World’s Largest Error Message Found in Times Square?
Rarely does my geeky work alter-ego get to hear anything remotely appliable to NYC (or remotely interesting for that matter) but I couldn’t resist noting this post on NetworkWorld:
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.
Very amusing stuff, although I hate to be a total nerd and point out that fact that this *isn’t* actually a Windows error per say, but a DirectX error. It’s hard to tell, but I’m willing to bet it’s an application error based on the wording. Still very, very funny though. More detailed pic after the jump…
That would have been awesome to see! I love when the error creeps in and reminds everyone of what they are watching. (if it reminds them of that)
I work for a tech company (Supposedly a world leader) and we have an “E-greeting board” in our front lobby for visiting guests. I love when I walk in and see the Error message displayed… really keeps up our image…