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Trident Back From the Dead
FunkyMonkey writes "It seems that Trident is trying to pull a Matrox and resurrect themselves from
the 3D video card grave yard. AnandTech
posted a Trident
XP4 Preview today that has some interesting information on Trident's latest
stab at the graphics market. The company is claiming 80% the performance of the
GeForce 4 TI 4600 at a price tag of less than $100 USD including DX 9 support.
How? A 0.13 micron process and only 30 million transistors thanks to pipeline
resource sharing. "
fp, ham-hog
Please fuck me in the ass, for I have FP'd.
Thank you.
FWIW, the Trident I have/had (975 3D Image AGP) sucked big-time.
4MB RAM and lines at 1024?!?!? WTF?
But it came with my no-name machine and I'm about to pawn it off on my brother (poor bastard.)
Needless to say, this release is underwhelming.
The opposite of progress is congress
I take it you have never had to deal with trident.
Trident has been known for sucky performance and bad quality hardware.
I really don't miss them.. I hope they spend a fortune on this and go bankrupt or something.
I'd love to, but... . ... well, maybe.
1 I have to floss my cat.
2 I've dedicated my life to linguini.
3 I want to spend more time with my blender.
4 the President said he might drop in.
5 the man on television told me to say tuned.
6 I've been scheduled for a karma transplant.
7 I'm staying home to work on my cottage cheese sculpture.
8 it's my parakeet's bowling night.
9 it wouldn't be fair to the other Beautiful People.
10 I'm building a pig from a kit.
11 I did my own thing and now I've got to undo it.
12 I'm enrolled in aerobic scream therapy.
13 there's a disturbance in the Force.
14 I'm doing door-to-door collecting for static cling.
15 I have to go to the post office to see if I'm still wanted.
16 I'm teaching my ferret to yodel.
17 I have to check the freshness dates on my dairy products.
18 I'm going through cherry cheesecake withdrawl.
19 I'm planning to go downtown to try on gloves.
20 my crayons all melted together.
21 I'm trying to see how long I can go without saying yes.
22 I'm in training to be a household pest.
23 I'm getting my overalls overhauled.
24 my patent is pending.
25 I'm attending the opening of my garage door.
26 I'm sandblasting my oven.
27 I'm worried about my vertical hold.
28 I'm going down to the bakery to watch the buns rise.
29 I'm being deported.
30 the grunion are running.
31 I'll be looking for a parking space.
32 my Millard Filmore Fan Club meets then.
33 the monsters haven't turned blue yet, and I have to eat more dots.
34 I'm taking punk totem pole carving.
35 I have to fluff my shower cap.
36 I'm converting my calendar watch from Julian to Gregorian.
37 I've come down with a really horrible case of something or other.
38 I made an appointment with a cuticle specialist.
39 my plot to take over the world is thickening.
40 I have to fulfill my potential.
41 I don't want to leave my comfort zone.
42 it's too close to the turn of the century.
43 I have some real hard words to look up in the dictionary.
44 my subconscious says no.
45 I'm giving nuisance lessons at a convenience store.
46 I left my body in my other clothes.
47 the last time I went, I never came back.
48 I've got a Friends of Rutabaga meeting.
49 I have to answer all of my "occupant" letters.
50 none of my socks match.
51 I have to be on the next train to Bermuda.
52 I'm having all my plants neutered.
53 people are blaming me for the Spanish-American War.
54 I changed the lock on my door and now I can't get out.
55 I'm making a home movie called "The Thing That Grew in My
Refrigerator."
56 I'm attending a perfume convention as guest sniffer.
57 my yucca plant is feeling yucky.
58 I'm touring China with a wok band.
59 my chocolate-appreciation class meets that night.
60 I never go out on days that end in "Y."
61 my mother would never let me hear the end of it.
62 I'm running off to Yugoslavia with a foreign-exchange student named
Basil Metabolism.
63 I just picked up a book called "Glue in Many Lands" and I can't put
it down.
