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CHARGE!!!! SUPERFAIL!!! lol
No spywares founded!!!
God dammit, I love you Microsoft.
My husband works for MS and as an example of their ineptitude at times (I’m trying to be nice because they’re our bread-and-butter), his boss told him some coding they were working on absolutely could NOT be fixed and all they could do was damage control. Well, my husband fixed it. I’m noticing a pattern that has 98% to do with time and 2% to do with finding the right person to do the job. They don’t want to take the time to fix things and they don’t want to spend the time finding the right person to make it work. That’s why you see black screens in Times Square (I’m assuming that’s where this is).
And people wonder why Linux users are violently loyal.
GENTOO FTW!!!
why are linux users violently loyal? because no program running on linux can segfault? why blame microsoft for a wank application that happens to be running on their os?
now if the screen was flooded with a variety of malware, that would be a different story.
Technically its operator failure, not Microsoft failure. Thats what happens when you try to play Call of Duty on your billboard when no ones looking.
If i saw someone playing call of duty on a billboard, I would probably stop in the middle of the road or something to watch. Who cares if we cant see the news? Call of duty is far more interesting.
more accurately, microsoft has an archaic and cumbersome api built on many years of compatibility, while linux is open source, so anything that is not well understood (notice I do not say documented) either becomes well understood over time, or gets replaced with something easier to understand. So while it is probably true that whatever application, and not the OS, crashed in this case, it can be said that it’s easier to code for linux than for windows. And before you claim that linux is hard to code for, I’ve written little openGL programs in c on linux, and i am by no means a programmer. windows is cumbersome to code for, but developers tend to be scared of open source because they don’t believe it pays well. which is true, in a sense it doesn’t pay at all, but on the other hand, if you are really good, you will find someone willing to pay you. with windows, you just have to be competant, that’s all.
sorry for the rant, for the record, i am typing this on a windows machine, though i have 2 linux boxen running all the time
Anyone saw the truck in the corner? “You to can be a foreigner!”
lol that can be a fail in its self
double fail
NEEERRRRRDDDDD!!!!!!!!
We’ll see how well that goes over when your working for one.
Probably for starvation wages in the factory making the robots he designed.
i second that
I dual-booted my system with Ubuntu Ultimate Edition and I love it! The ONLY reason I still have Winblows is that I’m a gamer and I got some “legacy” (like Doom CE and Diablo 1) titles that won’t run on WINE. Other than that though I prefer to do EVERYTHING in Linux.
I’m sure Steve Jobs had nothing to so with it…
heh heh I love these kinda fails.
lol, when did this happen ?
Vista wins!
If you look closer, it’s the Spyware Fail.
I can run more on Linux than I can on Vista. Vista is a cancer for your rig.
yes, vista IS a cancer for your rig. i ran it for a year because I wanted to try it out. the feature that allows you to restore previous versions of folders and files stores more and more copies of that file every day. bad idea. it also stores program data and backup copies of it in the users folder and, like me, when you run a full system virus scan one day you find you have 1.75 million files on your computer when all you really have is 5,000 documents and a few programs and config files. switched back to xp. will be moving over to Fedora or CentOS or OpenSOLARIS soon…maybe even Ubuntu, but probably not. Ubuntu is built on Fedora and Fedora is a much better OS (for professionals) when compared to Ubuntu. CentOS is the way to go for enterprise……i think i’ll go with CentOS. my company’s web server runs CentOS and it is a beast. fast. secure. reliable.
Ubuntu is built on Fedora… lol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(operating_system)
Where’s the damn CTRL-ALT-DEL!
You have to do it at the giant keyboard at the toy store down the block.
hahah! win!
seems like a photoshop job to me.
And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for you kids and your dog….
Like, zoinks!
Fail
It definitely is. Looks at the edges of the warning box and compare them to the edges of the screen (especially the left edge. Plus the black screen background is way too pixelated.
I’ve seen this happen at photo printing Kiosks
THIRD
lol FAIL
please tell Failsoft about this problem.
Or their subsidiary Microfail (or should that be Macrofail?)
XD
The new Windows Fail model is doing its namesake.
“you too can be a foreigner”
rofl.
haha.. I didn’t even notice that first time around
Get a Mac
Macs are owned by microsot in the end and the only reason they dont get as many viruses (they DO get) is because few people spend the excessive amount of money that a mac costs.
People! get LINUX…. FREE – SECURE – FAST
Or you can just get whatever the hell OS you want…
Except Windows, of course.
