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It’s about time they start shopping Mac errors. They have been doing it for years with the PC. They even write programs to throw out bogus message boxes instead of shopping it.
Trouble is, it’s much easier to just write an applescript to display a custom dialog box, like the one you see in this picture, than to try to re-create the interface. OS X interfaces are a tad bit more elegant, (>:P) so they’d require a lot of extra work to be made to look authentic.
If they’re not authentic, they’re not great!
This is a definite Win.
This is a great statement.
Well that’s just great!!
If they’re not authentic, they’re not a fail. Fail, Failblog, fail. Repeat after me: intentional fails are not fails.
Whoa sensitive. Someone has his mouth around Steve’s man parts.
Incorrect. Someone is sick and tired of the endless parade of intentional jokes/art/whatever being posted here as FAIL and then up-voted by morons.
+500 points for the truth, there. God I hate morons.
+3
Pootpoot +3 sounds like it would be a great sounding sound.
+1000 points. God I hate mormons.
Get a brain morans!!!!!
Morons? You’re the ones who are corrupted by apple’s ads…
Due to great corruption!
Morans? You really think you have the ability to judge who a moron is if you can’t even spell it?
He’s referring to this guy:
http://shii.org/mediawiki/images/1/1e/Boeing54kueuvg.jpg
Hahaha! Great link!
You, my good sir, are a morON. It’s morON, not morAN. A moran is a type of coookie
I find it funny that nobody gets your humerus reference.
+1000 points to you dear sir or madam.
Don’t we all hate mormons?
I thought it was funny, but yes, these should be posted to a different website, like Hacked I… Never mind.
Does a Mac not support screenshots?
This is a fake error. Some guy probably just made a simple UI with that on it, that’s why the name of the App isn’t shown. Fake and gay.
I wonder, would it have been fake and gay if it was a windows error message?
oh, and by the way; Linux FTW!
^likey like like
i third this statement. dint think ive ever seen a fake ubuntu error message
Because no one uses ubuntu
ever.
I don’t want to start a flame war like the rest of this thread, but I think 12 million people would disagree including me with you.
Speak for yourself, as I myself use it.
yeah but your a no one so he is still right.
Come on guys, everyone loves Linux. I know I personally love to pretend to be a computer programmer, those mile long lists of shareware files make me get all fuzzy on the inside.
Answering this from a Ubuntu 10.10 machine.
BTW, this is an arrogant message “why is it happening on a MAC”, because it’s made by humans so it has problems like any other OS.
and before saying “linux sucks” and so on… make a research because linux isn’t a OS it’s a kernel (very similar to MAC)
Linux sucks. Make a research of how to English in an as well.
Read your own comment and take your own advice because your missing words.
You should take the advice as well, because your grammar sucks.
We should all take the advice and double check our comments.
@ lolmaster – I can’t deny that.
“in an”
Windows Fanboy Syndrome.
Uh, Cult of Mac, anyone?
I picture that message being wailed aloud by a distraught Mac user with hands raised beseechingly in the air.
Also, “Mac” is not an acronym (nor is “web” or “blog”).
Actually, MAC is in fact an acronym – Media Access Control address – a string of hex found on most any device that connects to a network, wired, wifi, bluetooth or otherwise.
That’s the wrong context. Here, “Mac” is an abbreviation for “Macintosh”, the name of the operating system. You speak of MAC addresses, which are unrelated in word origin.
Wrong. Mac isn’t the kernel, UNIX is. Moron.
And I myself use Ubuntu, because its the best Linux distribution, fairly fast (but still slower than either Mac or Windows), and it works straight out-of-the-box for me, and, unlike any other distibution, theyre trying to get away from the similarities between the many distributions with the Unity interface in 11.04, which is simular to a Mac, but not enough the same to be really considered a copycat. But if I want to use a Mac, I can just use my iPod Touch, since its basically the very same system, just mobilized, and if I want to use Windows, I can just ask my brother or my friend to use his laptop.
And, I personally love Ubuntu – its fast, stable (Windows keeps giving me BIOS ROM errors for no apparent reason), its more secure, and lets you choose from a lot of different filesystems to use, and its better as far as productivity – for example, it took me forever to find a mkv editor for Windows, and I still couldnt find what I needed. One quick search in software Center for ‘mkv’ got me what I needed.
TL;DR
You realize UNIX isn’t a kernel? Mac OS X is based on Darwin
Man, you don’t know what you’re talking about. Linux is like whatever kernel OSX runs on, I forgot which one now. Ubuntu is the comparison to OSX.
Linux is a kernal, But Ubuntu and other such INTERFACES are OS’s, just like the underlying code for mac is a kernal, but the INTERFACE is an os
I use Ubuntu too. Also you are herp!
There are too many butthurt nerds in this thread
Your a towel
No grandma you’re a towel.
I use it.
Windows sucks ass compared to Ubuntu. Microsoft tries to make Windows look like an eye candy while fapping to furry yiff but it never works and they make Windows laggy.
My old 2008 Compaq suddenly turned into something epic after I installed Ubuntu. It was hell with Vista. Ignore the statements that say SP2 improved it, Vista still sucks.
Couldn’t agree more. Linux gets the most out of a system. People who can’t use Linux or say it sucks just don’t understand or have the intelligence to make it work for them because you have to put the effort in yourself. Windows gives you every piece of crap service, process and application possible whilst Linux gives you what you need.
I can’t talk because I no longer use it as I have neither the time, energy or patience to fully understand it but I do understand just how amazing it is.
“People who can’t use Linux or say it sucks just don’t understand or have the intelligence to make it work for them because you have to put the effort in yourself.”
If it sucks, you’re an idiot.
