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Why do people continue to use MtGox? Seriously... you can't get money out of MtGox, it's a black hole. Please stop using it.
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But it does boggle my mind when people need to lie, and do it habitually like Darin Bicknell (Fairly sure he's pathological), when there are so many legitimate grievances. Truly mind boggling.
They say a liar never believes anyone else... Your track record with the truth (or lack of it) speaks for itself dude. You, like several others, make this claim... but you, like all others have yet to provide a single shred of evidence that I've lied anywhere. But go on, please post a link to where I've lied, lets see it. My prediction: You will huff and puff and make all sorts of wild claims, but you will never actually produce a link that contains a lie by me. There are plenty of links with lies by Bicknellski and crew, but those are easy to find, since 90% of what Darin M. Bicknell posts is a lie. |
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Wow, out of 45,000 units shipped, you managed to find... wait for it... 12 failures.
Now, I don't claim to be a math whiz or anything, but... I'm gonna say the failure rate is quite acceptable.
Lets be generous and say you found 1/100th of the actual failures, so that means there would be 1200 failures... a whopping... wait for it... 2.6% failure rate.
Holy hell batman! Stop the presses!
The whole piss off customers to get attention tactic is past it's time. Find another line of work if you can't handle negative comments. Also, stop shipping units that are clearly under performing. I can handle them just fine. But it does boggle my mind when people need to lie, and do it habitually like Darin Bicknell (Fairly sure he's pathological), when there are so many legitimate grievances. Truly mind boggling. |
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 Darin M. "Bicknellski" Bicknell has tried to run several companies. After being turned down legally in his native Canada to start a school and being unable to hold down a job for more than a year, he was forced to flee to Indonesia to create an illegal "school" for children. He is currently actively trying to scam people with his bitcoin mining companies, lets take a look at them according to his list: 1. Few incidents of delays in shipping. Was completely unable to deliver on his first attempt, even though all parts were supplied by someone else. This is an infinite delay. Is now currently delayed for his new "modular" junk miners that don't even function and you have to build it yourself, though he's still trying to run a pre-order scam. 2. Under promise and over deliver. Failed to delivery a single working device after numerous promises. 3. Follow truth in advertising guidelines. Advertised for working mining devices, failed to deliver a single one. 4. Polite and concerned customer service people. Has no customer service people. 5. Company maintains an open line of communication with the community at all times. Maintains open line of communication, which is required to run a scam such as the Hive & Wasp, as well as the "Big Picture Mining" scam. 6. They provide clear policy for refunds and REFUND upon request without delay. Finally refunded people after it was clear he was completely unable to deliver on his "Big Picture Mining" scam. Held on to peoples funds for a period of time, using those funds to enrich himself through trading and arbitrage. 7. Set a clear shipping date for miners. Failed to set a clear shipping date, but even without setting a clear date was unable to ship a single product. 8. Provide secure methods of payment that allow for the customer to be protected should there be any dispute. Who knows? 9. Few complaints and those complaints are resolved to the ultimate satisfaction of the buyer in a very timely fashion. I'm sure those people who finally got a refund after losing the opportunity cost of "purchasing" from Darin M. Bicknell are happy as clams. 10. The company will have reliable and experienced engineers designing the miner, chip and software / firmware. Has no engineers and can not even deliver a product where all components are designed, programmed and manufactured by someone else. 11. Focus on reliability engineering where there is an emphasis of dependability in the lifecycle management of a product. Has no product, so reliability isn't a concern. Has no engineers, so no engineering has been done. 12. The shipped product doesn't require additional hours of tweaking and post engineering to get it mining optimally. Has no shipped product, so no additional hours are required. His new Hive and Wasp require extensive engineering capabilities to even get functioning (Supply your own chips!). LOL .... Wow, so Darin can't even satisfy a single point of his list, and he's run two failed ventures so far and he continues to scam people out of BTC. Yep, real upstanding guy there, that Darin M. Bicknell. Quality fellow! Runs an illegal school in Indonesia and runs BTC hardware scams on the side, all the while trolling his "competition" with lies and misinformation. Awesome guy! |
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Voted for the Wasp Project...
Bias of course.
I think the poll should be reliable companies... not MOST reliable. We need more than just one reliable or most reliable we need MOST companies to be RELIABLE. Those that are not will be avoided.
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Reliable?
Bog standard definition: 'consistently good in quality or performance; able to be trusted.'
