{"id":2102,"date":"2008-10-26T18:53:01","date_gmt":"2008-10-26T18:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2102"},"modified":"2008-10-26T18:53:01","modified_gmt":"2008-10-26T18:53:01","slug":"instant_gratifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2102","title":{"rendered":"Instant Gratification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times reports on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/26\/technology\/26boot.html?ref=todayspaper\">computer manufacturers that are trying to decrease bootup times<\/a>&#8211;the time it takes your computer to power on, load the operating system, and generally make itself ready for use. I just rebooted my computer and it took about 35 seconds, but I hardly ever power it down. My work computer probably takes a little longer to boot, but again, it stays powered on most of the week. And in both cases, I usually don&#8217;t mind waiting. Maybe that&#8217;s because I&#8217;m now old enough to remember when computers took a loooong time to boot, long enough to get up, go check the mail, come back, and wait some more. The current state of affairs seems more than tolerable. <\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m probably part of a dying breed. I&#8217;m comfortable with having a few empty moments when I&#8217;m not doing something. <\/p>\n<p>And ten years from now, when boot times are a thing of the past, I&#8217;ll wonder how I once put up with wait times of 35 seconds. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times reports on computer manufacturers that are trying to decrease bootup times&#8211;the time it takes your computer to power on, load the operating system, and generally make itself ready for use. I just rebooted my computer and it took about 35 seconds, but I hardly ever power it down. My work computer <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2102' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-xU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}