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- From: knauer@pegasus.cs.uiuc.edu (Rob Knauerhase)
- Subject: Re: Why didn't my apple need a screen saver?
- Message-ID: <knauer.725954352@pegasus.cs.uiuc.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- References: <31DEC92.06222989@vax.clarku.edu> <bazyar.725786539@teal>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 05:59:12 GMT
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- In <bazyar.725786539@teal> bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar) writes:
- >mmelez@vax.clarku.edu writes:
- >>I've been wondering about something for a long time. Almost every Mac I've
- >>worked with has had a screen saver installed, ostensibly to prevent screen
- >>burn-in.
- > Well, see, you're one of the special few who have come to realize that
- >'screen saver' is a marketing term. The more appropriate term is
- >'user bilcher' (No offense, Jim :-). These days, pretty much all screen
- >savers do is provide something for the computer to do and for the user
- >to look at when the computer isn't being used for anything else.
-
- Time for another apropos quote:
-
- It has often been said that something like 25-50% of all the CPU
- cycles in the world are used to sort data. In terms of CPU cycle
- usage, I guess that makes sorting algorithms second only to
- screen-savers.
-
- I have seen Apple II screens with images burned in, the worst of which was a
- BBS at a computer store I worked in 7 or 8 years ago (THOSE were the days,
- my friend. Anyone remember T-net? :). The rationale on Macs and Windows
- boxes is that there is an area of the screen (mainly the menu bar) that
- never changes and this is subject to burn-in. However, Jawaid is right --
- most screen savers are just cutesy accessory programs.
-
- Rob
- --
- Rob Knauerhase, University of Illinois @ Urbana, Dept. of Computer Science
- "See, when the GOVERNMENT spends money, it creates jobs; whereas when the
- money is left in the hands of TAXPAYERS, God only knows what they do with it.
- Bake it into pies, probably. Anything to avoid creating jobs." -- Dave Barry
-