Buy nVidiamerican!

[bsdgeek]

Don't surrender to those socialistic conniving Canucks! Damn Canadians are always trying to steal our graphics market.

Retaliation!

Feel pride in your American-made rendering machine that you know has to be pumpin' hard after working up all that heat and eatin' dual molex power. Feel the raw speed as you're engulfed by a rendering beast that's uninhibited by such nonsense as "sane power consumption" and "quietness."

God bless nVidiamerica!

(saved from before Digit-Life took it down, they jumped the gun on the NDA)

[GT98]

so whos faster? and will Nvidia fix their IQ problems?

[Jon P. Inghram]

It's the 1950's again, but instead of gigantic fuel gulping cars, it's gigantic electricity devouring graphics cards!

[dZeus]

one company under god, bless nVidia!

[Jon P. Inghram]

Not that the added speed will help any, the pathetic game companies will just use it as an excuse to write the shaders in Java or BASIC.

[Wombat]

Huh? To use the shaders, they'd have to make DX9 or OpenGL calls. Doesn't much matter WHAT they code in, the work goes to hardware unless they have to use a software fallback.

[Jon P. Inghram]

That's what I mean; developers will probably just take the added speed as an excuse to write the shaders in an even higher level language than HLSL or nVidia's Cg, the publishers don't care how buggy or well the games run as long as they look pretty and are as cheap as possible to write.

[Wombat]

Well, yeah. Why not. I don't see you planning on coding Doom3 in assembly. Fact is, there's a threshold of complexity where it's unreasonable NOT to switch to a higher level.

AI's are scripted, maps are designed in editor programs, visual features are moved to hardware. Ta-da, Half-Life2, vs. Half-Life 1.

[DentyCracker]

nVidia is American?

[bsdgeek]

Word.

[Chrono_Wanderer]

nvidia is like... Taiwanese... lol

the CEO at least

meanwhile ATI's CEO is from Hong Kong lol

maybe Matrox should die too coz they are canadian (wait, they ARE dead)

lol and maybe i should kill myself coz i am canadian

[Elie]

Wait till ATI releases their card, and then praise nvidia all you want if ATI numbers are low.

Sheesh!!!!!

[UtwigMU]

Matrox founders: Lorne Trottier - either Quebecien or French origins, Branko Matić is from Croatia

[dZeus]

Founding fathers: Madison, Hamilton and Jay

[bsdgeek]

The Godfather: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino and James Caan