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- rodball, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11They need a guy with a ladder and a pole (or maybe a crane) to get up there and click one of the buttons.
- MacHarborGuy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5however, the point is not about MS getting embarrassed on Digg because of this error, but being embarrassed because of a giant Windows/DirectX error on the screen.
Non geek-techy users will recognize 2 things. The way the window looks, and the message about the program running into a problem and closing, not to mention the big bold text "Please Tell Microsoft About This Problem".
MS Tech Support: Hi, Microsoft Tech Support, how may we help you.
Person in NYC: Yeah, I see this big error message.
MS Tech Support: How did it happen?
Person in NYC: I don't know, I was just walking down Times Square and saw it.
MS Tech Support: Are you using a portable device running Windows?
Person in NYC: No, the message is on the side of a building, and is HUGE.
MS Tech Support: Uhhh... - aaronm67, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"This is why you run these things on a real OS. I see crap like this at airports all the time. It's really just embarrassing for Microsoft."
No, thats why you run applications that aren't going to crash. Interesting that the OS with 95% of the market share isn't a "real OS," though. - mancat, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Misleading title. Application error. Trolls need not apply.
- bluehouse, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4It's not an embarrassment for Microsoft. It's an embarrassment for the developer! Why don't people understand that distinction?
- skippy2057, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Pretty funny, regardless if it's a Windows error or an application error.
I see stuff like this a LOT on our local cable channel over the weekend, where they cycle through local advertisements for sports bars and tattoo parlors, etc. They used to use an Amiga, so you would be looking at the Amiga Desktop quite a lot. Now with a Windows box we see quite a lot of Windows Desktops, blue screens, etc. - Judahgabriel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4It is funny, good laugh.
Just keep in mind that this is an application error, not a Microsoft Windows error. In other words, the developer of this program wrote software that didn't work right. Microsoft is no more at fault than Apple would be if Photoshop crashed. Of course, this simple little fact won't get in the way of the open source monkeys saying how evil Microsoft is and how horrible their operating system is compared to their favorite flavor of Unix. - ownedbytheman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Badly written apps crash routinely. Looks like Windows is running fine though.
- ZrO-1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It looks like it was a DirectX error, not an application error.
I checked around and it looks like they were using the Text/Ticker samples of the VMR-7 DirectShow portion of DirectX 9.0.
The samles can be found in the [sdkroot]DXSDKSamplesC++DirectShowVMR folder. - Googled, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Whoa digged:
Heres the site
World's largest Windows error message
By Adam Gaffin on Tue, 02/21/2006 - 9:15am
Windows
**1ST IMAGE ** http://img435.imageshack.us/img435/332/error200602200if.jpg ****
That's one big error message!
We went down to New York for the long weekend. Despite the 16-degree weather, we walked down to Times Square - all the bright lights lured us the ten blocks from our hotel. When we got there, we stood like, well, tourists, gaping at all the electronic billboards. And then, across the square, I saw it: the world's largest Windows error message - on a two-story high e-billboard (I guess everything really is bigger in New York). It was the only billboard in the entire square with absolutely no movement - since the PC running it had obviously frozen.
A clearer view of the message for you error-message geeks:
**2nd Image** http://img438.imageshack.us/img438/1593/error2200602209lq.jpg - heydigital, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Its the application that crashed, not Windows. "Video and text output" is the name of the program in the title bar.
- TheJadedDog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Man, you people talking about what kind of message it is can't see the forest for the trees can you?
- l7productions, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I wonder if they sent Microsoft an error report?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Did anyone bother to read the title of the story?
It says "World's Largest Windows Error MESSAGE". It doesn't say that it's a Window's error, nor does it mention anything about Windows crashing. So why are all of you idiots pointing out the fact that it's an application error, not a Windows error? So friggin' what? What does that have to do with the story? The title still holds true.
Please stop panicking fan boys every time something even slightly less than stellar is posted about Windows. Their stock is just fine. You can go back to playing your RTS or FPS now. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Do you think people walking in times square said "LOL!!! M$ got pwnd". NO
They'll say "What is that, some new marketing scheme?" Because 99.99% of people don't know much past where the "ON" button is."
You give "99.99%" of people far too little credit. They may not be able to get rid of spyware, but they CAN read. - ArthurSucks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I must admit, I was hoping for a huge fat BSOD. This ain't bad though.
- DJFMA, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Well, it's technically still a "windows" error message, despite a program crash. Because they have not disabled Windows reporting :P
- boohiss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Went up 25 diggs and people can't even view it. I wonder if there's some sort of bias against Windows...
- Bean945, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I see....
- bluehouse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@HenryFatass and sulaco
Of source the average user won't understand this distinction, but most users here aren't, except for you two apparently. - REBELinBLUE, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Seriously, its a normal application crash dialog which just happens to be on a very big screen. What is so amazing about that :|
- cwallenstein, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you think those are good, check out all of these!
http://www.pixelbeat.org/ms_mirth/
When are they going to learn? They made products to help prevent this... http://www.servprise.com - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Dork
- Portwineboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I have seen one of the Times Sq displays do a 3 story BSOD on a few occasions. Never thought it news worthy tho...