“Macs are owned by microsot in the end”
Ignorance FAIL. Microsoft owns some non-voting shares of Apple as part of a deal because Apple used to be dependent on Microsoft apps, which they’ve now completely replaced: Office with iWork + Mail.app, Internet Explorer with Safari, Windows Media Player with the third-party Flip4Mac codecs.
“and the only reason they dont get as many viruses (they DO get) is because few people spend the excessive amount of money that a mac costs.”
Stupidity FAIL. There are no self-replicating viruses for Macs. Not one. People have written unwanted programs you can run manually, but that’s it. The platform is secure by design.
Most Macs, apart from the specialty Air and Mini, cost slightly less than a comparable PC, especially after a refresh. The only relationship between price and market share is that Macs don’t target the low-end junker market, so they don’t get high-volume injection into low-margin customer bases.
“People! get LINUX…. FREE – SECURE – FAST”
And a giant pain to set up and use in any graphical capacity. Yes, even Ubuntu, which uses GNOME, which at least has a HIG and some customization options, but is still modeled after the Windows 95 UI and the Windows XP paradigm of “never stop bugging the user about every little thing.” Until I got my Mac, Gentoo is the only OS I ever enjoyed using because I felt like I had some control over the machine and its configuration, but it wasn’t worth compiling all that crap and then recompiling when it threw unexpected errors.
Mostly right,
but:
mac OS is based off of someone else’s design, so they can’t take credit for it’s security. they can take credit for the choice, but not the design.
also: an OS is going to show its weak points the more it is used. There are more windows machines out there getting misused and abused than macs, so problems show face more frequently.
MS has, in the past been very concerned about backwards compatibility for the reason that many large businesses run windows and would flip out if their apps couldn’t work after an update. apple (although still concerned with backwards compatibility) has given it a less important place in design. Things that could potentially have fixes in windows (such as prevent self replicating viruses, perhaps) are not implementable because it would break existing legitimate software.
and since everyone hates MS, people would not say “oh, they are making it more secure so it is the software developers job to adapt their application to the update” everyone would instead complain and say “ms is stupid, they update and now my apps don’t work”.
Lastly, you definitely can NOT get an equivalent mac for the price of a PC. where do you shop for PCs? bestbuy? ripmeoff.com? apple is getting a bit better… but historically you have had next to no hardware choices in your mac, so you cant even really compare them if you wanted to.
I run vista (I wanted to be able to use DX10 properly), and honestly, i dont see what the problem is with it. a bit of a large footprint, but all those annoying warnings are easy to disable. and it provides nice interfaces to control services and has lots of integrated features.
ah well, you seem to be a mac snob, so I’m sure I’ll hear some kind of angry response to this.
firefox 3 fail.
the above reply is for another comment, which i was replying to earlier. Apperently firefox saw fit to send both at the same time, minus some information.
or maybe this is a failblog fail?
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… or probably my fail
I’ll go ahead and copypasta it where it belongs.
+1
SHOTOPHOPPED
I agree. Looks triple fake imo
do you wish to send an error report?
if you press OK a pre written error report will be sent to failsoft
to do nothing press cancell
OK CANCELL
someone should cancell your llife.
Someone should CANCEL both your lives. Learn to spell.
Jackasses.
Bondo was being funny, hence his spelling of life as “llife”.
JUMP THE GUN SUCCEED!
rofl
Someone did cancell his life. This is what we got.
Microflop makes for macro-fail win.
…wait, was that like a double negative?
dammit i saw this yesterday but i didn’t my phone on me. fail.
Shouldn’t someone at CNN be paying attention to this?
what’s the error message?
If its avenue Q this is an older picture because Avenue Q is at least 2 or 3 years old. This picture might be fore Failavista.
A muppet musical? Wow, fail.
do you even know what avenue q is?
it’s right there in the picture. do you even know what eyes are?
Uh…I don’t think Muppets use the same…language that these puppets use.
and puppet sex!!!
Avenue Q is still running and thus still has huge ads up in Slime Square
Guy Smiley lookalike fail!
Um unless you have some technique for reading this error, there’s no indication that this is a Microsoft problem. This could be an Internet FAIL or a software FAIL or driver FAIL or whatever. We can’t even be 100% certain that this is running on Windowz, but at least that seems pretty likely. I really don’t see why or how you’d conclude anything beyond that, certainly doesn’t look like Vista.
shut up. micro$uck if for the gheys and n00bs.
and look who’s talking. obviously a “n00b”.
if you thought i was serious, the please, do look who’s talking.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097778/
- Program is experiencing difficulties and must be shut down. -
I bet it’s the DEP ‘bug’ in vista SP1… especially if CNN use Firefox (the Data Execution Protection seems to be set up to cripple FireFox3)
firefox is free. you can’t be a competitor to anyone if you don’t actually make money.
that’s what microsoft tried to claim when they started giving away internet explorer for free
i remember seeing internet explorer in stores for like $15 or something like that, does that make me old?
