[Help] Is the the sand in the windows hourglass actually moving? Updates to this post /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:48:28 +0100 Reply from C. S. /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5113038 Love this topic :P Ah, the great philosophy of whether the sand is actually moving. hee hee

]]> C. S. Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:17:07 +0100 Reply from Anonymous /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5112672 I wish I was as smart as some of the people who posted on this.

]]> Anonymous Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:48:40 +0100 Reply from Golden Jack75 /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5112319 which one?

]]> Golden Jack75 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:54:53 +0100 Reply from brandenc /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5112158 i cant tell i have vista

]]> brandenc Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:22:20 +0100 Reply from InsertFishHere /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5112145 [quote Anonymous]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[/quote]

OH :[ lol

]]> InsertFishHere Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:13:50 +0100 Reply from Anonymous /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5112101 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 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:48:04 +0100 Reply from Twerty /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5112009 [quote InsertFishHere]
the circle’s either moving or a hidden light source if orbiting it…[/quote]

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./

[quote grbghp]wait wait wait, hold up,
maybe you are using windows’s “animated hourglass” ?
lol[/quote]

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.

:)

]]> Twerty Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:33:12 +0100 Reply from grbghp /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5111930 [quote BostonsBabyBlueS ♥][quote InsertFishHere]well i use vista (he says looking UP at xp users) and there is no hourglass, just a blue doughnut that spins around…[/quote]

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

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

]]> grbghp Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:55:08 +0100 Reply from InsertFishHere /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5111852 [quote BostonsBabyBlueS ♥][quote InsertFishHere]well i use vista (he says looking UP at xp users) and there is no hourglass, just a blue doughnut that spins around…[/quote]

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

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

]]> InsertFishHere Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:04:31 +0100 Reply from stevierayvauhanisawe /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5111809 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

]]> stevierayvauhanisawe Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:43:09 +0100 Reply from stevierayvauhanisawe /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5111773 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

]]> stevierayvauhanisawe Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:28:50 +0100 Reply from BostonsBabyBlueS♥ /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5111739 [quote InsertFishHere]well i use vista (he says looking UP at xp users) and there is no hourglass, just a blue doughnut that spins around…[/quote]

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

]]> BostonsBabyBlueS♥ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:14:01 +0100 Reply from InsertFishHere /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5111725 well i use vista (he says looking UP at xp users) and there is no hourglass, just a blue doughnut that spins around…

]]> InsertFishHere Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:08:24 +0100 Reply from Virtual Boy /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5111623 this sounds like a fun post to get in on… salutations, everyone

]]> Virtual Boy Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:59:55 +0100 Reply from BostonsBabyBlueS♥ /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5111580 Either or, the real questions hould be…Is it really half full or empty

]]> BostonsBabyBlueS♥ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:25:06 +0100 Reply from Dorian /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5111521 Wow, now that puts a whole new spin on things

(spin, geddit? har har har!)

]]> Dorian Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:49:39 +0100 Reply from grbghp /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5111520 wait wait wait, hold up,
maybe you are using windows’s “animated hourglass” ?
lol

]]> grbghp Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:46:59 +0100 Reply from Dorian /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5111320 [quote Dr. Foreman]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”[/quote]

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

]]> Dorian Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:09:09 +0100 Reply from BaconByAnyOtherName /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5111291 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”

]]> BaconByAnyOtherName Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:26:56 +0100 Reply from TWILIAZgeroUIT /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5111018 Lmao. yeah.

]]> TWILIAZgeroUIT Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:48:05 +0100 Reply from stevierayvauhanisawe /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5111015 lol
i had a stereo that called it’s sub dbs, dynamic bass system.
DBSM indicates an angry girlfriend aka da ***** shot me! hahaha

]]> stevierayvauhanisawe Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:44:37 +0100 Reply from TWILIAZgeroUIT /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5111009 [quote shuanmorganisawesome]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[/quote]

yeahh, da bomb squad.

