Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 17:01:15 +1030 From: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au> To: Michael Bacarella <mbac@nyct.net> Cc: Harold Gutch <logix@foobar.franken.de>, Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>, Brian Beattie <beattie@aracnet.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NT life spans [was: UDF] Message-ID: <20000115170115.E2610@internode.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10001141836000.25515-100000@bsd1.nyct.net> References: <20000114214234.A14486@foobar.franken.de> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10001141836000.25515-100000@bsd1.nyct.net>
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On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 06:53:57PM -0500, Michael Bacarella wrote:
> ~18 work days per month, times 12 months per year. 10 minutes per day..
> 18 days/month * 12 months/year * 10 minutes/day = 2160 minutes/year
> 2160 minutes / 60 minutes/hour = 36 hours/year
> The average number of hours that a human being lives, if they live to 80
> is 691200 hours (GAH).
> 19200 humans working with NT for a year, a single lifespan is lost waiting
> for NT to reboot. (19200 * 36 = 691200)
> Some other perspectives:
> If 1,000,000 people use Windows NT for 1 year, 52 human lives are lost.
> That's a human life per week!
> 1,000,000 people using NT for 5 years = 260 lives.
> I'll let the numbers speak for themselves about the TCO involved in
> deploying Windows NT across your enterprise.
The life insurance costs alone would be a killer :-)
- mark
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