With an infusion of missionary zeal our high streets might even be on the cusp of a new golden age of performance, talk and entertainment and not just a shivering queue outside the Apple store on a Friday night.
Where they once boasted about performance, computer-makers now talk about performance-per-watt, and emphasise their energy-saving credentials.
Yeah, when we talk about performance, we come from a trading background, and so we understand which aspects of performance really matter to the trading and investing community.
The best way for the surgeon to improve his performance is to give a talk about it at the county medical society.
This virtualization of flash makes it easier for virtual machines to talk to them and increase performance.
"There was a performance by Shane Warne that people will talk about when they are old and grey and nodding by the fire, " he said.
Summer, who was born in Boston and whose father was a butcher and mother a schoolteacher, sang from the moment she learned to talk, and her debut performance came in church at age 10 when the scheduled singer didn't show and the pastor asked Donna to step in.
The spin doctors are already using the 1996 result to talk down Labour's likely performance and underline the fact that the party is bound to lose a large number of seats.
The bandmembers talk Kickstarter and give a newsroom performance.
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But at a time when other troubled retail chains, such as Radioshack and Best Buy, merely talk of ways to improve the performance of their shrinking store sales, GameStop is aggressively taking the kind of action that stands a good chance of actually doing so.
With people who let you down, talk straight about your expectations for their performance and your hopes for their improvement.
We even celebrate some people solely for their ability to talk big, irrespective of actual value or performance.
The marketing talk, however, was soon undermined by his performance.
Mr. Gelb told me that he had a limited amount of time to talk since he had to be at the evening's performance before the curtain went up.
While we'd like to see the group walk the walk with real products before it talks more talk, there's still a chance that some memory performance bottlenecks could vanish for a good, long while.
"The worry is that adding any encryption would hit performance, and performance is everything, " said one security director of a financial institution attending the talk, who asked not to have his name or employer revealed.
He's a keen student of the finest details of piano performance, as well as a deep thinker about music history, and he likes to talk about Bach's genius.
Quantifying the boost from a halftime performance is difficult, given all the other promotional activity artists typically undertake morning talk show performances, interviews, magazine covers around the same time as such a gig.
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"You can talk a bit too much... and actually forget we are in the business of performance, " he said.
While making a decision to fire or discipline employees because of politics, rather than a worker's performance, can create an image problem for a firm, employees will still want to avoid an embarrassing talk with human resources.
Ziese refused to talk to the Ghanaian media after the match, but his players put a brave face on the unimpressive performance.
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