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[Survey] Does multitasking speed you up or slow you down?

Started by Ryan Lintker, 2002-09-17T09:14:22-05:00 (Tuesday)

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Ryan Lintker

Multitasking is a big part of computing and non computer life these days.  I often find myself always busy with five things at a time, but I never seem to finish what I need to do.

What do you think about multitasking?
"You can't always get what you want,
 but if you try sometime, you just might find,
you get what you need" - The Rolling Stones

Chris Swingler

If you're running Windows, muiltitasking just increases your chances for a utter and total system crash.  In which case, you'll find yourself using CTRL+ALT+DEL keyboard shortcut.

(I don't like to multitask.  It's distracting.)

--Beanie
Christopher Swingler
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Michael Kennedy

"Multitasking is like stomping on your motherboard with baseball cleats."

(I read that on a tech humor site once.  It was supposedly a line uttered by some doof at a mom 'n pop PC store.  Aaanyway...)

I tend to disagree.  I multitask quite a bit at work since I'm not only an admin, but "the tech guy" as well.  I get interrupted a bunch and wind up closing 20 programs each night before I go home.  I run Windows 2000 Pro on a 1.26 P3m, 512mb laptop and rarely use CTRL+ALT+DEL unless I'm locking my system.  The only times apps hang is when it's their own fault (not timing out a connection properly and hanging, etc).  Plus, if I had to wait for exverything to finish on it's own before I moved on to the next thing I'd get a lot less done.

I might be a bit of an exception, but I do have trouble concentrating unless I'm constantly busy with multiple things, so multi-tasking is a must for me.  :-D
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