>> ^nibiyabi:
>> ^lavoll:
where do you work?
and sexmachine is an excellentname for a computer

I work at a Catholic university in California. Yeah, yeah, I know, but trust me; this stuff is pretty universal in the American workplace. It's a combination of our prudishness and our litigiousness.


Hee hee, reminds me of a high school prank someone had - they set up a nudie screensaver on the high school librarian's computer. Of course the librarians were nuns, so that went over well.

Everyone had a good laugh about it, actually.

NSFW is used "liberally" (or, if you will, in a "conservative" mindset manner) as a "lowest common denominator". As discussed by the other posters and in earlier sift-talks.

The main function of NSFW is to:
1. warn you when you might get random swearing / sexy talk in a video, especially if you're not expecting it, and you
a. are in a 'work'-like place, or
b. have younger kids around who you want to hold off on teaching profuse swearing to until they've reached their fourth birthday.
2. deal with the adult ninnies whose freakin' ears might hurt.

Embrace the tag as a mark of your 'edginess' (real or imagined) and sift on.

yay this is my screensaver now. good stuff.. they should have put in the music from the screensaver as well...

anyway, i like the fact that during night time hours, the videos switch to ones where the girls are sleepy/sleeping. The music for the night-time mode is pretty relaxing too. (You can't hear it in the video below but it's in the screensaver.)

Night time clips: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXK97qF83Tc

>> ^Bakalex:
In fact, all these 5 seconds 'clips' are part of a screensaver which can be downloaded here : http://www.uniqlo.jp/uniqlock/
In reply to this comment by ant:
I wonder why no audio.


Interesting. Weird screen saver. Thanks.

In fact, all these 5 seconds 'clips' are part of a screensaver which can be downloaded here : http://www.uniqlo.jp/uniqlock/

Well, 140 MB is less than 1% of the memory I have in one pocket right now, and less than .2% of what I would have on my person if I put on my jacket. Memory is cheap. I remember how upset some of the geeks were about anyone having splash pages or loading backgrounds on web pages because of the wasted bandwidth...

Yeah, this is some animations that look pretty--to some. And yeah, they are in columns. Puting it together and making it work is indeed engineering (though I feel a need to point out that the engineering channel also seriously welcomes instances of bad engineering, which perhaps would make critics more comfortable about the inclusion of this video in that channel).

Personally, I don't like screensavers. Don't trust em. Don't like them stealing my cycles--even though in theory they should never compete with me.

But opinions vary, and I'm grateful for those who try to combine engineering with visual arts in order to please softer sensebilities and wider tastes.


>> ^xxovercastxx:
A 140MB screen saver... right... brilliant.
Unfortunately this is nothing more than ~20 prerendered animations that play side-by-side in 4 columns. Every digit looks exactly the same every time it's displayed. I'd be more interested if it was rendered in realtime with some variation.
Engineering? If only there were.

looks like the electronic sheep screensaver

Quake 2 was my first 3d-accelerated moment, on a Voodoo1 4MB in March 1998.

Deathcow, those 3 maps you mention (Edge, Warehouse, Tokay's Towers) were pretty much the only maps I was interested in playing.

DJsunkid, is "Drempels" the screensaver you're thinking of?

Woo! I still remember my Voodoo 1! With the cable to hook it to the other video card because no VGA adaptor. Just pure, raw 3D power. Awesome.

There was a really awesome and trippy screen saver that used it. And Tomb Raider. That's all I can remember at the moment, but man that was a SWEET screensaver.

Oh, maybe magic carpet?

Tags for this video have been changed from 'wifi, antenna, mike daisey, screensavers' to 'wifi, antenna, mike daisey, screensavers, techtv' - edited by Grimm

This is after Tech TV became extremely lame.

I miss old school ScreenSavers.

Great stuff! You can actually download screensavers on his site, from this page.

I wish this was a screensaver.

They should really resurrect Screensavers... Great story...

Our (US) loss and Canada's gain. Thanks

In reply to your comment:
“I left a comment.. he's doing a Canadian version of the show which can be torrent'd.

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“I miss ZDTV, where's Leo now? Remember the old Screensavers? Who was the chick w/ the retro glasses...””

I left a comment.. he's doing a Canadian version of the show which can be torrent'd.

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“I miss ZDTV, where's Leo now? Remember the old Screensavers? Who was the chick w/ the retro glasses...”