In the words of Lloyd Tabb, the ex-Netscape/LiveOpps engineer who built Looker, business intelligence has been a cumbersome and clumsy system up to now.
The Returned, as it's being called on Channel 4 (screening its first subtitled drama in 20 years), has taken the most cumbersome of horror genres and given it intelligence, style, heart and soul.
We wouldn't have known that the Bush administration decided that the rules for foreign intelligence surveillance collection were too cumbersome and that they should just throw aside the statute and collect whatever they wanted to, under the president's own authority, leading to the near resignation of the attorney general and the head of the FBI.
But intelligence officials said compelling cooperation was a cumbersome process that could require litigation, and they predicted that more private companies might resist cooperating if the current impasse and uncertainty over the law continued.
Best known for his short stories, George Saunders here produces his first collection of essays, named after his cumbersome metaphor for how the banality of media and politics reduces the intelligence of everyone else.
Theoretically, intelligence officials would have to revert to older — and, they say, more cumbersome — legal standards if they were now to stumble onto a new terrorist group that was not covered by a previous wiretapping order.
Although we are aiming to include as much intelligence in our π-Box as possible, to disburden the user from cumbersome administration tasks, it would be exaggerated to claim that the π-Cloud is able to maintain itself.
That Trump would find it too cumbersome or too annoying to have to sit through 20 minutes of listening to his top intelligence people tell him who's trying to kill us today, simply boggles the mind".
Today's cumbersome interactions are, Mr Ferrell argues, an awkward transitionary stage in the evolution of mobile devices that predictive intelligence will see off.
