nVidia is a deadly sin?

[Zephik]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins


Envy (Latin, invidia) Main articles: Envy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Envy) (jealousy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jealousy), malice (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malice)) Like Greed, Envy is characterized by an insatiable desire; they differ, however, for two main reasons. First, Greed is largely associated with material goods, whereas Envy may apply more generally. Second, those who commit the sin of Envy desire something that someone else has which they perceive themselves as lacking. Dante defined this as "love of one's own good perverted to a desire to deprive other men of theirs." In Dante's Purgatory, the punishment for the envious is to have their eyes sewn shut with wire, because they have gained sinful pleasure from seeing others brought low.

Did anyone else know of nVidia's namesake?

[slytherock]

Didn't know it. Interesting... By chance I'm not catholic :D

[xRyokenx]

Well, I'm going to hell... just kidding. :D

Curious though, but they forgot the "i" in front... like iPoods have, muahahaha.

[AJ@PR]

Yeah... I knew that... but probably because it just clicked.

Envy = Envidia in spanish.

Envidia sounds... exactly like 'nVidia'.

5 chocolate points to whomever nails down the ethnicity of nVidia's founder... therein lies the reason for the choosing of such a name.

[Luke122]

I dont have a guess on his ethnicity, but I'd bet that the name was chosen because "you'll be the envy of your friends with graphics this good" or something like that. :)

The ads from the old days were great. :)

[AJ@PR]

^^^ Hmm, I'm looking at your names... and searching,... but I can't seem to find what I had in mind.

There was a latin guy, (not sure if he was mexican), and he worked for the company, and he was the source of the name.
I read this in Wired craploads of years ago.

I'm gonna search for some stuff in the net to see if I find what I'm blabberin' about... :)