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PCs Use More Sick Days Than People

Posted by michael on from the pcs-need-nyquil-too dept.

lunarscape writes "ZDNet is running an article about the 'absentee' rate of PCs in various UK workplaces. According to the article, while the average employee was out sick seven days a year, the average PC was inoperable due to a virus nine days a year. The article also discusses junk e-mail's impact on productivity, with one business reporting that 99.84 percent of all incoming mail is spam."

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  1. 99.84% pure pork fat by brokenwndw · · Score: 5, Insightful

    99.84 percent of all incoming mail is spam

    Is that one of the 86.55% of all statistics which are made up on the spot?

  2. Should we be suprised? by Collestonpie13 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What would you excpect with most corparations running Windows adn IE?

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  3. This is a poor test... by marnargulus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In the survey only 2,500 people were polled. That's an insanely small number to post concerning such a wide spread thing as computers. That is like taking a group of 100 people in New York and using that as a representitive sample. An online poll could have gathered more like 50,000 on a well traveled site.

  4. Re:Weird comparison by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    knowledge != intelligence

    I am sick and tired of listening to "nerds' spout out this nonsense. Just because you can compile a kernel or know how to program in 10 different languages does not mean you have some high level of intelligence.

    Intelligence is about application of logic. Intelligent people have more of a capacity to understand logic. I am not saying the slashdot croud isn't generally more intelligent than your typical person but computer dorks in all my cs classes think that they are all a genius (while they have trouble with calc 1 and other liberal arts courses). I see this in hundreds of posts on slahsdot. Most people here are mediocre. Just because you are a nerd does not mean that you have attained a more enlightened state. It just means that you have interests in something society unjustly characterized as "special" or "complex." Just about anyone can learn how to do most of the crap we know how to do. They just don't enjoy it as much. And so I Ramble On....

    I can't stand elitists.
    I wish i was registered so i could see how much i am flamed.
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