I know for a fact that Nvidia supports "full 128-bit (4 component) floating point precision throughout the entire pipeline". Why isn't nvidia getting slapped with a lawsuit as well?

nVidia, last I knew, had a fairly broad cross-licensing agreement with SGI, mainly as a result of settling the suit between them about 6 years ago.

Why doesn't SGI have a patent on integer-based textures/framebuffers? Probably because its rediculous to patent the use of a specific numerical type. Its like saying SGI invented floating point numbers. Rediculous.

Because they didn't invent "integer-based textures/framebufers". They did, however, come up with the first working implementation of a floating point framebuffer and patented it.

Bar: "Funny thing though, you never referred to DM as a 'Fuckwit'."

Actually, Bar, should you prefer read the first draft of that article, you will find that I did characterize Mr. McBride in response to Paragraph 13, as follows:

"Mr. McBride, the only way to defend this in court is to tell the judge that you are a complete fucking idiot, and that all previous mangement was equally incompetent. Even if a court buys that explanation, I hardly think they'll reward SCO's utter stupidity to the tune of 3 billion dollars. It's far more likely that they will require SCO to pay IBM's court costs instead."

-- http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=77770&cid= 6908490

Any other false assumptions you'd like to share in promoting your fitness to belong in the same complete fucking idiot class as Darl 'Fuckwit' McBride?

Information Technology Engineer

"Matt Cutts, a key Google engineer, used to work for the National Security Agency."

Oh good grief! I went to grad school with Matt Cutts (at UNC) and the people making that accusation know nothing about Matt. These people need to get a life and stop finding conpiracies under every rock. There are more than enough out in the open to worry about (i.e. DMCA, etc...).