5 Aug
2005
5 Aug
'05
8:11 a.m.
This thought crossed my mind many moons ago offline,
here it is on-list.
If the amount of lost time spent reading offtopic and other
time wasting threads is were counted up
assume
800 readers, 100 full-time, 700 part time
80+ posts a day, 30,000 a year
1 second to read a header, 10 seconds to skim a post
1/3 of posts off-topic and other
then time wasted is
100 x 1/3 x 30,000 x 10 / 3,600 ~= 2,800
+700 x 1/3 x 30,000 x 1 / 3,600 ~= 1,900
= 4,700 = 2 1/3 man-Years wasted
In effect, the full-time equivalent of two complete engineers is
continuously going wasted. That could amount to *a few*
open-CatWeasels, Q-IDE controllers, USB 8" drives or
whatever.
John A.
I don't take this too lightly.