Look at that, you get to sleep better AND feel smug. Win win!
You know, flamers like you are a big reason some people will never switch to linux. You insult, you lose. doesn’t rhime, but it’s true
Vista was just a bit of “exception”… my dad recently got 7 and hasn’t had a single problem with the OS
You just think Windows sucks because you’re behind the times. Vista sucks as everyone knows, but Windows 7 is great. It’s quick and never crashes. Though Linux zombies won’t acknowledge anything good about Windows no matter what, so it’s probably pointless to even mention this.
Actually although I’m a Linux fan I agree with you on W7. If your running it on a good enough machine. I’ve been using W7 64-bit for ages now and never had any of the problems I used to have even in XP. Problem is, other OS’s have been doing it for ages, Microsoft’s catching up but it’s still never going to acheive what an open-source based operating system could do.
Dude, don’t compare Windows to furry stereotypes…that just makes ya look like a turd.
damn right..linux fanboys can suck it
name one good reason to use ubuntu
If Mac is the cool guy, and PC is the businessman, then Linux is the guy in the wheelchair.
Or the basement
Linux is the f***ing god that is above everyone else presiding over the heavens that other OS’s can only dream of acheiving.
well linux is like a religion you have to devote mindless ours attending to it. no other OS can convince people to waste hours on end just to recode a single driver, or days just to get a game to work on it even with wine only to find out that wine won’t run the game at all…..
Theres so many ways round it. Using the Linux/Ubuntu community will get you out of most problems. It’s true about the amount of time it takes but you will probably spend just as much time messing around with Windows, especially when it comes to compatability and driver problems. As for Wine, well it sucks anyway. Using VirtualBox solves that problem, unfortunately you just need to own a copy of Windows too.
I have an even easier way around it: Get Windows. (And “compatibility and driver problems” on WINDOWS!? What? Are you crazy? Maybe if you’re using Windows 3.1 or something…)
Yeah, with older software – and a lot of new software is still designed for Vista. Compatability mode doesn’t always cut it. If you never do anything with your PC that is going to give you these problems then you won’t know what I mean but believe me it happens.
One of Vista’s major failings was exactly that, it had a lot of major driver compatibility problems. Windows 7 fixed that, though, so all is good.
“you will probably spend just as much time messing around with Windows, especially when it comes to compatability and driver problems”
You’re both wrong: Linux is the hippie dude. I don’t mean stoned, I mean he prefers to live in a commune where you share and benefit from others sharing. Think about it.
BTW for Mac vs Linux, the kernels are both Posix based (Unix clones), but they are different code: Mac is built on Free BSD and GNU/Linux is on the Linux kernel.
…and why do I think Linux is better than Windows? Because it’s free as in freedom and free beer. I’m not chained to some EULA that has me purchasing the OS, purchasing the software for it (or risking severe virus infections), purchasing support…. telling me I have to register and can’t make copies; forcing me to enter a code or otherwise prove I have a “genuine” copy to continue to use it or get updates on my own schedule…
Microsoft has built an industry on treating their customers like school children. Honestly, in that respect, Mac isn’t much better.
I use Linux because I control what is on my computer. I have a library of thousands of software titles available to me, et gratis. It is stable. I lets me do anything I want within the confines of the digital plane. Viva Linux!
I got a free copy of windows professional at uni and i use free antiviruses (namelly MSE) but most viruses don´t affect my x64 version, so there ya go.
Linux is great for servers, Windows is great for productivity, and Mac tries to suck at everything else
you dont need a program for that…
And you don’t think this was a bogus message?
FAIL comment!
if you open apple script editor and copy and paste this
display dialog “Error 236: Something that should never fail has Failed.” buttons {“Restart”, “Send report to Apple”, “Why is this hapening on a mac?”} default button 3
and then click run it will display the message
I agree. Subtle humour win.
And I don’t like Apple.
Why not?
Do NOT get us started…
Because they attract the kind of prissy idiots who demand a reason for something that is a matter of personal preference.
^^ You can have me
Pc vs Mac.
Issue that won’t ever be resolved.
Mac is obviously superior. It’s shiny. SHINY!
Just because it’s shiney doesn’t mean its better. There are some people who actually have to get things done, and deal with other factors such as stability and usability – not eyecandy.
…which is exactly why I left Windoze.
shiny but useless… almost
Resolution: the term PC refers to the architecture: specifically architecture based originally on compatibility with the original IBM PC. Since Apple computers are now based on the same x86 architecture, they are technically PCs. Some people have even made “hackintoshes” — hacking Apple’s DRM in OS X to allow it to install to non-Apple PCs — and they run quite well.
Therefore every modern Mac is a PC, but most PCs are not Macs. In short, the debate only “continues” because Apple refuses to admit their terminology error.
Or you can just use Virtual Box in Ubuntu and you can have the best of 3 worlds. But, yeah, I totally agree with you on that. Macs are PCs.
you are also forgetting that all the hardware inside of a mac was invented by PC companies (except for firewire which rarely if ever gets used anyway) and that PC stands for personal computer which most macs are.
However it originated, “PC” basically means “Windows machine” now.
The debate that a Mac IS a PC will seemingly never end either. So look at it like this -
What does ‘PC’ stand for? – Personal Computer.
What is a ‘Mac’? – A Computer.
Is it ‘Personally’ owned by an individual or business? – Yes.
So is it a ‘Personal Computer’? – YES.
Also ‘Mac’ is brand name as is ‘Windows’ or ‘Linux’. They all run on a…(wait for it) Personal Computer.
God this thread is making me feel like such a geek.
I like Mac, I just hate the DIE-HARD fanboys. Heard of applesoldier on YouTube?
