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All Work And No Play ...

Posted by timothy on from the doctor-what-about-my-gamboling-addiction dept.

Clifton Forlines writes: "Jupiter Media Metrix released a report on Monday about PC gaming - here's one of the more interesting tidbits: 'Similar to past years, Microsoft Windows-bundled games dominated the top rankings in October 2001: Solitaire was number one, with 21.3 million users.' A little math tells us that americans spent about 24 million man-hours in October on Solitarie (estimating that each user spent a little more than an hour over the whole month) That corresponds to about 1 million man-days, or around 2740 man-years! For comparison, I looked up these numbers... Empire State Building: 7 million man-hours (a mere 9 days of Solitaire), Panama Canal: 20 million man-hours (a mere 26 days of Solitaire), Apollo project: 15.5 billion man-hours (or a mere 52 years of Solitaire) Think about it!"

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  1. Re:Think of the man-hours wasted on sex by simetra · · Score: 1, Troll

    Uh, most slashdot readers probably aren't concerned with partners.

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  2. Re:Quantitative vs. Qualitative. by Exmet+Paff+Daxx · · Score: 0, Troll

    *My* grandfather helped keep the Japanese from owning the whole Pacific Ocean-- but you don't see me ranting

    Hello, Mr. Illogical Argument, but no one posted a story on Slashdot that attempts to equate what your Grandfather did with people attempting to drag down our economy by playing games at work.

    The point is that you can't compare 1:1 the time spent by people working to their very limits on some of our greatest accomplishments with Gen-X slackers pissing away investor's money in the .com disaster. It's an insult.

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  3. Re:Think of the man-hours wasted on sex by aoty · · Score: 0, Troll
    If we could just convince all the women that they really don't need orgasms, we could cut down the hours needed for sex to about 5 minutes each time.

    Women can have orgasms? That's news to me :-)
  4. Re:Quantitative vs. Qualitative. by Exmet+Paff+Daxx · · Score: 0, Troll

    Meanwhile, we're posting comments on /.

    Are you trying to insinuate something? I am self-employed, when I spend time posting comments to Slashdot I'm robbing no one - unlike the Solitaire-playing Gen-X leeches the article is talking about. I was (and am) trying to make an important point about the absurdity of comparing honest hard-working Americans and dead weight.

    Please keep your Flamebait to yourself.

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  5. Re:Think of the man-hours wasted on sex by elefantstn · · Score: 1, Troll

    Q: Why do women fake orgasms?

    A: Because they think we care.

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