WHAT????

For the record it is definitely not nice to make fun of someone because they have different culture than you and you do not understand them or what is going on... it is stereotyping... and then people wonder why viruses target windows machines and hackers steal stuff... maybe if you would stop being so ignorant and hateful... gd stupid users.

Oh and do not worry, apple viruses are on the rise too, because we hate you almost as much... out of the apple fanboy manual indeed... I am a programmer, I do not write viruses, but I do think about it for a minute every time I run across inflammatory BS like this. People do it to our faces too... it is very hard not to punch them in that smart little mouth that does not appear to be attached there brain.

lol i got the same on my former computer, i wish i still got the image :(

Someone at Microsoft missed their code review. lol

There's some poor code monkey buried in a cubicle somewhere in the MS empire and his only job is to write the error messages - he's gotta slip in a few lulz to stay sane.

Why didn't you take a screenshot..?

That is a great error. Programmers are usually so tired of writing code that they will put any smart-ass thing as an error message, haha. Rather--they've got their own vernacular and don't take the time to translate things into layman's terms.

This is great. I love my HP though.

@jeffgarlick: Again... that's not what it means. It's the same as saying "an airplane's wings should never fall off". And I agree it's pretty MS-ifsh too... I think the programmers write the error messages for some of these obscure cases.

@allorno1: Wow a macbook? You must be a real free-thinker. Windows gets viruses? Did you reference the Apple fanboy manual for that one?

Anyway, I got this a while back: http://crew.icapsid.net/stou/eclipse_copy.png it took me 5 minutes to choose an options since I wasn't sure which one... would not delete my files. (Eclipse used to allow for undoing of SVN file addition... which means you press Ctrl+Z in the wrong window and loose a days work)

I hope Windows lasts forever, that way viruses will always be targeted at them while I can sit back and relax with my macbook. Life is good for even with the extra money.

I didn't realize these things had a sense of irony.

I know that there is a logical meaning to it but you have to admit that it DOES sound like typical MS technobabble and more than a bit ironic when it says that a call which never fails has failed...just thought it was funny! :-)

I think you misunderstand the message. What it's saying isn't that the system call "can't fail" but that it's so critical to system operation that it must never fail.

You mean it's CLASSIC because it gives you some sort of a reason... as opposed to a little bomb with a "You are !@#$" text.

Anyway vista sucks is a bit of a cliche isn't it?

Submit to thedailywtf.com!

Haha Ive seen someone get that before! Dont know what it means but its hilarious.

Nope but the question remains "how can a call that never fails...FAIL"

This thing seems like a Twitter error message in the making! ;-)

What the...

That's the best thing ever. Is there a little ticking bomb in there, too? :)