He spent his idle time working in talk radio and with a ministry group.
Idle time had fallen to 24% of total rig days, from 34% in 2007.
What if he could aggregate all that idle time and sell it to customers needing a last-minute job?
If you have idle time, and money on your hands, you could make annual visits to your estate lawyer to keep up with this moving target.
The workers, with more idle time to enjoy, and more money to afford things to fill that time, created whole new leisure time industries, and employment actually grew.
It's supposed to work only in idle time, but what it thinks of as idle time (when the hard disk isn't working) usually doesn't jibe with how you see idle time (when you're not using the PC at all).
For example, Southwest Airlines cut the amount of idle time for its planes at the gate by about 50%, which produced a huge fuel savings and dramatically increased plane utilization (one of the highest cost drivers in the airline industry), without negatively impacting service quality.
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Started in late 1998, the space-alien hunt has recruited the owners of 2.5 million PCs, tapping their machines' idle processing time to search small chunks of radio telescope data for patterns that might signal intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos.
The big, smart brand has figured out a way to pool the idle computer time of the thousands of members of its People for a Smarter Planet campaign on Facebook and use it to fight childhood cancer, find treatments for AIDS, research clean energy solutions, and many other things that will benefit humanity.
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But for pleasure boats, which may spend a lot of time idle, Dr Williams's team is trying to improve the formula so that a boat need not be moving so fast before the paint does its job.
They discovered that, depending on the amount of traffic in the network, devices in power-saving modes spend 60 to 80 percent of their time in idle listening.
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For the first time on Facebook, Idle Worship provides players with synchronous play: the ability to interact with other players in real time, as opposed to the old chess-by-email systems employed by the majority of social games.
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He said life in space was extremely busy, with no spare time to be idle.
For those using prime, it means that cash must sit idle for longer periods of time.
Some of the pipes may have suffered during the time they stood idle.
Clark said that unemployment had risen sharply under Bush, particularly for African-Americans and Hispanics, and that unemployed workers have been idle for longer periods of time than in previous years.
In the meantime, the sales force Bristol developed to market Taxol, a wonder drug in its time, may be idle.
Most of the Cisco equipment you buy sits idle quite a bit of the time: by virtualizing it, you can improve performance and lower your equipment costs at the same time.
At the same time they disdain the idle rich produced by old wealth, such as the European aristocracy and the drifting trust-fund kids descended from the East Coast tycoons of the early 20th century.
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But this time, it's more than idle watercooler talk, according to weather scientists.
That system led to the discovery that most lead time was being dissipated as parts sat idle on a dock somewhere.
"Right now, your car is idle, just sitting, parked about 96 percent of the time, " explains Amory Lovins.
The real bet that Idle Games is making is this: that you can put time and money into a Facebook game and have it pay off.
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The researchers have found that this kind of energy-taxing "idle listening" is occurring during a large portion of the time phones spend in power-saving mode---as much as 80 percent on busy networks.
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At a time when factories are closing and workers are being made idle, can companies continue to throw money at their F1 programs?
It is rather as though a household with lots of cash sitting idle in a low-interest bank account was at the same time paying a much higher interest rate on its debts.
What is the value of the loss of leisure time if some of the new spending results in the employment of previously idle resources?
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Soon pharmaceutical companies or any other business that has a need for supercomputer power from time to time could be renting that power or creating it for themselves with their own idle desktop machines, said Mr Findlay.
What with record low interest rates, idle construction workers and a huge backlog of worthy projects, there has never been a better time to invest in infrastructure.
Along with cutting full-time firefighter posts, other recommendations include closing Haworth fire station in Bradford and merging Shipley and Idle fire stations to a new site.
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