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The man who took the iconic Windows XP wallpaper photo has bitter regrets
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| 3-27-14
| Tero Kuittinen
Posted on 03/29/2014 1:12:32 PM PDT by smokingfrog
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To: huldah1776
Thanks for the tip. Now I know a little about Mr. Albert Bierstadt and the Rocky Mountain School of Luminism. Even Bierstadt couldn’t make a living solely based on being a painter except for a few years. He was also a teacher. Of course this was shortly before the Civil War, and who knows how the economy was back then if you weren’t part of a big farming family.
To: smokingfrog
It’s a boring pic. I always thought it was a CGI creation.
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posted on
03/29/2014 2:19:22 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
To: smokingfrog
I was expecting Teletubbies to crest the hill at any moment.
Tinky Winky
Dipsy
La La
Po
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posted on
03/29/2014 2:21:26 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Operating out of weakness? Imagine if he was working from a position of strength!)
To: smokingfrog
To: smokingfrog
The Pink Floyd “Flying Pig” screensaver has a similar look.
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posted on
03/29/2014 2:33:02 PM PDT
by
pa_dweller
(Extremist tea-party-driven hostage-taking legislative arsonist without a life)
To: smokingfrog
Why would M$ agree to pay a licensing fee for a photo? They could have gotten a million others just like it.
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posted on
03/29/2014 2:48:37 PM PDT
by
eclecticEel
("The petty man forsakes what lies within his power and longs for what lies with Heaven." - Xunzi)
To: smokingfrog
First thing people did was replace it with a picture of their dog or cat or Baywatch babes or whatever.
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posted on
03/29/2014 2:50:03 PM PDT
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: ClaytonP
Instead of griping about "lost" money, he should be enjoying whatever publicity he can get from his picture being selected to advance his name brand. Yes. Then I thought, maybe this is part of the effort.
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posted on
03/29/2014 2:56:22 PM PDT
by
St_Thomas_Aquinas
( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
To: Gay State Conservative
Sorry, GSC. Jim's FR
User Agreement says he has a claim on half your income. You DID read the agreement before clicking "Register," didn't you?
To: Calvin Locke
Me, too. Very first thing I do is set up a light blue or light turquoise desktop. Then, on Win 7, I get rid of the damned Aeropeek.
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Somehow I always thought that photo looked really gay, like at any minute Twinky winky the Teletubby will start prancing around on the hill.I call it the Teletubby desktop. It looks just like the set of that silly (but disturbing) show.
To: The Cajun
agreed, no on twisted his arm to sell the damn pic in the first place, this just proves he’s not as smart as Bill Gates.
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posted on
03/29/2014 3:22:03 PM PDT
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: bigbob
...this just proves hes not as smart as Bill Gates. IBM needed Gates' DOS. Gates did not need this guy's picture.
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posted on
03/29/2014 3:26:20 PM PDT
by
KevinB
(Barack Hussein Obama: Proof-positive that affirmative action does not work.)
To: huldah1776
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posted on
03/29/2014 4:29:08 PM PDT
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(Republican has "I can" at the end. Democrat has "rat". Any questions?)
To: The Cajun
Hope you are liking the new 8.1 machine. My wife's new (a few months old) laptop has 8.1, and I put Classic Shell on it almost immediately, so it would act like a system she/we can navigate, lol!
I'm trying to decide what to do with a reallllly old laptop that has XP on it. Small hard drive, precious little memory, so-so speed, dial-up modem (I had to buy a USB wireless adapter so I could use my WIFI network), but the damn thing still works fine. I'm not going to keep using XP after April 8th, but don't know what to do. It would cost more to have Windows 7 installed than the thing is worth. It's fairly heavy, so I guess I could sell it as a canoe anchor at my next garage sale. ;)
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posted on
03/29/2014 5:08:21 PM PDT
by
deoetdoctrinae
(Gun-free zones are playgrounds for felons.)
To: smokingfrog
Even a tiny fee per Windows XP license would have yielded him a hefty payday over the years. Or would have gotten him nothing because MS would have found another image without a per copy fee to include in Windows.
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posted on
03/29/2014 5:12:15 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Republican amnesty supporters don't care whether their own homes are called mansions or haciendas.)
To: deoetdoctrinae
I'm not going to keep using XP after April 8th, but don't know what to do. Check on eBay for prices. It might be worth parting out for people who want to keep similar computers running.
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posted on
03/29/2014 5:14:06 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Republican amnesty supporters don't care whether their own homes are called mansions or haciendas.)
To: huldah1776
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posted on
03/29/2014 5:19:53 PM PDT
by
headstamp 2
(What would Scooby do?)
To: deoetdoctrinae
Starting to get a handle on Win 8.1, after a decent amount of cussing.
The first night I was setting it up, my wife came up front and gave me the old "Hey, hey, calm down" talk, LOL.
Now have it where 1 click and I'm in the old Win XP/Win 7 type desktop.
Got a Toshiba Qosmio, they had the top of the line on sale for $700 off, couldn't let that slip by.
Blazing fast, faster than my wife's Qosmio of just 2 years ago.
From power on to ready to work, under 5 seconds!
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posted on
03/29/2014 5:32:48 PM PDT
by
The Cajun
(tea party!!!, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert......Nuff said.)
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
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posted on
03/29/2014 5:37:09 PM PDT
by
cynwoody
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