All the world’s a stage,
And all the applications merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one app in its time plays many parts,
Its acts being seven versions. At first the beta,
Mewling and puking in the programmer’s arms.
And then the whining 1.0, with its Read Me
And shining interface, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to release. And then the bug fix,
Release notes filled, with woeful tales
Made to customer demands. Then a 1.5,
Full of strange buttons and sluggish like the sloth,
Covered in metal, sudden and quick in crashing,
Ducking the awful reputation
Even in the reviewer’s hand. And then the dot release,
In fair use spotty without workflow designed,
With use unclear and size of way too much,
Full of ugly skin and MDI interface
And so it plays its part. The sixth age shifts
Into the conspiracies of Baboons,
With toolbars on top and pane on side,
Its window titles, well saved, a world too wide
For its shrunk shank; and its big manly fonts,
Turning again toward childish cursors, icons
Throbbing Gristle to be found. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is sloppy Javaness and mere oblivion,
Sans teams, sans use, sans worth, sans everything
Save only for a 10.9
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Posted by ladd at March 18, 2003 01:46 AM | TrackBackWhat the f**k is a menu bar doing in a window?
Posted by: synp on March 18, 2003 06:25 AM
Ooooh, only $5,000 for a world license. Does that mean that only one person has to buy a world license, then everyone can use it?
Yup, it's a Java program. That menu bar is a dead giveaway.
Posted by: Hodag on March 18, 2003 09:35 AMSometimes, I like to poop in my oatmeal. Yum.
Posted by: fuddes on March 18, 2003 01:47 PMFor some reason all the images for the various cra..i mean software reviewed aare showing up under the Novel 1.0 beta entry....
Which means i have to keep looking at that entry...over and over again.
Blech.
No i am not using IE
Posted by: John Dough on March 18, 2003 01:49 PMWhich browser are you using, John?
Posted by: ladd on March 18, 2003 03:01 PMCamino latest nightly build.
Sadly, it does show up correctly on IE for the mac.
I am sending off a bug report, i place no blame on this site.
Maybe.
You have created a new form of poetry - pedantic diameter
Posted by: Kangarood on March 18, 2003 05:12 PMThat soliloquy made me feel weak in the knees and moist in the pants. Bravo.
Posted by: d on March 18, 2003 06:09 PM"These people talk of such things: / Rhythm and Pentameter; / When what they mean / Is the size of their tool's diameter"
Posted by: ladd on March 18, 2003 06:17 PM