Dallas Cowboys Stadium Continues Streak Of Giant Screen Fails

@Shamoononon: Microsoft is awesome.: Well that's good.

Anyways...

Chris

@Super_Koopa: this was originally reported on the onion

@Nick2: Wow I totally love my Vaio. You don't have to. It's not yours. :P

Chris

@Chris: No, it's not your fault at all, sometimes things go over my head. But at least I'm laughing now.

@Chris: You had me until the vaio part :p. Thinkpads or nothing!

@Shamoononon Beer Lover: What? It's not my fault you didn't get the joke. lol jm

Chris

I call photoshop. It just doesn't look right.

@Chris: Oh, apparently you didn't see the smiley face.

I've replaced it for you.

@Whydoesthisalwayshappentome: It's an epidemic.

@kitsuneconundrum: But the question is, is that a good thing when you're stuck 2500 miles in space with no way to get back home? :)

(Starman) AnalysisDialysis

@Nick2: You got the joke.

Chris

@Shamoononon Beer Lover: They'd be marketing it as unreliable. If they really wanted to, they could market the MacBook Pros as space heaters, and they'd get people. (Though I do prefer the desktop space heaters)

@Shamoononon: Whoosh!

Chris

@kitsuneconundrum: They're everywhere.

@Chris: Why would Apple be advertising that the major stadiums use Microsoft to drive their displays? :)

It's a Mac ad.

Chris

Better hope the 'last known good configuration' works. Otherwise, that'll be another half million or so.

TJ

its pretty awesome where you can find a windows os. Vending machines, giant screens...etc

kitsuneconundrum

Sorry, I just don't believe it.

Possibly if there were more than just a single photoshopable pic, than I'd bite. As it stands now though? Nope. No way.

Would be hilarious if true though.

Super_Koopa

Meh, this stadium is better at failing:[gizmodo.com]

LOL man that sucks...windows really?

aznplayer213

Oh man. Oops. Maybe the punt hit the power button?

As a Giants fan, I wholeheartedly support anything involving the Cowboys and abject, miserable failure.

drjayphd

@(Starman) AnalysisDialysis: dualboot

3Djesus

if this is real, then HAHQHAHAHAHAHAHA

reddyroc

@kitsuneconundrum: not as awesome when the ATM crashes with your card inside.

ridgecity

Ok, there has to be an elegant way of saying your system failed than a ginormous error message. Come on MS, don't rest on your laurels, that's why people switch OSes

@Super_Koopa: more photos:

Link 1

Link 2 (taken from a Twitter account, but the timestamp of this guy first mentioning matches up with the OU/BYU game this occured at).

@Weihovah: nope, looks like it was real (found it on a couple of news sites, including the Seattle PI) - can you quote the Onion article to refute?

Though that still doesn't mean it's MS fault.
1) they can't control someone rebooting a computer
2) putting text on a giant screen is application software (don't remember the built in MS "Cowboys scoreboard banner" app) - so it's really not up to MS to make sure a sane message is displayed on a wacky custom banner display when rebooting... shit, if the same bozos created the app using Linux I'm sure it would be putting up all the kernel boot logs and rc messages...

I dunno, I feel that would have to be put there. Its not like Windows natively supports scrolling banner LED screens as a main monitor. This would likely be driven my a PC with software on top controlling what shows on the banner. I'd take it as someone pratting around.

Well I think I see what the next photoshop contest is going to be... "What Other Gadgets Can Stadiums Install to Ruin Football?"

thats amazing. i wanna pee myself

89macrunner

I wish I was there to hear everyone laughing at the same time, tho you have to feel bad for whatever chump froze his computer during the game. He is looking for a new job right about...... now

unholygit

@deanbmmv: Like I said, it's a Mac ad. lol

Chris

@Dahamma: that was a joke. i'm referring to an earlier post where some newspaper printed a moon landing hoax story as truth and sourced the onion

but even if this was published on other sources, what you said in #2 makes a lot more sense than a computer rebooting. unless that giant banner uses a dvi cable, i'm pretty it won't show the windows boot screen

edit: i was referring to this post [gizmodo.com]

@Weihovah: Yeah, that is a pretty good one... tho hard to beat cnet reporting the onion was in imminent sale... (to the Yu Wan Mei Amalgamated Salvage Fisheries And Polymer Injection Corporation - It Fish Time!!!)

need an youtube video

Bs Baldwin

@unholygit: it is in the south, I am sure they hardly noticed. they are all looking at the huge screen in front of them.

Bs Baldwin

meh, fuck football.

@seapathac: I actually like that idea for a photoshop contest.

Identity≈Spontaneity

@appletoad: The correct term is "Pandemic".

Either fake, or deliberate ad by some anti-MS group or worse... Apple, ads like that are illegal btw.

Since when bloody BSOD screen supports LED?

@AlphaPepper: Yes, totally bullshit.

Skid-Vicious

Looks fake.

