Jim Lux wrote:
The average person spends roughly 3700 hours per year consuming enetertainment, of which more than 3500 are some form of audio or video (i.e. not reading)
I would love to hear where that data came from. Considering a work year is about 2080 hours, this means we spend more time per week being entertained, than working.
Moreover, there are 8760 hours (give or take) in a year. 3700 hours represents 42% of that.
Needless to say, I am ... ah ... skeptical ... about those numbers (the 3700).
Going to the theater and seeing a movie is a very tiny fraction of this (on average), but still accounts for about $10B per year in the US, and perhaps $25B world wide (2004 numbers) and this does not include "adult" entertainment.
Maybe listening to the radio while driving your car counts. Maybe all the annoying little ad-blurbs on pages count. I dunno.
3700 hours? Unlikely at best. -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics LLC, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com http://jackrabbit.scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 786 8423 fax : +1 866 888 3112 cell : +1 734 612 4615 _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
