Sometimes even PSPs get the blues

Very, very rarely does a pic require no commentary. This is one of those rare instances.

[Thanks, Joey and Sandy]

[andrew @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

haha

[drbadass @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

When will they learn? How many of these type of pictures will it take?

[hobgoblin @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

i think it would have gone fine if they just ran linux, its windows thats the problem not the x86...

[pableu @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

Yay, this one is really great!
By the way, newer ticket machines here in switzerland seem to be running linux. Saw one where LILO failed some time ago. And using LILO with Windows wouldn't make much sense, would it? ;)

[m @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

that's not real, people

[Oliver @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

Pedro, you couldn't be more correct. If my computer is crashing, I'd rather not be presented with a Mac OS style bomb.

[Chris @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

looks like an out of memory error or something properly a poorly setup computer and strangely that doesnt look like xp window but thats just me

[Matt @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

DrJeff, are you kidding? A Mac can do most everything a PC can... In this particular case I'm sure there are multiple machines or server machines linked together (RAID, etc.), with each running a portion of the large screen.

But either way, it's definitely not one PC.

Good to hear some models might be using Linux. SONY would be smart to use a unix-based OS for something like the PSP.

[C-Dog @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

Posters 5 and 7: What you used to think you knew about Macs is ancient history. Check into things before acting like you understand them.

[Paperless @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

ROFL

[fod @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

um, guys? that display is running at really really low resolution. by the size of that error message i would say 800x600. ANYTHING could run that res ;)

so no more "omg why would anything run that stupid hypermegacomplex beast lol macz rule linux rules windoze sux0rs i am teh 1337 lol!!111", k?

[JuyLe @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

Ahahahah ! Really funny, not the first time that windows is bugging in public !

[Peter was here @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

@Matt: cut the fake technical mumbo jumbo.

The screen is a lowres screen, but just extremely large sized. I would be surprized if the resolution would be any bigger then 640x480pix. Do you need multiple PC's / Macs for that. The error window doesn't fit on it, that explains it all.

[Keirmeister @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

You all have missed the point:

Someone managed to get a Windows XP emulator on a PSP!!!!!

:)

[gezick @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

hmmm. i don't know about any cluster of pc's running this huge (and, to follow the above logic, necessarily high-resolution) display. but to me, it looks like it's just the first 480 pixels from the left and the first 272 from the top of a fairly standard 60x480 display.... and why shouldn't it be? the psp native content is already this resolution. people won't be seeing it close up. big pixels for a street display are *expensive* might as well use as few as possible.

do you think that that jumbotron at the ballpark is some number of billions of pixels in size? nope. standard tv resolution (except for like 1 Hi-Def jumbotron, iirc).

an amiga could run this display, so could a mac, so could a colecovision. i would bet you a large amount of money that windows is what the ad agency charged with creating these pieces had expertise in. not a conspiracy.

[fod @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

um, guys? that display is running at really really low resolution. by the size of that error message i would say 800x600. ANYTHING could run that res ;)

so no more "omg why would anything run that stupid hypermegacomplex beast lol macz rule linux rules windoze sux0rs i am teh 1337 lol!!111", k?

[Cal @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

LOL Keirmeister, but iv NEVER seen such an elabrit billboard here in the US. And again, for all of you with your "technical prowess" its impossible for a bunch of pcs to be handling each portion of that screen because that error message is clearing a part of the entire image, if it were you would see par of an error message on a part of the screen.

[Tanaka @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

requires no commentary? Maybe a little? Where is this sign?

[Jay @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

Microcrap said it would spent 150 million promoting winshit xp...maybe this is their debut!

LOLOLOLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

[ebp2k2 @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

maybe SONY is trying to send a pre-emptive message prior to MTV xbox360 special... haha.

[trevor @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

rare you can walk around my campus and see one of those self-service touch screen kiosks that DOESN'T have an error box like that.

[mike @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

Think Different

[alkone @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

#18: Houston and Lafayette in NYC
according to: http://tastesgood.org/2005/05/10/index.html#050510101443

[Alexander Napoli @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

Yeah too bad most sony products are just as defective as Microsoft products. PSP manufacturing errors since day 1 in both Japan and the US, PS2s that can't play the blue DVDs/CDs. PS1s that you have to flip up on the side in order to work, the list goes on and on...

[Pusher Robot @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

Note that the video continued playing in the background. Therefore, that is almost certainly Microsoft may be fun, but it is probably incorrect.

[chris26 @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000800042444/#comments

[Me @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

Hey lets give it up with the crashing mac bomb. that would have been an issue 10 years ago but you gotta hand it to apple to doing the oposite of windows and putting out a quality and stable system. Everytime a public display running windows crashes Bill Gates kills a kitten.

[Robert @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

I would think it is one PC because it's not an LCD screen. its an LED screen. I've set up 30 foot LED screens for corporate events and we can drive them on one laptop and one very long piece of CAT5.

