But it does seem a fair critique to suggest that military shooters turn the classic description of war on its head, converting the experience into long periods of sheer terror punctuated by moments of boredom.
The ideas he hatches in his head are converted into artworks by a team of assistants that, until recently, numbered 150.
The effect is at the heart of modern gadgets that record data, music or snippets of video as a dense magnetic patchwork of zeros and ones, which is then scanned by a small head and converted to electrical signals.
If GDP per head is converted into dollars using the IMF's national rates for purchasing-power parity (again remembering that national rates paper over differences in the cost of living between regions), over a quarter of regions in Britain and Italy and one-tenth of those in Germany will this year have a lower GDP per head than the municipality of Shanghai.
In this manner, a dioleylglycero-ethoxy-ethoxy-ethoxy-ethanamine (DOG-PEG4-NH2) was chosen as a common platform while the reactive amine head was converted into several electrophilic functions.
SOCCKET then takes all of that kinetic energy from rolling around and hitting people's heads and converts it into electrical energy.
A sample set of DICOM files from computed tomography (CT) scan imaging of a patient's head was converted to the Geant4 geometry format to implement MC-based engine for a clinical test.
These mesh vectors are then transposed to the participant's head by converting them to head measurements anchored to anatomical landmarks.
He listens to a delegation of Muslims pleading for peace and coexistence, who are instead offered the chance to save their heads by converting back to "the faith of their forefathers".
There are certainly one or two funny, broad moments, especially when the "boys" get it into their heads to convert their beds into bunk beds, and their impersonation of 13-year-olds is scarily accurate.
