While custom boots have always been better, traditionally you had to make choices among the three key areas of advantage: performance, comfort, and warmth.
Bluntly put, the expense-adjusted performance advantage of switching to cash or fixed income is questionable.
"There are probably only two or three times in my career that I started a season with the same performance advantage as I had last year, " Brawn said.
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Most drivers will not notice much performance advantage in the SL 550 from a Mercedes costing half the price, because most drivers never remotely approach the upper limits of acceleration, speed or traction that set it apart.
This would eliminate what has historically been the only performance advantage of lead acid in starter battery applications, and is expected to considerably increase the value proposition of A123's Engine Start battery as a lighter-weight, longer-lasting alternative to absorbent glass mat (AGM) and other lead acid batteries.
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If a recording has any advantage over a live performance, it's that listening to the music isn't influenced by watching the musicians.
Kingston's DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 G3 is ideal for consumers, IT professionals and enthusiasts who want to take advantage of all the performance improvements offered by USB 3.0 technology.
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The HD HERO2's new processor delivers twice the processing power, taking full advantage of a new high performance 11 megapixel sensor that delivers more than twice the image detail along with professional low light performance.
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As the amount of information grows exponentially and the clockspeed of business gets faster, providing a streamlined flow of real-time data analysis and decision making in key processes will be the foundation for better performance and competitive advantage.
And they took advantage of an error-strewn Falcons performance, which began when Armitage picked up Tait's spilled ball and sent in Ojo for the first of his three tries, all of which were converted by Ryan Lamb.
Programs that take advantage of these new instructions get a sizeable performance boost.
Under Agile methodology, marketers are deploying their budgets and resources more intelligently, and looking actively for the best performance against their campaigns: taking advantage of the ever expanding number of social media sites, targeting users on mobile phones, and even exploring very early technologies like augmented reality.
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Did steroid users gain a significant advantage over those who played without the aid of performance enhancers?
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Such performance-based exams have a big advantage over multiple choice: They go beyond whether students can regurgitate a set of facts on a certain day to assess their know-how.
MAJC's advantage lies in putting together lots of identical high-performance processors on one chip that can split up computing tasks better than can a conventional chip.
They're looking for, of course, their performance in part, but I think the advantage we feel he has is that his policies are ultimately better for the American people.
While lost manufacturing jobs are a common concern for Americans today, an even bigger problem down the road may be the erosion of America's technical advantage and its effects on broader U.S. economic performance.
These new processors will take advantage of new energy-saving features in Haswell and provide balanced performance-per-watt, giving customers even more options.
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"What we found was that it is critical for competitive advantage and companies are seeing this as a way to improve their performance, " says Cynthia Figge, co-founder of Ekos International.
"These Blu-ray Disc players offer top-of-the-line performance and operation features that enable consumers to take full advantage of the 3DTV standard as well as the many diverse entertainment options available to them, " said Bruce Tripido, associate vice president, Entertainment Products Division, Sharp Electronics Corporation.
This is especially true of superstar players, who are above all paid for lifting the performance of those around them and, thereby, creating competitive advantage.
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Moreover, take advantage of U.S. laws requiring full financial disclosure and the performance of fiduciary duties between spouses, requiring fair and honest dealing during divorce or separation.
Handing over an annual fee of 1-2%, plus a 20% performance fee, to an alternative-asset manager throws away that advantage.
This is a welcome departure from past Atrix devices which took advantage of Tegra 2 and TI OMAP -- we much prefer the overall performance on Krait chipsets (more on this later).
In this view, human capital is treated as an accumulative resource that benefits the organization like any other business asset, providing competitive advantage through a transformation of the unique capabilities of individual employees to superior organizational performance.
It was another polished performance by the Ulsterman, whose kicking out of hand gave his side territorial advantage on numerous occasions.
"The solutions developed by Supermicro and Fusion-io bring both performance and reliability to NAND Flash, giving Supermicro customers a mission-critical advantage over their competitors, " said Jim Dawson, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Fusion-io.
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With the launch of SmartBook and the rest of the LearnSmart Advantage suite, we continue to lead higher education in using adaptive technology to help improve student performance.
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The advantage of diversification is still achieved, and a two-to-one leveraged ETF will double the performance of the index while still avoiding the risk in the individual stocks.
The critics over at Hot Hardware noted that while it won't take advantage of SATA 6Gbps, it doesn't "suffer from a split personality, " meaning that performance was shockingly consistent in use.
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