In a feeble attempt to get slightly back on topic ...
Hasn't anyone noticed that nVidia's response is as close to an admission of guilt as they're probably going to give? Everybody seems to have forgotten nVidia's initial response - this was only a driver bug. Suddenly Futuremark not only finds the "bug" but documents that the "bug" has rather un-buglike behavior like detecting splash screens and Game Tests and taking some rather liberal shortcuts that also have a significant impact on IQ. Worse for nVidia, they probably can't "fix" the bug because this is roughly a year since nVidia has had NV30 silicon and they haven't been able to match ATI's 3DMark03 numbers. It's also now pretty clear that the basis for nVidia's tantrum against Futuremark is that 3DMark03 isn't NV3x friendly and Futuremark wouldn't rewrite to make it nV-friendly. Now they've lost any moral high ground for denouncing/bashing 3DMark03 and Futuremark. And to ice it off, nVidia's superstar Dawn, is cavorting around nude on ATI R3x0 cards. So much for how nobody can compete with CineFX.
It's bad enough this incident seems to be blurring the difference between optimization and cheating; now in nVidia's dictionary "bug" is a synonym for "cheat" and "optimization".