P.S. I started another thread in the hopes of reducing the # of hits Charlies site got from the OP in this thread. I asked the mods to lock it up now that the OP added "FAKE" to this thread.
I'm going to port my post over from that thread over to this one since it was locked. (why not merged?)
Lewis Rothschild: They don't have a choice! Bob Rumson is the only one doing the talking! People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they'll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone. They want leadership. They're so thirsty for it they'll crawl through the desert toward a mirage, and when they discover there's no water, they'll drink the sand.
President Andrew Shepherd: Lewis, we've had presidents who were beloved, who couldn't find a coherent sentence with two hands and a flashlight. People don't drink the sand because they're thirsty. They drink the sand because they don't know the difference.
The American President, great movie. I love this conversation, it highlights why the business Charlie is in is a business that exists in the first place.
People are thirsty, they want knowledge, they want to feel like they have an understanding of what the hell is going on.
And in the absence of Nvidia filling the information void with legitimate info regarding fermi status updates and milestone accomplishments the people are willing to drink up whatever crap info they have access to.
And that absence of leadership, the absence of legitimate information is what breeds the existence of rumor sites like semi-accurate and BSN.
If Nvidia really wanted to eliminate these false accusations of deals gone bad and designs gone bad they'd be a little more pro-active about directly enlightening the community with status updates and so on. Intel does it with Anandtech, they get hands-on previews of CPU's 6 months before they are released.
The community drinks the sand, regardless whether or not they know the difference, because there is no other option.