[G3D @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

Yeah, Mac's never crash, you never see a gray box with a bomb. Or would you prefer a skull and crossbones?

Good thing it's not a Mac, imagine the giant paper clip needed to reset it.

[Harry K @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

who in there right mind would let a pc control a huge display like that...should've been running on a mac

[pedro @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

I dunnno Harry k....then the error message would have been a giant bomb. That would have shut down the street!!

[DrJeff @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

Quite funny

But a PC is probably the only thing it can run on. They are probably using like 10 graphics cards to run that thing. I don't know how well that would run on a mac. But who knows.

[MacPanda @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

I only had my old G4 Cube crash on me once running OSX first release version.

I was running OSX with OS9 open and layered on top of that with Corel Photopaint open in 9. And then on top of that I was running Linux with Gimp running and a Windows emulater running Win2k.

I ran that for a good hour maybe. maybe less and then was playing with gimp in linux and jumped over to my OSX (which was custom looking cus i went in and made my own theme for it)I went to open iTunes and the system pretty much had a heart attack. So i restarted and did it again in a different way. I had just gotten the machine so i wanted to test how far i could bring it to with OSX. Man i miss that machine.

450Mhz G4 Cube
1gig Ram
20gb HD
DVD-Rom

*sigh* made alot of money with that machine. I want another one just for my mini collection of computers.

[C: @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

Better photo:
http://tastesgood.org/2005/05/10/101443.html
The title bar says PC anywhere

[Winston @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

*Please note that the message dialog does not indicate that the OS had crashed
*if the OS had crashed the PSP Application/Video would have stopped running which is clearly had not.

[Eric Pobirs @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

Back in the day this was frequently a Guru Meditation error on an Amiga system. Or someone would forget which system was driving the display and just leave it showing the Workbench display.

Happens a lot of small cable systems as well.

[mustanger @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

Um, Mac's haven't used the "bomb" icon since about OS 10.1. So your attempts to "slam" Mac's are completely futile and unbased. And to the guy who says Mac's crash as much as Windows...I'm a long time Windows user who switched to Mac a couple of years ago. Two OS crashes in that time, vs. an uncountable number on Windows. Just my empirical statistics, though...

[AG @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

I live in the UK and South West Trains passenger train times screens regularly crash with that screen - though I guess (and dearly hope) they don't use Windows 2000 to run the actual train network! I'm sure there's some legal clause in the EULA that states Microsoft is not responsible for any deaths, injury, damage to property from the use of Windows . . . and the British navy want to use Windows on nuclear submarines . . . would you want to be on a life support machine running Windows XP?

I wouldn't.

[Eric Pobirs @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

The saddest part is that the people who set up the sign's video system don't know enough to configure it so that errors appear only ont he operator's display. It's isn't that difficult and is even the default in many dual display systems where the second display is the billboard screen.

[OMGWTFBBQ @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

I love how morons somehow think the thing is actually a PSP -_-

I can see the mac/linux fanboys getting thier jollies off that picture. U know we already know Windows is relatively unstable to those platforms but it doesn't matter if u can't play jack games on it anyway =p.

[Eric Pobirs @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

#33,

You'll find such disclaimers in many, many products. Check out the Sun Java legalese, for instance. Regardless of the actual merits of the product no company wants to dragged into liability situations if they didn't knowingly enter the market concerned.

[Lars @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

"I love how morons somehow think the thing is actually a PSP"

No one thought that.

"I can see the mac/linux fanboys getting thier jollies off that picture. U know we already know Windows is relatively unstable to those platforms but it doesn't matter if u can't play jack games on it anyway"

Yea, if I cared about games, I would get a Win XP box. But I don't.

[Scott Eaton @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

I could run that billboard flawlessly on a 5 year old iBook I have laying around. It's not doing anything magical.

[Jarid @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

I don't have anything agianst Sony nor do i love MS but Sony's stuff isn't flawless either epscially around the launch of a system.

[adi @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

i think this is a problem with pcanywhere in general... click on my homepage to see a crash i saw in the Dubai International airport circa new-year time

[Pandemic @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

ROFL!!! Fucking windoze..

[Mart? @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

For #11... "A Mac can do most everything a PC can". Okay, just right-click }:)

[nyatacrusher @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

I right click all the time Bonehead....Mac's have been able to use two button mice for aeons now...

[dna @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

Oh Crap, #46, not the tired, old, stupid one-button mouse thing ... AGAIN!

On my Mac, I use the mouse it came with, a logitech 3-button w/ scroll wheel, *2* Wacom tablets **AND** a track ball. All at the same time. And I didn't even have to install any drivers w/ the logitech mouse.

You and your stupidity suck in such a laughable way! It's time to find a new argument... if you can...

[Steve @ Dec 19th 2005 12:14AM]

What sick advertsing agency uses Wintendo as an Operating System?