{"id":64,"date":"2007-12-21T21:04:01","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T21:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leirdal.net\/blog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2007-12-21T21:04:01","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T21:04:01","slug":"functionality-bloat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leirdal.net\/blog\/archives\/64-functionality-bloat.html","title":{"rendered":"Functionality bloat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/hubpages.com\/hub\/_86_Mac_Plus_Vs_07_AMD_DualCore_You_Wont_Believe_Who_Wins\" target=\"_blank\">test<\/a> has just shown that a 20 years old Mac is quicker than a modern day computer when it comes to regular office applications. It seems quite fitting to ask who is pushing the technology, the software, the hardware or the users. Functionality wise the progress might not be as large as we expect. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A test has just shown that a 20 years old Mac is quicker than a modern day computer when it comes to regular office applications. It seems quite fitting to ask who is pushing the technology, the software, the hardware or the users. Functionality wise the progress might not be as large as we expect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[4,11],"tags":[24,515],"class_list":{"0":"post-64","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-life","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-software","9":"tag-technology","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xqPf-12","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":380,"url":"https:\/\/www.leirdal.net\/blog\/archives\/380-the-illusion-of-productivity.html","url_meta":{"origin":64,"position":0},"title":"The illusion of productivity","author":"leirdal","date":"2010-10-27","format":false,"excerpt":"Have you ever considered how easy it is to manipulate people with technology? 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