Yes you can…. anything that takes money away from you yet provides the same service is a competitor….. that’s why Steam has more users than X-box live, and why Linux is slowly but surely closing the gap on Windows.
That’s definitely XP, so fail on those who thought Vista.
This is my photo taken in Times Sqaure in around November of 2007.
I can vouch for the authenticity of the sign: I was there last month when I noticed it (and Avenue Q is still running if anybody’s interested, they gave me a 50% discount on the 5th row cause I played the military card on them, those seats were cheaper than the……I wish I had spellecheck…..mezzanie…?)
Looks like a firewall fail to me.
I was in times square once and I sign one of the signs displaying the Windows XP Professional default screen saver.
photoshop or not… buy a mac!
Yes, because we all fancy having a computer that costs twice as much as it’s worth in terms of hardware, yet still manages to suck.
I got a top of the line imac, 3.0 ghz, 1 tb memory, all for 3500 dollars. I will never buy a Pc again and i pity anyone who does. The best part is the hookup, PC’s have loads of cables to attach and they are inconveniently located, the mac’s are all easy to access and easy to use.
I refuse to believe you, simply because you said “1 tb memory” which is definatly not the case.
either 1 tb disk space or 1gb of memory.
I cant tell if you got ripped off, because you gave hardly any specs, but i doubt you actually knew what you were buying. as a mac fanboy, im sure the line of thought went something like:
“It is white and expensive! it must be the best!”.
for 3500$ CDN 8 montsh ago I got a core2 6600 quadcore, 2 gigs of OCZ heatpipe reaper (DDR2 1066), 2x 500 gig seagates RAID0, 2x 74 gig WD Raptors RAID0, geforce 8800GTX, a shitty soundblaster X-FI sound card and a 23 inch flatscreen samsung monitor, in a antec gamer900 case with vista ultimate.
It may not be the best machine out there anymore, but it can run Crysis on full detail on most levels.
with a mac, what do you even need power for? do you do 3D rendering or something? you certainly can’t play games :p.
Oh, and I’ll be upgrading soon. Last time I checked, the only mac you can easily open is the mac pro, and the hardware options are still limited (although apple does seem to be getting a bit better about that).
*sigh*.
I fail.
Im arguing with a mac fanboy on a comments page
Fact Fail! Silly zombi brains are for people, you can’t have any!
Winblows/Failsoft.
BOO YEAH AVENUE Q!
YES!
The real fail is the Average Q poster.
I mean Avenue Q, sorry.
Man wish I had camera at work. There was a chemical barrel, but instead of label there was “c:\…….” image file not found.
Lol, avenue Q. That makes it THAT much funnier.
Comment win
Speaking of Avenue Q, every other billboard in Seattle was advertising it when I visited there a month ago…
FIRST!
Macs suck.
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I think the only thing better is in the corner where is says, “You too can be a foreigner.”
Linux on A hacked/modded wii ftw!!!!
Methinks this is some advertising trick to get people to look in the screen while it’s liek that. Then the moment enough people look the commercial gets back on again. 8)
I just want to point out that the update is for Adobe, you can tell by the icons color, so it is not actually a fail by Microsoft but more by Adobe. Just in case any one cares.
yeah, adobe phones home faster than you can click your mouse if you keep the default update settings.
Avenue Q win
foreigner fail
guy sitting at computer controlling billboard making sure this doesn’t happen EPIC FAIL
Let us not forget: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/toronto/biggest-bsod-of-all-time-320824.php
At least it wasn’t a “blue screen of death”.
ROFEL I AM FAT <:D
I AM FAT
Damn! I was going to post this! I took a shot of the same sign while I was in NY… totally hilarious. Well, I’m glad that someone brought this to light. Carry on.
Stupid Windows!!!!!!!! This is why I switched to a Mac.
Avenue Q = WIN
It’s all Rod’s fault XD
Avenue Q FTW
VirussS
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or a microsoft hack…
“This is CNN error reporting live…’
Epic fail
LOL
Sweet thing ERROR
CNN is a fail (period)
win fail