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Happening now – Biggest Windows Error EVER – Times Square

aflynn.com — I was walking in Times Square and there is was – the biggest windows error I have ever seen. Many people standing around laughing at this adobe flash error message. Enjoy!

Who dugg this? Made popular Dec 1, 2007

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  • Scabdates, on 12/01/2007, -2/+192Looks more like a bug in Adobe Flash Player to me.
  • PhonicUK, on 12/01/2007, -7/+103I want to play Crysis on that screen
  • Pantsuninja, on 12/01/2007, -3/+83even though I really want to, I just can't justify blaming microsoft for this one
  • risotto, on 12/01/2007, -5/+75Buried because of stupidity.
    1. It's the wrong title. It's an adobe error, not Windows' fault.
    2. It's filed in the wrong category. This has nothing to do with Apple.
    3. Superlatives are lame. The author gives no prove that this is the biggest error EVER.
    4. It's just lame.
  • LuxFX, on 12/01/2007, -3/+63well if it's an adobe flash error message, then it's not really a Windows error then, is it?
  • vollmus, on 12/01/2007, -1/+59Why are Windows errors always submitted as Apple news? I realize there's a rivalry, but come on, this has absolutely nothing to do with Apple. Please stop being ridiculous.
  • robinator08, on 12/01/2007, -1/+38The site uses flash to display the image of flash crashing.
  • cbuddha42, on 12/01/2007, -2/+36Yup, if you click and zoom in you can see that it says flash player crashed. Think people were just too eager to pick on Microsoft when they called this a windows error.
  • killdashnine, on 12/01/2007, -1/+30News Crash, no I mean Flash!
  • Lixie, on 12/01/2007, -2/+27Get in line pal.
  • budman2000, on 12/01/2007, -1/+26Click on the "Send Error Report" somebody.
  • inactive, on 12/01/2007, -5/+29I like when OSX crashes mac users blame it on 3rd party software, but when there is an error on Windows because of 3rd party software, it must be Windows fault.
  • Forky, on 12/01/2007, -0/+23flash-player can still get a bug on a mac
  • digginamish, on 12/01/2007, -1/+23Buried for double error in title: not a Windows error at all and there are much bigger screens that had have error messages displayed (stadiums, etc).
    Funny though.
  • stmiller, on 12/01/2007, -5/+26http://baysideproducts.com/store/images/victoria_c ...

    *ducks*
  • felchdonkey, on 12/01/2007, -1/+21It's not semantics, it's geography.
  • rabidmonkey1, on 12/01/2007, -0/+19Ha, look! He's a fanboy *and* he's snarky!

    /sarcasm
  • crushfan, on 12/01/2007, -0/+18I want to click to "Don't Send" (with a giant cursor) and maximize Firefox then rick-roll everyone looking at that screen.
  • nickw252, on 12/01/2007, -1/+19seems about right coming from clear channel.
  • iamnotbatman, on 12/01/2007, -1/+17I know it's semantics, but the word you were looking for was not 'semantics.' The difference between 'Prague' and 'London' is factual, not semantical.
  • Ductapemaster, on 12/01/2007, -1/+17Don't send! Don't send!
  • inactive, on 12/01/2007, -0/+14Wow... I snapped up this BSOD on a billboard in Shanghai, but it's nothing compared to Times Square! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v58/chungking/sh ...
  • RxDaniel, on 12/01/2007, -0/+14Same thing without the Koreans.
  • dankosaur, on 12/01/2007, -0/+14Well, the flickr photo was uploaded two years ago. If it happened today, there's bigger news than this (time travel!!!!11).
  • crusadernm, on 12/01/2007, -5/+19That's not a Windows Error, that's Adobe Flash. Stupid noobs.
  • championchap, on 12/01/2007, -1/+12Yup, looks like it reads Adobe Flash Player to me.. but i didnt recognise that as being the logo of the player. Just the authoring environment.
    I guess its both now..
  • JT114881, on 12/01/2007, -0/+10Two in my bathroom, one in my living room.
  • pilot3033, on 12/01/2007, -4/+14I know it's semantics, but that's London's Heathrow Airport, not Prague.
  • felchdonkey, on 12/01/2007, -1/+11Or is this the largest ever? http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/4630 (Feb 2006)

    Or was this it http://weblog.infoworld.com/dickerson/000798.html (Nov 2004)

    Or any of these ten: http://www.newlaunches.com/archives/top_10_biggest ...
  • whiteyMcBrown, on 12/01/2007, -0/+9That one's different to the one on the page
  • Littleedgitt, on 12/01/2007, -1/+10wait wat is halo?
  • TwinTurboMike, on 12/01/2007, -0/+9Did you try and throw rocks at the "Don't Send" button to clear the error?
  • Icebird, on 12/01/2007, -0/+9This happened today?
  • dankirsh, on 12/01/2007, -0/+8I saw it there when I was in NY last Saturday, so probably not. Unless they really haven't fixed it since then.
  • technoredneck, on 12/01/2007, -0/+8The same reason all the anti-Microsoft garb is submitted to Linux/Unix: fanboy stupidity.

    lololololloloooololll a windows error i think my balls just dropped finally
  • risotto, on 12/01/2007, -1/+8Windows did not crash at all in this case.
  • theboyqueen, on 12/01/2007, -1/+8Dude, if that computer was running linux instead of the error message the whole thing would have just froze up. Because it's a proprietary, piece of crap program, the flash player on windows is way more stable than it is on linux. And they won't let us fix it.
  • Lassan, on 12/01/2007, -1/+8okay, why is this in the Apple category?!
  • TiceHH, on 12/01/2007, -11/+18Yeah, that's huge! Reminds me of the blue screen of death on the prague airport:
    http://tice.de/?link=bluescreenairport
  • RxDaniel, on 12/01/2007, -0/+7It wasn't really an error, Apple just paid to have this run on the screen.
  • adolfojp, on 12/01/2007, -0/+6Good point!
  • ultrafez, on 12/01/2007, -2/+8Who sends error reports?
  • inactive, on 12/01/2007, -0/+5Well, the iTard who posted this under "APPLE" category definitely is not that smart.
  • RxDaniel, on 12/01/2007, -0/+5Apparently that makes it Apple news to the submitter.
  • inactive, on 12/01/2007, -0/+5Or something.
  • accessviolation, on 12/01/2007, -3/+7What would be even better is playing a good game on that screen.

    OK, cheap shot, but in my opinion Crysis' multiplayer is extremely underwhelming. The single player is pretty sweet though.
  • Zugz, on 12/01/2007, -0/+4This happened on 11/25/07. I work down the block and took some pictures too. Although mine were after it was dark out so that must have been up for a while.
  • specialK16, on 12/01/2007, -0/+4Funny thing is that would actually be more dangerous on Linux.
  • digitalarcanum, on 12/01/2007, -0/+3the fact that it was windows box running on that huge screen and NOT a mac speaks volumes. Also, crashes happen on every OS.
  • smedrick, on 12/01/2007, -0/+3Exactly. OSX would just freeze and you'd have to hard boot the machine to get it working again.
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