Talk:Bliss (image)
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Any info about authorship? Copyright? Can the article have a copy of it? mikka (t) 20:40, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Removed this sentence:
- There is considerable debate as to the validity of these claims but there even is a 'mole-hill liberation army' to offer the proof of this: http://www.zzz.ch/photos/landscapes/switzerland/joux/colline_des_taupes/ . The photo comes from a valley in french-speaking Switzerland called the Valley of Joux, and the hill is named "Colline des Taupes". Sorry, not from the Napa valley. French-speaking Switzerland was the place where the world wide web was born, and Bill Gates is supposed to have taken the picture while traveling there.
Needs to be worded properly. ed g2s • talk 13:09, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
http://s-r.com/pf.asp?date=022204&ID=s1490284
"The `Bliss' image was actually taken outside Napa, Calif.," said Microsoft's Brian Peterson. "It was chosen because it illustrates the experiences Microsoft strives to provide customers (freedom, possibility, calmness, warmth, etc.)."
--2004-12-29T22:45Z 20:20, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Could we have a more precise location of the picture? Brian Peterson a fake?
The Napa valley hypothesis is not precise, could we have more details. The swiss site tells us the hill is on the main road between 'Essert-de-Rive' and 'Le Lieu' in the vaud state. If you try overlaying the 'bliss.jpg' with the panorama jpeg on top of the swiss website (e.g. using photoshop), it oddly matches. I don't know any place near Napa that looks like that, seems odd. Would be nice to know more.
Moreover, Brian Peterson of Microsoft seems to be a fake. He was the one who came up with the 'iLoo' http://it.asiaone.com.sg/newsdaily/news002_20030508.html . I guess the guy is not very reliable.
Could someone please ask the people on the Microsoft Channel 9 message boards? --2004-12-29T22:45Z 01:24, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The "sample parody"
The sample parody linked at the end of the article is complete crap. Emblasoning "Windows sucks" onto the original image is not a parody. Any issues with removing it?--Shinyplasticbag 05:15, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
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- None whatsoever, if you look at the edit history, you'll see that User:TheDoctor10 was hell-bent in including a link to a thumbnail of his own, watermarked parody (in big caps at first, too). Since he seemed determined that a link to a parody should exist, and told me to "feel free to replace it with another example" I did. But I would agree it doesn't add to the article, and have thus removed it. └ UkPaolo/talk┐ 09:30, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Teletubbies
What? No mention of the Teletubbies land?
[edit] The Exact Location
Recently I've been ossessed with trying to find where this famous Windows photo is located. Still don't know myself but this photographer probably does. Maybe someone can email him or something.
http://www.wineviews.com/wccscenery/index.html
One of the photos he took around the Napa valley is none other then that of the Windows XP hill.
If Bill Gates had used a picture of my house as the standard wallpaper, there would be a massive pilgrimage to me just so they could say they were at "The Windows XP House" wouldn't they? But instead it's some obscure hill in California's wine country.
[edit] Limitation to 800x600
Why is it that the original image (the one included with Windows XP) is only available in 800x600? LIllIi 23:29, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
- "800x600 ought to be enough for anybody." Seriously, though, I blame short-sightedness for the original image and/or lack of attention to details for the fact that something so ugly (pixelation / artefacts) could persist across the revisions. Ebow 02:51, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
