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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."
Visible computer glitches pop up in the most unexpected places these days. I went to a 25th anniversay screening of Wargames at a local theater recently. I wasn't even aware that I was in a digital theater until about halfway through the movie their server lost connection to the host and the movie theater screen suddenly turned into a giant Windows desktop. It was a little unnerving (I had thought I was looking at an actual film).
I think it's something we will just get used to seeing in this increasingly digital age. I just hope I'm not driving down the street one day and see a "lost connection to server" message flashing on a stoplight.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
I wonder if this was faked like the fireworks?
I used to have a better sig but it broke.
As somebody who has written a bad device driver for Mac OSX I can confirm that a bad driver can and frequently has crashed my OS X kernel.
OS X is based on a microkernel, but in practice it is as monolithic as Linux or BSD.
All I want is a secure system where it's easy to do anything I want. Is that too much to ask ~~ Randall Munroe
>They are covered up well, quickly fixed, or not noticed, but they are there
I learned this when I saw a circus fire and noticed that the clowns put the fire out while making it look like part of the act. It was both comforting and frightening at the same time.
-fb Everything not expressly forbidden is now mandatory.