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- noun software A
computer program that displaysaesthetic patterns or images when the computer is not being used.
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Examples
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The screensaver is animated: the torch flames move like real fire, light reflection gleams up his sword, and fog mist rolls across the ground.
Archive 2009-04-01 Reis O'Brien 2009
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The closest thing I found to that screensaver is here
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My screensaver is of my hubby's face and at night, when I shut the computer down, I have to wait for that one moment when the screen clears and all I see is his face before the computer turns off.
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The screensaver is freeware, so give it to anyone you want.
Veniceblog: 2005
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The screensaver is freeware, so give it to anyone you want.
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Why anyone would ascribe this map to a website, even if it does make a good screensaver, is beyond me!
Lake Chapala: a review of "The Lerma-Lake Chapala watershed: evaluation and management" 2004
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Users vote for the animations they like best while the screensaver is running, and those fractals are then given precedence within the computational gene pool, spawning variations that are rendered out again, dancing for their human masters who have the power of life and death over them.
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Why anyone would ascribe this map to a website, even if it does make a good screensaver, is beyond me!
Lake Chapala: a review of "The Lerma-Lake Chapala watershed: evaluation and management" 2004
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Users on the other side of the firewall use a gnutella-like host-discovery mechanism to find you when the screensaver is running, then send http-over-ssl requests to you to fetch documents that their firewall won't pass through.
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There’s always stuff going on back there, even when the happy-face screensaver is asking your four thousandth customer if she wantsfries with that.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Introducing: Dave Duggins 2007
uselessness commented on the word screensaver
A way to use up those spare CPU cycles without accomplishing anything productive. Often beautiful, and unless you're still using an old CRT display, utterly pointless.
January 21, 2008
skipvia commented on the word screensaver
Aren't screensavers supposed to do their work when you're not looking at your screen? So who cares what they look like, or even if they are there at all?
*waits a few seconds until his fish tank appears*
January 22, 2008