nvidea, Hitler's revenge.......

[DuRaNgO]

PowerColor Denies Association with VGA-NO1
Posted Thursday, May 10, 8:30AM by de anvil Comments (0)

We reported yesterday that PowerColor will in fact be making a KYRO II board, but will be doing so from a new company called VGA-NO1. Well, PowerColor have posted this bit of news on their website:

To our valued customers:
We at C.P. Technology, again, assure our commitment with nVIDIA to be our ONLY chip set provider.
We would like to announce that C.P. Technology does not have any relationship with the company named VGA No1. This point has been verified and corrected by the media, which made this report.

I must give NVIDIA credit for having the power to force companies to dance under their 6-shooter of a glare. BUT, Reactor Critical have found out this very interesting bit of news by doing a WHOIS for the domain name of VGA-NO1:

Registrant:
C.P. Technology Co., Ltd
12F, No. 86, Hsin Tai Wu Rd. Sec. 1, Hsi-Chih, Taipei Hsien, Taiwan 221, R.O.C.
TW

Domain Name: vgano1

Contact:
Wang Poliang poliang@powercolor.com.tw
TEL: (02)2696-0088#102
FAX: (02)2696-0099

Record expires on 24-APR-02
Record created on 18-APR-01

Domain servers in listed order:
dns.is.net.tw 210.62.128.1
dns1.is.net.tw 210.62.128.2

Registrar: HINET URL: http://nweb.hinet.net

So it does look as if PowerColor is in fact part of VGA-NO1, but they have to deny it so they will NOT piss of off the boys at NVIDIA. Who here thinks NVIDIA is getting a bit too big for their own britches?

This kinda shxt really irks me, there is no way you could get me to drop one of their cards into a system after all the crxp they try to pull, I'd rather sell it with onboard video >p

[Technoid]

The aparantly think they are the succesors of 3DFX! (well.. they baught them )

Intel tried this aproach when Athlons first came out, it diden't work

[az]

DuRaNgO: While I agree with you to disagree on nVidia's politics, I really don't think any connection to Hitler is appropriate.

AZ

[Rags]

Hitler, Hitler, Hitler

[DentyCracker]

Stop that!

[Tom]

nVidia needs some competition to bring them down a notch..too bad there isn't any.

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MatroxG400MAX..and some other stuff

[Jorden]

Tom, there might be competition, but they can't get their drivers right, especially not since nvidia brings out a new card about every time the competition try to get their drivers right

Guys, what's the latest count on nvidia drivers brought out against bugs they got out of their cards?
And what's the latest count of nvidia cards coming out and their price dropping?

Jord.

[az]

Oh yeah Rags, very polite, thank you

While I really like black humour (and I like black humour with hitler too, if it's good), I think calling a company to be hitler's revenge is just name calling (and childish name calling, I might add). I don't like nVidia, but do I call them Hitler? I think there's a line you should not cross, and accusing paople to be mass murderers when all they do is run their business in a way you don't like or consider unfair IS crossing that line IMHO.

Hope you get my point. I don't want this to turn in a flame war, neither do I want to destroy this thread (and I DO agree that nVidia's politics are BAAAD), but I think if you have arguments, you shouldn't call anyone names, it just doesn't help you or make you more right (and if you don't have arguments - just to make the sentence complete, DuRaNgO has arguments - you should shut up anyway).

AZ

[Rags]

Relax, you need to go out and have a beer or two.

Rags

P.S. If you really want me to draw similarities between what Hitler did with state run business and what nVidia does now, I can, but this isn't the Soap Box



[This message has been edited by Rags (edited 12 May 2001).]

[az]

You're probably right, and in fact, I do really long for a beer now

Could you please start a soap box thread and show me the similarities between Hitler and nVidia? I'd really like to hear them and have a good laugh

AZ