BLAH BLAH BLAH
It’s not like what I said was just a huge incoherent mess of characters. There was actual meaning there, you just choose not to believe that.
Say what you want, but your posting habits make it clear that you have no control over whatever compulsion has been pushing you to responding to everything. Frink posts all the time, but they’re usually complete sentences at least. Yours are almost always responses with either no real point, or with no purpose other than to respond. Your post in response to my initial accusation is a perfect example of that.
My last sentence perfectly encapsulates my reason for posting that response.
I’ll add a reasoning for every post I make if I need to.
So, did YHWX ever explain why file types extensions in file names are wrong? Other than he doesn’t personally like them, I mean. Something was said about how it was wrong on a technical level, but I never really saw anything that explained why. Just curious.
File name extensions are wrong on a principled (and technical, as well) level:
Hopefully I’ll get to discuss why file name extensions are stupid.
I think you’re confused on the meaning of “hopefully.”
It’s really interesting, I promise.
Sounds fishy.
Back in the day, Macs had a unique way to identify file types: Type/Creator codes. In the resource fork of a file, the OS would store the type of file (basically the file name extension) and the creator of the file (the application you used to create the file). This system has many advantages, including the most important one (to me, at least): You can name the file whatever you want, and it’ll still open correctly.
The impossibility of this is what makes file name extensions terrible: You can’t give the user control of their data. Coding the file type in the file name is a fundamentally bad idea. Would you put the date created in the file name? Size? Metadata? You’d probably say no. These are all file metadata that are as important as the file type. But, no, file type is a-ok because that’s how it’s always been outside of the Mac world! That’s just how things are, isn’t it?
It is, but it doesn’t have to be this way.
Apple solved the problem again eleven years ago with Uniform Type Identifiers. This system has solves many major problems with type/creator codes, file name extensions, and MIME types. It first solves specificity problems: Type/Creator codes are limited to four characters, which is small enough to have collisions with other file types. (This is also a problem with file name extensions, as file name extensions can theoretically be as long as possible, Microsoft & Co. refuse to break from the EIGHT.THREE file naming convention of yesteryear) It also doesn’t need a registration with a standards committee, which is a problem with MIME types. There’s also many more benefits and intricacies to Uniform Type Identifiers, which you’ll have to see the link I linked above to get all the juicy details on.
Now, Apple has been far from perfect in this arena. Back around the transition from Classic Mac OS to Mac OS X (Windows users: Think of the transition from Windows 9x to XP, but much bigger), Apple basically abandoned Type/Creator codes, making file name extensions the required form of file type identification. This lasts until today, which many Apple users (such as myself) are grumbly about. (Along with the lack of a new file system — but that’s on the way!)
I didn’t see that coming
Nobody ever does.
If you’ve ever wanted to report your own posts (Frink).
I’m invisible blind.
FACTS aren’t false.
You have no proof.
FACT: yhwx loves the prequels.
False.
Hey yhwx, what’s your favorite board game?
Sorry.
Me too! We’re BFFs now!
I’ve learned that people don’t like it when I say that I’ll solve the problem. I wanted to acknowledge it without saying that I’ll solve it, which would just get people more riled up, and now people still get mad at me.
And these past few weeks have had way less, with exceptions, than the what the first few did (2,000 — 2,700).
I suspect that you are addicted to posting on this forum. I suspect that you read it nonstop and feel compelled to respond to every comment in every thread.
False.
I don’t like people telling lies about me.
I would have gone for Hans Shallow.
Why does yhwx yhwx?
Someday we’ll cut him open and find out.
Not in my will.
Nor was it in the frog’s will I cut open in school. But that didn’t save it.
A frog isn’t intelligent.
Michigan J. Frog is plotting your “unfortunate accident” right now.
If his name was “A frog,” he’d have some leg to stand on.
Why does yhwx yhwx?
Someday we’ll cut him open and find out.
Not in my will.
