The Tragic Cost of Google Pac-Man – 4.82 million hours
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The Tragic Cost of Google Pac-Man – 4.82 million hours
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#2Oh yeah, I definitely would have been productive for those 15 minutes if it wasn't for pacman.
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#3When productivity or work ethic really matters stuff like this has almost zero impact - if anything this just demonstrates how many people are lazy and unproductive. :)
When I saw this at work I immediately and automatically thought "cool. i'll check if that's really playable at home later"
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#5I hate the nickle and dime approach to productivity. In fact, the happier I am the more I get done.
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#6Am I the only one who didn't see this? I never go straight to http://google.com, but use the search box or vimperator's ":open google search terms." To think, I had to lose productivity in traditional ways...
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#7When productivity or work ethic really matters stuff like this has almost zero impact - if anything this just demonstrates how many people are lazy and unproductive. :) When I saw this at work I immediately and automatically thought "cool. i'll check if that's really playable at home later"
I don't see why what the first part (before the hyphen) has to do with the rest. I'd agree with the first bit, but not because anyone who dinks around a bit online at work is "lazy and unproductive."
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#8I played it for about 15 minutes and really enjoyed it. Tragic.
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#9And what percentage of total work produced do those 4.82 million hours represent?
You can't evaluate if it is a "tragic" cost or not without knowing the other half.
From their writeup, sounds like average time spent on Google for that day went from 33.6 million hours to 38.4 million hours - an increase of 14% more time spent per person on google.com for a single day. This doesn't sound tragic to me. If the average RescueTime user spends 4 and a half minutes on Google each day, an extra 36 seconds isn't going to destroy the economy.
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#10Am I the only one who didn't see this? I never go straight to http://google.com , but use the search box or vimperator's ":open google search terms." To think, I had to lose productivity in traditional ways...
You can still play it. They made a permanent place for it here: http://www.google.com/pacman/
According to their blog post its staying there: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/pac-man-rules.html