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Why do people call wallpapers or background images "screensavers"?  A static image on your desktop is the exact opposite of a screensaver you loving retard.edit: I realize this has been cemented in modern lexicon and it's too late to stop it  vv It's in the last image on the previous page: SLOSifl has a new favorite as of 17:53 on Jun 11, 2014 |
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SLOSifl posted:Why do people call wallpapers or background images "screensavers"? Who does that? I've never heard that. That's a wallpaper, screensavers animate to stop burn-in (does burn in even happen any more???). Maybe you should talk to smarter people.
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Jun 11, 2014 17:51
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HellCopter posted:Who does that? I've never heard that. That's a wallpaper, screensavers animate to stop burn-in (does burn in even happen any more???). Maybe you should talk to smarter people. Lots of people call wallpapers screensavers, and no, burn-in doesn't happen any more. Unless you're still using a CRT. I'd guess that that's the reason people use the term "incorrectly" now. Screensavers stopped being a thing that was used to protect the screen and became a purely decorative thing, because people kept using them even though they were no longer necessary, which meant that the name no longer made sense, and on a phone the "screensaver" image appears when your phone is locked, ie. when you're not using it, just like screensavers on computers.
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Jun 11, 2014 18:01
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Brocktoon posted:Shouldn't that be "Hu", "Watt" and "Idunno"? Bastard!
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Jun 11, 2014 18:24
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Tiggum posted:Lots of people call wallpapers screensavers, and no, burn-in doesn't happen any more. Unless you're still using a CRT. I'd guess that that's the reason people use the term "incorrectly" now. Screensavers stopped being a thing that was used to protect the screen and became a purely decorative thing, because people kept using them even though they were no longer necessary, which meant that the name no longer made sense, and on a phone the "screensaver" image appears when your phone is locked, ie. when you're not using it, just like screensavers on computers.
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Jun 11, 2014 19:13
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Please, turn in your computer license.
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Jun 11, 2014 19:19
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I've always tied my lock time to monitor auto-off so I don't know if it blips straight to the lock screen or not 
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Jun 11, 2014 19:26
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European Donald Duck magazines made a classic mistake and had Chinese writing meaning "pull poo poo" or something like that.
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Jun 11, 2014 19:30
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Tiggum posted:Lots of people call wallpapers screensavers, and no, burn-in doesn't happen any more. Unless you're still using a CRT. I'm pretty sure that burn-in is theoretically possible as long as the backlight produces heat. Not that it's common in any way shape or form. But if your monitor is on the same static display for weeks or months you might have something to worry about. fake edit: It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the heat produced by a backlight. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_burn-in
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Jun 11, 2014 19:33
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I had no idea that the default iPad background is a photograph of a body of water. I definitely had no idea that that body of water is Pyramid lake. I am reading this thread on my iPad, and I live in Nevada.
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Jun 11, 2014 19:36
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Mogomra posted:I'm pretty sure that burn-in is theoretically possible as long as the backlight produces heat. Not that it's common in any way shape or form. But if your monitor is on the same static display for weeks or months you might have something to worry about. We have some old rear end lcd monitors that have the windows log in box burned in to them. Er had, they got recycled.
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Jun 11, 2014 20:19
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Jun 11, 2014 20:39
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Where's the funny?
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Jun 11, 2014 20:56
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Captain Trips posted:Where's the funny? The last panel has no text
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Jun 11, 2014 21:02
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TheBlobThing posted:The last panel has no text But the last panel would be better if it had some text.
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Jun 11, 2014 21:04
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I imagine the first panel has no text, and the second panel is him looking at us, and the third is his reaction.
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Jun 11, 2014 21:08
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Captain Trips posted:But the last panel would be better if it had some text. Every commuter knows the text by heart. It's him thinking about suicide.
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Jun 11, 2014 21:15
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Captain Trips posted:But the last panel would be better if it had some text. Goons - finding ways to make something average even less funny since 1999!
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Jun 11, 2014 21:19
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I enjoy it immensely because I see that face every morning on my way to work.