Nor was it in the frog’s will I cut open in school. But that didn’t save it.
A frog isn’t intelligent.
(preemptive WRONG PICTURE)
Huh, that makes me think. . . .
Why does yhwx yhwx?
Someday we’ll cut him open and find out.
Not in my will.
Nor was it in the frog’s will I cut open in school. But that didn’t save it.
A frog isn’t intelligent.
WISHS
The obvious comeback to “A frog isn’t intelligent” was “neither are you” but I didn’t want to say it…amd now you’ve forced me to do so. This is all your fault.
So let’s take an IQ test. Not enough for you? EQ test. I’ll take any test to disprove your offensive beliefs.
I don’t believe you’re stupid, you just set it up too good to completely ignore.
Should have added a qualifier sentence.
Why does yhwx yhwx?
Someday we’ll cut him open and find out.
Not in my will.
Nor was it in the frog’s will I cut open in school. But that didn’t save it.
A frog isn’t intelligent.
(preemptive WRONG PICTURE)
Huh, that makes me think. . . .
Why does yhwx yhwx?
Someday we’ll cut him open and find out.
Not in my will.
Nor was it in the frog’s will I cut open in school. But that didn’t save it.
A frog isn’t intelligent.
WISHS
The obvious comeback to “A frog isn’t intelligent” was “neither are you” but I didn’t want to say it…amd now you’ve forced me to do so. This is all your fault.
So let’s take an IQ test. Not enough for you? EQ test. I’ll take any test to disprove your offensive beliefs.
If you don’t want to listen for the content, the dynamics between the hosts is great. It’s a thirty minute section.
Look pal, I already have a podcast dealer, I don’t need you pushing more on me. Go get your own turf.
Podcast dealers don’t exist.
Then stop acting like one.
You do have a point.
Why does yhwx yhwx?
Someday we’ll cut him open and find out.
Not in my will.
Nor was it in the frog’s will I cut open in school. But that didn’t save it.
A frog isn’t intelligent.
(preemptive WRONG PICTURE)
Huh, that makes me think. . . .
Why does yhwx yhwx?
Someday we’ll cut him open and find out.
Not in my will.
Nor was it in the frog’s will I cut open in school. But that didn’t save it.
A frog isn’t intelligent.
WISHS
But claiming that Windows is better than OSX is mental illness.
No.
You don’t say “no” to the truth.
Your truth is just a bunch of fucked-up lies that result from your egotistical behavior.
Why does yhwx yhwx?
Someday we’ll cut him open and find out.
Not in my will.
Nor was it in the frog’s will I cut open in school. But that didn’t save it.
A frog isn’t intelligent.
If you don’t want to listen for the content, the dynamics between the hosts is great. It’s a thirty minute section.
Look pal, I already have a podcast dealer, I don’t need you pushing more on me. Go get your own turf.
Podcast dealers don’t exist.
Why does yhwx yhwx?
Someday we’ll cut him open and find out.
Not in my will.
But claiming that Windows is better than OSX is mental illness.
No.
If you don’t want to listen for the content, the dynamics between the hosts is great. It’s a thirty minute section.
More on why Windows is terrible:
I work with elementary schoolers now.
It is very easy to tell which ones think they’re God’s Gift to the World™ and were probably raised thus far to think so. And I’m getting flashbacks to when I was in elementary myself. No specific kids give me a reaction akin to one particular bully I had but the personality types are all there.
Wonderful kids except for a few though.
Kids have been mini monsters in my experience.
In their defense, they probably read your posts first.
The only defense they need is their brain. Or lack of, more rather.
I work with elementary schoolers now.
It is very easy to tell which ones think they’re God’s Gift to the World™ and were probably raised thus far to think so. And I’m getting flashbacks to when I was in elementary myself. No specific kids give me a reaction akin to one particular bully I had but the personality types are all there.
Wonderful kids except for a few though.
Kids have been mini monsters in my experience.