]]> TWILIAZgeroUIT Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:39:29 +0100 Reply from TWILIAZgeroUIT /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5111003 Da Bomb Squad

]]> TWILIAZgeroUIT Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:38:14 +0100 Reply from stevierayvauhanisawe /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110999 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

]]> stevierayvauhanisawe Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:37:36 +0100 Reply from TWILIAZgeroUIT /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110996 [quote STE3LREAL]what you didn’t know that, lol , i lerned that when i got stalight internet.[/quote]

dynamic broadcast satellite sucks to learn about.

]]> TWILIAZgeroUIT Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:37:20 +0100 Reply from STE3L /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110991 what you didn’t know that, lol , i lerned that when i got stalight internet.

]]> STE3L Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:35:55 +0100 Reply from TWILIAZgeroUIT /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110982 Yep. lol

]]> TWILIAZgeroUIT Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:34:34 +0100 Reply from stevierayvauhanisawe /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110979 dynamic broacast sattilite? lol you make me look like an idiot

]]> stevierayvauhanisawe Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:33:39 +0100 Reply from TWILIAZgeroUIT /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110977 Romeo is dead, in another poem, I killed him.lol

]]> TWILIAZgeroUIT Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:33:06 +0100 Reply from STE3L /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110971 [quote TwiliazGerouit][quote STE3LREAL]the one on the main page[/quote]

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

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

]]> STE3L Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:30:48 +0100 Reply from TWILIAZgeroUIT /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110961 [quote shuanmorganisawesome]oh oh well…
lol i gtg anyway, nice talking to you, shout me sometime, we must have intelligent cnversations! lol[/quote]

yeah. about dbs, and stuff.

]]> TWILIAZgeroUIT Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:26:27 +0100 Reply from stevierayvauhanisawe /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110959 oh oh well…
lol i gtg anyway, nice talking to you, shout me sometime, we must have intelligent cnversations! lol

]]> stevierayvauhanisawe Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:24:32 +0100 Reply from TWILIAZgeroUIT /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110958 [quote STE3LREAL]the one on the main page[/quote]

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

]]> TWILIAZgeroUIT Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:24:20 +0100 Reply from TWILIAZgeroUIT /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110955 [quote shuanmorganisawesome]lol, fine
hey do want to IM? i have about every messenger service[/quote]

I don’t.

]]> TWILIAZgeroUIT Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:22:34 +0100 Reply from STE3L /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110953 the one on the main page

]]> STE3L Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:21:59 +0100 Reply from stevierayvauhanisawe /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110951 lol, fine
hey do want to IM? i have about every messenger service

]]> stevierayvauhanisawe Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:21:13 +0100 Reply from TWILIAZgeroUIT /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110950 [quote Adiuvo]ok you two, you can continu this in shouts, oh and nice poem twiliazgerouit[/quote]

Which one?

]]> TWILIAZgeroUIT Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:20:59 +0100 Reply from STE3L /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110944 ok you two, you can continu this in shouts, oh and nice poem twiliazgerouit

]]> STE3L Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:18:09 +0100 Reply from TWILIAZgeroUIT /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110942 Audio enginering. !!!! haha. Kinda.

]]> TWILIAZgeroUIT Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:17:07 +0100 Reply from stevierayvauhanisawe /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110938 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

]]> stevierayvauhanisawe Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:15:23 +0100 Reply from TWILIAZgeroUIT /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110935 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.

]]> TWILIAZgeroUIT Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:14:44 +0100 Reply from TWILIAZgeroUIT /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110928 [quote shuanmorganisawesome]you so copied that from wikipedia haha, but correct.
your very intelligent for 14, where do you go to shcool at?[/quote]

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

thanks, Jackson Creek middle school, in bloomington IN.

]]> TWILIAZgeroUIT Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:11:27 +0100 Reply from stevierayvauhanisawe /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110924 you so copied that from wikipedia haha, but correct.
your very intelligent for 14, where do you go to shcool at?

]]> stevierayvauhanisawe Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:09:49 +0100 Reply from TWILIAZgeroUIT /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110915 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.