I feel like this is a smear campaign led by the evil Steve Jobs ha

@GitEmSteveDave_NowW/PantsOfMeat: Like the great plague of our time.

@Chris: LoL, I was ONLY scrolling down to look for any "Mac is better than PC" jokes. This was the closest one. It's ok dude, you won't get flamed by me. Don't think you were aiming anything negative towards PC users.

LouisJebber

crtl+"shut down" fixes all of that. ;)

Thats why Im a mac..lol so they use windows os in vending machines, hey that explains why 90% of them are out of order!!

PageAristaeus

Are the anti-Apple/pro-MS people so hardcore that this is automatically deemed a fake? Do a quick Google search, or even see my comment below, and you'll see this isn't the only photo of it, and that there are multiple angles and tweets of this happening almost instantly, which would make for a pretty quick Photoshop effort.

I'm a Microsoft fan myself, but even I can admit that this stuff happens. Before you take it so personally, at least come up with something more concrete than "omg fake! This MUST be an Apple ad or a smear campaign!"

@PageAristaeus: If they used OSX they'd be charging an apple tax on my sodas... 300 dollars for an iCoke... WTF?

MiltoxBeyond

@Acheron's Grief: I just got done recovering from a BSOD on Vista, it does not start normally. As for your ticker argument, I agree.

yeti

I call this BS.
First, if i recall correctly, this message only appears when you force shutdown or when power is cut, a BSOD leaves a dump file, so after a crash the computer starts normally. (but dont take my word for it, it's been ages since i had a BSOD)
And second, i really, reeeeeeeeeaaally doubt that a bios screen can appear on a ticker (shit, it doesn't even appear on my secondary monitor/TV) I'm pretty sure that you need software for that.

@seapathac: Need to review a play? Yup, there's an app for that.

MePerson

@Bs Baldwin: If it's in the South, that's not why nobody noticed. Yes, they love football down here, but most people are also just too dumb to operate a computer.

HAZman27

@Die Fledermaus: I drive past a similar apparatus every morning that runs on Windows, as given away by it displaying an off-centered Windows logo ocassionally.

HAZman27

Ha ha, this MS bashing never gets old.

I only bother going to Thunderball games. No screen there, but they do have a gun circle.

I am 90% sure this is a fake most of these ticker signs are a serial connection or a small computer that simply waits for the data stream via wire or wireless. Most of the time the OS is proprietary or a unix of some sort. If it is serial it is either rs422 for long runs or USB from a central box handling sometimes several signs. The signs are designed to hold the last message received if the connection is lost so the likelihood of this are extremely minimal.

@Colonel Jack O'Neill: These things are a testament to just how ubiquitous Windows is. Its everywhere, powering store window displays, jumbotrons and anything else you can think of.

When i see these, the message being made is clear:

Windows is Everywhere.

The shameful effect from this stuff wore off years ago.

@PageAristaeus: Macs cant even be licenced to preform tasks like that. Their embedded Systems are practically non-existant

Pengwin

@AlphaPepper: Yes, it does gets old.

@drjayphd: Does that mean you support Jessica Simpson? ;)

headc4se

WINDOWS PWNS DALLAS COWBOYS. NOW only if someone would RICKRULE a STADIUM then that would go down in the guiness book of world records!

@deanbmmv:
Given the way that a lot of commercial digital signage is done, I wouldn't be surprised if the sign was done as successive strips from a VGA signal. A tiny bit of clever software and a dash of commodity hardware gets you where you want to be. Videos get run through a special piece of software that runs full-screen, and you're all set.

chaboud

And how is this a failure of the new stadium? Gizmodo is a bunch of idiots!

biggerD

@Jux: Even if that's the case, it wold still be a secondary screen(i don't think they configured the computer using that long, narrow screen), and secondary screens do not show bios info.

Why do people always see this as "OMFG! MS Fail!" instead of "Oh wow, almost all electronics runs on Windows".

Oh and BTW,

Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down. Never gonna run around and desert you...

@yeti: It's not a ticker. Like most sporting venues, it's a long, narrow display that can scroll images in any direction. Other images of this error suggest that the message continues downwards; it's not being scrolled across ticker-style.

@jamjen: Exactly, you'd have to assume that the ticker display is the main one, which is highly unlikely from a practical point of view.

@Acheron's Grief: Well it's not BIOS info per se, but that's besides the point. But if it was connected as a main display over a digital signal then it would be possible. I say possible, not likely

jamjen

@MagdaleneDaditude: Not everyone is interested in a sex change. ;)

@GitEmSteveDave_TheREALChrisChan: Its Pandalerium!

@ripfire: Seriously, it's more "User Fail" or "Idiot Alert" vs "MS Fail"

jamjen

lol. try a mac, and it'll change ur life.

MagdaleneDaditude

@GlenTen: Dude... What happened to your star status? Who is going to promote my comments now?

@jamjen: Exactly. I was taught in I.T. school that 90% of all failures occur behind the keyboard.