I know for a fact (let's just say that a little bird told me) that Poser 7 has been in beta-testing for the past few months at least.

As someone else noted - even a good, large, and varied team of beta-testers cannot possibly root out every problem.  For complex software, every variation is quintillions x quintillions of variations (think about all of the options, content, OSs, computers, hardware, drivers etc etc etc that vary from user to user).  Even a planet of super computers running continuously for a billion  years couldn't cover every permutation.  The only alternative is an open beta - this will increase the chances of catching bugs and other issues - only slightly.  Open betas aren't usually a good idea - you get too many levels of responses (too much information, too little, the same problem noted several thousand times).

I beg each person who complains about software that at least 'works' (isn't total crap) to try to do it yourself and see how complex it is - you may also want to take several courses in linear programming, linear algebra, calculus, discreet mathematics, logic, and also learn about bits, bytes, Boolean algebra, storage, memory management, file access, functions, recursion, modularization, classes, and several thousand basic algorithms.  Once you get past the little stuff and into writing executable applications on an OS, you have entered chaos-city. :)

The worst part about Poser is the marketing - they out and out lied about Poser 5 before release.  I just don't listen to the marketing anymore... ;D

Robert

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

 -- Bjarne Stroustrup

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