Using less labour to perform one specific task frees up that labour to go and perform other tasks.
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For example, you might fudge on the amount of time it takes you to complete a task you were asked to perform by your spouse because you want to build in enough time to goof off before you actually do it.
You can also set a task manager to automatically perform these tasks for you.
Figuring out how to perform an essential task like switching from AM to satellite radio can be daunting at first.
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If a robot is in a remote location they need to be able to use their energy effectively in order to complete their mission or perform a task, so they also need to take energy from their surrounding environment.
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They don't have a second thought about the fact that they're using a robot to perform a task.
The researchers ran an experiment where a principal chooses one of two people to perform a task in exchange for compensation.
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To perform this task well, they had to realise and accept the need to move their discs away from their intended goal before moving them closer.
Further investigations revealed that these detached cells exerted some subtle electromagnetic influence on the wired-up part of the circuit, allowing it to perform its task efficiently.
Every now and then, characters have to perform a task that could alter the story's events, such as hunting down a key card to stop a speeding train.
Both Ms Ladele and Mr McFarlane had argued in Strasbourg for "reasonable accommodation" - a compromise in which an employer would find alternative staff without conflicting religious convictions to perform the task.
I've written about technology for almost my entire adult life, and I love knowing how it works, but I won't kowtow to it or go through unnatural contortions to induce it to perform some task.
Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said he was confident that Mr Reid would continue to perform the task of making assessments of the terrorist ceasefires "in the round and in accordance with the relevant statutory requirement".
Among them: suggesting how many blueprints an engineer should have on his desk, deciding how far to travel to perform an assembly-line task and reducing the time it takes to hire and orient a new employee from 23 to 7 days.
They learn to perform a complex task like swinging, in part, by watching others.
Is it intolerant for a citizen to require its government to perform the fundamental task of enforcing national borders?
In order to earn the Badge, a Scout has to design, build, and program a robot to perform a certain task.
We want to reduce the amount of human labour we have to use to perform any particular task, not increase it.
The first task the website will perform is to search through your contacts in Yahoo, MSN Hotmail and Gmail etc for people who are already registered with Twitter.
But the company's backdown also raises another possibility: that, battered by its rising unpopularity and nervous about hostile legislation, the managed-care industry is fast retreating from the task it was put into place to perform: to control health-care costs.
Kelvin Lui and Alan Wong from The Chinese University of Hong Kong published a study this past spring that showed that those who frequently use different types of media at the same time appear to be better at integrating information from multiple senses when asked to perform a specific task.
Only 14 states currently force students to perform some kind of task besides essay writing.
Web Workers, for instance, is an emerging system for isolating a browser's individual tasks into separate "threads, " making it easier for a browser-based program to perform a computationally intensive task such as photo-editing in a background tab while the user is attending to something else, like e-mail, in the foreground.
As you know, in October 1997, the NASA Administrator chartered the Cost Assessment and Validation (CAV) Task Force, chaired by Jay Chabrow, to perform an independent review of the Space Station program.
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The craft is meant to speed off a runway and accelerate gracefully into orbit in a single blast, perform a task like launching a satellite and then glide back home to its hangar.
It's hard to believe he can competently perform this task if his only experience in a similar situation ended in failure.
The take away message is that the participants who were more in tune with their heart-beats also tended to perform better at the time estimation task.
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He then set up the first of the societies that to this day perform the hugely complex task of collecting money from every pub, club and radio station which uses music, distributing it to those who created it.
Set aside about 45 minutes to defrag your hard disk, a task you should perform at least once a month.
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