Censorship on this forum...

[KvHagedorn]

good grief!

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Kind Regards,

KvH

[Jorden]

I LOVE ICQ !!!

Jorden.

[merchant2112]

sure your right about every thing , now please go away. thank you

[Jorden]

Andrei... is my name so difficult??

It's Jord<u>e</u>n ...

[This message has been edited by Jorden (edited 11 November 1999).]

[space7]

I will like to but Tony Lai dont come to my envitation. heh ? Tony baby please 3D mark topic. I am intersted to Matrox politic in Australia.

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My concern is with growth. You must grow to become one, to become whole, to become sane. I am not going to force sanity upon you. Rather, I am going to bring out your insanity. When it is pulled out completely, throw into the wind, sanity will happen to you, you will grow. You will be transformated. That is the meaning of meditation

Osho
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I will try to use a dictionary when I can't
(Corrected by Robert&Collins dictionary)

[space7]

Even I can speal Jorden

[This message has been edited by space7 (edited 11 November 1999).]

[space7]

andrei.

French: un, deux, trois quatre, cinq, six, sept, huit, neuf, dix, onze, douze...

Armenian: még, yérgou, yérék, chorss, hing, vétss, yothe, oute, inee, dasse, dasnemég, dasneyérgou...

Arabic: wahad, nén, cléty, arbha, ghamssy, sithy, sabha, tménhy, tssha, achra, hedach, hnach...

English: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve...

Try to beet this man (or girl if so)

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My concern is with growth. You must grow to become one, to become whole, to become sane. I am not going to force sanity upon you. Rather, I am going to bring out your insanity. When it is pulled out completely, throw into the wind, sanity will happen to you, you will grow. You will be transformated. That is the meaning of meditation

Osho
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I will try to use a dictionary when I can't
(Corrected by Robert&Collins dictionary)

[Himself]

Hmm,

Tony feel free to delete this thread as well.

At the end of the day,

Who gives a crap?

[space7]

I give a crap for this. Not you ?

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My concern is with growth. You must grow to become one, to become whole, to become sane. I am not going to force sanity upon you. Rather, I am going to bring out your insanity. When it is pulled out completely, throw into the wind, sanity will happen to you, you will grow. You will be transformated. That is the meaning of meditation

Osho
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I will try to use a dictionary when I can't
(Corrected by Robert&Collins dictionary)

[space7]

Tony dont delete him. I dont ting you are censoreted. heh? Tony were is freedom of talk

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My concern is with growth. You must grow to become one, to become whole, to become sane. I am not going to force sanity upon you. Rather, I am going to bring out your insanity. When it is pulled out completely, throw into the wind, sanity will happen to you, you will grow. You will be transformated. That is the meaning of meditation

Osho
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I will try to use a dictionary when I can't
(Corrected by Robert&Collins dictionary)

[Jorden]

If he doesn't come here nomore... we can call Tony a girlish boy...

[space7]

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My concern is with growth. You must grow to become one, to become whole, to become sane. I am not going to force sanity upon you. Rather, I am going to bring out your insanity. When it is pulled out completely, throw into the wind, sanity will happen to you, you will grow. You will be transformated. That is the meaning of meditation

Osho
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I will try to use a dictionary when I can't
(Corrected by Robert&Collins dictionary)

[motub]

lots of people upgraded from the g200 to the g400 <u>despite the lack of resolution of the well-known g200 problems</u>.<font size="3"> [Emphasis mine.]</font>

Where has Tony been for the last 5 driver revisions, which have steadily improved my G200's stability and image quality, to the extent that I was planning <u>NOT</u> to upgrade to the G400, and wait for the "G600"???

Not to mention the ever-popular question:

<font size="4"><center>If you're upgrading your card due to poor performance, why on <u>Earth</u> would you buy the same brand again????</font></center>

Matrox know that a certain number of 'fools' will buy their cards.....[snip] I counted my self as one of these 'fools'

As well you should, Tony.

Matrox knew that they could skate over certain problems because they had a guaranteed market

Did I miss this??? What, all the people p.o.'d about the G200 ICD problem constitute a 'guaranteed' market?? Am I living in the same universe as this guy??? (And if I am, which way's the exit, please...?)

I'll be a fool and a 'duchebag' (sic) for buying the g400.

No, Tony, you don't seem to be getting it... you're not a fool or a douchebag for buying the G400... it may be the only remotely smart contribution you've made to these forums.

You're a fool and a douchebag for not having the courage of your convictions, and for expecting those of us who do to sink to your level of waffling, indecisive, contradictory, useless, unhelpful, damning-with-faint-praise ambivalent attitude.

Read over your own posts... what is a new user, or prospective user supposed to gain from your posts, which essentially say "I'm a fool for Matrox, they treat me bad, but I can't stop buying their stuff..."

And you think <u>WE'RE</u> unreasonably favorable towards Matrox???

<font size="5" font color="red" font face="Eras Bold ITC"><center> !!!BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! </font></center>

I just don't know what these users expect... I keep asking, but you friendlies won't spill, so this is what I've worked out myself...[list=1][*]The G400 is supposed to work flawlessly (at 4X, thank you very much) out of the box in any system, even if it's a quad-boot (98, NT, Unix, 2000), SCSI networked box on an i820 (Abit) chipset board with V2 SLI and a SBLive! If it doesn't we're fools for calling it a good card, or calling Matrox a good company. If they were a good company, the card would work, dammit!! What's that fairy in the tech demo good for, then?[*]If the G400 is slower than the GEForce, or the TNT2 Ultra, we must be taking kickbacks if we say nice things about the card... obviously no one could find any reason to like it....who remembers this quote from back in July?:

You know I was just playing Quake 2 at 1600x1200 with 38fps on the G400 and thinking to myself, this is hideously bad.

