Gizmodo reports that this may be the biggest BSOD ever. It went on for days. A few people have sent me this and asked if this was our work. They think maybe we rented these screens and did this on purpose. You know what? We didn't. You know why? We don't have to. That's the beauty of Windows. The wow is now. As in, Wow, that OS is wicked unstable, isn't it? Or, Wow, that friggin giant screen has been dead for days now hasn't it? Much love to everyone who sent this in.
Sunday, November 11, 2007
BSOD rules!
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You should make a post about that new technology, I think it's called Sync, that they want to put in cars, so you can use voice-controls to play music and make phone calls. But I mean, Microsoft software in control of our cars? I'm getting chills just thinking about it.
So proud of my Hudson's Bay in Toronto...(sniff)...
It's a convincing cover story Steve, *wink wink nudge nudge*
My personal favorite blue screen experiences:
Number 2. In the Las Vegas airport, I was between flights, and I needed to retrieve a bag from the storage lockers (summer, 2007). I enter in my credit card, and wham-o, the machine gives me a fatal error, and reboots into WINDOWS '98. These lockers are run by Smarte Carte, so it makes me wonder how Smarte they are. Oh, and it took me over an hour to get my bag. I told the tech I was trying to install an active-x control. He didn't get it.
Number 1. Getting cash from a Washington Mutual cash machine here in Seattle (summer, 2006), I put my card in and I GOT A BLUE SCREEN. ON A CASH MACHINE. That's almost as scary as driving and having your view of the road replaced by a blue screen while going 70 mph. I mean, my money is being handled by Windows? I almost switched banks.
Hi FSJ,
Happy to see you enjoyed my photo! I'm amazed how far and wide it has spread.
Have a great day,
Sean
Dude, I invented the friggin' BSOD. Have you heard of it?
Steve, there's an Apple Store literally hundreds of feet away from there. It's always packed.
Wow is that real? If only companies would get smart...
I sure don't miss those stop errors. It's a good thing Microsoft has competition. Otherwise Earth would be one big BSOD.
"Otherwise Earth would be one big BSOD..."
Nice. My suspicion is that aliens will be attacking soon. They are secretly in league with Beastmaster and MonkeyBoy [come'on, he can't really be *human* can he?] to spread Windows as far and wide as possible.
Then when they are ready, Boom! BSOD on every single Windows PC (hell, maybe Linux too, maybe that's why it's friggin impossible to install and enjoy Linux within, oh, ONE WEEK)... Then they'll just come in and mop up the mess.
The resistance will be led by our Dear Leader. Viva la revolucion!!!
FSJ,
That's Ballmer's new ad for Vista you are criticizing.
The thinking goes that if bsod of older versions of windoze are shown everywhere, people might move up to vista (or its version of bsod).
Vegan Vegan
(Impeccable monkey logic)
Haha I thought that was Toronto... :P Wow poor us. The lengths to which MS goes to hurt us... :(
Actually, GIZMODOME (second to last Comment on the post)comments that its actually an OSX BSOD.
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/toronto/biggest-bsod-of-all-time-320824.php#c2935424
Sorry Steve :(
They are doing a remake of THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL with Keanu Reeves playing the part of Klaatu. In the 1950's movie, Klaatu proved his power by shutting off all electricity and internal combustion engines, everywhere on earth. I was thinking that the new Keanu/Klaatu could crash all Windows installations with a BSOD worldwide, but that might seem to normal, wouldn't it? Maybe he should try the positive approach and make all copies of windows actually work worldwide. Yeah, that's it.
Getting cash from a Washington Mutual cash machine here in Seattle (summer, 2006), I put my card in and I GOT A BLUE SCREEN. ON A CASH MACHINE.
Note to self, don't go to Washington Mutual.
Can't be an OS X BSOD, unless they've started using STOP errors. Have a look at the one far left:
"Technical information:
STOP 0x000000C4..."
-- Pauley
The fact that they had to take it so long to fix it just showed how good apple was.
Hey FS--
This was linked on the same page as your link--
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/leaked/the-snl-iphone-sketch-that-never-aired-321328.php
Also kind of funny.
roberto, GIZMODOME is obviously lying. No one would call that store "the Richmond Ave. Bay Store".
Richmond STREET is the least important of the four streets that create the block that the store entirely occupies.
He read the name off the street sign in the pic.
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