OH MY GOD…I have now. Seriously, that guy needs a life.
wtfomg??? i just typed a (approx) 500 word comment about flamewars and its not here omg!
basically, LET THE FLAMEWARS BEGIN!
I hate apple is soooooooooooooooooooooo bad they give you bad bad stuff and itunes you get scams and every thing and people can hack your PC through it and the I pad is so bad BTW Read PCPP
I agree. Windows may f**k you in the ass but at least they don’t pretend their all user friendly and un-corporate-like. Apple put on this face whilst behind the scenes they have the same directors and globally money grabbing targets. They try to appeal to customers with this look of innocence but their still just the other side of the same coin as Microsoft.
so what?
if they win costumers that way it’s just a great way to sell your products.
I have used both Windows, Mac OSX and Ubuntu and it’s not really a matter of which is best, it’s a matter of which fits you the best.
@Google ate my dad.
sure, have you ever tried it or are you just like everyone else who just flames something for being different from what you prefer? because then you are really stupid..
when ever I think about the company crapple i mean apple I always think of the move dodge ball. you bought an apple now your better then everyone and you know it!
thats their real selling gimmick. telling people they are special because they have four times the amount of money to burn on crap that can’t even play games unless you have boot camp, in which case theres no difference other then price from any other pc on the market………..
I feel like being an ass for no good reason. Here goes:
*whenever
*movie
*you’re
*than
*that’s
*there’s
*than
C’mon, Fry!
u mad that you can’t afford one? Besides, Mac’s have games. Over 200 on steam alone, 80 on Apple’s website, and countless others from Independent developers. We have all of Valve’s major titles.
Bootcamp is a plus. Can you run OS X on your PC? Nope, didn’t think so.
Oh god – Steam… seriously? Steam is terrible. Enough said.
Care to explain why so many people are dedicated to it then?
Ha! Are you being serious? Just because a majority uses something does not mean it’s any good, just means people are misinformed or delusional. look around you at all the terrible music and TV that is so successful because people ‘like’ it (especially all the ‘reality’ TV knock off crap).
Sooo… Where’s your proof to back this up? I can tell you I’m not delusional. I use Steam because it’s cheap and easy. That’s all anyone uses it for.
“Just because a majority uses something does not mean its any good, just means people are misinformed or delusional.”
Kinda like how people think Windows is a superior OS line.
Yes you moron. You can run OS X on a PC, and its pretty damned easy – just install your bootloader, insert an Apple disc, and use the boot option from the bootloader that supports OS X. How the hell hard is that?
only 200? honsetly, I’m not mad i can’t afford one. It’s just I can use the same money and get 2-3 times as much for the same amount of money. And, honestly, I really have no interest in running OS X on my pc. My PC is too good for that.
This is a fake error, and its not even what the “oh shi-” screen looks like on a mac. It looks like this: http://WWW.ourhangout.net/archives/Kernel_Panic-1p0f.png
If a program crashes, it is caught by the OS and shows a standard error screen along the lines of “X program has crashed, any unsaved work has been lost, your system has not been affected” and offers you three buttons.
Restart program, Send Error to Apple, and More info…
after the program crashes several times, It asks if you would like to delete the preference file and restart the program, or restart the program without deleting the preference file. Malformed or corrupted plists cause 99 percent of most repeat crashes so that usually clears it right up.
This is why people say “apple just works.”
If an Apple user came across some crap like this in an app, they’d delete it in rage, because the programer was so terrible he didn’t even use the built in error traps! Who knows what other horrors are in that app.
I’m not going to deny that it is fake, but honestly, on those “uncrashable” computers I have had my share of problems, even on ones that were under a year old – and I’m talking about the OS itself freezing up
My laptop freezes often, lags like crap, and that error happens at least 3 or 4 times a week.
And that’s a mac.
My PC is much better.
agreed
Oh my gosh this line of comments is really long. Srsly.
i did that
LOL
the most fakest thing ever
this fail is you failing…
+1
Lol, butthurt much?
yus….
Should’ve went “umadbro?”
yeah this is pretty clearly fake. You think Apple wouldn’t capitalise Mac? Or that they’d so flagrantly violate their own Human Interface Guidelines?
Yeah, it just screams fake. It’s a FAIL FAIL.
THIS. For serious. Knew it was fake as soon as I saw it.
Man, you are just one smart cookie!
clearly fake isn’t it, there is NO program/application on mac that would not display the three coloured buttons on the top left (red, orange green = close, minimize, maximize window), even when they don’t make them available they are greyed out but still visible.
The Mac:
It Just Works
(Except when it doesn’t)
The Mac:
If it crashes (more frequent than my pc…) you don’t tell anyone and if anyone saw it, you simply kill him. =)
The PC:
If it crashes, you simply restart and that’s it.
2 thumbs up
My PC hasn’t crashed in YEARS. Occasionally an application crashes, but the OS (WinXP before, and W7-64 now), handle that sort of thing very well these days. When an app does crash, it’s repeatable, and more likely a problem with the app itself.
+1
Why the fuck do you tards call your windoze box “PC” but name any other OS like its a whole different peice of hardware?
MacOS runs on a PC, linux runs on a PC, windblows runs (crashes mostly) on a PC.
For the record, i’m no apple faggboi, i mostly just run windoze & have never owned a mac (or any brand name PC).
“I’m a PC”
“I’m a Mac”
Quoted from the Apple ads.
So what? it’s not like Apple is always right…
PC = Personal Computer.
A mac is clearly a computer, and, once you buy it as a individual, it is personal.
Thus: A Mac is a PC
i am a Mac and a PC
because there is Mac … annnnd than there is everything else…
No.
