My PC use accounts for __% of my computing time
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What does this even mean? (Score:5, Insightful)
Honestly, serious question. Is this asking me how much time I spend on my own machines vs. those at work? Is it asking how much computation is local vs. in the cloud? Is it asking how much is laptop vs. cell phone or tablet? Impossible to answer this.
80-100%... Why? (Score:5, Insightful)
silly question (Score:5, Insightful)
asking /. people if they still use a PC? like asking a race-car driver if they still drive a car. but I would keep an iPad if it was free.
Re:Beautiful! (Score:4, Insightful)
This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
You only need to take a quick glance at the Windows 8 discussions to realize that slashdot is not representative of the majority of people.
I'm assuming PC/Laptop versus Smartphone/tablet (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm assuming that by PC, it is meant personal computer, such as laptop or desktop that has a real keyboard, mouse (or pad) and screen and is operated like a conventional computer, and runs a conventional operating system such as Windows, MacOS, Linux, *BSD. A netbook would be considered a PC in this sense.
And by "other than PC", it is meant the new contemporary collective of Internet-connected non-PC computing devices such as smartphones (iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile), handheld tablet devices (iPad, Galaxy Tab, Intermec handhelds, etc.) and so on, since these kinds of devices are the newest "disruptive technology" in the business, and it makes a lot of sense to compare & contrast their use against the "legacy PC" in such a poll as this.
I guess you could count servers and mainframes as "non-PC" computing, but somehow I doubt that is what the poll creator was thinking of in this case.
Re:What does this even mean? (Score:5, Insightful)
If in CPU Hours, then 99% of my computing time is spent running batch simulations on a super-computing facility - but I don't want that to be misconstrued by whoever is interpreting these results as tablet/mobile phone time.
Re:I'm assuming the Intel definition of PC here... (Score:4, Insightful)
Why can't people just call their damn Xeroxes "copying machines" and their damn Kleenexes "tissue"?
Re:80-100%... Why? (Score:5, Insightful)