Of course, they have to be clever but they don't have to be very clever.
"I wasn't clever enough to think of putting in some nonsense math of my own, " he said.
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This isn't clever booth wiring, the HW-F750 has Bluetooth and works with SoundShare, which should keep cable-haters happy.
Unfortunately, the original owners weren't clever enough to go about it that way.
That's a little more bearable, but, gee whiz, aren't we clever?
As if Google Glass and its clever surprises weren't intriguing enough, Explorers now have a new app to play with that's courtesy of The New York Times.
Though its functionality is quite clever, we weren't enamored with the Ghost Bee's glossy plastic exterior.
The company with the brand name or a clever marketing idea isn't necessarily the one with the factory.
However, it looks like you just can't keep a clever idea down.
Even Luca Scarzella's clever video projections can't make the dreary costumes and monolithic sets interesting, and, despite the heroic efforts of conductor Nicola Luisotti, the acting isn't of a quality to elevate either the production or the audience's spirits.
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"Don't try to anticipate clever answers or try to impress us, " says Meiklejohn.
And if it doesn't it is not clever - it is defeatist, and will inevitably lead to a diminution of power.
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If the fund can't earn back this hurdle rate plus the category benchmark average by clever stock selection (or reduce risk significantly), you shouldn't own it.
This doesn't seem like a particularly clever solution, until you compare it with all the others.
He thinks he's much more clever than he is, can't keep his mind on the subject at hand and laughs at highly inappropriate times.
But don't be surprised if they come up with clever ways to persuade customers to use the cheapest cards in their wallets.
Here Mr Ferris achieves a clever balance: Tim behaves strangely, but isn't that natural for anyone who loses the life he understood?
With name recognition built on 50 years of TV Guide magazine and a clever product for next-generation televisions, Gemstar isn't going to disappear.
And you've really savaged Mitt Romney for changing his mind, and I'm wondering if you don't run some risk of looking kind of too clever by half here.
But of course, there's also a good chance that this is merely a very clever hoax involving three unannounced devices, so we won't be placing any bets just yet.
But something tells me this won't be the last time this year that those clever officials at the Bank and the Treasury are asked to come up with something new.
The answer seems to be to make a device that isn't a replacement for your smartphone, but a clever companion, something that takes away the need to pull out your phone from your pocket or purse.
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Mr Obama's team believe that if they can't have the natural wild magic of 2008, some clever stage craft and behind the scenes mechanics will still synthetically reproduce that winning wizardry in 2012.
"I don't have a problem with the general principle but I don't think the way we're doing it is terribly clever, " he said.
"There's much new music which doesn't really sell mainly because there isn't any identifiable tune and is maybe a little bit too clever, " says Bill Holland, who is head of classics at Universal Records.
If Apple does have a clever new consumer electronic gadget waiting behind the curtain, the timing couldn't be better.
Of course, it wouldn't be Ask Engadget unless we turned this question over to our clever crew of commenters, so if you know of anything that's better (or cheaper) then fire your answer into the comments below.
You can be clever with capital expenses and still get killed by your variable costs if you don't know how to hold them down.
The lack of a front-facing camera might initially turn the confirmed socialite a little sour, but don't worry, you can still take those all important "selfies" with the clever self-portrait mode that we also saw in the 301 (the one that says "left a bit, right a bit").
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