A Mac is not a PC. Yes it uses mostly the same components but has some components (ppc processors before apple switched to Intel and now EFI instead of BIOS) which make it different. Not better, not worse, just different.
The retarded thing is doing comparisons between Mac and PC although people are really comparing OSX and Windows. Retarded thing is calling software “PC-compatible” whilst it only runs on Windows.
A Mac is a PC. PC = Personal Computer. Doesn’t matter what hardware is in it or how it’s controlled.
And anyone from South America is an American because I follow Mike’s logic.
Yes, they are. Were you trying to imply that they aren’t?
Someone needs to learn their basic logic.
Fail, if you’re trying to be facetious, since I can’t tell you how many times friends from Canada, Mexico, and central and south America have said the exact same thing, they’re Americans too, just not from the US.
Yes, technically Mac’s are PC’s, just like South american’s are technically Americans. However, people generally refer to MacOS running PC’s as “Mac’s”, just like how people generally refer to people from the states as “Americans”. You’re all right.
What would you call an American/Mac otherwise?
Lots of people call residents of the US yankees.
You are an idiot.
EFI is a technology that’s set to slowly replace the BIOS in PCs as a whole. It does not magically alter the nature of whether something is a computer or not. It is still a Personal Computer in the truest sense of the word.
EFI vs BIOS is a red herring; the EFI specification is an Intel specification intended to extend and replace the original BIOS specification; it even includes BIOS emulation. Windows and Linux can run fine on an EFI x86 system.
Apple hasn’t used PowerPC processors for about a decade, well before they started the “Mac vs PC” ads, so that’s a moot point as well.
“Do you throw tantrums if you order a Coke at restaurant and get Pepsi?”
Damn right i would. I didn’t order no fucking pepsi. That shit taste like nuns piss. Where’s my damn coke?
…
So if i install MacOSX on my PC does that mean its no longer a PC?
What if i put MacOSX on one partition & Windoze on the other?
What if i install it in VMWare?
If i put grated cheese on top is it then a burrito?
I’m Hungry.
OSX on PC = Hackintosh
OSX + Windows on PC = Mac/Windows Hybrid
OSX on vmware = PC, running vmware…
+1 for the Coke comment.
Coca-Cola FTW
If you’re running any Windows version newer than Windows ME, and it’s mostly crashing, then perhaps you should go out and get a Mac.
Because the only way you’re going to get a BSOD or a restart on a recent version of Windows is…
1) You have s**tty hardware with s**tty drivers
2) You attempted to build your own machine and failed hard
3) You went out and bought a PC from a s**tty manufacturer.
Yes, I’ve had applications stop responding, but the only time in the last 9 years, and 3 versions of Windows, I’ve ever even had to do a hard restart, let alone experience a BSOD or auto-restart was due to my own screw-ups.
+1
not to mention that the BSOD gives crucial information about the problem – where macs fail
“PC” has three meanings:
1. Politically Correct.
2. Personal Computer.
3. Its original meaning: An industry term coined by IBM to refer to their x86 architecture (and the AT bus, etc).
All three meanings are valid, although number 3 is the original meaning of the term. Arguing against someone who is using definition 3 by claiming that definition 2 is the only correct definition is disingenuous, to put it politely.
And Coke and Pepsi taste significantly different to many if not most people (Pepsi is much sweeter), so your attempt to use them as an example of equivalents does not work.
Your #3 is #2, hence some cases being stamped PC/XT and PC/AT.
IBM did NOT coin the term, it was in use as early as 1972 with the Xerox PARC systems. IBM did have a model PC (5150 “Personal Computer”)(1981), which basically was just an XT (1983) that didn’t come with anything (the XT (eXtended Technology) came with a 10MB HDD and controller). It was not a reference to architecture, just a model type designation. The chip was an 8088. The AT introduced the 16-bit architecture and the 80286 chip. Then there was the 6MHz 286 XT retrofit that was actually faster than the 8MHz 286 AT from the XT’s zero-wait state (but still 8-bit).
Been there, done that, lived it. Good times.
Heres a quote from somewhere -
Mac is for people who want it easy, no hassle – use it, turn it off.
Windows is for people who are prepared to do a little bit (sometimes a lot!) of work on their machine.
Linux is for the hardcore massive.
That was funny
Well… It used to be true that macs are more stable, and easier to use and tune and upgrade, “no hassle” and all that. Today, there’s almost no difference. For simple tasks, Windows is easy enough, fast, and perfectly stable. My PC hasn’t crashed in many years. A problem that required me to reinstall windows? Not in this millenium so far.
Both systems have their vulnerabilities.
Apple only gives you one button. Push it. A lot of the time that’s all you need, and it’s fantastic. But as soon as you meet a task that that button can’t handle, you’re pretty much f*cked. I have an ugly software problem on my mac right now that’s literally unfixable!
Windows requires you to learn a little, but it can get you anywhere, and any problem is fixable.
Linux users? The closest humanity will ever come to an alien species. I respect their superior technology, though.
Comment win. I tried Linux but it was too much for my simple human mind. I use windows but realise just how powerful Linux is. Open source is the meaning of life.
Apple gives you more than one button. quite a few, actually.
Meet your friends console.app and terminal.app
oh, also you have your basic unix file system. They are hidden. You can change any setting on an apple with defaults. Or if you want you can tweak the plists themselves. Just like windows, all the options to troubleshoot are there, Apple is just smart enough to keep them under the hood.
Think of it like a car, you don’t need to know jack about engines to drive it. But if something goes wrong, you pull a lever and pop the hood to the engine.
Don’t blather ignorance about how apple “just works until it doesn’t, then you are screwed” Like windows, you have to learn a little to get you anywhere, and any problem is fixable.