[*]If Matrox has ever disappointed us with bad service or delays, whether or not they fixed it, we must be sucking their di...errrr, excuse me....because this is business, concepts like "forgiveness", "improvement", "mistake" (as opposed to 'sin'), and "not their fault" have no meaning...[*]If the cards have limited availability, yet we still support the company, Matrox must be giving it to us up the a... aw, geez, sorry... because we HW junkies want it all, we want it now, and we want it at a discount... how DARE Matrox deny us our gratification!!![/list=a]

So essentially, we're supposed to be taking the TishFish attitude, is that it?

I fired things up because I really thought it was nesessary for getting the right changes/impressions.
[snip] You have always said Matrox was a great company, and that made me think the only reason the G200 didn't have a good ICD was because of the lack of "complaints".
[snip] I got two blue screens in one hour <u>just because I tried to surf these forums at the same time as I benched Quake3!</u><font size="3"> [Emphasis mine.]</font>
[snip] I believe I can whi err... complain myself to a good win2k driver.
[snip] Folks, we got that Beta ICD driver because we whined that much. I'm certain about this. [snip] Would they have done that of there were only a "few complaints"? I don't think so, that's why I flamed it up

Is that supposed to be the function of the MURC? Taking a "tough love" attitude towards Matrox and it's products in order to force a "lazy" company to stand up and act "right"?

Or are we supposed to be following this philosophy....?

... the hardware company itself was very hot headed by insisting that their hardware is not bad. Not only that, they forced me to use my video card at AGP 1x when its supposed to run at AGP 2x. I think on the box and the advertisements it said that it supported AGP 4x. I know that it might not slow down games/apps today, what about the games/apps of tomorrow? I bought the card knowing that there is the option of running the card at AGP 4x and now they tell me the card can only run at 2x. I can't even run at 2x. What the hell is going on here? Why must people not realize the facts and stick with a wronged cause? I'm sure that Matrox has pumped out good quality cards, but you do have to remember that there is competition. I have to agree with filmgeek on most of the things that he said, and am totally on his side. If Matrox ever came out with a super slow card with superb picture quality and Company x came out with a super fast card with okay picture quality which card are you going to get? Picture quality don't mean jack when you're watching a slide show. As for the drivers, I don't really care about them. They at least have to make the hardware itself work. Ever since I bought my G400, I got nothing but trouble. It may be only me, but I've seen many others who are having the same problems as me and are as frustrated as me. I also think that it was a bad move for a Manager tech from Matrox to tell me off like that after knowing that I work for a computer store and that I adivise people what hardware to get. One thing's for sure: there won't be any Matrox cards going into systems that I build. [snip]Would I want to stick with a company that has given me a bad card and poor service? [snip]If someone ****s you over you're not going to go crying back and wait for them to come out with something better. The truth is, something better has came out and it's not a Matrox card. You guys might be jealous because something has beat your Matrox card, but that's just the way competition goes. As a gamer, I don't give a rat's ass how the picture quality goes, only how smooth the game is. If it plays fast, that's the card I'll get. It just so happened that the Matrox card at that time was pretty damn fast and I made a bad decision of buying it. I used to think highly of Matrox, but I will not follow this blind allegiance anymore.

Essentially, the "we've made a terrible, terrible mistake, you bastards!" position...and wouldn't the MURC just be a ball to hang around at, then??? But maybe we're not supposed to be "hanging around" here at all....

I know I'm biased, liking the MURC-itude the way it is... but are these somehow, in some alternate universe which I fortunately do not inhabit, reasonable attitudes? Do people really expect to come here and find sympathy for "Why did I ever buy this POS card?" or "C'mon.... I'm being nicer than <u>he</u> is... pleeeeeease do what I want, so I don't have to be mean too..."?

I personally shudder to imagine the environment that would result from either of these attitudes gaining ascendancy, and I am slightly nauseated at the concept of members who would find such an environment comfortable-- even preferable-- to the one that currently exists here.

What the hell do people think we're <u>supposed</u> to be doing....??? If we all just sat here bitching, we could never help anyone... but then, if everyone was helped, there'd be no reason to bitch (would there?) and that I guess would be bad, since then people might not see Matrox for the fat, lazy, greedy bastards they really are....? If we all sat here whining, well, that would make us dependent pawns to Matrox's will to accede to our guilt-trip... If Ant won't sell the MURC out to Matrox, I don't see why we should be giving up a lot of our personal power to find solutions and participate in the improvement of our investment...

What is the use of a forum if reasonable argument is not allowed?

Oh... is that what we ought to be here for, then.....????

Yes, well it's a long post, but this is the Soap Box (and I'm on mine) , and I really want to know: why do such people devalue what we do here, and the way that we do it? I really cannot see how we could successfully assist people if we held any other attitude but "you have made a wise buying decision, you just have a small problem that we can (fairly) easily help you fix."

Am I wrong? Please don't blow me off saying that these people are "stupid"... that may be true, but they're real users and I'm trying to understand why some people not only do not connect with the MURC, but are actively "rubbed the wrong way" by it.

Thanks, all.

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Holly



[This message has been edited by motub (edited 13 November 1999).]

[Joel]

WOW!!!!

Joel

[Kruzin]

Geez, Holly - got a little spare time on yer hands today?