]]> TWILIAZgeroUIT Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:02:25 +0100 Reply from stevierayvauhanisawe /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110909 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

]]> stevierayvauhanisawe Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:58:06 +0100 Reply from TWILIAZgeroUIT /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110900 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!

]]> TWILIAZgeroUIT Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:51:28 +0100 Reply from stevierayvauhanisawe /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110894 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.

]]> stevierayvauhanisawe Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:47:06 +0100 Reply from TWILIAZgeroUIT /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110889 When I said music I meant that I am a musician. And art is awsome. Why don’t you understand biochemistry?

]]> TWILIAZgeroUIT Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:42:20 +0100 Reply from stevierayvauhanisawe /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110888 awesome, art is good, computers are my true passion, biochemistry? don’t understand it, travel? never left the country, can’t live without music.

]]> stevierayvauhanisawe Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:41:07 +0100 Reply from TWILIAZgeroUIT /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110883 Art, computers, biochemistry, travel, and music.

]]> TWILIAZgeroUIT Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:35:42 +0100 Reply from stevierayvauhanisawe /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110882 lol, well i’m 18 and repair tv’s aha
great jobs.
what kinda stuff are you into?

]]> stevierayvauhanisawe Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:34:53 +0100 Reply from TWILIAZgeroUIT /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110879 I am 14. I work at Wendys. lol

]]> TWILIAZgeroUIT Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:28:57 +0100 Reply from stevierayvauhanisawe /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110877 lol, i’m guessing you have some job in the semiconductor business?

]]> stevierayvauhanisawe Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:27:30 +0100 Reply from TWILIAZgeroUIT /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110876 I like winning. LOL. Not realy, only when I know what I am talking about, which isn’t often.

]]> TWILIAZgeroUIT Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:25:13 +0100 Reply from TWILIAZgeroUIT /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110875 Yeah.

]]> TWILIAZgeroUIT Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:24:24 +0100 Reply from stevierayvauhanisawe /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110872 ok you win, lol
either way its a semiconductor. changes it’s physical properties to resit or conduct electric current

]]> stevierayvauhanisawe Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:23:41 +0100 Reply from TWILIAZgeroUIT /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110864 [quote shuanmorganisawesome]silicon* and yes it’s basically just highly compacted sand.
all electronic devices use it, it’s a semiconductor[/quote]

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

]]> TWILIAZgeroUIT Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:17:10 +0100 Reply from stevierayvauhanisawe /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110860 silicon* and yes it’s basically just highly compacted sand.
all electronic devices use it, it’s a semiconductor

]]> stevierayvauhanisawe Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:15:01 +0100 Reply from TWILIAZgeroUIT /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110854 [quote sarahannoman][quote NoGifts]There isn’t any sand actually in there. it’s just a picture.[/quote]

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[/quote]

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

]]> TWILIAZgeroUIT Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:11:32 +0100 Reply from stevierayvauhanisawe /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110836 hz? lol
i have a 240hz lcd on my wallm, beat that!

]]> stevierayvauhanisawe Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:57:18 +0100 Reply from STE3L /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110819 78, beet that

]]> STE3L Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:40:29 +0100 Reply from stevierayvauhanisawe /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110812 [quote NoGifts]There isn’t any sand actually in there. it’s just a picture.[/quote]

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

]]> stevierayvauhanisawe Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:35:08 +0100 Reply from Me.Myself.and.I /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110809 [quote NoGifts]There isn’t any sand actually in there. it’s just a picture.[/quote]

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

]]> Me.Myself.and.I Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:29:38 +0100 Reply from NoGifts /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110796 There isn’t any sand actually in there. it’s just a picture.

]]> NoGifts Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:17:45 +0100 Reply from STE3L /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110795 its stasonery, its an optical illusion.

]]> STE3L Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:17:37 +0100 Reply from k-la leonardo /post/291088-is-the-the-sand-in-the-windows-hour#reply-5110791 i believe so

]]> k-la leonardo Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:15:27 +0100