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Tuesday, 26 August 2008, 23:30

JEN-HSUNG HUANG, Nvidia's absolute Monarch, refrained himself from painting the roses red in San Jose, where his company is currently hosting Nvision 2008, but did dye the fountains green.

Or rather, a slimy, toxic looking yellow.

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Looking more like nuclear contaminated groundwater than a cool visual display, the oozing yellowish fountain is the first thing conference goers, analysts, engineers and journos see as they enter Nvidia's Nvision shindig.

That and the protestors handing out similarly-coloured fluorescent green leaflets about dodgy Nvidia chips.

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You might say whoever thought it up has done something of a piss-poor job.

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Shurley Mine Took leak.

Thas nuthin' mor than Dirty ole' Copper & Au Mine Takin' Leak. drashek

posted by : geologist, 27 August 2008Complain about this comment
>_<

It might just mean that Jen Sun enjoys a nice golden shower. Even if he doesn't, i'm certain there'd be a long queue of people willing to give him one considering his company's recent performance.

posted by : H. Ruiz, 27 August 2008Complain about this comment
Contaminated Water

Great! With all the whinging about the lack of fresh water on the planet by the enviro-nazis, now that drooling skanker Jen Sun has to go and pee in the fountain! Who's gonna clean up this mess?

posted by : Rich Wargo, 27 August 2008Complain about this comment
But

In nature water gets green too, and sticky and smelly to boot.

posted by : W.-, 27 August 2008Complain about this comment
Drink Duff.

Reminds me of the water Lisa Simpson drank that made her hallucinate. It was when they visited Duff Gardens in one of the earlier episodes. "Duff beer for me, Duff beer for you, I'll have a Duff, you have one too"

posted by : Pixelated, 27 August 2008Complain about this comment
Where's the protesters in the pic?

I don't see any protesters? Where they at? Anyone drink from that fountain? Any proof it's been contaminated more than food coloring does to all our foods (that we actually eat...LOL). I don't think anyone drinks from this water. Must really puss you guys off that they don't invite you to their meetings or send you review cards eh?

posted by : The Jian, 27 August 2008Complain about this comment
The first picture

reminds me of the time I had the misfortune to see a picture of a girl in a tub.

posted by : Nobby Nobbs, 27 August 2008Complain about this comment
Actually...

I think the colored water is pretty cool. And this is the first article in the inquirer that I think sucks. Really. I've only been reading ever since the G8x chips broke on my MBP though.

posted by : theKryz, 27 August 2008Complain about this comment
Really?

Wow. Kinda grasphing as straws here aren't you? We get it...you don't like NVIDIA. Did they deny your resume or something? *sniffle* BTW. Your site crashed my computer.

posted by : Billy B., 27 August 2008Complain about this comment
Hmm

Anyone understand chemistry? Organic chemistry perhaps? Should I remember mine right, which the actions of the grounds crew would seem to bear out, they were using an ecologically sound dye. Makes, sense, this is San Jose, CA not Shen-Tzu China (SP?). The grounds crew had to refresh the green in the fountain on a regular basis. Why? The dye reacted with the sunlight. Hence why it would start out green in the mornings after being "refreshed" and would be a "pea green" at best by late afternoon. Protesters? None of the environmental sort. There were some people (paid?) handing out flyers from a website that's registered to the Democratic? organization "Unite Here" by F. Kung. Once you peel back the layers, however, it may have more to do with with Kintera, INC. They appear to be a software dev company for fundraising software. For the most part they were well-mannered. The most I saw was incursions onto private property. I saw 3 such incursions, but each time they were simply asked (and then followed to) the edge of the property to the sidewalk. No big deal I guess. Nobody I saw, on either side, got bent out of shape. Nobody got in each other's face, but it did generate a LOT of litter LOL.

posted by : Joe Servov, 28 August 2008Complain about this comment
We´re watching

I think The Inquirer is attacking us but they fail

posted by : Nvidia Lawyer, 01 September 2008Complain about this comment
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