Running on reserves...

The time has come for a student programmer to write codes without a computer.  Just a few hours ago, the computer I was using, which belong to the sister of my grandmother was revoked.  It was revoked for the idea of starting a computer gaming station business did not entice my other "grandmother."  To think that we had a deal, that I manage and improve the site at which the shop would open and that she be the one to handle the computers for she had an internet cafe some time ago.  But at my request to improve the graphic cards and the memory of the systems, she insisted that they were not needed for they were still working.  Of course they are working!  But to what end?  Simple gaming?  Browser games?  The computers can't even manage a smooth frame rate on one of the new games of that time, "Left for Dead 2." How am I to promote the business if we don't have much to offer?  Price? I was bringing it down for pure satisfaction.  Imagine playing on a wonderful machine where you don't lag and you won't have troubles running the latest games for a fraction of the price!  But no matter how hard I try to convince her that upgrades were needed, she looked at them as more liabilities and risks.  How can you start a business without risk?  She complained that the price for the upgrades were too expensive.  How can 15 video cards and RAMs be too expensive when the money would be earned back relatively quickly.  And to top it all off, my old system died.  Actually it was already dying and I guess it just gave up.

And thus now, I am here using my mother's netbook, which is by the way not that fast writing this blog. I wonder how I'll fare in computer science without having a system that would compile fast and provide me with bugs or errors without waiting and allow me to configure and re-compile my code within the same hour.  Besides, this netbook is not mine and I can't possibly fill it with bits that belongs to me.  It seems that I'll have to find other ways, this city does not have public libraries or other public stuff that are relatively free in other countries.  I wonder if internet cafes here will let me compile my work.  It'll be a shock if they found out that the system I used had additional files without them knowing I put them there or without them knowing what the hell I was talking about.

Anyways, perhaps paper and pen will do the trick for now.  Compiling and tracing it by hand would be fun and be a challenge.  Real programmers use a magnetized needle and a steady hand!