NVIDIA has had to contend with a number of "challenges" this year. On top of the current economic climate everyone finds themselves in, NVIDIA has had to contend with a resurgent AMD/ATI and the, as yet unresolved, repercussions of manufacturing defects in a number of its products.[...] It needs all the resources it can muster to fight a war on two fronts against its main competitor and its own shareholders.

Though the launch will be welcome news to many of Creative's customers, it won't satisfy them all. The new driver supports most of Creative's X-Fi sound cards, but there's no mention of support for Creative's range-topping X-Fi Titanium. Having been available for a little over 24 hours, many customers have reported various other problems [on the] official Creative support forums.

The move comes as AMD announced a net loss of $1.189 billion for the second quarter and that it was divesting its handheld and DTV product businesses in order to be able to reclassify them as discontinued operations for the purpose of financial reporting. This means AMD is selling off these businesses, a move that will lead to questions about how many other assets AMD plans to sell off now that Meyer's calling the shots. There were a lot of questions about AMD's "asset smart" strategy of, essentially, selling off many of its assets like its fabrication plants.

Net neutrality is paramount to safeguard free speech and innovation on the Internet. With only one arguably negative side-effect: an unusual amount of today's Internet users are virgin. That's a problem I intend to solve.

Not a single distro maintained a consistent, high-quality experience from installation to prolonged use. None of them are usable by your grandmother, or in most cases, by you [the PS3 owner]. For the experienced Linux hacker, it's probably possible to beat some sense into these distributions (with Xubuntu probably closest to useful, when combined with the Petitboot boot loader used by openSUSE). But it's not a good choice — simply the least bad.

A number of evolutionary architectural improvements gives the 45nm processor an up-to 10 per cent performance lead over an equivalently-clocked 65nm (QX6850) part. That good news is compounded by the fact it also draws, somewhat oxymoronically, considerably less power when doing so.

For most users, the architectural benefits imbued in the next generation up make for a more compelling choice. An interesting product that makes for curious interest rather than outright purchase

Less junk mail will make everyone happy, while auto power-off sockets appeal to our lazy side, and a flow restricting tap nozzle can save on both water and gas bills.

Let it be known, nerds, that not only is the energy efficient home compatible with a digital lifestyle — it embraces it, using technology to help world and wallet.