64 I'm too old/young for that stuff.
65 I have to wash/condition/perm/curl/tease/torment my hair.
66 I have too much guilt.
67 there are important world issues that need worrying about.
68 I have to draw "Cubby" for an art scholarship.
69 I'm uncomfortable when I'm alone or with others.
70 I promised to help a friend fold road maps.
71 I feel a song coming on.
72 I'm trying to be less popular.
73 my bathroom tiles need grouting.
74 I have to bleach my hare.
75 I'm waiting to see if I'm already a winner.
76 I'm writing a love letter to Richard Simmons.
77 you know how we psychos are.
78 my favorite commercial is on TV.
79 I have to study for a blood test.
80 I'm going to be old someday.
81 I've been traded to Cincinnati.
82 I'm observing National Apathy Week.
83 I have to rotate my crops.
84 my uncle escaped again.
85 I'm up to my elbows in waxy buildup.
86 I have to knit some dust bunnies for a charity bazaar.
87 I'm having my baby shoes bronzed.
88 I have to go to court for kitty littering.
89 I'm going to count the bristles in my toothbrush.
90 I have to thaw some karate chops for dinner.
91 having fun gives me prickly heat.
92 I'm going to the Missing Persons Bureau to see if anyone is looking
for me.
93 I have to jog my memory.
94 my palm reader advised against it.
95 my Dress For Obscurity class meets then.
96 I have to stay home and see if I snore.
97 I prefer to remain an enigma.
98 I think you want the OTHER [your name]
99 I have to sit up with a sick ant.
100 I'm trying to cut down.
101
YHBT. HTH. HAND.
p.s. - you are a fag.
1) Tell him his armband is inside-out.
2) Re-arrange his golf club covers without telling him.
3) Tell him he has ring-around-the-collar on his brownshirt.
4) Insult his pit bull.
5) Shoot his pit bull.
6) Shoot him.
7) Slash the tires on his Porsche [note: proper Fascist auto maybe substituted
here.]
8) Riot.
9) Spraypaint FUCK CAPITALISM on his Porsche.
10) Spraypaint FUCK CAPITALISM AND FUCK COMMUNISM on his Porsche.
11) Spraypaint FUCK THE WORLD on his Pitt-bull.
12) Overthrow the government.
13) Wear a Chineese peasant's blue denim uniform with a button reading I
SUPPORT THE NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT.
14) Learn Russian and speak only Rusian.
15) Learn Albanian and do like-wise.
16) Sing the following version of the Marines' Hymn:
From the balls of Montezuma
To the whores of Tripoli
We fight for cunt in battles
In the air, on land, and sea
First to fight for boobs and pussy
And we keep our penes clean
We are proud to claim the title
of Whore-Fucking States Marines.
17) Burn George Bush in effigy.
18) Burn George Bush in person.
19) Tattoo FUCK CAPITALISM (in Russian) on his wifes left breast when she isnt
looking.
20) Hand out pamphlets saying that says that Ronald Reagan is a Polish Jew and
the leader of the Communist conspiracy.
21) Cut his head off.
22) Assassinate The President.
23) Assassinate the Governor of New Jersey.
24) Assassinate Sununu.
24) Register as a Communist.
25) Organize an army and march on Washington.
26) Castrate him.
27) Castrate his pit-bull.
28) Castrate George Bush.
29) Attempt to overthrow the Government of the United States of America by
force and violence.
30) Organize you own country and declare war on South Africa.
31) Call him an anus.
32) Call him a gonad.
33) Call George Bush a gonad.
34) Blow up his Porsche.
35) Blow up his Pit-bull.
36) Blow up George Bush.
37) Give away copies of the Communist Manifesto.
38) Eat five pounds of beans and lock yourself in a small enclosed area with
him.
39) Defy Authority.
40) Destroy Authority.
41) Desecrate Hitlers Bunker.
42) Drop LSD in the Potomac.
43) Bomb Washington with Chia Pets.