So no comments on Linux? Linux kicks both Apples and Microsofts asses at every single point of your argument. For gods sake they tell you to re-write the OS’s yourself, make it better, pass it round – just do what you like with it. Anythings possible with Linux you just need the knowledge.
osx supports a secondary click, there goes any integrity you had…
I’m on Windows right now and I personally prefere Google Chrome but this works great!
I used to feel this way, and preferred Windows because it was right about “at my level”. Then I installed Ubuntu (I don’t use it anymore) and… discovered that most of the post-installation crap I would have done on a Windows machine was meaningless.
The only thing that keeps Linux out is that a minor UI change majorly confuses people, but then this has happened between upgrades of Windows versions, as well. The difficulty curve seems to be Mac/Ubuntu > Windows > Sadomasochistic versions of Linux
we have 15 macs at work… it’s great when they work, but what they don’t it’s a major pain in the ass
We have a dozen or so macs, too… all running Windows 7 in the background so they can use business oriented software other than Photoshop.
Sorry, does microsoft office and such not exist on Mac? What on earth are they doing sitting in my dock, open on my screen, filled with open documents? Oh dear, time to take my meds again.
In a company of 4, the two guys with Macs were forever having Office failures. Word docs destroyed by the old “randomly deletespaces between words andthen turn offspell check to hide whatyou did trick” being the worst one, but Excel wasn’t much better.
My Mac hasn’t crashed in YEARS. Occasionally an application crashes, but the OS (Tiger before, and Snow Leopard now), handles that sort of thing very well these days. When an app does crash, and it’s repeatable, it’s more likely a problem with the app itself.
(Also, if I am FORCED to use a Win-only app, I can do XP or Win7 on VMWare)
You have a broken Mac. Take it to the Apple store, they’ll give you a new one.
You mean they’ll SELL you a new one, because some insane loophole in the Apple warrenty has voided it. “You installed your own ? I’m sorry but your warrenty is void! You’ll just have to buy a new one.”
Um, no. I have brought my MacBook in because it’s hardware just shot for some reason. I took it to the Apple Store and they took full responsibility for their product, even though it was outside of the warranty (and I didn’t even buy Apple Care.)
Even a few weeks ago when I accidentally dropped my iPhone and the screen busted, they replaced it for free, even though it was accidental damage (normally they would charge up to $200 to have it fixed.)
Stop knocking on Apple. They have some of the best customer service out there, and people who use their products use them for a reason. You are happy with what you have, I am happy with what I have. The whole Mac versus PC debate is so stupid and childish.
Just use what works for you. S**t.
Not every Apple store has great customer service. Luckily i have two to choose from. One store sucks and will nickel and dime you for every f*kin thing, even crap that wasn’t your fault. The other one will even take machines that are voided out of their warranty. Hell sending it in to the Repair Center Hub gets alot of sh*t done for damn near nothing. BTW i love OSX and Windows equally, both have their fair share of crashes not system crashes tho. I cant choose between them.
How the hell did i get the same avatar icon here as i do on EF?
Because it uses a provided email address to look it up on Gravatar, I do believe
Their customer service is amazing. My 27″ iMac came shipped to me with a tiny speck of dust under the glass. I took it in to the Apple store, and they had it cleaned for me that day. Any other company (*cough HP ) would
A: Tell me to deal with it.
B: charge me a fee, make me ship it, and me be without a computer for 2 months.
preach!!!!
Wait… you took it into the store because it had a ‘tiny speck of dust’? Are you f***ing kidding me? Maybe Apple are used to prissy air-heads complaining about a ‘speck of dust’ then. Most people wouldn’t even notice it, others would just ignore it and some would fix it themselves.
comment fail, apple have the best customer service. fixed my ipod touch no questions when i dropped it and again when i had water damage, again my fault, and fixed my macbook when the hard drive died, my fault again.
Ubuntu/Linux: “Force Quit” then reload the program.
Fact: Firefox loads quicker on a Linux distro than on Windows.
You’re forgetting:
Mac: Force Quit then reload the program.
From personal experience I agree with Firefox. Seems to work a lot better on Ubuntu for me as opposed to Windows 7. On windows it just slowly starts eating up memory because it thinks it’s the thing to do… While on Ubuntu it works exactly how I want it to. So, it’s Opera on Windows for me.
As for Macs, just don’t like the GUI and find them to be overpriced for my personal needs. However, customers definitely get their money’s worth if something goes wrong as their support generally seems above average.
Oh, and as for that error it’s definitely fake yet the message reminds me of some of the error messages I’ve written into my code.
Fake pic is fake.
Seriously. Simply google the error, what do you get?
A windows error.
Add the word mac what do you get?
Nothing!
As quirky as Apple may be, they’d never put that in an error message.
I am as always, a windows fanboi and will always be.
You are correct, it IS a Windows Error.
But this is a Windows Error displayed on a Mac that is running Windows.
(Yes you can run Windows on a Mac).
That is why it also says “Why is this happening on a Mac?”
Did it take you a long time to learn how to talk out of your ass like that? Because you have no clue whatsoever what the hell you’re talking about, do you?
Hahaha this made me laugh more than everything on the entire page so far.
*facepalm*
Yes, you CAN run Windows on a Mac… but it doesn’t look like OS X when you do that.
It’s either fake or an error message from a third party program.
I can build a fake interface like that in under a minute. FAKE.
Jesus dude you can just take a screenshot then photoshop it.
…or you can just write a couple lines of AppleScript in HALF the time it takes to launch Photoshop.
Oh well, I wouldnt know that as I have never done either. My fail.
You could be trying harder to be a huge dork WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU
Um………. wtf?
