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Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 02:14:43 -0800
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Subject: CPSR-GLOBAL digest 521
HOME PCs RANK FIRST IN DOING NOTHING
Forget about productivity -- a recent study by the NPD Group found that the
majority of the time that home PC is running, it's doing... nothing! The
study monitored 10,076 computer-owning households and used its PC Meter
software to tally the time the computers sat idle following an initial 60
seconds of no activity on the keyboard or mouse. Fifty-four percent of the
time the machines were switched on, they were not being used, and when they
were used, the biggest chunk of time (29%) was devoted to "futzing" --
fiddling around with operating systems, organizing files, changing
"wallpaper" and screensaver patterns, and altering the speed of the cursor
blink. Meanwhile, word processing and business software use took up 16% of
the time, and Internet surfing accounted for only 12%. The Sierra Club
points out that turning a computer on and leaving it on unused for three
hours a day results in about 200 pounds of carbon dioxide pollution every
year. (Wall Street Journal 28 Feb 97)
Edupage is written by John Gehl <gehl@educom.edu> & Suzanne Douglas
<douglas@educom.edu>. Voice: 404-371-1853, Fax: 404-371-8057.
The Internet provides information access,
Cybrarians do it better.
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