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		<title>Things I Hate About Macs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Finish Writing Me Plz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life=Boring]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So when I get frustrated at work, I work on this list of things that annoy me while working on Macs. Of course when the problem shows up, it's things I hate about macs.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So when I get frustrated at work, I work on this list of things that annoy me while working on Macs. Of course when the problem shows up, it&#8217;s things I hate about Macs. I&#8217;ll update this post once in a while as I add and revise the list.</p>
<h3><a id="finder" name="finder">Finder</a></h3>
<div class="level3">
<ul>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">Takes up too much space</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">can&#8217;t copy/paste files</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">mpeg 2 files have to load in memory before previewing, causing massive lag (not just mpeg2)</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">Inconsistent Keyboard Shortcuts. Cmd-D shows desktop, but only work in dialogs, Cmd-1,2,3 changes views, but not in Spotlight. Back/Forward not the same as Safari</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">No hierarchal structure</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">hides files</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">hard to see file size, free space</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">orphans status windows, have to kill Finder to close them</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">windows take excessive amount of space</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">if a file transfer fails, Finder freaks out (data corruption, orphaned files, orphaned windows, locked files)</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">[OSX 10.4] Shortcuts in Sidebar mounted across networks get de-linked occasionally</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<h3><a id="quicktime" name="quicktime">Quicktime</a></h3>
<div class="level3">
<ul>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">Can&#8217;t play AC3</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">Always processes video (pixel aspect ratios, display frame size, actual frame size, etc)</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">Tons of other stuff</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">Takes 50% more bitrate to achieve the same quality as equivalent PC solution</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">Can&#8217;t play back uncompressed AVIs unless they&#8217;re RGB</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<h3><a id="os_x" name="os_x">OS X</a></h3>
<div class="level3">
<ul>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">lack of keyboard navigation/ mouse dependent</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">mouse stupidity… 1 button?!</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">dialog boxes… why can&#8217;t i tab between all fields? (i know there&#8217;s an option but it&#8217;s not consistent… if it even works). Why does hitting space not do the same thing as hitting the ENTER key? it&#8217;s like they WANT you to use the mouse.</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<h3><a id="fcp" name="fcp">FCP</a></h3>
<div class="level3">
<ul>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">Doesn&#8217;t remember any settings, takes forever to do many operations because I have to go through every setting every time!</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">Everytime I export to Quicktime Movie, picking the right frame size is a chore every time. Current view only works at 100% magnification and full sized viewer.</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">Export to Quicktime Movie: picking AVI defaults to poor quality settings, while picking Quicktime defaults to nice settings</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">can&#8217;t rename tracks</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">depends too much on it&#8217;s render cache, which is wrong often times and you have to clear it and force it to rerender.</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">Asks you to save everytime you open a project no matter if you actually changed anything</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">Bug: broken AR for outputting 16:9 text to Compressor (it stretches it to 4:3 and then crops it to 16:9)</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">No backwards compatibility at all, even between minor revisions</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">Media Manager can&#8217;t handle files with the same name, but different paths.</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">Can&#8217;t play back AAC audio</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">Broken 44.1 ↔ 48 sample rate conversion</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">broken frame geometry</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">Auto-sequence-settings doesn&#8217;t change audio settings to match the source</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<h3><a id="compressor" name="compressor">Compressor</a></h3>
<div class="level3">
<ul>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">buggy, unreliable</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">doesn&#8217;t take advantage of multiple cores. I&#8217;m rendering here and none of my 4 cores is above 25% utilization!</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">new UI is horrible, everything takes up so much space</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">can&#8217;t apply a setting or destination to multiple files</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">rename auto selects the file extension too. not consistent with OSX 10.5 Leopard</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<h3><a id="dvd_studio_pro" name="dvd_studio_pro">DVD Studio Pro</a></h3>
<div class="level3">
<ul>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">Converts everything to mpeg-2, even if it re-renders (unnecessary renders)</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">quits so easily. not robust. causes most of the problems itself</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">buggy</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">refuses to use assets even if they&#8217;re within <acronym title="specification">spec</acronym> and play elsewhere</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">can&#8217;t interchange m2v and mpv file extensions</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">Won&#8217;t remember Asset sort preference</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">Scrolling through Assets is laggy</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">Refreshed Assets = Broken Asset = start over from scratch</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">marker placement is stupid (won&#8217;t snap to GOPs post-creation)</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">audio gets off sync unless babied</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">audio and video can&#8217;t be grouped together</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">can&#8217;t zoom/pan around the track w/o workarounds</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">can&#8217;t encode assets over the network</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">one a process fails, it will always fail until you restart the program</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<h3><a id="hardware" name="hardware">Hardware</a></h3>
<div class="level3">
<ul>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">c&#8217;mon… two button mouse please, three would be better. Personally, I prefer 7</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">optical drives (i know apple doesn&#8217;t make them) are unreliable. give more read errors than what other OEMs</div>
</li>
<li class="level1">
<div class="li">headphone jack high pitch noise problem</div>
</li>
</ul>
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