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If you can't remember the four symbols for Cmd/Opt/Ctrl/Shift then you have a bigger problem. The squirrelly ones like Home and Escape I can understand.

by frou_dh 16y ago

Psyonic 16y ago
To remember them, you need to know what they are in the first place. I once spent at least 5 minutes just trying to figure that out.
frou_dh 16y ago
I take it the downvotes mean "No, it is a real challenge to remember four symbols that are used throughout OS X"
- jodrellblank 16y ago
  No, the downvotes mean saying "hurr you must be stupid" is not a good enough comment.
  - frou_dh 16y ago
    Learning something trivial vs. the creation/promotion of a blog post complaining about it. Which is stupider?
    - jokermatt999 16y ago
      Which makes more sense: simply accepting something that is needlessly weird (note the affirming comments in this post), or making a post to complain about something you see wrong and in hopes that it will change? Apple is a company that is supposed to be excellent at design. I'd guess they pay attention when people complain about something that could be better, at least I'd hope so.
    - jodrellblank 16y ago
      I'm not saying I disagree that it's stupid, I'm saying the downvotes are because people here don't want to read comments saying "if you can't do this you are stupid" (and nothing else). Although I do actually disagree - it's like the saying "if you agree to give people 'just a minute' of your time then very soon, all together, they will take 100% of your time and clamour for more" - in computing and many other everyday things, every system you deal with has "something trivial" that you "just have to learn" until it seems my whole life is taken up with "just a simple thing" details that I don't care about which don't help me achieve anything. As has been mentioned elsewhere in these comments, new Apple keyboards in the UK do have these symbols on them! So why not in the US? Then 'just learning' wouldn't be relevant and the whole scenario would have passed by unremarkably.

If you can't remember the four symbols for Cmd/Opt/Ctrl/Shift then you have a bigger problem. The squirrelly ones like Home and Escape I can understand.

by frou_dh 16y ago

If you can't remember the four symbols for Cmd/Opt/Ctrl/Shift then you have a bigger problem. The squirrelly ones like Home and Escape I can understand.

Psyonic 16y ago

To remember them, you need to know what they are in the first place. I once spent at least 5 minutes just trying to figure that out.

frou_dh 16y ago

I take it the downvotes mean "No, it is a real challenge to remember four symbols that are used throughout OS X"

jodrellblank 16y ago
No, the downvotes mean saying "hurr you must be stupid" is not a good enough comment.
- frou_dh 16y ago
  Learning something trivial vs. the creation/promotion of a blog post complaining about it. Which is stupider?
  - jokermatt999 16y ago
    Which makes more sense: simply accepting something that is needlessly weird (note the affirming comments in this post), or making a post to complain about something you see wrong and in hopes that it will change? Apple is a company that is supposed to be excellent at design. I'd guess they pay attention when people complain about something that could be better, at least I'd hope so.
  - jodrellblank 16y ago
    I'm not saying I disagree that it's stupid, I'm saying the downvotes are because people here don't want to read comments saying "if you can't do this you are stupid" (and nothing else). Although I do actually disagree - it's like the saying "if you agree to give people 'just a minute' of your time then very soon, all together, they will take 100% of your time and clamour for more" - in computing and many other everyday things, every system you deal with has "something trivial" that you "just have to learn" until it seems my whole life is taken up with "just a simple thing" details that I don't care about which don't help me achieve anything. As has been mentioned elsewhere in these comments, new Apple keyboards in the UK do have these symbols on them! So why not in the US? Then 'just learning' wouldn't be relevant and the whole scenario would have passed by unremarkably.