It was mostly curiosity, but I was seriously impressed by the performance. I made the VM as a clean room for checking out viruses and trojans - also curiosity. I knew about ioQuake (and have tried it), but in general, my gaming environment is Windows 7. I've never owned a machine capable of running hardware virtualisation in the past, and my prior (sluggish) experience of VMs was confined to VMWare under various iterations of Windows, so this was uncharted territory.
For what it's worth, I have Q3 Arena running on XP in a VirtualBox VM, under 64-bit Fedora. It's all running on an Acer 5536 laptop with 4Gb ram and an ATI 3200 video chipset. It's not state of the art, not high-end, and it still runs fast and smoothly - far more so than the original hardware which introduced me to this game. I appreciate the merit of your comment, but draw your attention to Moore's Law.
I'm tempted to make some lame joke about Sackbutts, but I suspect that I already did. How-evar... I'm a recent convert to the wonderful sound of Citterns... I don't suppose you know which shady alleys might serve my deviant tastes in music?
True until someone whips out the 'Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence' card, at which point you have to wait for a generation or two of scientists to die off. Look how long it took the Wright Brothers to gain credibility. Low probability events suffer in particular, eg, ball lightning and meteors.
Erm, I don't think people here believe what they were doing was *harmless*. The prevailing, albeit unspoken, attitude seems to be that risk is a part of life; that we should recognise that fact but not allow it to get in the way of playing and learning. Learning to successfully negotiate risky situations is a much a part of learning as any of a million other life skills. In the situations that people have outlined, they've also learned more about chemistry, engineering, physics, electronics.
Risk is ubiquitous, death is inevitable. Hysteria, on the other hand, is embarrassing.
Everyone dies, unless you had other plans, and if you do, please, share.
My friends and I made pipe bombs. Finely powdered oxidising agents, carbon, sulphur. Annoyingly, at the time, none of us knew how to make thermite, but we *were* researching nitrogen triiodide. I was 14 at the time, and playing with home-made explosives seemed much more rewarding (and safer) than going to gym classes.
I've seen them, in a car park and near a MacDonalds, in Newcastle upon Tyne. Car culture is a big thing there - the plates were attached to something like a Subaru WRX, and the driver was playing around with the controller, changing the ID.
I'm speaking from imperfect memory, but, if you google 'grender-specific drug reactions', you'll find that differences in male/female metabolism are a concern. I remember that a decade or so ago it was discovered that certain widespread pain-killers were almost ineffective in women. The drug testing had been carried out only on male subjects, assuming that gender would have no difference on the outcome. I could look up references, but do your own research.
Retardation is a relative measure. To many of my friends, the average person seems retarded, ability to read emotional states notwithstanding. Sure, the inability to read emotional states can be considered an impairment, but so can the lack of vision required to solder an inadequately flushed petrol tank (my dad - boom). Why not consider the possibility that autistic traits are in a class of developing specialisations, in the same mould as those exhibited by social insects such as *ants*?
ARe you sure you don't mean chimps (not monkeys, apes)? And, I'd rather be part of a weak nerdy Enlightenment-driven species with a grip on the level of technology and science that puts us well out of the range of other, physically stronger, but realistically completely powerless species.
But that's vulnerable to a statistical analysis of the preferred distribution of cat turds. Maybe you should randomise it by giving them catnip every time they take a dump?
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It was mostly curiosity, but I was seriously impressed by the performance. I made the VM as a clean room for checking out viruses and trojans - also curiosity. I knew about ioQuake (and have tried it), but in general, my gaming environment is Windows 7. I've never owned a machine capable of running hardware virtualisation in the past, and my prior (sluggish) experience of VMs was confined to VMWare under various iterations of Windows, so this was uncharted territory.
For what it's worth, I have Q3 Arena running on XP in a VirtualBox VM, under 64-bit Fedora. It's all running on an Acer 5536 laptop with 4Gb ram and an ATI 3200 video chipset. It's not state of the art, not high-end, and it still runs fast and smoothly - far more so than the original hardware which introduced me to this game. I appreciate the merit of your comment, but draw your attention to Moore's Law.
In general, Stargate was very cool, but that episode stank like a Pak'marah with dysentery.
I'm tempted to make some lame joke about Sackbutts, but I suspect that I already did. How-evar... I'm a recent convert to the wonderful sound of Citterns... I don't suppose you know which shady alleys might serve my deviant tastes in music?
Thanks for the link... the station seems to work well for Opera and VLC on Fedora.
Mod parent up.
True until someone whips out the 'Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence' card, at which point you have to wait for a generation or two of scientists to die off. Look how long it took the Wright Brothers to gain credibility. Low probability events suffer in particular, eg, ball lightning and meteors.
Erm, I don't think people here believe what they were doing was *harmless*. The prevailing, albeit unspoken, attitude seems to be that risk is a part of life; that we should recognise that fact but not allow it to get in the way of playing and learning. Learning to successfully negotiate risky situations is a much a part of learning as any of a million other life skills. In the situations that people have outlined, they've also learned more about chemistry, engineering, physics, electronics.
Risk is ubiquitous, death is inevitable. Hysteria, on the other hand, is embarrassing.
Everyone dies, unless you had other plans, and if you do, please, share.
My friends and I made pipe bombs. Finely powdered oxidising agents, carbon, sulphur. Annoyingly, at the time, none of us knew how to make thermite, but we *were* researching nitrogen triiodide. I was 14 at the time, and playing with home-made explosives seemed much more rewarding (and safer) than going to gym classes.
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I've seen them, in a car park and near a MacDonalds, in Newcastle upon Tyne. Car culture is a big thing there - the plates were attached to something like a Subaru WRX, and the driver was playing around with the controller, changing the ID.
That made me laugh... fanx mate :)
I lol'd. And clapped excitedly.
> I'm sure most women would rather be the "second wife" to someone attractive, kind, or both
It's nice that you feel you have the confidence to speak for myself and my friends. Your powers of perception must be quite legendary.
I'm speaking from imperfect memory, but, if you google 'grender-specific drug reactions', you'll find that differences in male/female metabolism are a concern. I remember that a decade or so ago it was discovered that certain widespread pain-killers were almost ineffective in women. The drug testing had been carried out only on male subjects, assuming that gender would have no difference on the outcome. I could look up references, but do your own research.
I lold...
Thank you :)
I'm not familiar with the phrase 'soft money'... would someone explain please? thanks...
Retardation is a relative measure. To many of my friends, the average person seems retarded, ability to read emotional states notwithstanding. Sure, the inability to read emotional states can be considered an impairment, but so can the lack of vision required to solder an inadequately flushed petrol tank (my dad - boom). Why not consider the possibility that autistic traits are in a class of developing specialisations, in the same mould as those exhibited by social insects such as *ants*?
ARe you sure you don't mean chimps (not monkeys, apes)? And, I'd rather be part of a weak nerdy Enlightenment-driven species with a grip on the level of technology and science that puts us well out of the range of other, physically stronger, but realistically completely powerless species.
But that's vulnerable to a statistical analysis of the preferred distribution of cat turds. Maybe you should randomise it by giving them catnip every time they take a dump?
> I realise that as a European...
> Granted, you may be using sarcasm and/or irony that I didn't pick up on.
Sufficiently nested irony is indistinguishable from obliviousness.
Mmm.... calculus could certainly be useful in accounting.
You miss my point... I'm not denying that short term effects are possible; I'm saying that there are likely to be longer term effects in addition.