[CP5670]

Finally! Someone else with a black background/green text windows scheme!

Descent? One Must Fall? TIE Fighter? Rake must like the classics.

You should see my list.

[Fineus]

Originally posted by Ace Pace
a steak render and around 25 icons you guys have way to cool desktops!

25 icons? Hah! real men have as few icons as possible, knowing full well that a cluttered desktop saps system resources - same as having a BMP set as a background. JPEGs baby

[Divide Overflow]

Originally posted by Thunder

25 icons? Hah! real men have as few icons as possible, knowing full well that a cluttered desktop saps system resources - same as having a BMP set as a background. JPEGs baby

Oh yeah, JPEGs for backgrounds rule. Nevermind the fact that JPEGs are actually drawn on the desktop via ActiveDesktop, an IE component, and. .
[glow=pink]ActiveDesktop is Flamingly Ghey![/glow]
This extra component, having been loaded, takes up RAM and CPU cycles. Meanwhile, Explorer supports BMP files natively.





[glow=silver]My Desktop[/glow]

Do I like glow? Yes I do. Nice IE specific tag. And my background? Updates every five minutes with the current rotation of the Earth, and the cloud cover every three hours.

[Shrike]

Originally posted by Divide Overflow

Oh yeah, JPEGs for backgrounds rule. Nevermind the fact that JPEGs are actually drawn on the desktop via ActiveDesktop, an IE component, and. .
[glow=pink]ActiveDesktop is Flamingly Ghey![/glow]
This extra component, having been loaded, takes up RAM and CPU cycles. Meanwhile, Explorer supports BMP files natively.





[glow=silver]My Desktop[/glow]

Do I like glow? Yes I do. Nice IE specific tag. [/B]

Yeah, that's why I use bmp desktops now.  Don't need windows taking up more resources than it already has to.

And where did you get that pic?  Looks like some kind of globe generator or something.

[Ace Pace]

well its down to 6 icons now and a Jpeg render.

[CP5670]

Six icons here along with no background at all. (a completely black "pattern")

[Fineus]

Originally posted by Divide Overflow

Oh yeah, JPEGs for backgrounds rule. Nevermind the fact that JPEGs are actually drawn on the desktop via ActiveDesktop, an IE component, and. .

I mean't jpegs set as backgrounds - which by definition makes them bitmaps but far smaller than an original bitmap might have been. Optimisation is A1.

As for your background... updates every 5 minutes? And you talk of not wasting resources

[delta_7890]

Yes, I AM obsessed with Jango Fett, and Boba Fett as well.  

http://shadowmoses.bravepages.com/JangoBackground.jpg

[Galemp]

Am I the only one who can count the polys on the left-hand Jango?

[Shrike]

Originally posted by Thunder
I mean't jpegs set as backgrounds - which by definition makes them bitmaps but far smaller than an original bitmap might have been. Optimisation is A1.

As for your background... updates every 5 minutes? And you talk of not wasting resources

I think you missed the point. A bmp takes up more memory, we all know that, but using a jpg background requires an entire additional (sub)program running, so a bmp effectively takes up less resources.

[Thorn]

Unless of course you're using XP....

[Fineus]

Originally posted by Shrike
I think you missed the point. A bmp takes up more memory, we all know that, but using a jpg background requires an entire additional (sub)program running, so a bmp effectively takes up less resources.

Nonono - I know that, what I mean is that a JPEG be optimised then converted to Bitmap. The result being a smaller bitmap and therefore as much optimisation as possible. This doesn't always work but it has for me in the past (got the desktop part of windows running that little bit faster with a little BMP than a large one - file size that is...

[CP5670]

The best thing is to have no background at all like I do; just a blank black wallpaper.

[Thorn]

My new favorite car (it changes every week.. meh) Aston Martin Vanquish..
mmm.. V12.....

[Corhellion]

Here's what's on my desktop(can't take pic of desktop )

So here's a pic of the image thats on it (it's big 800x600)

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=77643

And yes, it's MY ship, I built it with my own comp(lol) but a friend of mine "rendered" it with the engines and background, I think it turned out pretty good, don't you think?

Cya

Cor aka Wes Prewer

PS: The "FS" in ITFS Cerberus stands for "FlagShip"

edited: spelling mistake

[Divide Overflow]

Originally posted by Thunder

I mean't jpegs set as backgrounds - which by definition makes them bitmaps but far smaller than an original bitmap might have been. Optimisation is A1.

As for your background... updates every 5 minutes? And you talk of not wasting resources

Hey smack ass, I'm not as anal about wasting resources as you are. Besides, there are two different resorces. RAM and CPU Time. I have 512 MB of RAM, and an Athlon 900. Not to shabby of a rig, certainly runs GTA3 and Flight Sim 2002 well, no choppyness (even with the globe app). Besides, the globe generator is a background app, that runs with priority set to idle. It is scheduled using another app, that downloads the cloud data and runs the renderer every 5 minutes. With my system, I don't have to worry about cpu time or ram consumption.

ActiveDesktop on the other hand, is of course neatly integrated with Windows, and I've seen a stretched JPEG on a 1 gig Celeron slow that thing down.

Let's put it this way slappy, Dodge produced the Viper, but they didn't leave out the air conditioning because it would make the car go two or three miles an hour faster. . :doh:

[Divide Overflow]

Originally posted by Thunder

Nonono - I know that, what I mean is that a JPEG be optimised then converted to Bitmap. The result being a smaller bitmap and therefore as much optimisation as possible. This doesn't always work but it has for me in the past (got the desktop part of windows running that little bit faster with a little BMP than a large one - file size that is...

Okay so, you took a bitmap, converted to JPEG, then back to BMP, and got a smaller file? Don't think so. BMP uses no compression.  At best, one app may make a slightly larger bitmap than another. But take two completly different images, resize them to the same size. Then save them both, and compare the actual file sizes (not size on disk). Guess what? They're both the same. All you've done is make the image look like crap. And RAM, I've got plenty, so bring the bitmaps on.

[Alikchi]

That was pretty stupid.

[Shrike]

I think I'll just let this little conflict proceed to its conclusion.

[Fineus]

Thunder removes kid gloves...

Enough with the insults Divide. One more and I ban you, my patience meter is now reading a resounding "0" when it comes to you. If you want to make a point then go right ahead - but un-needed name calling in my direction is all you've done since joining and my limit is here and now. One more and I get trigger happy with the ban button - consider yourself warned.