computer help: Is the the sand in the windows hourglass actually moving? - Help.com

i believe so

its stasonery, its an optical illusion.

NoGifts wrote:
There isn’t any sand actually in there. it’s just a picture.

Well obviously there’s no sand. everybody here knows it’s just a picture. but in response to your question, I don’t know! lemme see…no. The dots in the picture are stationary. I just checked. there’s 2 dots on the top and I’m pretty sure there’s 5 on the bottom. It’s interesting, maybe they’re trying to make you think it’s closer to being done than it actually is, since there’s alot more on the bottom than the top and that would mean it’s almost done…but now I’m getting all nerdy on you. bye,
~Sarah

NoGifts wrote:
There isn’t any sand actually in there. it’s just a picture.

well thanks sherlock, great decuction skills lol
in actuality it is moving. because the images you see on the monitor aren’t stable at all, in order for the display to work like its’ suposed to it has to be contsantly refreshing itself. the average crt monitor does this at 60 - 75 cylcles per second

78, beet that

hz? lol
i have a 240hz lcd on my wallm, beat that!

sarahannoman wrote:

NoGifts wrote:
There isn’t any sand actually in there. it’s just a picture.

Well obviously there’s no sand. everybody here knows it’s just a picture. but in response to your question, I don’t know! lemme see…no. The dots in the picture are stationary. I just checked. there’s 2 dots on the top and I’m pretty sure there’s 5 on the bottom. It’s interesting, maybe they’re trying to make you think it’s closer to being done than it actually is, since there’s alot more on the bottom than the top and that would mean it’s almost done…but now I’m getting all nerdy on you. bye,
~Sarah

Actualy most computers have silica in them, which is basicaly sand!

silicon* and yes it’s basically just highly compacted sand.
all electronic devices use it, it’s a semiconductor

shuanmorganisawesome wrote:
silicon* and yes it’s basically just highly compacted sand.
all electronic devices use it, it’s a semiconductor

Silica. Main ingredient in sand,silicon is a crystalline form of silica.

ok you win, lol
either way its a semiconductor. changes it’s physical properties to resit or conduct electric current

Yeah.

I like winning. LOL. Not realy, only when I know what I am talking about, which isn’t often.

lol, i’m guessing you have some job in the semiconductor business?

I am 14. I work at Wendys. lol

lol, well i’m 18 and repair tv’s aha
great jobs.
what kinda stuff are you into?

Art, computers, biochemistry, travel, and music.

awesome, art is good, computers are my true passion, biochemistry? don’t understand it, travel? never left the country, can’t live without music.

When I said music I meant that I am a musician. And art is awsome. Why don’t you understand biochemistry?

oh, what do you play? i do piano, bout it
never been my best subject, i ran through it in highshcool but i was more into the math and phsyics dept.

Ahh. I play violin, cello, flute, viola, trumpet, guitar, piano, and drums.

I love physics. And the thought of absolute zero. !!! Biochem. is awsome!! The bacteria, we got to deal with ypestis once!

awesome!
do you have any perticular genre or all of them?
physics is the ****, but hows your knowledge on IT stuff?
explain what tcp/ip is lol

Clasical.
The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is one of the core protocols of the Internet Protocol Suite. TCP is one of the two original components, with Internet Protocol (IP), of the suite, so that the entire suite is commonly referred to as TCP/IP. Whereas IP handles lower-level transmissions from computer to computer as a message makes its way across the Internet, TCP operates at a higher level, concerned only with the two end systems, for example, a Web browser and a Web server. In particular, TCP provides reliable, ordered delivery of a stream of bytes from a program on one computer to another program on another computer. Besides the Web, other common applications of TCP include e-mail and file transfer. Among its other management tasks, TCP controls message size, the rate at which messages are exchanged, and network traffic congestion.

you so copied that from wikipedia haha, but correct.
your very intelligent for 14, where do you go to shcool at?

shuanmorganisawesome wrote:
you so copied that from wikipedia haha, but correct.
your very intelligent for 14, where do you go to shcool at?

I fixed that on wikipedia, it said a bunch of wrong stuff.

thanks, Jackson Creek middle school, in bloomington IN.

TCP is a transport layer protocol used by applications that require guaranteed delivery. It is a sliding window protocol that provides handling for both timeouts and retransmissions.

TCP establishes a full duplex virtual connection between two endpoints. Each endpoint is defined by an IP address and a TCP port number. The operation of TCP is implemented as a finite state machine.

The byte stream is transfered in segments. The window size determines the number of bytes of data that can be sent before an acknowledgement from the receiver is necessary.

awesome, your a musician, know anything about audio engineering?
what is an XLR conector and can it carry pre gain signals or just low level?
haha

Audio enginering. !!!! haha. Kinda.

ok you two, you can continu this in shouts, oh and nice poem twiliazgerouit

Adiuvo wrote:
ok you two, you can continu this in shouts, oh and nice poem twiliazgerouit

Which one?

lol, fine
hey do want to IM? i have about every messenger service

the one on the main page

shuanmorganisawesome wrote:
lol, fine
hey do want to IM? i have about every messenger service

I don’t.

