World's Largest BSOD...

[ZWarrior]

Did you watch the 2008 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremonies?  They were live from Beijing and were quite the spectacle.  One thing we all missed though?

The world's largest Blue Screen of Death!

Excerpt from the article on Ars Technica:
During the Opening Ceremonies of Beijing 2008, a handful of people in the crowd weren't looking at the flashing lights, the fireworks, or the Olympic torch. Instead, their eyes were focused on what many are claiming to be the largest BSOD image ever seen. Apparently computers handling the Opening Ceremonies were running Windows XP Embedded and, for one reason or another, it crashed. At least one onlooker saw it, took a few pictures (more at the source) and blogged about it:

Click here for the full article.

[n1c]

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Jaecen

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    Originally posted by EatingPie:
    So it was a hardware error and Windows blue screened. Uh huh...

    So, I guess now isn't a good time to point out that the only hardware error I've had in my 15+ years of Mac usage is a disk failure.

    I'm still happy shooting the messenger. This very likely would not have happened on a Mac. Razz
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       -Pie
 
You're completely correct. This would have never happened, since Apple would never allow the flexibility to embed OS X in a custom product. In your world, we would never have to worry about issues like these, since Apple would have already decided what was best for us and given us no choice beyond that. One BSOD out of an unknown number of devices and platforms surely indicates the root inviability of any other way.

August 12, 2008 @ 02:38PM