uncovered that are undoubtedly some part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16906,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions\/16906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}