RE: Graphics card for PC (was: Monitor Choice Poll)

["gary" <gsellani@accesscom.com>]

To be honest, I've never met a bad Canadian in the states, so I never had
the need to dis' one.

Vaporware is easy to ship. Here is the technique: promise something on the
box, then don't include the feature in the product.

A friend bought one of the later Matrox cards (model I can't recall) where
the frame capture didn't work, though eventually the driver arrived and the
feature did work. He won't buy from Matrox again either.

Again, the basic 2d features in all cases worked, so for non-demanding
customers, Matrox may be an OK choice.

Back to vaporware, one of those midi programs (Cakewalk perhaps), is sold in
the stores without the CD rom enclosed. It has a mailer, and they ship you
the CD rom.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-scan@leben.com [mailto:owner-scan@leben.com]On Behalf Of
> Arthur Entlich
> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 12:02 AM
> To: scan@leben.com
> Subject: Re: Graphics card for PC (was: Monitor Choice Poll)
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> gary wrote:
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> > I mentioned ATI because it is Canadian, so as not to dis a country
> > undeservedly. I've never HAD to contact the factory when I used
> ATI cards
> > (one at home and a few at a place I worked) because they didn't ship
> > vaporware. The Radeon 8500 is a pretty good effort to compete
> with Nvidia
> > Geforce 3.
> >
>
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> I think every country has its share of manufacturers to embarrass them ;-)
>
> But I do have a question involving "physics", they say matter can
> neither be created nor destroyed, (at least they do up her in Canada,
> physical laws elsewhere may vary) so I was just wondering how one
> "ships" vaporware.  ;-)
>
> Thanks for not dising us more than necessary.
>
> Art
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