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BSOD Makes Appearance at Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Whiteox writes "A BSOD was projected onto the roof of the National Stadium during the grand finale to the four-hour spectacular at the Olympics. Lenovo chairman Yang Yuanqing chose to go with XP instead of Vista because of the complexity of the IT functions at the Games. His comment on Vista? 'If it's not stable, it could have some problems,' he said. Evidently Bill Gates attended the opening ceremony, so he must have witnessed it."
They paid 40 billion for that ceremony. I can't see this improving their opinion of Microsoft much.
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BSOD's are no longer a problem! They haven't been since Windows XP! BSOD's were only a problem in the Win 9x days! Windows today is wayyyy stable! My Windows box hasn't crashed ever!
*tongue firmly planted in cheek*
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... but for TV audience around the Globe, image was different, they used CG to convert BSOD into neato Compiz Cube animations.
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10 points to the first person to can say what went wrong :U
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We're living in the Matrix! And the Matrix runs Windows!
No wonder my life is a pile of shit. :)
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Nelson (points finger at Bill Gates): haha
Seriously where's the haha tag?
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
From china? Good luck! They've long since taken any digital recording device that was present and "corrected" the images it captured before returning it to its owner (if they were lucky).
You are using English. Please learn the difference between loose and lose; they're, there, and their; your and you're.
Please... no single human could code that much bloat.
Thank God for evolution.
Actually, a zSeries mainframe crashing at an opportune moment would be more remarkable than it crashing at an inopportune one.
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"All computers crash - I've made Linux, BSD, OSX, and Solaris machines kernel panic. Hell, I've witnessed a newer zSeries mainframe crash."
And you seem so proud of that. The goal is to make the systems function, not crash.
There are no loopholes. It's either legal or it's not.
He probably cackled maniacally and shouted over the top of the fireworks, "I made that screen blue! Bill Gates owns the Olympics! Maybe if you dirty pirates had bought a legitimate copy it would have worked better!"
You are using English. Please learn the difference between loose and lose; they're, there, and their; your and you're.
I just hope someday I'm not driving down the street and see a "lost connection to server" message flashing instead of The Reality!
That would totally freak me out.
The copy of Windows probably wasn't licensed anyway. You can't expect unlicensed, unsupported Microsoft software not to crash :-)
But so few fail in such a spectacular fashion. I have never seen a kernel panic delivered in anything other than terminal font on a black and white screen. The BSOD is called the BSOD because MS, in their infinite wisdom, opened themselves up to such a joke by deciding to deliver critical system messages with a "calming" blue background and white text. And then doing so very very frequently in the early days.
Honestly, they should just make it a black screen with some fireworks and a "Congratulations, You Crashed Windows Again!". You know, make it a more positive experience for the user.
The only change I can believe in is what I find in my couch cushions.
Olympic Ceremony - $40 Million
Tickets to Olympics - $??????
Windows Computer - $1000
Windows XP OS - $400
Being able to tap the president on the shoulder, then point up at the BSOD screen and say "I did that" - Fucking Priceless
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After a closer examination of the evidence it has come forth that the BSOD was actually CGI superimposed on the roof to make the U.S. audience viewing at home feel more familiar with Chinese technology. At selected venues around the world the BSOD was replaced with a kernel panic screen and even a Mac classic bomb.
Well then don't take the red pill...
'Don't worry' said the trees when they saw the axe coming, 'The handle is one of us.'
Not if you are in QA/testing...
So, unlikely to have been seen on slashdot before then?
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
I pay Apple alot of money to ensure no BSODs.
No, you pay them a lot of money for "ooh shiney".
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Good point, Windows should identify the offending driver, read it's manufacturer info, then shame the creator on the BSoD.
"A fatal exception has occurred because CheapHardware's Crappy802.11g device driver was written by mildly retarded gibbons."
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There's a basic design flaw in how normal computers operate that requires this sort of behavior from kernels, which leads to bad drivers affecting them. If you can name one system ready for general purpose for which this isn't true I would love to hear about it.
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Just disrupt the deflector shield with a tachyon burst.
All computers crash - I've made Linux, BSD, OSX, and Solaris machines kernel panic. Hell, I've witnessed a newer zSeries mainframe crash.
You are not invited into my house anymore.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
"the number and power of the computing resources involved was probably pushing the limit"
You mean just to project a video onto the roof. I've got an old 500MB, PC that can play DVDs without problem. It runs on Yoper, you should try it, runs encrypted DVDs straight out of the box, no config issues.
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...after all, if it had just done its job flawlessly there'd be no way for the crowd to know it was a microsoft product.
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Then you must not be using Vista.
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I've actually had my Macbook Pro freeze more times in the last year than my Windows machine. In fact, it even hung once when I closed the lid and tried to fry itself with the backlight.
You know you've got an unpleasant personality when computers try to kill themselves rather than work with you.
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