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Re:Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower tha... by Aeolun on Thursday December 19, 2019 @08:50AM (#21834843)
Those are some huge (or long) meetings.

Back of the envelope:

$400 * 200 = $80000 for the monitors.

You need to have $80000 / ($100000/12/21/8) = 1600 person/hour of meeting time to equal the cost. 100 people can meet for two days!

I feel like something is off with that calculation, but I cannot find it...

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Re:Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower tha... by arethuza on Thursday December 19, 2019 @09:05AM (#21834947)
It was a big project - so easily 30-40 people at meetings (usually in multiple concurrent sessions). People flying in from all over the world and staying in decent hotels...

I remember seeing the bill for breakfast for one set of meetings - was nearly $5000.

Yeah - I was off with the "ten times"... but not by a huge amount ;-)

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Re:Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower tha... by Aeolun on Thursday December 19, 2019 @07:11PM (#21840612)
Ah, yeah, you can rapidly run up the cost if you fly to your meetings. I was thinking about an all-in-one-office situation. Good point, thanks :)
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