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when this screensaver kicks in your screen goes black like the blank screensaver. every once in a while though a random image may appear, such as a randomly selected picture from your hard drive or a screenshot of a website you visited earlier that day. perhaps some short video files will play, backwards
or in slow motion. if there is a virus or spyware on your computer your dream saver will sometimes display danger icons or maybe even "wake up" occasionally, like it had a nightmare.
Dreaming of electric sheep
http://en.wikipedia...wiki/Electric_Sheep
[fridge duck, Apr 19 2008]
Random Image Screensaver
Random_20Image_20Screensaver
Less dreamy, more random. [bungston, Apr 22 2008]
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Very nice - we continue to humanise our technology. |
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I'm all for randomness. On the mac you
can chose random screen saver images
extracted from your iPhoto library, or did I
dream that one up? + |
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I'm sure you're right. Macs can do *anything*. |
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That's right. Only this week mine decided
to reset its firewall and forget every
wireless network it had ever connected to.
How I marvelled. I would have consulted
the manual, but that is just a collection of
pretty pictures showing just how cool
Leopard is. |
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But, yes, it does have some pretty neat
screen savers. |
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I like the way it displays a randomly chosen photo from iPhoto that is actually comprised of all the other photos in the collection, as a mosaic. |
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// we continue to humanise our technology // |
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Whereas we prefer to technologise our humans .... |
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It shouldn't be totally random - there should be recurring dreams (e.g. the same picture comes on every few nights) |
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//dumb. [fastthinker]//
Mon Dieu! Quelle ironie! |
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Does this mean my computer might suddenly display itself, completely naked, sitting in a classroom of kids ridiculing, laughing, and pointing at it? I love those dreams… |
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The screensaver could also do some sleepwalking, by opening random websites and may be posting gibberish into chats/message boards. |
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[CwP] For the computer to display itself, it must know itself - or become self-aware in other words. This may not end well for us humans ;) |
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image of a troll appears... |
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Or visit random ideas on halfbakery.. later mixing random ones and then posting the same.. |
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kinda cool if it recalled porn from the previous week, faster and faster, then suddenly printed out a blank page and went into hibernation. |
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i know, i know... i'm just a sicko. |
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Of all the emotions and aesthetic expressions and impressions computers are capable of generating and sensing, the one that is lacking most perhaps, is sweating heavily. |
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I would love to see the occasional drop of fluid pouring out of my laptop. |
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[Also, just to test my English kills: "dream saver" - "screen saver" - "scream saver" - "cream craver". Ok.] |
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I would like a computer that could save *my* dreams, 'cos I never remember any of them, and I wonder if I really have them and what they might be like. |
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Every once in a while it winds up emptying the fridge at 4am? |
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Ditto [Ling].
Once in a while though, I'll remember a snippet of a dream and then I think that perhaps it may be for the best not to remember them whole. |
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