Worst of all, now that US X Factor is looming on the horizon with its pantomime bickering, zippy editing and sterling dedication to filling every possible silence with a deafening explosion noise of some sort, there's a good chance that American Idol will begin to look frumpy and old fashioned by comparison.
That might seem quaint compared with the current zippy turnaround, where even if you missed Guardians of the Galaxy at the multiplex this August you could reasonably expect to find the Blu-ray in your stocking.
Mr Wester was already the boss of two other zippy Fiat brands, Abarth and Maserati, and was the group's chief technical officer.
It is not clear whether BBVA will eventually adopt Simple's technology for its own clients, or keep it independent.For other lenders, upgrading creaky infrastructure to allow zippy functions along the lines of Simple's may be costly, but savings will come from fewer branches.
Three years ago a newly installed Obama administration argued as Mr Romney does now that deep recessions lead to zippy recoveries to justify its rosy budget forecasts.
Visitors to continental Europe and elsewhere return with awed tales of cheap, clean trains that run on time, zippy new roads and properly functioning airports, which are crossly compared with Britain's pot-holes, delays and check-in scrums.
He claims, for example, that there has not been a single new dyestuff invented since 1956.Even in relatively zippy businesses like pharmaceuticals, genuinely new products are fewer and further between.
Although the data speeds (at only 2,400 bps) are not as zippy as a satellite link, the service is cheaper and keeps going if solar flares or space debris hit satellites, says the firm's boss, David Kagan.
In 1983, when the Internet was still a glimmer in the bleary eyes of programmers in a basement lab at MIT, he hit the road with 30 Tandy TRS-80 computers with zippy 300-baud modems, fondly known as "Trash 80s".Mr Bowie is currently busy building a creative empire that he hopes will eventually include everything from online art galleries to literary criticism to a virtual record company.
Good question.Experts reckon the weakest signal (ie, one bar) that an iPhone using the latest upgrades to AT&T's zippy third-generation network can detect without dropping a call or data connection is -113dBm (dBm is a measure of power in decibels relative to one milliwatt, with anything less than 0dBm being a fraction of 1mW).
No two systems are identical, and many measures are subjective: scrolling feels sluggish or zippy, or a poorly written browser on Apple's Macintosh makes it seem slower most of the time than an efficient Windows equivalent on otherwise identical hardware.Debates are often solved by apples-to-apples (or windows-to-windows) benchmark testing.