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Jun 11, 2014 21:25
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TheDon01 posted:I just took my grandmother to the zoo the other day. One of the brown bears in the cage was beating off the entire time, at least the 10 minutes we were at that exhibit. Well with a lovely enclosure like that, what else are they supposed to do?
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Jun 11, 2014 21:27
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This is an actual TV show that existed
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Jun 11, 2014 21:37
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HiipFire posted:This is an actual TV show that existed For literally 1 episode. There were 7 more, but they never aired and I don't think you can get them anywhere. The only episode ever to air is up on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf9jJx0NSjw
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Jun 11, 2014 21:43
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Also of note, "Heil Honey, I'm Home!" was allegedly cancelled during its first broadcast.
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Jun 11, 2014 22:04
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cobalt impurity posted:Also of note, "Heil Honey, I'm Home!" was allegedly cancelled during its first broadcast. wow That is amazing to hear 
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Jun 11, 2014 23:00
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cobalt impurity posted:Also of note, "Heil Honey, I'm Home!" was allegedly cancelled during its first broadcast. I bet the writers did Nazi that coming.
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Jun 11, 2014 23:05
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  http://comicsalliance.com/spider-man-statue-south-korea-gigantic-boner-eunsuk-yoo/
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Jun 11, 2014 23:08
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They call that a gigantic boner? Oh right, Korea.
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Jun 11, 2014 23:14
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cobalt impurity posted:Also of note, "Heil Honey, I'm Home!" was allegedly cancelled during its first broadcast. That was 'Turn-On'. 'Heil Honey' made its way all the way through the first episode, presumably because all of the higher ups at Galaxy were too stunned by the Kristallnacht joke to do anything but stare helplessly.
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Jun 11, 2014 23:40
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Paladinus posted:The most popular British news website, ladies and gentlemen. Most-visited "news" website in the WORLD, actually!
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Jun 11, 2014 23:46
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The text of the article is a work of art  quote:After erecting a statue of Spider-Man in a South Korean shopping center, artist Eunsuk Yoo met stiff resistance from the people who run it. It seems they took a long, hard look at the spectacular piece after suspicions were aroused about its suitability. The statue has now been yanked off, despite being impressively hung on that wall for almost a year. Yoo may feel he got the shaft, but one hopes he understands the thrust of the mall’s decision.
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Jun 12, 2014 00:51
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 (Cake fail picture unrelated).  
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Jun 12, 2014 01:49
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naM sdrawkcaB posted:
The way too friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man.
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Jun 12, 2014 03:17
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Picnic Princess posted:Well with a lovely enclosure like that, what else are they supposed to do? It's actually not that bad of an enclosure, that is only about 10% of the entire space and the only part that's gravel. It's the corner by the double doors for when they move the bears/clean the enclosure and it happens to be where there was a large crowd of people that the bears seemed to be interested in. They got a lot of grass, a cool giant cargo-net hammock, a pond and some barrels/tire swing toys off to the right.
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Jun 12, 2014 04:24
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quote:Spider-Man Statue Removed From South Korean Playground Because It Has A Gigantic Boner That headline reads like something you would get playing mad libs.
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Jun 12, 2014 04:24
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Polaron posted:That was 'Turn-On'. 'Heil Honey' made its way all the way through the first episode, presumably because all of the higher ups at Galaxy were too stunned by the Kristallnacht joke to do anything but stare helplessly. There was also a 1992 show Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos where the station owner Kerry Packer famously tuned in, hated it and rang the station and ordered it to be taken off immediately. The host Doug Mulray was also banned for life from appearing on that station but eventually returned after Packer died, and the show was aired in full  in 2008.
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Jun 12, 2014 11:07
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:There was also a 1992 show Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos where the station owner Kerry Packer famously tuned in, hated it and rang the station and ordered it to be taken off immediately. The host Doug Mulray was also banned for life from appearing on that station but eventually returned after Packer died, and the show was aired in full Wow so thats where he went! I wondered occasionally about what happened.
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He really looked a lot different before the car accident and the booze took their toll.
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