The superhero when a program starts to hang
Chrome: *Freezes*
Task Manager: *Shoots chrome*
that app you open when another app forgets how to work
ah fuck, chrome froze, guess it's time to open task manager
The opposite of multi-tasking. When one is only capable of focusing on part of one or multiple tasks at any given moment.
Wow! Your multi-tasking skills are on point! I can only fractional task.
I was fractional tasking all day and got 7 different things partially done.
To allot equal time to several different tasks, each exclusively and in sequence. The opposite of multi-tasking, it encourages equal division of remaining time into regular chunks and assignation to each chunk a single task to be focused on exclusively. This is the opposite of the multi-tasking approach that tries to balance focus on all objectives concurrently.
"The human mind is not equipped to multi-task, but it can equi-task as though the software was written for the hardware in direct machine language."
"Equi-tasking is the load-balancing of executive time management."
when you have to deal with people you know won't listen to you, despite having accurate information, and having to watch them fumble about when you told them the solution from the start (most often witnessed in customer service)
Todd: god taking to bill is such a cassandrean task sometimes
Paul: i know right, no matter what you say he refuses to listen
A beneath-his-dignity job dat really "bugs" a toxic-minded individual if he has to perform it, especially if a certain 10-year-old local sleuth was da one who caused him to hafta do it.
Making one or more members of da town's early-teenage-bully group engage in a meanyal task may indeed feel good, but keep in mind dat you may also feel like you've "got a tiger by da tail" while observing/supervising said punitive activities!