eagerness

Forbes.com has a great piece on former microprocessing kingpin Intel, which held its annual meeting today (being Wednesday).

The lowdown on the thoroughly reported story is that Intel may be building things up higher (or better) than they actually are.

At the meeting, Intel employees were busy rolling out the red carpet for investors - dubious investors, according to Forbes.

But it was the kind of eagerness that psychologists might call forced coersion, i.e. making the best of an increasingly bad situation.

Says Forbes: "Intel's investors could certainly use some fun, however geeky. Intel...