Thinking
Grandad December 28th, 2008
Me: What the hell are you playing at?
Laptop: Me? I’m not playing at anything.
Me: Yes you are. You’re pissing me off again.
Laptop: I’m sure I don’t know what you mean. Can you elaborate and elucidate please?
Me: Now don’t get smart with me. You are up to something.
Laptop: Moi? I’m not up to anything.
Me: Yes you are. Any time I try to do something on you, you slow down to a crawl. I can’t get anything done. Sometimes you come to a complete halt.
Laptop: I haven’t a clue what you are talking about.
Me: Look at this…
Laptop: Ah!
Me: I gave you two gigabytes of memory and a duel core Centrino processor and this is what you do with them?
Laptop: Erm…
Me: ‘Erm’ indeed. What are you doing?
Laptop: Thinking.
Me: What the fuck are you thinking about that takes up 100% of two processors?
Laptop: I’m trying to work out what makes you tick.
Me: Very funny. What are you really working on?
Laptop: I’m trying to calcula
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Looks like a slow day.
obviously hit a non-existent CPU register before managing the ‘te’
“2×86″ ?
You should have never ask what the square root of -2 was.
TT – You have no idea how slow!
Kae – More than a non-existant CPU register. More like a non-existant CPU.
Jim C – The that the same as ‘calculate PI’?
UPDATE:
The fucking machine failed totally on me just after posting this. It is a completely dead lump of metal now.
Jimc It’s plinus two.
That happened to my last laptop; you have my sympathy!
Just so you know—punching it in its face (screen) doesn’t fix it.
Feels gooood, but doesn’t fix it.
And now there’s dandruff everywhere. Meltdown in Grandad land.
Susan – I ran a bus over it. VERY satisfying!
NaRocRoc – It’s gone a lot colder up here in the mountains. I’m now above the snow line.