[WAY WAY OT] Nvidia pissing contest

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 7/24/07, John Wendel <john.wendel at metnet.navy.mil> wrote:
>
> Since this looks like piss on Nvidia day, I thought I'd join in.
>
> First, let me say that I own 4 Nvidia cards (and an original Voodoo
> card) and I'm about to buy another one (an 8xxx model). So I don't
> hate Nvidia.
>
> But I have no use for the closed source driver since I don't do 3D,
> but I do want high-end video processing (and nobody beats Nvidia at
> this). Of course, the free driver doesn't support TV out and I'm sure
> it will never support an HDMI interface. So I'm stuck with the closed
> source driver.
>
> So how do we get a more light weight driver that does HD video without
> the 3D junk? If the driver was open, I bet I could gut out the 3D parts.
>
> While I'm at it, how about Nvidia using some of that brain power to
> make something other than a 3D GPU! Maybe a general purpose GPU that
> could offload X onto the video card (yeah I know, no market).

Already exists.  See:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda.html