I'd noticed it because I use Adobe Illustrator.
It was the only piece of software to make it appear when my iMac was new. Over 5 years later and it is still rare that anything else causes it. But it happens far too often with Illustrator.
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A Truly Inspiring TED Talk About the Spinning Beach Ball of Death
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I'd noticed it because I use Adobe Illustrator.
It was the only piece of software to make it appear when my iMac was new. Over 5 years later and it is still rare that anything else causes it. But it happens far too often with Illustrator.
Are you serious? You get dancers and music and everything every day?!?!?! I want to go to your university.
Yeah it's pretty cool, but after a while it really gets boring. Plus the PC dancers are not as fun!
Apple would never design something like the beach ball nowadays. It's far too colourful. Even now as they try to strip all the colour out of Mac OS, I hope they keep the beach ball.
I don't know why you got downrated so much I thought the same thing. It is much more laughable when it is not as obvious because it doesn't look planned then and puts him on the spot. As soon as the rainbow people come out to play you know the jokes over and now it is just a time waster to get to the point.
As for the beachball. Honestly I rarely get these anymore and if I do it will be with safari but I choose to use Chrome which doesn't ever get it. I think SL and Lion days have pretty much dissolved the beach ball constant issue
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the coloured beach ball adds the right contrast to the rest of the OS for a pleasing experience. My opinion anyway
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nah the beach ball is more 3 dimensional for real. I could instantly tell that was a remade beach ball it had no reflection or core shadow on it just a plane shape with a bit of a drop shadow and also oversized.
I thought that's because originally it was the animation of a spinning optical disc inherited from NeXTSTEP. So it was like the rainbow light glinting off of a disk, so the "rainbow" would stay in the same position while the disc spun around... And then in (which Mac OS X was that?) it turned to a blue "pinwheel" and then later to a multicolored pinwheel... Beach ball is just a nickname, right?
I was good until the people in the body suits. THat was a tad creepy
But I loved when even old System 7 and 8 error screens were popping up. That was awesome (and something I am so glad to never see again)
Pity that that said group doesn't really understand the nature of Improv, cause that wasn't anything close to it. Then again, it seems like these days few live performance groups know what improv is despite claims they are doing it
nice performance and a good idea.
however in the context how seriously the TED crowd takes themselves it is funny in a different sense. TED is a useless waste of money so that rich people and self-proclaimed visionaries can claim they change the world. But almost all of them are just unproductive wannabe's and want other people to do the actual work that is needed to achieve something. This just illustrates how silly this entire thing is.
however in the context how seriously the TED crowd takes themselves it is funny in a different sense. TED is a useless waste of money so that rich people and self-proclaimed visionaries can claim they change the world. But almost all of them are just unproductive wannabe's and want other people to do the actual work that is needed to achieve something. This just illustrates how silly this entire thing is.
I love Improv Everywhere. They do a lot of really great stuff. But some of it, like this, is not that interesting. I highly suggest people go and visit their site (it was linked earlier by somebody else) and see some of their really funny stuff. This was basically just a Rickroll. Meh.
I've got a 2011 MBP with 8gig and an SSD. Still happens to me quite often, as in, multiple times per day.
That was cute. And I still see my spinning beach ball almost every day on my G4 especially with three resource hogging applications running at the same time.
Hillarious!
Sometimes you can have the beach ball spinning and you have not actually locked up. Zbrush sometimes comes to mind.
I am baking a normal map at the moment with the beach ball in the bg spinning away, but it's still moving in the progress bar, even though I am told c4d is not responding.
Sometimes you can have the beach ball spinning and you have not actually locked up. Zbrush sometimes comes to mind.
I am baking a normal map at the moment with the beach ball in the bg spinning away, but it's still moving in the progress bar, even though I am told c4d is not responding.
I'm a long time Mac developer, started on OS 7.5.1. I have this thing about the beach ball and a terrible to urge to educate people about it! Forgive me
The beach ball means an application has not responded to user events for a certain time, I forget what it is. 2 seconds I think. An application has an event queue that the operating system puts events ( i.e. mouse clicks or movement, key presses, redraw requests etc. etc.) into and normally an application will be pulling those events off the queue and dealing with them. If the OS decides the application hasn't done that recently enough it puts up the beach ball. When the application starts to respond to events again it takes it down.
Sometimes the beach ball will come up because an app is completely hung. That's not often the case in my experience. More commonly it's because it's busy doing something processor intensive and it's not processing events. It's in a loop working hard. That's what it sounds like you're seeing C4D doing.
A few years back Apple really started encouraging developers to do these sorts of intensive operations on a different thread to the user interface. This means that the user interface can stay responsive while the app is working away. It stops the beach ball from being shown. I think Apple also shortened the time before the beach ball was shown as an incentive for developers to make those changes. I do think that made quite a difference to how often you see it.
Lots of people think the beach ball means a crash but most of the time that isn't the case.
I thought the video was pretty funny. I liked the use of the system beep in the music
.I'm a long time Mac developer, started on OS 7.5.1. I have this thing about the beach ball and a terrible to urge to educate people about it! Forgive me
The beach ball means an application has not responded to user events for a certain time, I forget what it is. 2 seconds I think. An application has an event queue that the operating system puts events ( i.e. mouse clicks or movement, key presses, redraw requests etc. etc.) into and normally an application will be pulling those events off the queue and dealing with them. If the OS decides the application hasn't done that recently enough it puts up the beach ball. When the application starts to respond to events again it takes it down.
Sometimes the beach ball will come up because an app is completely hung. That's not often the case in my experience. More commonly it's because it's busy doing something processor intensive and it's not processing events. It's in a loop working hard. That's what it sounds like you're seeing C4D doing.
A few years back Apple really started encouraging developers to do these sorts of intensive operations on a different thread to the user interface. This means that the user interface can stay responsive while the app is working away. It stops the beach ball from being shown. I think Apple also shortened the time before the beach ball was shown as an incentive for developers to make those changes. I do think that made quite a difference to how often you see it.
Lots of people think the beach ball means a crash but most of the time that isn't the case.
I thought the video was pretty funny. I liked the use of the system beep in the music
Thanks :}....that answers something I always wondered about.