I think Mr. A. S. Hole’s insulting comment was an attempt at implying that you should not make authoritative statements about something you have no experience with; in this case, Photoshop. He seemed to get pretty upset about it, too.
somone calling a USB ‘smothing that should never fail’ then crashing it counts as a win. so fail win is now a fail.a
i bet if you click that third button you get an explanation like:
“this has happened because you are running a microsoft application. please, please, just use iLife. it works and everything”
You’re so funny! Holy s**t!
what? Mac fails too
fake and gay
Fake.
Mac’s errors are different
Of course you would know >_>
AWWWWW – it’s fake is it? Well ten points to you all who spotted that one. Seriously, who the hell cares? It’s funny, I could see it’s fake but it still made me laugh and guess what…. Thats. The. Point.
what? are you fucking for real?
I don’t come here for fake shit.
Then take yourself off the internet, stop watching TV, throw out most of your music collection, dvd’s and any books you might have. Because most of the things you surround yourself with are fake dude.
There are instances, where it’s not screaming at you in your face that it’s fake.
…and then there’s this.
True, but that wasn’t my original point. I was just saying that it doesn’t matter if it is fake, only that it makes you laugh/smile or whatever.
Ehem..
Friends, trolls, and countrymen. Lend me your eyes!
The enemy has officially retreated. When I say the enemy, I mean, of course, the FailBlog regulars- the punners, the runners, the squeezers, the sneezers, the foomers and the gloomers.
Hopefully, never again will they plunder these pages with their dry humor, elitist attitudes, and their boring soliloquies.
But, alas, it may not be enough to just drive them away. I propose we crush them while they cower in their hideout. Yes! they have a hideout, and I have discovered its whereabouts. Go there, and be all the troll that you can be!
Failpeep hideout: ht tp://fbbreakroom.wordpress.com/
You are quote the proud troll, aren’t you? I truly hope that someone takes as much pleasure in stalking and childishly taunting you as you appear to take in your immature pursuit of the ex-regulars of this blog.
Go ahead; start flaming me.
I found them irritating too, but they’re gone. Just leave it at that.
Besides, they have set up a site for themselves, so it would probably be easy for them to block trolls.
Just give this up.
I want a PLAUSIBLE lie.
Fool.
This is Failblog, not Fakeblog.
More fool you – a massive chunk of what appears on Failblog is fake. If you come on here to pick over whats fake or real your failing yourself. Most people come here to see something that makes them smile. It made me smile and probably a lot of other people too.
If the only thing you can blog about is ‘It’s fake’ don’t waste your time. Spam blogger.
He probably cares about whether breasts are real or not as well.
Your opinion — I hold the opposing one. We should definitely insult each other like 5th-graders now, yes?
Haha, I agree for it seems the way most people seem to be trying to solve their arguments. Okay… who goes first?
NOOOO this is Sparta !!!!
I. Just. Realized. That. Putting. A. Full. Stop. After. Every. Word. Doesn’t. Make. Your. Point. Clearer.
So your own point is no clearer then? Anyway it’s to simulate speech effects. Read it out loud if you don’t understand, works like … ‘ , and ?
NO BUT ALL CAPS DEFINITELY DOES!!WUN!
Fake, not funny
a self-made error message. How originally.
original*
All you mac lovers are idiots and you should get a f@cking life instead making fake pictures using Photoshop and Windows 7
And Windows fanboys should stop crying that we hate their OS.
“Mac” should be capitalized.
for massive anal creampie?
*For
Obviously, that would be MAC or M.A.C.
I like the last answer…
In all fairness I have never used a Mac, but I would love to have a go on one before I would commit myself. The only Apple thing I have used is Safari , the web browser and I totally hate that.
Windows port is crappy. just like the IE port for mac was total crap
What’s wrong with Safari?
Needs more Elephants.
But srsly, Safari’s awesome!
K’ lets start another fanboy debate – Opera owns on nearly every level.
That’s 100% opinion based. I’ve used Opera – not for me. I happen to love Safari, and before that I was a big fan of Firefox. Before Firefox I loved IE. Maybe someday I’ll try out Google Chrome and find out I like that instead.
Lol, you do realise every single point in this increasingly long drawn out thread is opinion based? Thats why arguing is so pointless. I find it fun, thats why I’m doing it.
I think is fake!!
I think i already see this one in a Mac magazine.
They publish something like a “funny graphical bug of the month”.
And, yes, as far as I remember it came from a third party program.
This error is fake, because Apple would never write Mac without a capital and the 236-error is a ‘no element found’ error, not a ‘something that never fails has failed’ error. So I dare saying: Fail to the faillord who sent this in.
WIN FAKE OS/X
I could launch AppleScript and write a fake error like this in less than 2 minutes.
Obvious Fake is Obvious.
-Mac Lover.
Mac sucks.
Steve was going to be pissed
A faulty program he ha missed
It crashed on the mac
People said is was wack
And punched out the screens with their fists.
altough its fake, the disscussion is just ridiculous and dumb.
why do people always compare a complete propietary system – hardware and software specially designed working together – and an OS itself which has to be compatible with many, many hardware combinations?
most of you onyly compare the UI as well as how doing things.
Fake
Steve Jobs would just like you to know that this is not an error message, things are working as designed and there is no “touch of death” involved. That is just a silly rumor.
So we have determined that the FAIL is a fake. We have also determined that Mac and Windows users cannot coexist peacefully in the same blogsphere. Israelis and Palestinians have a better shot at peace. Of all the dumbass, pointless, meaningless debates I have ever come across, this takes the prize. Well, that, or maybe Kirk vs. Picard.
Thank you! So sick of this fanboy-itis on both sides.
