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Offline Grey Wolf

DirectX error in Times Square
on: February 22, 2006, 09:54:31 pm
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Offline Grug

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Re: DirectX error in Times Square
Reply #1 on: February 22, 2006, 10:31:15 pm
:lol:
Great marketing scheme that is. :p
 

Offline Descenter

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Re: DirectX error in Times Square
Reply #2 on: February 22, 2006, 10:39:09 pm
Just one more reason why Microsoft sucks at times...:lol:
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Offline Grey Wolf

Re: DirectX error in Times Square
Reply #3 on: February 22, 2006, 10:49:13 pm
Seems they blocked direct links, so you'll have to copy and paste the link.
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Offline Taristin

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Re: DirectX error in Times Square
Reply #4 on: February 22, 2006, 10:59:52 pm
Still works for me.
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Offline Turnsky

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Re: DirectX error in Times Square
Reply #5 on: February 22, 2006, 11:21:44 pm
it woulda been funnier if it was a straight-up BSOD.  :p
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Offline Scuddie

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Re: DirectX error in Times Square
Reply #6 on: February 23, 2006, 01:41:56 am
But then we would laugh at the hardware and not the software :D.
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Offline WMCoolmon

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Re: DirectX error in Times Square
Reply #7 on: February 23, 2006, 01:44:29 am
Imagine how dumb the tech guy would feel if he accidentally typed his password into the username spot.
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Offline Kosh

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Re: DirectX error in Times Square
Reply #8 on: February 23, 2006, 02:00:28 am
:lol:
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Offline Nix

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Re: DirectX error in Times Square
Reply #9 on: February 23, 2006, 02:11:29 am
This is great, I saw this all the time in Vegas or Reno though.  Big casinos with pretty large screens, though probably nowhere near the size of this one would always have either blue-screen errors, or the windows 98 crash box, if the system did'nt completely die.  It was quite amusing to see that some of these casinos are still using Windows 98 or even 95 as thier "sign server". 
 

Offline Turnsky

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Re: DirectX error in Times Square
Reply #10 on: February 23, 2006, 04:15:56 am
now, what'd be cool if a HLP  page popped up on the screen
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Offline Mefustae

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Re: DirectX error in Times Square
Reply #11 on: February 23, 2006, 05:10:05 am
Quote from: Turnsky on February 23, 2006, 04:15:56 am
now, what'd be cool if a HLP page popped up on the screen
Or go one better; someone started playing Freespace Open on them. :D
 

Offline Grug

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Re: DirectX error in Times Square
Reply #12 on: February 23, 2006, 10:06:28 am
Quote from: WMCoolmon on February 23, 2006, 01:44:29 am
Imagine how dumb the tech guy would feel if he accidentally typed his password into the username spot.
:lol: Lmao!
I've done that once or twice before. :p
 

Offline Bobboau

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Re: DirectX error in Times Square
Reply #13 on: February 23, 2006, 10:12:48 am
with it being displayed on a 2 story billboard?
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Offline BlackDove

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Re: DirectX error in Times Square
Reply #14 on: February 23, 2006, 10:23:30 am
Right that reminds me...

I took this two days ago... ATM machine... pretty common I guess, still funny though, and no surprise at the billboard one I guess.



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Offline Bobboau

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Re: DirectX error in Times Square
Reply #15 on: February 23, 2006, 10:25:53 am
:ha: a null pointer in an ATM
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Offline Flipside

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Re: DirectX error in Times Square
Reply #16 on: February 23, 2006, 10:45:51 am
Yup, we get errors like that all the time in the UK, mostly on ATMs and Train Ticket Machines ;) Admittedly, they aren't quite so..... big.
 

Offline vyper

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Re: DirectX error in Times Square
Reply #17 on: February 23, 2006, 11:29:13 am
The one that worried me was the ATM running Norton. :nervous:
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Offline aldo_14

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Re: DirectX error in Times Square
Reply #18 on: February 23, 2006, 11:32:34 am
Quote from: Flipside on February 23, 2006, 10:45:51 am
Yup, we get errors like that all the time in the UK, mostly on ATMs and Train Ticket Machines ;) Admittedly, they aren't quite so..... big.

 

Offline General Freak

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Re: DirectX error in Times Square
Reply #19 on: February 23, 2006, 11:54:20 am
Wow, those comment posters really do like to argue...

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Now go and read this signature again.

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