Firework failure blamed on Microsoft
Windows stuffed up Seattle's New Year display
AFTER a computer failure stuffed up Seattle's New Year fireworks show, bloggers have been quick to blame Microsoft.
The show at the Seattle Center was supposed to ring in the New Year but the computer running the display did not work. Fireworkers tried twice to boot up the system running the display but still could not get it to go.
Instead they decided to run the display late and by hand. In fact the display was not too different from the computer run thing. In fact it went a bit longer.
In the post-mortem that followed, Seattle's most famous company has been blamed.
N Nelson, who normally worked on the display, told the King5 blog that the software that powered the Seattle display was Windows based. He did not say which flavour.
Vole itself has made no comment. µ
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Version?
"N Nelson, who normally worked on the display, told the King5 blog that the software that powered the Seattle display was Windows based. He did not say which flavour."Does it make a difference?
funny article ;-))
About the version...
I guess that's was a Windows version starting with a "V"... (>D)...and we're happy that some important IT Consulting company just said that the companies *have* to buy Windows Vista in order to have Customer Support and things like that...
...it's better to run on Windows XP *without* Customer Support or to run "something else" and have your servers not even boot and to have someone to quarrel with?? >DD
Talk about sensationalism
So the software was Windows-based, so we'll blame Windows. Anyone bother to find out what brand of PC it was so we can blame the manufacturer of the PC, as well? How about IBM for starting the overall PC design that we use to this day? NASA for helping push technology to the point where PCs are what they are today? Anyone else we wish to blame?Or perhaps it was simply the fireworks software, itself, that was to blame or, even more likely, user error? Nah, it was Windows.
Failure to Think Critically
Yes, "bloggers have been quick to blame Microsoft" sums it up pretty well, which is to say that dozens of peurile peons who were not sitting at the console, who have all their information third-hand at best, who could not possibly have the most remote idea what the root cause of the failure really was, instead of considering the dozens of other potential causes of a system failure, all start pointing fingers at the operating system simply because it was allegedly Windows, and make dozens of silly accusations based on nothing but conjecture and lynch-mob thought.Luckily there a small handful of sane voices among the hysteria, but in too disappointing a minority for me not to be convinced that this country is doomed if more people can't learn to be just a little more analytical.
Oh shaid!
That was a big suprise .... Run Linux and hire a good embedded engineer. Then it works!