And now, thanks to instant-reading technology, you don't even need to wait 15 seconds to start up the device: "I press, I read, it's instant... it's a book!"
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Even in close proximity, the tech worked pretty quickly, as we only had to wait a few seconds for the media to load or for an adequate connection to be made.
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Hit the power button and you'll have to wait for about three to four seconds for the display to pop on.
In other MMOs, you have to wait several seconds for cast time.
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Then you just need to save your work and wait a few seconds before you shut down, to avoid data loss.
Files are generated in realtime, so you'll need to wait a few seconds before beginning each download.
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Plantronics took special pride that its callers wait a maximum of eight seconds to reach a live body at the complaint desk.
As Amazon Prime continues to steal deals and provide its users with the pure streaming content they want, Netflix is still stuck in the days of sending discs via snail mail, forcing users to wait days and not mere seconds for their movies.
You can wait 5 seconds for a safe place to pass.
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Every six seconds shaved off the wait time adds a percentage point to sales growth.
The camera has a launch time and shot-to-shot wait time of about 0.5 seconds(12).
Customers didn't want to wait ten minutes for a pizza when they could get a burger in 60 seconds.
And he didn't wait to send the crowd into a frenzy: Starting two minutes and 27 seconds into the game, he hit a three, two jumpers and finally, a driving layup to put up nine points in the game's first five minutes.
Orbcomm's network of 28 satellites handle short bursts of data from things such as shipping containers and electricity meters, the kind of messages that can wait a few seconds until a satellite is overhead and don't require elaborate software to process.
They could have gone in front inside 15 seconds when Brede Hangeland's header was superbly tipped over by Andriy Pyatov, but the Cottagers only had to wait two more minutes to nudge ahead.
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