Stark wrote:So... do people spend a lot of time staring at an empty desktop? If I'm using my computer, it's creaking under the half-dozen windows and I can't see my desktop. If there are no windows, I'm probably not in the room. Hence, hovering picture frames, not crazy backgrounds.
I get to see my desktop for the amount of time it takes for my computer to finish loading-up, and for me to go to the start menu and begin opening things. That's enough to warrant having something nice to look at.
I always turn the monitor off when I leave the room and don't shut down the computer.
Uraniun235 wrote:This thread is really less about "see what my screen typically looks like" (which would be something of a waste for me as I often have Firefox maximized) and more about "how neat do you keep your desktop and what background do you use for it?"
Oh I see. Maybe I *should* post mine, then: I have no background, but every time I prune out everything I've got on the desktop... it just fills up in a day or so.
Adrian Laguna wrote:
I get to see my desktop for the amount of time it takes for my computer to finish loading-up, and for me to go to the start menu and begin opening things. That's enough to warrant having something nice to look at.
I always turn the monitor off when I leave the room and don't shut down the computer.
That's why I use picture-frame streaming porn from the fileserver. It's probably also significant that I seldom turn off my computer, and my LCD is smart enough to turn itself off if nothing's happening.
I changed mine. I wanted something extremely graphic, but I could not find anything to fit my resolution. I was browsing Google looking for a background pic for a customized menu for the movie The Descent, and I came across this image, which I resized and used as a wallpaper.
Uraniun235 wrote:This thread is really less about "see what my screen typically looks like" (which would be something of a waste for me as I often have Firefox maximized) and more about "how neat do you keep your desktop and what background do you use for it?"
Yeah, I always have Firefox maximized as well. However, I don't think the original point of this thread was to show off what your screen looks like most of the time. Just going by the title, I think it's obvious that it's for showing off your desktop background and your current theme, which is what we've all been doing.
Regarding neatness, I used to keep a lot of icons on my desktop, but I had the great idea of putting all my desktop icons for games into my Quick Launch bar, and just have all but my original five icons there hidden. That way, all my games are easily accessible by clicking the arrow at the right of the bar, and my desktop is nice and uncluttered.
どうして？お前が夜に自身お触れるから。 Long ago in a distant land, I, Aku, the shape-shifting Master of Darkness, unleashed an unspeakable evil,
but a foolish samurai warrior wielding a magic sword stepped forth to oppose me. Before the final blow
was struck, I tore open a portal in time and flung him into the future, where my evil is law! Now, the fool
seeks to return to the past, and undo the future that is Aku...
-Aku, Master of Masters, Deliverer of Darkness, Shogun of Sorrow
A Government founded upon justice, and recognizing the equal rights of all men; claiming higher authority for existence, or sanction for its laws, that nature, reason, and the regularly ascertained will of the people; steadily refusing to put its sword and purse in the service of any religious creed or family is a standing offense to most of the Governments of the world, and to some narrow and bigoted people among ourselves.
Bounty wrote:Apologies for the lack of attractive females, but I prefer a desktop that isn't too distracting
Lovely image, though.
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And the LORD said, Let there be Bosons! Yea and let there be Bosoms too!
I'd rather be the great great grandson of a demon ninja than some jackass who grew potatos. -- Covenant
Dead cows don't fart. -- CJvR
...and I like strudel! -- Asuka
"If the facts are on your side, pound on the facts. If the law is on your side, pound on the law. If neither is on your side, pound on the table."
"The captain claimed our people violated a 4,000 year old treaty forbidding us to develop hyperspace technology. Extermination of our planet was the consequence. The subject did not survive interrogation."
You bet your ass thats a fan ship. You can't really see it in that picture, but this ship really follows the spirit of the Prometheus and the Daedalus designs from Stargate.
"If the facts are on your side, pound on the facts. If the law is on your side, pound on the law. If neither is on your side, pound on the table."
"The captain claimed our people violated a 4,000 year old treaty forbidding us to develop hyperspace technology. Extermination of our planet was the consequence. The subject did not survive interrogation."
Alyeska wrote:You bet your ass thats a fan ship. You can't really see it in that picture, but this ship really follows the spirit of the Prometheus and the Daedalus designs from Stargate.
Actually its kinda obvious its from Stargate, I just couldn't tell if it was a concept render for the show or fanmade (because it does have a good bit of detail, more than I'm use to in fan stuff). You don't have a link, do you?
She's a beauty of a ship. The guy put over 900,000 polygons into making her.
"If the facts are on your side, pound on the facts. If the law is on your side, pound on the law. If neither is on your side, pound on the table."
"The captain claimed our people violated a 4,000 year old treaty forbidding us to develop hyperspace technology. Extermination of our planet was the consequence. The subject did not survive interrogation."
Agent Fisher wrote:Tau'ri are the people of the birth place of humanity. Earth. Aka what the Goa'uld and Jaffa call people from Earth in the Stargate-verse.
Agent Fisher wrote:Tau'ri are the people of the birth place of humanity. Earth. Aka what the Goa'uld and Jaffa call people from Earth in the Stargate-verse.
So it's the Goa'uld word for 'Human' then.
Not quite - its the Goa'uld for humans from Earth.
More likely an alternate word for Terran or Earthling. Its a combination word for both the planet and the people. Often you hear "People of the Tau'ri".
"If the facts are on your side, pound on the facts. If the law is on your side, pound on the law. If neither is on your side, pound on the table."
"The captain claimed our people violated a 4,000 year old treaty forbidding us to develop hyperspace technology. Extermination of our planet was the consequence. The subject did not survive interrogation."
Not too busy, very mellow.... It's not really anything, it just is.
Oh! And only cool people put the taskbar on the left
Darth Wong wrote:The American "family values" agenda is simple: alter the world so that you can completely ignore your child and still be confident that he is receiving the same kind of Christian upbringing that you would give him if you weren't busy.
According to wikipedia, "the Mohorovičić discontinuity is the boundary between the Earth's crust and the mantle."
According to Starbound, it's a problem solvable with enough combat drugs to turn you into the Incredible Hulk.
-- Asuka
