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Jerky
23-Jul-2003, 20:13
Today is the big day for the NVIDIA driver team chat. With us we will have Ujesh Desai, Director of Software Product Marketing and Nick Triantos, Director of OpenGL Software.

We will be moderating the chat but Omega Drivers and other very debated topics of late is on their list to talk about.

We are using mIRC to chat and here is a list of the servers Servers: US (irc.us.freenode.net), EU (herbert.freenode.net), ASIA (irc.au.freenode.net) and the channel is #Bjorn3d.

Also you could just use our web based chat on our site at http://www.bjorn3d.com/b3d_chat.php

Time of the chat is 4:00PM Pacific, 7:00PM Eastern

Anyone here planning on attending this?

- Jonathan.
Freak'n Big Panda
23-Jul-2003, 20:18
yep. Looks quite interesting.
Brent
23-Jul-2003, 20:20
I'll be there
swanlee
23-Jul-2003, 20:28
I'm there, my first question, why have you been cheating in your drivers over the past few years in every known benchmark? Is nvidia prepared for a class action lawsuit for consumer fraud because of the obvious way nvdidia has tried to make it's video cards seem faster than they really are.
Tim Murray
23-Jul-2003, 20:33
I'll hop in.
Nick[FM]
23-Jul-2003, 21:22
I'll be there if I am awake! :wink:
MuFu
23-Jul-2003, 21:30
I'm going to stay clear. :)

MuFu.
Nite_Hawk
23-Jul-2003, 21:44
I'll try to be there.

Nite_Hawk
Althornin
23-Jul-2003, 21:53
I'll expect a transcript from someone!!!
Nick[FM]
23-Jul-2003, 22:19
I'm going to stay clear. :)

MuFu.
Why? :wink: I'm there already and it is more or less "chaotic"..
PaulS
23-Jul-2003, 22:29
Come join the fun! You too can slip optimisation references into every other message you send.

And mock both Kyle, and the smokers amongst the Futuremark crew 8)

Correction: Don't bother. The overuse of colour whoring is killing me.
Nick[FM]
23-Jul-2003, 23:08
And mock both Kyle, and the smokers amongst the Futuremark crew 8)
Tssss.. :wink: Who's smoking? Not me.. :roll:
Jerky
24-Jul-2003, 00:02
Guys, I'm going to have to bail out on all of you.

Something significant came up which requires my attention.

Good to see there's going to be a nice turn-out by community folk tonight. Too bad I can't be there. Send my regards to NVIDIA...

Sincerely,

- Jonathan.
gkar1
24-Jul-2003, 00:19
Well they seem to be giving pre-digested pr answers to most of the questions. Nothing specific or new is being talked about. Someone asked about the OMEGA drivers situation and they just did a copy and paste from a blurb i read in another website.

Im going to leave the chat as soon as i finish posting this.
Jerky
24-Jul-2003, 00:37
That's what I was expecting actually. A song and dance. Good thing I didn't waste my time on it.

Does anyone have a transcript? I imagine Bjorn3D will have one posted.

Time to get back to work. ;)

- Jonathan.
MuFu
24-Jul-2003, 00:54
]I'm going to stay clear. :)

MuFu.
Why? :wink:

Well they seem to be giving pre-digested pr answers to most of the questions.

MuFu.
Brent
24-Jul-2003, 01:24
n/m refer to this thread fo my questions: http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7027
rms
24-Jul-2003, 01:49
I caught the last 1/2hr of it, no cheating questions were addressed.

rms
Brent
24-Jul-2003, 02:04
n/m refer to this thread fo my questions: http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7027
Quinn1981
24-Jul-2003, 03:00
Drat. I missed it. :?
digitalwanderer
24-Jul-2003, 03:00
It was a much more fun chat before the interview bit, the nVidia people took way too long consulting on their answers for it to even appear spontaneous. :(
Dave H
24-Jul-2003, 04:56
the interview bit

My thoughts exactly.
nelg
24-Jul-2003, 06:30
I thought this was interesting.
<SwedBear> How significant an impact have the events in the recent months had on the attitude and focus of both the PR and engineering departments at NVIDIA? Have the driver designers gone back and revised the majority of the Detonators' code to remove or reimplement certain certain parts according to your new optimization guidelines?

<Bantha> hahah

&lt;Scott_Bjorn3d> I thought I rated it XXX

&lt;nv_nick> Actually, we have made some changes in our process, going forward, I think we're all going to be more careful about what features we put in, and how they get tested.
my bold
Hanners
24-Jul-2003, 09:26
You can look at the chat log of the interview here (http://www.bjorn3d.com/_preview.php?articleID=313).

I was around for the 'warm-up' (which was good fun - Nice to see some of you guys there :) ), but sleep (and network problems :roll: ) called before the main event, so I missed out.

There goes my chance of getting a 5900...
Tagrineth
24-Jul-2003, 20:35
There was one funny one I saw where someone asked about NV40 and the response was 'What's NV40?' :lol:

EDIT:

&lt;shane_Bjorn3d> What differences are there between NV35 and NV40 except die size and frequencies?

&lt;NV_Derek> what's NV40?

&lt;NV_Derek> DONE

Also I just saw one question that was evaded completely:

&lt;SwedBear> will nvidia encrypt their vidcard drivers in the future ?

&lt;NV_Ben> :))

&lt;NV_Ben> done

HMM.