This, of course, is time spent on the computer . If 15mins more time on google replaced 15mins of time masticating a sandwich, rescuetime isn't going to know about it.
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#22This, of course, is time spent on the computer . If 15mins more time on google replaced 15mins of time masticating a sandwich, rescuetime isn't going to know about it.
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#23I still got everything done on Friday I thought I would, even though I spent about 15 minutes on Pac-Man. But I don't build widgets, so it may be different for people who do tiny, Mechanical Turk type tasks.
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#25Seriously, The whole post is just a sarcastic joke. He even says so in the first comment. How could you guys miss that?
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#26For perspective: Last night's Lost finale got 13 million viewers, 2.5 hours each, so that's 32.5 million hours wasted there. The Superbowl gets ~100 million viewers and lasts... what, three hours? So that's 300 million hours wasted there. The soccer world cup final is rumoured to get something on the order of a billion viewers, so... that's a lot of hours wasted. And your entire life, if you never do anything in the…
IMO watching the Super Bowl is time well spent...
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#27what % is that of March Madness?
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#28For perspective: Last night's Lost finale got 13 million viewers, 2.5 hours each, so that's 32.5 million hours wasted there. The Superbowl gets ~100 million viewers and lasts... what, three hours? So that's 300 million hours wasted there. The soccer world cup final is rumoured to get something on the order of a billion viewers, so... that's a lot of hours wasted. And your entire life, if you never do anything in the…
How many of those things impact productivity during work hours?
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#29It's okay; they were waiting for Battle.net to work in StarCraft 2 again anyway.
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#30Of course, that's not including the time lost to support calls:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9177261/Google_s_Pac_...