..and none that I know of have treated the Eastern Front with due respect
Then allow me to recommend
Battlefield 1942. As realistic as these things come without losing gameplay. And lots of Yak's, Katyushas and whatnot from the eastern campaign.
ZX-Spectrum. Ha! That was one overpowered machine.
We used to own a ZX-81 with 1K (one kilobyte) RAM, and a keyboard with no keys (well, at least not real ones).
It didn't have a disk drive or tape deck, so if we wanted to play a game we had to type the program in (in BASIC) from scratch every time the computer was turned off. My dad used it for his budget at first, but since we had to keep everything on paper and re-enter the data anyway, he soon dropped it.
My girlfriend is a big Lara Croft fan. She talked me into going to see the first movie. And hey, why not? She was happy that I wanted to do something she liked for her sake, and I could (secretly) dribble over Angelina Jolie.
The movie was so awful that, when the credits rolled, I rose from my seat and proclaimed - forgetting who I was with - as loud as I could: "Jesus, that movie SUCKED!".
The scale of improvement among Royal College of Music students taking part in the study was equivalent to one grade.
I'll take a wild guess and say that the Royal College of Music has six grades, where one grade ~17% of the total skills you are supposed to learn.
Aside from that, being a musician myself, I know from personal experience that being relaxed and focused really helps your playing, not only technically but very much creatively. This mental state is what musicians refer to as being in the mood, and it slightly resembles the kind of trance that you achieve when you meditate.
Consider why so many musicians use drugs. Being drunk makes you unfocused and most musicians play like shit when they're drunk. Weed (for some) on the other hand often narrows your focus. This is also very much the case for amphetamine and cocaine.
The ability to consciously put yourself in the mood is a very important one for musicians, so this is not as far-fetched as it might seem. I wish the article went into more detail.
The idea isn't crazy at all. Just silly.
Firstly, consider the amounts of processing power needed for an ISP (or your own mail client) would need to parse, render, OCR and analyse every single email.
I worked most of last year on a project that involved OCR'ing extremely large amounts (1.000.000 words/day) of scanned text, and I can tell you that (good quality) OCR is a pretty time-consuming process.
Secondly, it's not very hard to fool the machine that does the OCR. I doubt that it would catch things like 'F*R*E*E' and similar visual stunts.
Uhm...no matter what the percentage is, it still amounts to billions of dollars.
You seem to want to turn this discussion into an anti-american debate not even understanding that the parent poster actually was critisizing the USA.
Who modded his as interesting?
I don't think the legislation itself is the problem as much as the enforcement thereof.
I work in the patens dep. of a medical firm, and we spend hours and hours searching the patent databases for stuff that might be infringing or stuff that could block one of our future patents.
When we find 'landmines', we usually do one of two things:
1. Give it up.
2. File for a patent anyway, wait for the lawsuit and then negotiate a license agreement (if possible).
The reason for the latter is that in order to get a patent, you don't nescesarily have to abide by the law. You just have to convince an official patent agent that you do. The rest is up to the courts.
I my opinion, if you want avoid 'landmines', do your homework.
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Then allow me to recommend Battlefield 1942. As realistic as these things come without losing gameplay. And lots of Yak's, Katyushas and whatnot from the eastern campaign.
Just put your email adress in a lot of those 'get free pr0n pictures every day!' Works wonders. I heard.
Further info on this subject can be found in Mickey Mouse vol. 12/95 with a special guest appearance by Uncle Scrooge.
6*9 = 42 ?? Dammit, I knew I should have double-checked that paycheck.
It didn't have a disk drive or tape deck, so if we wanted to play a game we had to type the program in (in BASIC) from scratch every time the computer was turned off.
My dad used it for his budget at first, but since we had to keep everything on paper and re-enter the data anyway, he soon dropped it.
Oh boy, those were the days.
My girlfriend is a big Lara Croft fan. She talked me into going to see the first movie. And hey, why not? She was happy that I wanted to do something she liked for her sake, and I could (secretly) dribble over Angelina Jolie.
The movie was so awful that, when the credits rolled, I rose from my seat and proclaimed - forgetting who I was with - as loud as I could: "Jesus, that movie SUCKED!".
I didn't get any for three days.
I'll take a wild guess and say that the Royal College of Music has six grades, where one grade ~17% of the total skills you are supposed to learn.
Aside from that, being a musician myself, I know from personal experience that being relaxed and focused really helps your playing, not only technically but very much creatively. This mental state is what musicians refer to as being in the mood, and it slightly resembles the kind of trance that you achieve when you meditate.
Consider why so many musicians use drugs. Being drunk makes you unfocused and most musicians play like shit when they're drunk. Weed (for some) on the other hand often narrows your focus. This is also very much the case for amphetamine and cocaine.
The ability to consciously put yourself in the mood is a very important one for musicians, so this is not as far-fetched as it might seem. I wish the article went into more detail.
Secondly, it's not very hard to fool the machine that does the OCR. I doubt that it would catch things like 'F*R*E*E' and similar visual stunts.
Uhm...no matter what the percentage is, it still amounts to billions of dollars. You seem to want to turn this discussion into an anti-american debate not even understanding that the parent poster actually was critisizing the USA. Who modded his as interesting?
I don't think the legislation itself is the problem as much as the enforcement thereof.
I work in the patens dep. of a medical firm, and we spend hours and hours searching the patent databases for stuff that might be infringing or stuff that could block one of our future patents.
When we find 'landmines', we usually do one of two things:
1. Give it up.
2. File for a patent anyway, wait for the lawsuit and then negotiate a license agreement (if possible).
The reason for the latter is that in order to get a patent, you don't nescesarily have to abide by the law. You just have to convince an official patent agent that you do. The rest is up to the courts. I my opinion, if you want avoid 'landmines', do your homework.