At best Akamai looked like the folly of academic theorists who were not as clever as they thought.
In any case, as clever as the game itself is, the real stars of the Skylanders show are the figurines themselves.
Ignoring the extraordinary insights emerging from modern science would be about as clever as believing the current technology explosion is short-lived and the Cloud will soon dissipate.
The union message was also as clever as it was disingenuous: All of these taxes will be paid by someone else, such as Wall Street bankers, out-of-state credit card companies, CEOs.
In 1983 Saban found his way to Los Angeles and came up with a licensing scheme as clever as the one that Bill Gates cut with IBM for the original PC.
For our physical products to be as clever as Google, as immediate as Twitter, as informative as Wikipedia, as social as Facebook, as personal as Amazon and as entertaining as YouTube.
The question now is when can the rest of us get laptops as cheap and clever as the OLPC's radical design?
"Any room he walked into was made twice as funny and twice as clever just by his presence, " he said.
It is a nice irony, given the traditional association of the naturist position with eugenic arguments, that if variation in intelligence really is caused by underlying genetic variation, then the dull are as evolutionarily fit as the clever.
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Some applaud this as a clever way to get round congressional venality (much as a similar commission managed to close military bases in the past), but sceptics are unconvinced.
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The Cheap Revolution is good for China and India as well as newer, clever companies in the West, such as Google, Skype and Craigslist.
From the start he was marked out as clever, winning scholarships throughout his school years.
Not everybody is as clever or has the resources to do what he's done.
At the time the shift in Labour's stance on law and order was seen as clever politics.
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Through emphasis on quality and variety as well as clever marketing, Starbucks has rejuvenated a stagnant industry.
He is warmer than his brother, just as clever and perhaps the most left-wing of the main candidates.
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Mr Kaiser has been clever as well as lucky in being able to publicise the Royal Opera House's more positive efforts.
Goode took advantage of Bath's lapses, slotting two early penalties, as clever tactical kicking from Saracens' half-backs kept the visitors under pressure for much of the half.
That makes big user numbers as important as clever engineers.
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Some cynics might describe it as clever marketing.
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Most attribute Steinway's success to clever marketing as well as to the quality of its pianos.
This approach, on balance, strikes me as extremely clever, although not without some concerns.
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The trouble is, as well as being clever and provocative, Mr Gray is often confused, always given to hyperbole and is occasionally plain crass.
They also serve as a clever method for building communities around the new concept so that when it launches, you have people wanting to buy it.
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Those looking to dictate your PS3 with that (presumably costly) universal IR remote, take heart, as the clever folks at Remote Central have whipped up a way to add infrared functionality to your IR-less machine.
The former Crystal Palace striker was again at the heart of Everton's third goal as his clever run across goal created space for Yakubu to beat his marker and finish for his second of the evening.
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His early work with the London architect John Soane led to such innovations here as a clever skylight over the dining-room sideboard, and a superb arching bridge connecting the front and rear foyers on the second floor.
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