What happened to the VigilAnt Rant topic?

[MJA]

nobody got any actual 'facts' from Matrox PR then?

(I guess my Pitou prize is safe!!!!!)

[Dogbert]

MJA,

Carefull there, just as I forged news releases, I can as easily forge and PR statement...

[James_D]

why are people so eager to think the worse about Matrox.
I agree that forcing Ant to remove threads are pretty horrible deeds, especially against it's own fan base. But at the same time, think about employers in Matrox, wich might have heard or not heard anything about the "trouble" matrox might be in, just reading these threads, and getting nervous about their own jobs.

Also I would like to say that putting out any false rumours against a company is unmoral, and in some cases also illegal.

But at the same time we are allowed free speech, but if you think that Matrox is behaving badly when they "force" ant to remove those threads I would look a bit closer to Canadian corporate buisness policy berfore saying so. E.g. : MacMillan Bloedel and Fletcher Challenge are 2 exellent examples of companies trying to stop the free speech. They sued hundreds that protested against them, in order to shut them up. Also MacDonalds have done so (for u UK people) All of them have lost their cases in court, but they knew that before taking legal action. And they managed to shut up the protesters.


So my point was, let's wait for a official statement from Matrox.
and it's also funny that most people doesnt even have a parhelia, and still snivel like h*ll



Yours friendly
James D. Waxman


TSK... Spelling.

[Maggi]

Originally posted by Dogbert
Maggi, it's just like they didn't do anything about the G200 OpenGL "out of the box" till after the G400 was out there.

you mean, once Pitou is released they'll take care of my broken P1 ???



I somewhat doubt that ...


But I guess, your real point was slightly different to what I made of it

[R.Carter]

Originally posted by Dogbert
Maggi, it's just like they didn't do anything about the G200 OpenGL "out of the box" till after the G400 was out there.

Yes, I recall that. Pretty sad really, and it became a kind of joke. They did have a MiniGL driver or something, but not a full ICD.

From what I recall of the now deleted threads, the Gx000 hardware itself had some limitations that made developing an ICD difficult. This also explains why the Gx00 cards always under performed in OpenGL.

Of course, if they desgined the hardware properly with these requirements in mind then I think these issues could have been avoided. Of course, OpenGL could have been an after thought.

As well, I seem to recall that Matrox hired some external people to develop the G200 OpenGL driver. Something like that, dunno for sure.

[MJA]

Originally posted by Dogbert
MJA,

Carefull there, just as I forged news releases, I can as easily forge and PR statement...

And I can forge my Pitou prize!

Now if I can just peel off that M3D sticker................

[SitFlyer]

Originally posted by GT98
Boy at this rate I'll never buy another Matrox product if this shit keeps up. I don't understand why they would want the P2 shit pulled since its been canned

Because that's not really what was going on in the thread.
It started off in a pretty much positive direction towards P2.
Near the end, it was looking more like THE END. And then the thread and anything related to it, got flushed.

The whole thing put M in a bad light (it's probably worse now), even though it's justified.

[Pace]

Martox suXx0rs

Originally posted by Enak
How could the banding issue make the computer unusable when it only occurs in 3D?

Check your facts.

[Chrono_Wanderer]

hmm... time to become a fanatic.....

first step, install my 8500 in main machine

second step, d/l 3dmark

piss off the nvidiots

[SitFlyer]

Originally posted by James_D

....So my point was, let's wait for a official statement from Matrox.....

Yours friendly
James D. Waxman

That'll be coming Soon™.

[rugger]

Originally posted by James_D

So my point was, let's wait for a official statement from Matrox.
and it's also funny that most people doesnt even have a parhelia, and still snivel like h*ll

Matrox does not do offical statements.

Why would I want a parhellia? It is expensive, buggy, and from a company that does not want to take responsiblity for the bugs it has.

[James_D]

Hehe yup that might take a while, esp. if there are some americans in the pr dep, having Turkey dinner.

[James_D]

Originally posted by rugger


Matrox does not do offical statements.

Why would I want a parhellia? It is expensive, buggy, and from a company that does not want to take responsiblity for the bugs it has.

Tsk.... like I've said before, without bugs no progression. Learn from mother nature.

James

[Gear]

slow down, this thread's growing too fast, (kidding)

The other day I felt that it would come to this, but I didn't want to believe it could happen...

I feel sorry for VigilAnt, let's all give him a BIG HUG, shall we ?

edit: typo

[James_D]

Originally posted by Gear
....
I feel sorry VigilAnt, let's all give him a BIG HUG, shall we ?

Yep one big group hug...

and let's honour his work, coz he's doing a great job.

James