But seriously, Kirk vs. Picard? Like there’s even a choice to be made…
LMFAO when I saw that.
In my experience Macs don’t give error messages. They simply freeze up to the point where the only solution is to physically unplug the machine from the wall.
Yay! You know how to write message prompt scripts! Good for you! this is obviously NOT a macintosh factory message prompt
Because, when I think error message, I totally check the top right corner of the screen.
Instead of, like, the center.
Must be using realbasic. :-/
That’s not a REAL Studio (REALbasic) error message or dialog so it’s unlikely he’s using REAL Studio/REALbasic.
“Why is this happening on a mac?”
That looks suspicious.
Steve Jobs would like to add that if this had been an actual error message a huge press conference would be held followed by free protective covers for your precious little Macs. The protective covers would not be to solve any problem. We just want to see if you’ll put a condom on a Mac cause I say so.
That’s a self-indulgent option. “Why is this happening on a mac?”
Because Macs are white plastic cubes filled with CRAP that don’t know how to be awesome.
Why doesn’t this happen on Windows? Because Windows is awesome. Besides, you can’t say Windows without sayign WIN.
Come on, man! You can troll better than that! Try again.
lol umad?
Why doesn’t it happen on Windows? Because your computer would have to unfreeze to allow you to even know that it happened.
Troll Harder.
Everyone knows Mac’s are made of Aluminum.
Also, you can’t say Microsoft without saying My Crow Soft. Does that make it a soft, pet crow? No.
Why not name it PC win?
A Mac FAIL is the same thing as a PC WIN.
We changed everything. Again.
PC Win
You realize this could easily be faked using apple script editor….
And it is…
Looks pretty legit, but it’s still fake, due to the fact that he forgot to capitalize “Mac”
This cannot be real…
photo shopped , yawn
either way, all you have to do is buy a new mac…problem solved*
*only if you also buy every new one that comes out after it
Hell, when you can afford to, why not?
I think its a WIN! … yeah its shopped or fake.. but its still funny XD
Aww man I don’t know why but it won’t show up. I can’t see the pic.
Pic, WHY U NO LOAD?!
no image, failblog fail.
No image
Is it a meta-fail? No image shows on my mac…
Failblog is run on a Mac server.
Fake error recognition fail
I had my iMac 30 monthes and never had a bit of trouble until one day it quit. I took it in to be fixed and they said it was the video card. In six months I went through 4 ATI cards and it still crashes every 50 hours.
But my iBook I’ve had four years with no problem.
So I’m getting a new iMac. Nothing is perfect, nothing last forever, but Apples are as close to a worry free computer as you can get.
Yes they are.
Heads up on the iMac. If yours arrives, and there’s dust under the Glass, DO NOT PANIC. No matter how much or little dust, take it to the Apple Store and they’ll clean it that day, free of charge. (it’s very rare to happen, yet happened to me, so I thought I’d share that its pain-free to get taken care of)
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Friends, trolls, and countrymen. Lend me your eyes!
The enemy has officially retreated. When I say the enemy, I mean, of course, the FailBlog regulars- the punners, the runners, the squeezers, the sneezers, the foomers and the gloomers.
Hopefully, never again will they plunder these pages with their dry humor, elitist attitudes, and their boring soliloquies.
But, alas, it may not be enough to just drive them away. I propose we crush them while they cower in their hideout. Yes! they have a hideout, and I have discovered its whereabouts. Go there, and be all the troll that you can be!
Failpeep hideout: ht tp://fbbreakroom.wordpress.com/
like like PC WIN
shopped
You can tell its a fake, because Macs don’t fail. Hence the joke.
That’s right PC people, I said it. I look forward to hearing your angry responses as soon as you wade through all your security software pop ups, 99 uploaders/updates and blue screens of death enough to be able too…
>:)
As if i see anything like that on my windows 7 box. Moron, get a rightclick.
As sooon as you learn that there’s been a rightclick on apple for 10+ years.
Contextual touch pad, anyone?
I’m gonna go ahead and grant you a WIN five for that one.
apple just sucks
That tiny american flag on top looks lame. Real or not.
For those of us who switch keyboard layouts (e.g. English vs. Spanish), it tells you which keyboard you’re using. Also provides quick access to character viewer. It isn’t like TGIF flare.
FAKE AND GAY
This looks shopped.
it is shopped… Apple would never let their secrets out like this… they would rather have the whole computer crash. Then they could blame their mistake on flash, office or something else.
Common fail problems:
1. Shopped
2. Not funny/not a fail
3. Seen it a million times
4. Off some other network
While I do not use and/or idolize Mac, there is simply no fail here as the thing is obviously fake.
fake and gay. however that is what mac is….
How is a completely fabricated message a failure again? Fail at failing.
lollercoasters. Why post a faked fail? I use Mac (I like it, it was my money to spend not yours so stfu) and I’m looking at the grammar mistake wondering if someone took this for cereal. Apparently they did.
I’ve gotten a “You can’t get here” error before, back in the early ’90′s on my universities mainframe. Apparently, and I could be remembering it incorrectly, it was caused by a 1/2 on 1/2 off data cable. Of course, I’ve metabolized a lot of alcohol since then, so I may be remembering the wrong reason for the error, but the funny part was listening to one of the O/S developers describing the error to the Technical Assistance Center Yes, it’s a real error message, I’m reading it off of the system console.
Funniest computer story I’ve ever witnessed.
