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Without a word of a doubt, the 2008 Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony was spectacular. It was full of color, artistic performances, outstanding technology and most of all, amazing organization of hundreds and hundreds of live performers.

It was seriously amazing how everyone performed in sync. However since we’re only human we’re bound to make mistakes. Here’s are 7 things gone wrong during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony.

#1 Movable-Type Print - Moment of Truth

You could have not imaging such an impressive performance to be executed by people. It was so synchronized you’d expect a machine was behind it. This amazing performance was also one of the funniest as you can see someone popped up before everyone else.

#2 The Girl On The Piano

What was wrong with this little girl? She was looking around, then staring straight for a long time, punching the piano keys and she didn’t know what she was doing! She was one of the biggest mistakes because she didn’t need to be there and her presence was annoying. Thankfully she didn’t interrupt the pianist. And she also picked her nose twice.

#3 I See Dead Pixels

One of the most impressive technology at the opening ceremony was the massive LED floor display. It was also very durable considering hundreds of people were actually walking around on it. Eventually some of the panels broke off and hence I saw dead pixels.

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The late-yet-somehow-prematurely-released OS was dropped for the 2008 Olympics by official games partner Lenovo after declared the software was not reliable enough to be the backbone for a major event.

No doubt causing the terror to coarse through the veins of senior Microsoft execs, Yang Yuanqing, Lenovo“>Lenovo Chairman, declared: “the Olympic Games require mature, stable technologies and it’s not a place to try new technologies because of the size and importance of the event. Everything must work smoothly.” Consequently he confirmed that all vital computational tasks at the event will be conducted on PCs with a Windows XP installation.

Of course this flies in the face of everything Microsoft has attempted to preach to us about Vista and after numerous manufacturer backlashes, including Dell which began reselling PCs with XP, it has even forced the issue by declaring it will cut off XP OEM sales in January 2008.

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