44) Bomb Washington with SPAM.
45) Bomb Washington with registered Nurses.
46) Bomb Washington with a drug dealer named "vinnie".
47) Citizens arrest the president.
48) Board the Staten Island ferry, point a toy gun at the pilot and force him
to sail to Havana. If you are caught, explain that you wanted to just show
the passengers how bad Castro's Cuba really is.
49) Fart the pledge of allegiance.
50) Burn the flag.
51) Send George Bush a bar of soap and order him to wash his mouth out every
time he tells a lie.
52) Skip school.
53) Picket his house, holding a crucifix and mumbling "pax..pax...pax..."
54) Issue a public statement saying you hate mom, baseball, apple pie, and
the flag; but you love to fart.
55) Wear a t-shirt reading HITLER WAS A WEENIE.
56) Spray paint MAKE LOVE NOT WAR on his pit-bull.
57) Tell him to go fuck himself.
58) Tell him to go fuck himself with a limber dick.
59) Tell him you are a member of the John Birch Society and that you are i
investigating reports of him being a pinko.
60) Wear a t-shirt reading JOE MCARTHY WAS A WEENIE.
61) Stare him down.
62) Steal his SS epaulets.
63) Wear a sweatshirt with a big 69 on it reading THE BEST MIDNIGHT SNACK.
64) Ask him if he has any papers, because you want to roll a joint.
65) Set up a private Espionage organization and offer to sell your services to
the highest bidder. Solicit Bids from all the Communist countries. If the
FBI objects, respond with a long speech on the superiority of the
Capitalist system, where all goods and services are sold for the highest
price. Accuse the FBI agent of being a fuzzy-minded pinko.
66) Bury him in Lenins tomb.
67) Bury him in Stalins tomb.
68) Bury him in Grants tomb.
69) Simulataneously enroll in orginizations The Ukranian Workers Society, North
Yugoslav Peoples Assosciation, Hungarian Peasants Club, The John Birch
Society, and Jews for Jesus.
70) Ask him "who the hell cares if the trains run on time?".
71) Get yourself invited to his house for dinner. Bring a gun and a target. At
an appopriate moment lean the target against a wall and
start shooting at it, screaming: KILL THE COMMIES! KILL THE FUCKIN COMMIES!
72) Take a tour of the White House. Bring a defused hand grenade with you and
toss it on the floor in front of the highest ranking Bureaucrat you can
find. Run like hell the other way, shouting "Die, imperialist dog!".
73) Distribute copies of CHALLENGE
on Wall Street to anyone wearing a suit.
74) Alternately, try to sell it to them for 10 cents and when refused, reply
"Oh, your too cheap to spend a dime to find out the truth!"
75) Enter your local recruiting office. fart. leave.
76) Enter your local Recruiting office. Pull out a water pistol and spray all
Military personnel you meet as soon as they turn their backs. When they
take the pistol away from you (after a lecture) listen intently and
abashedly and say youre sorry. As soon as the lecturer turns his back on
you, pull out another water pistol from you pocket and shoot him in the
back, laughing hysterically.
77) Pass your own Selective Service Act and draft everyone you meet.
78) Sing at the top of your lungs:
Onward Christian soldiers,
Onward as to war.
Kill your Christian brothers
As you've done before.
79) Enter your local Marine Recruiting office. when asked why you want to join
the marines, reply "Ive been waiting for a long time for a chance to shoot
a motherfucken general!"
80) Take a tour of the White House and offer $1000 to any of the Marine honor
guards who will spit on the flag and say: "Fuck the imperialist United
States" three times. If any of them take you up on it, wait until they are
finished and then tell them that you cant pay him cause that would be
corrupting him.
81) Offer to sell the first official you meet your share of the country.
82) Whenever asked a question answer "FUCK THE WORLD", try to convince
the rest of the known universe to do the same.
83) Hang out in front of your local Navy recruiting center wearing a white
sailor cap and singing "Anchors Aweigh".
