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China: Blue Screen of Death Strikes Bird's Nest During Opening Ceremonies Torch Lighting
GIZMODO ^
| 08/11/08
Posted on 08/12/2008 4:44:59 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Well this is just perfect. At the exact moment Li Ning was rounding the lip of the Bird's Nest during the amazing torch-lighting climax, someone snapped this photo of our good friend the BSOD nestled amongst the Nest's steel twigs. Perhaps an Opening Cermonies IT dude spit out his coffee on the machines in the server room when Li took to the sky? Another question is what a projection screen is doing inside the Nest at that location, but I think the better question is what wasn't going on inside the Nest's roofdid you see that thing during the ceremonies? Lights! Fireworks! LED screens! Everything! Anyway, if only one image of this perfectness existed we'd be skeptical, but thankfully, someone has grabbed more from a different angle that pretty much seal the deal.
UPDATE: And it's been confirmed on the NBC broadcast by commenter cirby on his DVR.
Click for high-res:
Ouch! More super-zoomed images for error message decoding here:
[Powerapple Forum (Chinese, original pic), and Rivercool (alternate angle pics) via Dvorak - props to Dvorak commenter Improbus for "Olympic Fail"]
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Technical; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 2008olympics; bsod; lowqualitycrap; microsoft; msn; olympic; oops; opening; technology; windows
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To: TigerLikesRooster; maui_hawaii; Jeff Head; Tainan; hedgetrimmer; Unam Sanctam; taxesareforever; ...
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posted on
08/12/2008 4:45:42 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
08/12/2008 4:49:00 AM PDT
by
snowrip
(Liberal? YOU ARE A SOCIALIST WITH NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT.)
To: anymouse
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posted on
08/12/2008 4:50:44 AM PDT
by
BellStar
(Human Beings are proof...God has a sense of humor!)
To: TigerLikesRooster
So freakin’ what!!! Must be a chi-com plot right?
To: TigerLikesRooster
Any XP user knows that screen! Maybe the Chinese were trying to reach out to the XP proletariat around the world...
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posted on
08/12/2008 4:51:54 AM PDT
by
ikka
To: TigerLikesRooster
Did someone crick Contror-Art-Derete?
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posted on
08/12/2008 4:58:56 AM PDT
by
GreenAccord
(Bacon Akbar!)
To: ikka
Microsoft should inquire as to whether the license is valid, or ‘locally copied’. ahem ........
But never ask a legal question of which you don’t already know the answer.
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posted on
08/12/2008 4:59:51 AM PDT
by
Blueflag
(Res ipsa loquitur)
To: TigerLikesRooster
I’m seriously surprised they were not using red flag linux.
To: TigerLikesRooster
For some reason I have absolutly no intrest in the olympics. Zero none.
To: screaminsunshine
Maybe you only care about BSoD.:-)
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posted on
08/12/2008 5:03:52 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
To: GreenAccord
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posted on
08/12/2008 5:07:12 AM PDT
by
corkoman
To: GreenAccord
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posted on
08/12/2008 5:07:54 AM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
("And how can this be? For I am the Kwisatz Haderach! " - Barack Obama)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Now that is funny. The Mac and Linux crowd be be pleased.
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posted on
08/12/2008 5:09:14 AM PDT
by
McGruff
(Georgia = friend. Russia = enemy.)
To: McGruff; Swordmaker
Now that is funny. The Mac and Linux crowd be be pleased.Let's see...
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posted on
08/12/2008 5:10:57 AM PDT
by
LearnsFromMistakes
(No longer welcome in my own 'happy place'.)
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
08/12/2008 5:25:54 AM PDT
by
NCjim
(The more I use Windows, the more I love UNIX)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
08/12/2008 5:26:28 AM PDT
by
Kirkwood
To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; JosephW; ...
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posted on
08/12/2008 5:27:28 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Being completely uninformed on just about all things tech.
Can this be explained in simple terms so that this dummie can understand what happened.
Please, and of course, merci!
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posted on
08/12/2008 5:40:22 AM PDT
by
Carley
To: ikka
Any XP user knows that screen!Been using XP Professional and Home since 2000. Never seen the BSOD.
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posted on
08/12/2008 5:41:36 AM PDT
by
politicalwit
(AKA... A Tradition Continues...Now a Hoosier Freeper)
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