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Attack of the Clones to Cost Economy $300m

Posted by timothy on from the but-think-of-the-toy-revenues dept.

Audent writes: "Attack of the Clones may make you sick but according to this story, it will cost the US economy $300 million in lost productivity what with all the nerds calling in with a bad case of midiclorianitis. ... Nerds and geeks and propellorheads are singled out as being most at risk. Take your medication now! dammit." A nameless reader also points to a review (looks like two, but only one is up at the time of this writing) up at http://www.pstwo.net/.

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  1. Re:FreeBSD used for rendering by Ryu2 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    No, Renderman running on IRIX.

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  2. Re:using that logic...I can prove it by Elfod · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If solitaire wasn't essential to the OS why is it in all the Server installs like NT, W2K etc...

    Elfod

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  3. what about budweis^H^H^H^Hwater ??? by uberslakr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    so has someone analyzed how much "lost productivity" that crap has cost us? especially for the droves of bubbas and skeeters that call in sick from drinking too many cases watching the game???

    *hiccup*

    ;)