Poser does suck. Most software sucks. It's not so much that they that they don't do the job. It's that they make us work too hard to accomplish trivial tasks. At one time this was understandable but with today's hardware and memory availability there is no longer any good reason that I should be forced to adapt to the software. Software is supposed to make life easier for the user- not the other way around.

Why should I have to remember whether a hair item is a figure or a prop so that I can find it? Why can't all hair be stored in the same place? Granted, props are handled differently than figures but that's what context sensitive menus are for. When I need to find a texture why must I waste my time searching through endless directories? Why can't all the necessary components for an item be kept together? Why am I stuck with just a single subdirectory level? Why do the program error messages lie to me when the truth would make it far easier to solve the problem? If I want to rearrange things more to my liking why is it necessary to go to the system level to rename or move files, create new directories, change hard coded system paths, etc? Why must I spend a bundle on third party accessories just to perform basic functions that should have been built in to the program from the start? Why? Why? Why?

Software has come a long way when it comes to user friendliness but it could have gone so much farther than it has. And oh yes, why can't Poser make my coffee in the morning?

Software sucks. Long live software.

• Jack