However, deep down I knew I lacked the patience to drive so slow and smoothly on the regular.
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Dale Vince said he had built the car to "smash the stereotype of electric cars as something Noddy would drive - slow, boring, not cool".
On the plus side, the services can accept reservations at any time, track their customers' behavior to provide personalized services such as identifying regular customers and their preferences for seating, and use direct-marketing techniques to drive business on slow nights, fill cancellations or offer premium seating.
Only thing is, data stored on that relatively slow disk drive (instead of flash memory) resulted in "sluggish" screen-to-screen transitions.
But the looming threat of US missile defense will, by increasing the perception of threat, speed rather than slow this drive and will, in all likelihood, compel it to adopt ever more non-traditional means of delivery.
People travelling from Camberley to London now have to take the slow train or drive five miles to Farnborough to get a train which takes 43 minutes.
It noted that the recruitment drive got off to a slow start last year, with fewer than 1, 000 contract soldiers were recruited in the Volga Urals district.
And AgigA Tech makes so-called non-volatile Random Access Memory (RAM) that helps people store and retrieve rapidly changing data far more quickly than the slow-poke disk drive technology that keeps data centers humming.
But the slow pace of the demolition drive has irked many environmental activists who feel precious time is being lost to protect the beach from encroachment and land grabbing.
Some of the changes involved in the transformation include exiting its PC and hard disk drive businesses in time for the dramatic slow-down that would take place in those industries.
Yardy reached his first half century since the opening game of the season with a fine square drive off Kumble, before the wily slow bowler ousted him with a deceptive googly.
Even though the new teams are slow, at least he will get to drive and he is a brilliant points-scorer when they are available.
While my years as a debate coach taught me that collaborative learning often enables slow or recalcitrant learners to hide behind the drive and discipline of top achievers in a group, it also elicits a need to succeed in students whose learning style requires more hands-on experiences.
Paul Getty had the drive to go from single maverick oilman to the very slow amassing of depressed oil shares in a number of public companies that could over time be merged together into an assemblage of an integrated oil giant that itself would be valuable to a larger oil giant.
He urged drivers to "slow down, expect the unexpected, do not drive after drinking or taking drugs, always wear a seatbelt and give driving your full attention".
That marathon battery life is made possible in part by the slow-spinning 4, 200 rpm 30GB hard drive and low-power (in more ways than one) Core Solo U1300 processor, running at a sprightly 1.06GHz.
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But sales in those two countries are likely to be slow until Smart starts making a right-hand-drive version, next year at the earliest.
Adams said he left NeXT after disagreeing with Jobs about the use of the optical drive in the NeXT workstation, which he felt would be too slow.
Progress, Reuters news agency notes, has been slow on two trademarks of Mr Medvedev's modernisation drive: efforts to create a high-tech innovation incubator at Skolkovo, outside Moscow, and to turn the capital into a global financial centre.
Germany and Greece led the drive to exclude the 61m poor (mostly-Muslim) Turks from even the slow lane to membership.
It is part of a drive to force banks to take a tougher view of credit worthiness, and to slow industrial expansion in sectors such as steel and cement which are driving up inflation and threatening growth.
The fear that the Chinese would simply slow their consumption of U.S. debt was all that was needed to drive up rates in the US. The worst inflations in history took place when savers and investors lost confidence in the integrity of the currency, while governments handed out purchasing power to entities that did not earn this purchasing power through past production.
Maybe against better advice, we decided to take our chances and drive the five miles to Park Avenue BMW in South Hackensack, New Jersey, albeit in the slow lane.
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While TrustedReviews found the sound quality decent and some other features, including wireless reception, to be good, the reviewer also found the WACS700 to be lacking in a number of key features, including support for DRM'd files, slow ripping (as long as 20 minutes per CD), and the size of the hard drive (40GB is kind of skimpy).
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