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Boards wastes 208 man-months a month...

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  • 21-05-2004 2:56pm
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    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Just a curiousity I decided to work out after a discussion with some of the boards poker guys last night...

    We serve 4million pages a month, suppose that each page is read by one person for 30 seconds (probably longer but for the moment lets pick that as an average).

    In that case we are the cause of 208 man months of wasted time every month :)

    Given that this is almost entirely done during work hours, I'm beginning to wonder if the decline of the IT industry was coincidental with the rise of Boards.ie :):)


    All kidding aside, its a pretty amazing statistic innit...

    DeV.
    Post edited by Shield on


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    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,361 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    No?


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    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Originally posted by DeVore
    In that case we are the cause of 208 man months of wasted time every month :)
    Is that all. I waste my entire month, and there are more than 208 others just like me :D


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    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,361 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    Originally posted by seamus
    Is that all. I waste my entire month, and there are more than 208 others just like me :D

    207 to be exact.


    :D


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    #5
    Sleipnir
    Registered Users Posts: 5,514 ✭✭✭Sleipnir


    You didn't win big in the poker game then I take it?

    Tis amazing when you consider that we only live for around 900 months.
    So in one month, all people on boards, added up, waste about a quarter of a human being's life.


    aw crap. I've wasted my life


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    p.pete
    Registered Users Posts: 4,267 ✭✭✭p.pete


    Originally posted by Sleipnir
    Tis amazing when you consider that we only live for around 900 months.
    So in one month, all people on boards, added up, waste about a quarter of a human being's life.


    aw crap. I've wasted my life
    So boards wastes 3 lives a year...


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    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Originally posted by p.pete
    So boards wastes 3 lives a year...
    Notice the very subtle difference in meaning between wastes and ruins. For the latter, I'd say it's a little more than 3 :p


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    echomadman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,472 ✭✭✭echomadman


    Standard Boards.ie question #12

    Yeah, but how many of them are bubbles?


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    sceptre
    Registered Users Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    Originally posted by echomadman
    Standard Boards.ie question #12

    Yeah, but how many of them are bubbles?
    142 as of midnight.

    Now only 141

    All figures are estimates. Sceptre, other users or boards.ie admins may not be held responsible in the event of work lost as a result of this or any other unofficial estimate based on hearsay and/or conjecture. Your fly is open


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    eth0_
    Registered Users Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭eth0_


    Originally posted by DeVore
    Just a curiousity I decided to work out after a discussion with some of the boards poker guys last night...


    *feels Dev's bicep*

    MY! You HAVE been working out!


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