As far as I’m concerned, the differences between Macs and PC’s are effectively superfluous. Mac’s are just high-end PC’s with a glorified version of linux on them. They accomplish the exact same tasks as PC’s just as effectively. Photoshop’s been released on window’s, MS office has been released on MacOS. Sure, maybe one or another is slightly more efficient, or maybe the other has a more intuitive UI… but if you’re used to one UI, then that doesn’t matter. I’m running a PC, for three simple reasons:
1. I built my computer from scratch, and although I probably could hack MacOS onto it, I just can’t be bothered.
2. Compatibility. You could argue that MacOS is compatible with plenty enough programs, but sooner or later I’m going to find a discreet program that I want to use, and it won’t work, and it’ll drive me CRAZY. (Main reason I’m not using Ubuntu too.)
3. I’ve been using windows since I was 10, I know my way around it. Switching to MacOS just doesn’t hold enough benefits to counter this reason alone, let alone the others.
after I see the 3rd selection, it is a pure photoshopped OR someone make a program to do this…
failblog has too many fake fails aldy….
Due to the comments above me I did consider whether or not I should reupload this on Theartoftrolling.
Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaake. belongs on art of trolling, he got you guys good.
See, this is why the Windows box should never have been referred to as a PC. It confused everything.
I was reading computer magazines and tinkering with boxes back in the ’80s. I remember the early days of programs being released for “IBM PC and compatibles.” When IBM began losing market share to clones, the term “PC” came to mean an MS-DOS box (later a Windows box.)
I’ve been a Windows user since 3.0, and had some off and on Mac experience going back to the Mac Plus.
Apple II and Commodore 64 are both PCs too.
In Windows:
Something that should failed has failed
:B?
MAC you can play super mario !
wow people, apple script, did the same thing in under 3 min.
Problem Apple?
How bout this?
http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/7837/failederrorgv1.jpg
Makes more sense……
Anyone notice how Windows makes error messages seem scary/dramatic?
I don’t understand what the fail label is for? The fact that there is a technical issue, or the fact that the user is on a mac.
haha, even Apple’s errors are pretentious and lame.
See, that’s what I hate about this post and that is exactly why I am posting comments on this. This is not Apple’s error message. This is some fake thing some guy did in AppleScript, Interface Builder, or something else.
One more comment to all you retarded di**heads saying ‘Fake and Gay’. I mean ‘gay’? How homophobicly f**ked up are you when in this day and age you still use that as an insult? Get off the internet and go grow some thumbs before you come back to evolution.
Hahah! Lame. I could whip that up in AppleScript in 5 seconds. The person who posted this is a fail.
and you?????????
Well I can’t be a fail because I don’t fake crap like this or make stupid errors when I write applications.
I’m going to throw my two cents in here.
first macs aren’t running on unix. Linux is baised on unix but it’s not unix; or we’d be paying Sun license fees or did no one read the story on how Linux orginaly got started?
2nd I aggree that if this isn’t a genuine error message then it’s not a fail, unless you count the intelligence and humor fails of the person uploading this pice of garbage, in wich case we should get a picture of that person up insted of this fake fail. Also I looked up on a bunch of differnt sites for Mac Error codes, inclusing the offical apple site, there is no Code 236, it skips from 106 to 29k and nothing inbetween. also the negivite error codes go down to -232 and skip to -250 don’t know why there’s such a gap but I haven’t seen a single site that shows that’s even a valid error code.
3rdly I will also aggree that by now each of the three major OS’s (Windows, Mac, Linux) all have their Up’s and Downs and there’s no over all every case winner. As they all do one part really well in some areas and not so well in others. It’s all a matter of what your used to using and what excatly you use them for that determins wich of the three is the best for you.
Dude I think you just summed it up better than anyone else on this page and I’m glad someone actually knows the truth about the Linux-Unix association.
This totally fake. Someone just went into xcode and built an empty app (if that) or just the xib ui file on interface builder and is trying to be funny. Besides, Apple would never spell Mac as ‘mac’. You’ll have to try harder next time. I can tell by the Adobe sign on the top bar that the person who ‘got this error’ must know something about developing apps.
Isn’t Error 236 a No Element Found error?
double negative = positive?
wow, a FAIL of a FAIL that should have never FAILED, but that had FAILED and now is branded as FAIL.
So, is it WIN or FAIL?
this is just an easy script program made in applescript. its easy to do.
Typical Mac…
its fake… thats why he’s using an OSX server…
pssssh MACINTOSH COMPUTERS… WINDOWS COMPUTERS ALL MADE IN TAIWAN
Reminds me of this: ht tp:// failblog. org/2008/11/14/dns-fail
NERDFIGHT!
i think i just failed myself cause i read all the nerds arguing…..
hahah I could be fake my is so funny hahah
Even if it’s fake, it’s a win…
I have a Mac too…works great as a doorstop for my PC room. The dog likes it too- gives him an indoor spot to piss….
Fake and Gay
Fake… yes. Gay… no. Fake and Gay is what the get a mac ads are
My computer still runs on XP. It does what I need it to do and more. Why should I change for something that does /even more/ things I do not need, understand or use?
PC/Mac/Linux/OS/Porsche/Pepsi/Coke/BMW/God/Allah/blah blah/meowmeow. Brand marks brand you, your speech and your way of seeing reality.
Do you really need a plasma screen and a WII console to practice yoga? Do you really need a PS3 to play hockey? Do you really need a MP3 reader to hear music?
Social status is cheaper at WalMart.
WIN
this happend to me too!
Win of a Fail
It can be funny,
but honest: I dont think its a fail it its shopped.
i NEARLY was about to read the whole thing, until i saw the side bar….. O.o
list of words
FAKE AND GAY
XD RWJ? … I have to agree, IT IS totally fake… BUT so is a lot of stuff on Failblog.
It can be funny,
but honest: I dont think its a fail it its shopped.
I agree with you all.