- darkfrog13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I took this one last year.
http://node7.org/gallery/albums/2005-05-nyc_philly/normal_ny-philly-trip0057.jpeg
http://node7.org/gallery/albums/2005-05-nyc_philly/normal_ny-philly-trip0058.jpeg - ph3rny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've seen pictures of BSODs on billboards bigger than this
- Jams, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Don't think anyone has mentioned this yet.. bt could it be that there was a hardware fault which in turn buggered up the software? Im sure the machine attached to this is running 24/7 7 days a week etc. It could have overheated, had shot memory etc. or perhaps as suggested the software was written badly; mebbe it actually is a fault with Windows.
I agree with what was said by a revious poster though, that a customized version of BSD be used or another cut down system. It makes sense, less happeneing, less that can go wrong!
Though we dont know all the details, there may be some reason why is has to run Windows. - edenlover, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You make baby Jesus cry everytime you unwrap one of those windows vs linux trolls,
- ronaldpoi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0" I'm starting to think Microsoft considers these error messages a branding issue just like a "powered by" banner add (but less expensive). "
Man that comment gave a good laugh!!! - capajc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Embarrassing? Possibly. But these companies _are_ using Windows for these huge displays. So it's embarrassing MS all the way to the bank.
- nailer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+02 stories high, actual Windows blue screen, city of 4 million people, and it happens pretty regularly:
Alt TV, corner of Swanson and Bourke Sts, Melbourne.
http://squphoto.tripod.com/mystery.htm
EYE WIN AT ERRRORZ!!!!1111ELEVEN - tech10171968, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow, did anyone read the fanboy comments that followed? Those guys need to lives; they're just computers and operating systems, not religions! The Winbloze/Linsux/Crapple fanboys ALL need to STFU, get girlfriends and join the rest of us in the real world.
- llbbl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Mirror of the images:
http://www.llbbl.com/images/error2006-02-20.jpg
http://www.llbbl.com/images/error22006-02-20.jpg - roxas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0haha ahh i can stop laughing.
wait now i did
ahhh a directX error message - aldreneo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ya, Video and text input is part of direct x....Now who makes direct x?...microsft
- Cerberus047, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Its the application that crashed, not Windows. "Video and text output" is the name of the program in the title bar."
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA not its not... thats the directx icon its a windows thing.... - TC-14, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Heh, even I've seen one of these, in Leeds Train Station, UK on a BBC Live Weather board that usually constantly updates itself. A good job I had my camera on me too, here's what the BBC error I saw looked like...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomlawrence/91152719/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomlawrence/91152720/
This one must have been slightly embaressing to say it was in Times Square. - Googled, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"You guys act like this is the first time you've seen some public display run by a Windows machine that crashed"
And the fk do you know if everyone has seen an error message in public. - iKato, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"We apologize for any inconvenience." Of course you do.
Funny. +digg - hitm4n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0yeah! -)))))))))))))
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I would have liked a better photo, so I could see which sign it was. Ah, well.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hmmm apparently, this happens more often then we think :)
http://digg.com/technology/Windows_crashes_on_a_Time_Square_billboard - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm sick of the people who suffer from fanboyism. (the most terrible disease to ever hit Earth) I own a Mac, a Windows machine, and (for my PVR) I use MythTV and Linux. Stop being fanboys. God doesn't like fanboys.
- spamdies, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is so unfair. apple computers have bigger and better error messages than this. and that error message is too simple, (like os 7 error aww its a sad face). The much more advanced apple computers give error messages that require a user to hire three computer anylists, a network engineer, two freelance programers, and a priest to decide that the hard drive went bad. To have applecare say the hard drive didnt go bad, it was just inferiour and for 289.00 plus tax and shipping can be upgraded to a less inferiour hard drive.
- Maverick83, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"I thought everything was bigger in Texas"
No, you people just like everything tiny. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"World's largest? More like the largest he's ever seen. How does he know it's the world's largest?"
Totally. I reported this misleading topic - scum bags who deceive like this should be executed.
Haha, just kidding. I would love to have seen this. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow! I never realized that Linux nor OSX has error messages. All this time I've been using them, those little boxes telling me my app has commited an error and needs to close, were all just part of my imagination!
Thanks digg for the PSA "Propaganda Service Announcement". - schurkenstadt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0[X] Tell Microsoft about this.
- cclarke, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1World's largest? More like the largest he's ever seen. How does he know it's the world's largest?
- MoonDogAFO, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is funny just for humor's sake - not because I want to see Microsoft take it in the face. I see similar crashes on the NY State Lottery Quick Draw machines sprinkled in bars, bowling alleys, etc. all over the state.
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