Nine Inch Nails depresses with a big Blue Screen of Death

Trent Reznor, brainchild behind Nine Inch Nails, sure knows how to bring an audience down. In a recent concert Reznor, apparently trying to capture the pain of modern life, let the Blue Screen of Death flash across the screen:

NIN rocks out to Windows...or not

(Credit: LtRandazzo)

Somehow, that image leaves me much more depressed than NIN's classic song, "Terrible Lie":

seems like salvation come only in our dreams.
i feel my hatred grow all the more extreme....
can this world really be as sad as it seems?

Apparently, the answer from Microsoft is "Yes." :-)

[Dr__Nick]

LOL

[pdskep]

They had probably just downloaded iTunes. Let go of your hate Matt. Your life will be so much easier.

[pfastfoot]

Umm, you might want to a little homework (known back in the day as reporting/fact checking). The "Blue Screen of Death" appears at this point in the show at every Nine Inch Nails show. Trent Reznor is a huge Apple fan, and this is widely viewed as a not so subtle swipe at Microsoft.

[Lerianis]

Yeah, even I, after a little research found this out. The fact is that most 'Blue Screens' on Microsoft products: linked to Apple products! (in a sing-song voice here)
The Blue Screen is a GOOD THING, in my opinion. It stops malicious applications or malfunctioning ones from hosing your system.... that's a good thing, am I right?

[pdskep]

re:pfastfoot,

Wow, Matt. Could you be any more of a ******?

[shawakwak]

Buy a MAC

[pdskep]

More lies from the MAC cult. Really pathetic.

Why is this still on the front page of CNET?

[pdskep]

Oh, an even more important question, why is Matt still allowed a blog on here? He's obviously a tool.

[solblack]

LOL Everyone make a mistake LOL

[wmyinzer]

Hmm, I guess it would only be fair to show a swirling beachball in the background too, right?

Poor Matt...so filled with hate. Then again everyone knows every Mac fanboy doesn't have a life to go to concerts, or outings..or anything. They're all on their little sheltered websites oozing over the next Apple product...which is probably something thats already been mastered/evolved/enhanced by Microsoft. You would know, right Matt?

[pdskep]

Way to change the blog Matt to try and keep people from seeing how much of a dumba$$ you are.

[BrujoSalazar]

im a new mac user, so far i have not any problems. ive owned windows for multiple years since windows 95 to be exact, and since then had many problems, virus,spyware,malware, freezes and the such. my opinion a non "techie" 32 year old.

[enoch861]

mac is just all eye candy.
when people want to get work done, they go to windows.
and thats why windows rules.
macs don't do work, they just impress in visuals
windows is OK in in visuals, but it does work. real work.

[bakedpatato]

if I ever make a band that rocks as much as NIN, I'll make sure to put beachballing, Kernel Panics and a picture of a jail cell...
ironic that TRez supports Apple. This is the guy that made the Quake soundtrack(and he's played it on a DOS or Windows machine,I would imagine), so in his defense he's used a windows computer before, but Apple is even less free in terms of platform than M$( TPM's on all Intel Macs, deleting posts on their support forums, and refusing to license FairPlay, etc.) . Not to mention that the hardware is the same be it a Mac or a Dell, and I thought hardware is all that counts...
and finally, that's a Windows 98 BSoD. Tells a lot about how "cutting edge" TRez (and the entirety of the music industry) is, as there have been huge strides in terms of reliability from 98/Fail ME to XP/Vista.
oh and it seems like Matt is always trying to troll,but trolls are an important part of the intertubes.

[AppleSuxLeo]

Could just as well of had a Mac "spinning beach ball" on the screen.

[canberra_photographer]

If we abide by the logic of Microsoft's latest marketing campaign that is designed to get people talking, then this juxtaposition of the BSOD and NiN music illustrating the pain of modern life is pure gold! This is just the type of exposure Microsoft is (in desperation) looking for.

I feel Apple is a virus and needs to be destroyed. Windows, with all its problems, never caused me as much grief and fury as an Apple product did on a once in a lifetime trip to Europe. I will never forget what that piece of crap did to my trip.
That idiot on the commercial can go bite himself for all I care.

WINDOWS RULES. NOTHING IS PERFECT, ESPECIALLY APPLE!

[john55440]

Pooor Matt Asay -- his entire life revolves around hating Microsoft.

[OBloodyhell]

LOL, get back at matt --
go do a YouTube search on "The Mac killed my inner child".

[OBloodyhell]

> as there have been huge strides in terms of reliability from 98/Fail ME to XP/Vista.

True, true. Windows 2000, and XP, are a lot more reliable than predecessors. Vista is a memory hog (if you don't have at least 2gb or RAM, forget it) but once you have enough memory it's nowhere near as bad as the press has been.

Not saying you should upgrade but the key to not downgrading is a dual-core processor and 2gig of RAM. If that's your machine you're better off sticking with Vista. (Note: radical changes in Office, mind you. Allot time for learning).

[Slayer___2]

Yeah, Vista is a hog and the naew office is a pain and I frankly hate the new office, but fortunitly there is no pressure to upgrade, office 97, 2000, and 2003 all work just fine and are backwards/forward compatible.

I've used many macs, and aside from the eye candy, you can't do much with them, people buy maxs then install windows on them. Windows 98 was the worst for BSOD's, 95, me, 2000, NT's, and XP are pretty much BSOD free, 95 had soem but usually only resulted from ligitimate errors.

You can always try pain tests using virtual machines. make a virtual machien hard drive on a network drive, fire up the virtual machine, just sit at its desktop, then, unplug your network, effectivly makign the system drive disappear. 95 will complain till it finds its drive, 98 will die horriably, XP will complain that its run out of memory and that it can't read/write to the system drive, 2000 does same as XP, Linux dies hard core.

This is a dumb blog, seriously, that and I personally hate NiN but as someone said, they do it every time, and a Windows 98 BSOD is pretty ancient.