84) Join the Amerikan Nazi Party. Arive in a tutu and slippers carrying a sub-
machine gun. open fire screaming "DIE DIE DIE!!!!"
85) Enroll at the School for Marxist Studies.
86) Enroll at Moscow University.
87) Just keep on doing what youre doing.
88) Tell the truth about the wars of the U.S. (i.e. make a speech explaining
the true character of America's involvement in Vietnam.
89) Convince him that Hitler is alive and living in the basement of the
Pentagon, then let his hopes down.
90) Tattoo FUCK FASCISTS on your chest in letters 6 inchs high.
91) Tell him your the Popes illegitimate son.
92) Surround the White House with paid mercenaries and take it over.
93) Own a Monarchy.
94) Claim to be a Bloshevik-Socialist-leftwing-jew.
95) Burn down the Reichstag.
96) Lead a profligate life: live with a negro; drink; gamble and also swear.
97) Commit an original sin.
98) Vote in a foreign election.
99) Bite him.
100) Send him a copy of this file.
101) All of the above.
I adjure you to stop, o Slashbot.
Smile. You're on candid camera.
1. Lawnmower
2. Hold it by its tail, shake vigorously
3. Give it a bath in hydrochloric acid
4. Let it play with a ball of barbed wire
5. Teach it to jump through a flaming loop, then get it drunk and have it do it
6. Eat it, cough up a furball, then puke
7. Put it in a paper shredder, slowly (collect bits afterwars, glue and some assembly may be required)
8. Tie tongue to one car, tail to another, and have them dive in opposite directions
9. Flamethrower
10. Attach tail to fan, put it on high (the fan)
11. Get a pair of tweasers, pluck one hair at a time
12. Bury it, dig it up a few weeks later
13. Throw it at a fan (make sure it's on (the fan))
14. Stuff it in a mailbox with a quarterstick of dynamite
15. Throw catnip on the launching pad of the space shuttle just before takeoff
16. Have it roll in hot tar
17. Drop it off a building onto a sharpened sewer grate
18. Toss it in Boston Harbor
19. Use a tire pump to fill it with air, pop it
20. Shave "Saddam rules" on it and throw it to a pack of Kurds
21. Volunteer it for a documentary on pirranahs
22. Cover firecrackers with catnip (light them)
23. Use it as the bat in "mailbox baseball"
24. Throw it at the windshield of someone who annoys you (or just for fun)
25. Tie (or shave) a message on it and throw it through the window of an enemy
26. Use it as shark bait
27. Train an attack dog with it
28. Volunteer it for radiation testing
29. Volunteer it for Olympic training for the hammer throw
30. Use it as a train brake
31. Put a condom on its head and give it to a Bishop
32. Use it as printer paper
33. Use it as the "kindling" to burn down a billboard (for best results, douse in gasoline first)
34. Rub alcohol on it and chase it over hot coals
35. Cats love chasing moving things, cut some live electrical wires and watch them dance (bring your cat, twit)
36. Light its tail on fire and watch it chase it
37. Give the cat and some acid to Skeeve
38. Let it run The Works for a day
39. "Bowl" it over millions of shards of broken glass
40. Experiment with the explosive properties of cat hair
41. Turn on the car while the cat is getting warm in the engine
42. Check the read/write properties of cats in disk drives
43. Test out the hair club for men on it
44. Put plastic explosives in fake mice
45. Drop it off a cliff, repeat until it doesn't land on its feet
46. Feed it to a pack of raving Puce Armadillos
47. Have it figure out the previous entry
48. Wrap duct tape around it, peal off rapidly
49. Have it try to write a 101 (tm) text file
50. Feed it live grenades (and run)
51. Slide it quickly down a slide lined with brillo pads
52. Use it to smoothen the rusty parts on your car
53. Squeeze it through a pipe half its size
54. Chainsaw
55. Throw it at a velcro wall and rip it off
56. Use a cheese grater
57. Feed it cherry bombs
58. See how good it is at "eating fire"
59. Eat fire yourself, and use the cat as a target (great at parties)
60. Use sandpaper
61. Ask it the meaning of life
62. Have Skeeve explain the meaning of life to it