STE3LREAL wrote:
the one on the main page

Thanks, I guess. Not many people like my poems, nor do the understand the words, and use of words, or order of them. lol

oh oh well…
lol i gtg anyway, nice talking to you, shout me sometime, we must have intelligent cnversations! lol

shuanmorganisawesome wrote:
oh oh well…
lol i gtg anyway, nice talking to you, shout me sometime, we must have intelligent cnversations! lol

yeah. about dbs, and stuff.

TwiliazGerouit wrote:

STE3LREAL wrote:
the one on the main page

Thanks, I guess. Not many people like my poems, nor do the understand the words, and use of words, or order of them. lol

i just like the romeo spin on the end, i say its a good one, but then again in not a poem man so…

Romeo is dead, in another poem, I killed him.lol

dynamic broacast sattilite? lol you make me look like an idiot

Yep. lol

what you didn’t know that, lol , i lerned that when i got stalight internet.

STE3LREAL wrote:
what you didn’t know that, lol , i lerned that when i got stalight internet.

dynamic broadcast satellite sucks to learn about.

lol, DBS can stand for alot of things.
and yes, ive done that too. before i got this job i was an aprentice installer for directv

Da Bomb Squad

shuanmorganisawesome wrote:
lol, DBS can stand for alot of things.
and yes, ive done that too. before i got this job i was an aprentice installer for directv

yeahh, da bomb squad.

lol
i had a stereo that called it’s sub dbs, dynamic bass system.
DBSM indicates an angry girlfriend aka da ***** shot me! hahaha

Lmao. yeah.

let me give you my initial thoughts on this post:
“wow, its most popular post…this had better be some metaphorical sh1t or something, because if its actually about the windows hourglass, ill be absolutely sure idiots have taken over help.com”

Dr. Foreman wrote:
let me give you my initial thoughts on this post:
“wow, its most popular post…this had better be some metaphorical sh1t or something, because if its actually about the windows hourglass, ill be absolutely sure idiots have taken over help.com”

Ah, but is the Windows hourglass half empty or half full?

wait wait wait, hold up,
maybe you are using windows’s “animated hourglass” ?
lol

Wow, now that puts a whole new spin on things

(spin, geddit? har har har!)

Either or, the real questions hould be…Is it really half full or empty

this sounds like a fun post to get in on… salutations, everyone

well i use vista (he says looking UP at xp users) and there is no hourglass, just a blue doughnut that spins around…

InsertFishHere wrote:
well i use vista (he says looking UP at xp users) and there is no hourglass, just a blue doughnut that spins around…

I have it too, so is it really moving in a cirlce or is it stationary making it look like that?

has anyone ever noticed on internet explorer 6 whith the earth and the windows flag
microsoft dosen’t revolve around the earth, the earth revolves around microsoft hahaha

and it’s actually half empty, if you look at it closely you’ll see the majority of the sand is at the bottom, like it’s saying it’s almost done or somthing lol

BostonsBabyBlueS ♥ wrote:

InsertFishHere wrote:
well i use vista (he says looking UP at xp users) and there is no hourglass, just a blue doughnut that spins around…

I have it too, so is it really moving in a cirlce or is it stationary making it look like that?

the circle’s either moving or a hidden light source if orbiting it…

BostonsBabyBlueS ♥ wrote:

InsertFishHere wrote:
well i use vista (he says looking UP at xp users) and there is no hourglass, just a blue doughnut that spins around…

I have it too, so is it really moving in a cirlce or is it stationary making it look like that?

stationary, and it is actually you that is spinning :P

InsertFishHere wrote:
the circle’s either moving or a hidden light source if orbiting it…

Electrons are being spun around inside the circle and smashing together, similar to what happens inside the infamous Large Hadron Collider. These electrons, when smashed together, create a microscopic explosion that gives off an electric ‘rainbow light’ of sorts.

Nah, I’m totally screwing with you, it’s Vista. Vista does not break physics to be awesome, Vista breaks the laws of physics by the /catastrophic amount that it fails./

grbghp wrote:
wait wait wait, hold up,
maybe you are using windows’s “animated hourglass” ?
lol

This. The default windows hourglass does, in fact, not move. However, other preset cursor schemes are animated. You can change them in Start > Settings > Control Panel > Mouse > Pointers then using the dropdown menu to look at the different schemes you have.

:)

hahaha agreed! whether your an xp user, a linux user or even a mac user you’re welcome to the party
but no vista allowed! :P

Anonymous wrote:
hahaha agreed! whether your an xp user, a linux user or even a mac user you’re welcome to the party
but no vista allowed! :P

OH :[ lol

which one?

I wish I was as smart as some of the people who posted on this.

Love this topic :P Ah, the great philosophy of whether the sand is actually moving. hee hee