For companies like that, such as online retailers, the amount lost per hour in downtime can be in the millions.

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Continuous digital input stimulation could be depriving the brain of precious downtime in which memories of experiences can be more permanently stored, according to a New York Times article that reported on a new University of California, San Francisco, study.

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The improvements will be worth the downtime, and thanks for hanging with us as we do this.

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Customers demand that there be redundancies so as to avoid downtime.

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The final paradigm that needs to be overcome, and you hit it, is that downtime is unacceptable in business today.

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There seems to be a grave worry here that 2.5 seconds of downtime between beach volleyball points would put 15, 000 people to sleep, so there's been a never-ending blast of music Miami Sound Machine, Maroon 5, Usher, Yakety Sax (better known as the theme to "The Benny Hill Show").

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And that seems to be the predominant response from those fed up with the onslaught of downtime-related coverage and commentary over the past two days.

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Many people already know this on some level, yet still allow themselves to be pressured or succumb to the need to put work before fun during supposed downtime.

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