At best Akamai looked like the folly of academic theorists who were not as clever as they thought.
The question now is when can the rest of us get laptops as cheap and clever as the OLPC's radical design?
In any case, as clever as the game itself is, the real stars of the Skylanders show are the figurines themselves.
Mr Kaiser has been clever as well as lucky in being able to publicise the Royal Opera House's more positive efforts.
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.
Most attribute Steinway's success to clever marketing as well as to the quality of its pianos.
It may not quite do that - but the live demo of the new translation service looked very clever, as did the standout eye-tracking feature which enables you to pause a video by simply looking away, then restart it by focusing on the screen again.
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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"Any room he walked into was made twice as funny and twice as clever just by his presence, " he said.
This allows for clever tricks such as concentrating virtual machines on as few computers as possible and switching off the rest to save energy.
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.
Some employ clever strategies such as memorizing symptoms to get a certain prescription or telling their doctors they have allergies to particular medication to get a stronger drug.
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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This approach, on balance, strikes me as extremely clever, although not without some concerns.
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The discount is by far the better proposition, but the supposedly clever students viewed them as equivalent.
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Buoyed by that stop, Ruddy then saved a clever chip from Riordan as John Hughes' side continued to dominate possession.
The trouble is, as well as being clever and provocative, Mr Gray is often confused, always given to hyperbole and is occasionally plain crass.
Probably the media are to blame, for taking up a few marketable clever-clogs such as Mr Dawkins, then encouraging them to comment on everything.
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