[QUOTE=ThomRuley]If you are a student, and while playing a video game, you feel guilty about the game not because you are burning up study time, but because your iterations are taking twice as long while you are playing the game.

Been there, done that

:redface: :redface: :redface: :redface: :redface:[/QUOTE]

...if you buy a Playstation 2 only to avoid playing games on your PC where you run Prime95... :whistle:

...and then try to hack your Playstation to run Prime95 on it.

you have a friend over and the first thing s/he asks is "Why so many computers?"

[QUOTE=ThomRuley]you have a friend over and the first thing s/he asks is "Why so many computers?"[/QUOTE]

Followed by "Why do none of them have monitors/keyboards/mice?"

you walk into your room with shorts and shortsleves on and outside its snowing and around 0 degrees. well doing this you check the temp and ur room and notice the neadle has climbed to 90 degrees.....

...you negotiate a deal with your local bakery:

They use your computer room to bake bread, and provide you with provide you with extra money for more computers in return.

...you start making up GIMPS-related lyrics that actually work with the music, like so: "Wouldn't it be nice if I had a dual-core Athlon 64 for Prime95..."

(guilty)

...You become a network admin and in turn you decide to take half a cut in pay as long as your company will pay your power bill as well as give you all there old computers for life.

[QUOTE=PrimeCruncher]...you start making up GIMPS-related lyrics that actually work with the music, like so: "Wouldn't it be nice if I had a dual-core Athlon 64 for Prime95..."

(guilty)[/QUOTE]

Of course, all your songs have a prime number of words.

[QUOTE=moo]...You become a network admin and in turn you decide to take half a cut in pay as long as [B]your company will pay your power bill[/B] as well as give you all there old computers for life.[/QUOTE]

Shortly thereafter, the CEO is forced into a shameful resignation for breaking the company's back with an impossibly large expense.

... you refuse to celebrate any holidays except the anniversaries of the discoveries of Mersenne primes.

Despite the fact that GIMPS is designed for parallel computing, you consider this:

[url]http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/57463[/url] (it's in German)

...on composite numbered days, you are too scared to leave your bed.