Mr X's creations and VAX/VMS

[MrX]

the one that said scan for microsoft products is the photo that i edited, at the bottom.



Mr X :beos:  :beos:

[muzzy]

the edit is a little bit too obvious due to the font difference between original and the "Microsoft products, click Yes." replacement. Further, the humor value is slightly reduced due to the fact the original is a advertisement for something that probably ships spyware and whatnot with it. Due to this, I personally find the original to be more thought provoking than the trite, overused attack towards microsoft.

[MrX]

it is art. not sopposed to be funny. it is there to prove a point. should i have selected the font to be antialiased? btw it is vernanda size 11.

Mr X

[muzzy]

To prove a point? What point? You're just trying to say that microsoft products are what causes the issues mentioned. This is obviously and blatantly false, just plain FUD.

Anyway, look at the character "s" in your replacement to see the difference, it's the most obviously different one.

[MrX]

To prove a point? What point? You're just trying to say that microsoft products are what causes the issues mentioned. This is obviously and blatantly false, just plain FUD.

Anyway, look at the character "s" in your replacement to see the difference, it's the most obviously different one.

then explain to me why the people here that do not use microsoft products do not experiance those problems? yes, the 's' and others. i tried going thru all my fonts and couldnt find one exactly macthing, but close. i have somebody else working on it for me, with more professional tools, like photoshop. instead of BePhotoMagic.

Mr X

[muzzy]

I believe the people here are unaware as to exact sources of their problems, and blame everything on microsoft by habit.

Further, I don't see how mocking microsoft is a "proof" of anything, as nothing in your piece of art has to do with microsoft. Well, except the UI of the advertisement which poses to be spyware. In a way this could be clever, but I think your point is to say that "microsoft products" are equal or somehow similar to "critical errors". This kind of expression is overly repeated and has lost its meaning already.

What could make your art to be interpreted as clever, is the fake UI. Blaming microsoft for the problems of unstability and slowness, yet clicking the image would result redirection to a page which likely installs spyware which is responsible for the issues to stability and performance. Thus, the blame for microsoft is no longer completely unfounded, since the crap mentioned in the very "advertisement" got into the system because user clicked "yes" to an innocent looking browser window.

Although clever, this view is in no contradiction with my overall stance. Computer users should know what they're doing. Web pages could ask you to download and run a software and people would still do it. The true core of the problem isn't an inherent security issue of windows, but of users who don't understand what they're doing. Are you saying users shouldn't be given this kind of power? Well, good luck trying to fit that into "users should be allowed to run anything they want to" attitude that's relatively common around windows haters, too.

I know the activex "do you trust this shit?" popups are a serious issue, because they can be forced into an infinite loop and a clueless user thinks the only way out is to say "yes". General purpose computers shouldn't be used by clueless people, not when the computer has a state they can fuck up and there's no big red undo button to save the day.

[MrX]

200th POST !



I appreciate that you honor my artwork, muzzy.

Further, I don't see how mocking microsoft is a "proof" of anything,

it doesnt have to be proof of anything. it is art, and if the point is mocking microsoft, there  is your proof, the proof of mocking microsoft.

the UI of the advertisement which poses to be spyware.

i dont seem to be making that connection. the photo is not connected in any way shape or form, with the intent of installing malicious software inconspiciously onto unmeddeling microsoft computer users. and that is proof, of something.

over all, art is meant to be controversial. so if you like it or not,  :fu:

Mr X[/color]

btw it was hillarious when i sent this pic in email to my mom. she freaked out!

[Refalm]

should i have selected the font to be antialiased? btw it is vernanda size 11.

Mr X

I believe anti-aliased and Tahoma size 10, would be a much better choice.

[skyman8081]

Controversial, which is what you are TRYING to be, and failing at, does not mean free from critisism.

"art is meant to be controversial" is the biggest cop-out I have ever heard.

[muzzy]

Well, kids always tend to be bad at receiving critic of any kind. They tend to always take it way too personally.

Also, the font is aliased Tahoma 8. Well, at least unless windows font scaling settings affect MS Paint too in which I tested it, but it's obviously not antialiased. Antialiasing means all those "pixel smoothing" effects to make things look less jagged, and you can see the UI text doesn't suffer from that.

[Calum]

I believe the people here are unaware as to exact sources of their problems, and blame everything on microsoft by habit.

well sorry to say i agree with muzzy totally, except on the point i quote above. it's almost as out of place in this thread that somebody else could have written it from the person who wrote the rest of muzzy's posts in this thread.

bizarrely, i find the following ones much more amusing:

     

[Orethrius]

Hey Calum, regarding that first photo you posted: "Hit 'return' to continue."

Which one does that select again?  

[LarryISKewl]

I like it Mr. X good job .

[Refalm]

200th POST !

Gee. Too bad most of it is off-topic BeOS recommendations :p
But congratulations anyway.

[Orethrius]

200th POST !

If post counts were wang size, yours would be the largest.
If post quality were wang girth, what the HELL are you doing with that GIANT PENCIL?

:p