63. Use it in a game of "tethercat" (this entry courtosy of The Far Side comics inc.)
64. Have it piss off (or on) Cab the Nastie
65. Try to get it inside the computer to accomplish the preceding entry
66. Use hedge clippers
67. Test how good the properties of cats are for making spam
68. Scotch (tm) tape it to the exhaust pipe of a bus
69. Use its face as a guitar pick, gradually move to other parts of its body (Note to all you sex perverts: No, I didn't have a special entry just for this number, nyah nyah nyah!)
70. Get a giant, economy size electric pencil sharpener and...well, you know...um...ok...fine, so it was a bad idea
71. Use it as the lance (or shield) for a good clean game of joust
72. Test its electricity conductivity properties (in any manner you choose)
73. Put alcohol in its water bowl and release it into a mine field
74. Nail the pet door on your door closed, encourage it to run full speed into the house
75. Introduce it to Butch the pitbull next door
76. Pull its flea collar off, going from head to tail
77. Hang some catnip from the rear bumper of your car (near the tire) and have the cat chase it, then slam it (the car) into reverse (this can also be found in the soon to be released "101 (tm) ways to ruin your transmission")
78. Have it attempt to figure out "f00g and the art of Zen"
79. Severely hinder the existence of one of America's greatest evils, the trailer park (of course) by using the cat to link two of the park's power lines, thus shorting out the whole place
80. Use it as a place to stick Post-it (tm) notes
81. Put it on ther head of Raytheon's famous Patriot Missle
82. Put it 5 miles from the intended target of a Scud
83. Shave the American flag on it and sell it to a drunken football fan as a patriotic souvenir (ok, enough with the belated-gulf-war-patriotic-stereotypes)
84. Paint it white and bring it to a sheep shearing contest
85. Toss it into the street after it (the street) has been newly tarred, get some popcorn and wait for the steam roller
86. Treat it like you would a balloon animal
87. Shave signs of the devil on it and give it to Mother Theresa as a gift
88. Teach it to surf
89. Have it fight a big armadillo
90. Ask it why armadillos are such a favorite topic of mine (cats HATE even the mention of the word)
91. Let it play with your favorite samarai sword (did I spell it right?)
92. Have it use a razor sharp spork (they're so common...) to eat from its food bowl
93. Stuff its nose and mouth full of sawdust and watch it flip out (place any desirable sharp objects near it)
94. Feed it green eggs and spam
95. Introduce it to the wonderful world of narcotics (Note: This was put here in a mood of jest and merriment only, Psychotic Alliance would like to stress that drugs are of no use, except when writing text files)
96. Use a utility knife (anyone who accomplishes this, please contact me)
97. Poke it with a pen all over its body, let the scabs heal and then pick all of them off
98. Put it in a time capsule
99. Push it through a screen
100. Just use a razor blade...
101. Give it some swiss cheese (YOU figure it out, hehehe)
probably wont help, because people would recognize them by their lousy drivers. ill be damned, sliced and burned if i ever again spend a single cent on a piece of *hit designed by someone who claims to have three teeth, prongs or similar protrusions. the drivers they wrote looked a lot more like three brain cells.
i owned 2 different trident cards in my life - i gave both to people i really hate.
learn from the past - dont take history!
I hope I didn't brain my damage.
It is an autobiographical account of how a straight man like me, to whom the very idea of homosexuality was utterily repulsive, was slowly brainwashed by countless Taco-snotting, goatse.cx and Linux Gay Conspiracy posts into thinking that I could, in fact, engage in homosexual activity and perhaps even like it one day. The last straw was the dream I had last knight in which I willingly did a handjob on a total stranger.
The truth must be told so that the others can avoid my fate!! Stop reading Slashdot now unless you want to turn into a fagort!