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This little dollop of fun recently came our way. According to the author, “It is based on an application called Hydra, but has some improvements like: Doesn’t need Mac OS X Jaguar, No need for Rendezvous, and It’s cross-platform.” Apparently the author lives in an alternate universe where the word “improvements” implies “re-implementing badly in R***b****.”
We still cannot understand the popular obsession with software than runs on 10.1.x. Frankly, if you’ve already ponied up for hardware suitable to run Mac OS X, it can hardly be an enormous drain on the pocketbook to shell out the $70-odd dollars to upgrade to 10.2. Perhaps it is some misguided moral principle employed by people whose only operating scruple is to not pay for software. What makes this mass hysteria even more foul is the tendency of these reluctant upgraders to then continually pester freeware authors to make 10.1.x-compatible versions of their software available.
But naturally, what is worse than the plague of 10.1-using lunatics, is this concept of attempting to replace an application as beautiful as Hydra with a scrofulous waste heap like iEdit. While the “cross-platform” argument may have some slight merit, claiming this to be an improvement is a grievous affront to truth. We use Hydra here at the PerversionTracker headquarters for occasional bouts of tag-team reviewing, and iEdit, you are no Hydra.
By defaulting to a setting where every character typed by a remote user causes a beep, and pops the editing window to the foreground, iEdit is sure to supply the user with a healthy stock of irritation from the very start. Luckily, you can turn these annoyances off by toggling the two rectangular buttons (*cough*, *cough*) located at the bottom of the window. When they claimed “no need for Rendezvous,” what they actually meant “we couldn’t figure out how to implement Rendezvous,” as Hydra doesn’t require a Rendezvous connection either. Instead, we are saddled with iEdit’s loathsomely clumsy “Connect To…” dialog box, which doubles as a way of hosting a new edit session.
Beyond this, iEdit is even more inept, and offers none of Hydra’s useful preferences or change-tracking features. By requiring that any files to be edited be “imported” and “exported,” minimal utility is ensured. These craven apostates at Quik Software should be tightly packed in fennel lest they escape, and attempt to write further examples of “software.”
For keeping the gorbristled green cube as an icon, prefixing your name with an “i”, and all the previous mentioned errors, we award a 10.2 (as in “upgrade to”).
Posted by ladd at April 8, 2003 12:01 PM | TrackBackNeat, a PvT review that praises a worthy app while pointing the specific problems in the half-baked RBing of a cool idea. What's next, a thoughtful comparison of text editors? ;-)
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Posted by: Sweaty Honda on April 8, 2003 02:24 PMSay, this Hydra the article refers to...where could one find it without doing the most obvious thing (search engine)?
And I have a feeling ladd is getting a tad ticked at us mocking and generally insulting PvT reviews...
Step 1: delete the "per" prefixing our name
Step 2: type "hydra" into the search box
Step 3: admit that you're a crybaby
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Look, Ladd doesn't get ticked, he gets even. Even I can see that, and I'm struggling through a fog of alcohol-induced palsy, with an amorous 200-pound gorilla pawing at my belt buckle -- a situation even you might agree is a trifle distracting ...
Miss Moneypenny, perhaps if you stop tickling the it there, the beast will calm down!
Posted by: aussie boy on April 8, 2003 05:13 PMIts not that bad... its kind of usefull...
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How does the rating system work?
1 = Best, 10 = Worst
or 1-10 = Perverted?
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Posted by: CanBoy on April 8, 2003 09:18 PMCanBoy, 10 out of 10! Your sentiments are heart-wrenchingly appalling and jingoistic, and they are expressed with all the linguistic skill of an eight-year-old child in a remedial writing class. Your irony is delicious! (You aren't being serious, are you? Tell me you're not serious ...)
And now, I must away! The local hypermarket is practically giving away combination cuticle trimmers and armpit-hair straightening machines ... Straight armpit hair! I never thought it could happen for me!
Posted by: aussie boy on April 8, 2003 11:58 PMLadd, you ARE aware that you are using and supporting a product (Hydra) built by a company called "The Coding Monkeys"? YOU TREACHEROUS SIMIAN COLLABORATOR! Guards!! Seize him!!
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We are forced to keep quiet because the bad monkeys have banned dissent, and those who protest the policies of the bad monkeys will get no bananas. Imagine! A monkey with no juicy sweet bananas to eat? It's unpossible!
Surely you can see that we are justified in our craven conformity with the dictates of the bad monkeys. We do feel a bit sorry that Thuros M. has been targeted as the next victim of the GMC, but please, Thuros M., don't take it personally. We are only a few monkeys -- we can't change the way things are.
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Either that, or you're German.
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The Coalition for the Banning of Ethnic Humour (Except when Perpetrated by the Ethnic Minority in Question, in Self-Deprecating Fashion), or CBEHEPEMQSDF, will be onto you, Thuros M. Unless, of course, you happen to be German. In which case, ignore this post, take two paracetamol tablets, and have a good lie down, preferably with Nurse Throsby. She's always a good lie down.
And no more wombat jokes!
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The bartender is a little surprised, but senses a business opportunity -- he charges the wombat $20 for the martini. The wombat pays up, downs the martini, and orders another. This time the bartender charges the wombat $30. Again, the wombat pays up.
Finally, the bartender's curiosity gets the better of him and he casually says: "You know, we don't get many wombats in here."
The wombat replies: "Small wonder, at these prices!"
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