The things to look for that reliable companies will do:
1. Few incidents of delays in shipping.
2. Under promise and over deliver.
3. Follow truth in advertising guidelines.
4. Polite and concerned customer service people.
5. Company maintains an open line of communication with the community at all times.
6. They provide clear policy for refunds and REFUND upon request without delay.
7. Set a clear shipping date for miners.
8. Provide secure methods of payment that allow for the customer to be protected should there be any dispute.
9. Few complaints and those complaints are resolved to the ultimate satisfaction of the buyer in a very timely fashion.
10. The company will have reliable and experienced engineers designing the miner, chip and software / firmware.
11. Focus on reliability engineering where there is an emphasis of dependability in the lifecycle management of a product.
12. The shipped product doesn't require additional hours of tweaking and post engineering to get it mining optimally.
Here are some good things to think about when measuring the reliability of a hardware company here in Bitcointalk.
Does the company do these things? A simple Yes or No.
Build Trust - Establish and maintain a positive track record in the marketplace.
Advertise Honestly - Adhere to established standards of advertising and selling.
Tell the Truth - Honestly represent products and services, including clear and adequate disclosures of all material terms.
Be Transparent - Openly identify the nature, location, and ownership of the business, and clearly disclose all policies, guarantees and procedures that bear on a customer’s decision to buy.
Honor Promises - Abide by all written agreements and verbal representations.
Be Responsive - Address marketplace disputes quickly, professionally, and in good faith.
Safeguard Privacy - Protect any data collected against mishandling and fraud, collect personal information only as needed, and respect the preferences of consumers regarding the use of their information.
Embody Integrity - Approach all business dealings, marketplace transactions and commitments with integrity.
All good points, but I think the most important point is trust. Once lost it's extremely difficult to get it back. Haha this is an awesome quote from Bick. Lets take a look at the quote and apply it to his failed companies. Darin M. "Bicknellski" Bicknell has tried to run several companies. After being turned down legally in his native Canada to start a school, he was forced to flee to Indonesia to create an illegal "school" for children. He is currently actively trying to scam people with his bitcoin mining companies, lets take a look at them according to his list: 1. Few incidents of delays in shipping. Was completely unable to deliver on his first attempt, even though all parts were supplied by someone else. This is an infinite delay. Is now currently delayed for his new "modular" junk miners that don't even function and you have to build it yourself, though he's still trying to run a pre-order scam. 2. Under promise and over deliver. Failed to delivery a single working device after numerous promises. 3. Follow truth in advertising guidelines. Advertised for working mining devices, failed to deliver a single one. 4. Polite and concerned customer service people. Has no customer service people. 5. Company maintains an open line of communication with the community at all times. Maintains open line of communication, which is required to run a scam such as the Hive & Wasp, as well as the "Big Picture Mining" scam. 6. They provide clear policy for refunds and REFUND upon request without delay. Finally refunded people after it was clear he was completely unable to deliver on his "Big Picture Mining" scam. Held on to peoples funds for a period of time, using those funds to enrich himself through trading and arbitrage. 7. Set a clear shipping date for miners. Failed to set a clear shipping date, but even without setting a clear date was unable to ship a single product. 8. Provide secure methods of payment that allow for the customer to be protected should there be any dispute. Who knows? 9. Few complaints and those complaints are resolved to the ultimate satisfaction of the buyer in a very timely fashion. I'm sure those people who finally got a refund after losing the opportunity cost of "purchasing" from Darin M. Bicknell are happy as clams. 10. The company will have reliable and experienced engineers designing the miner, chip and software / firmware. Has no engineers and can not even deliver a product where all components are designed, programmed and manufactured by someone else. 11. Focus on reliability engineering where there is an emphasis of dependability in the lifecycle management of a product. Has no product, so reliability isn't a concern. Has no engineers, so no engineering has been done. 12. The shipped product doesn't require additional hours of tweaking and post engineering to get it mining optimally. Has no shipped product, so no additional hours are required. His new Hive and Wasp require extensive engineering capabilities to even get functioning (Supply your own chips!). LOL .... Wow, so Darin can't even satisfy a single point of his list, and he's run two failed ventures so far and he continues to scam people out of BTC. Yep, real upstanding guy there, that Darin M. Bicknell. Quality fellow! Runs an illegal school in Indonesia and runs BTC hardware scams on the side, all the while trolling his "competition" with lies and misinformation. Awesome guy! |
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Yes, you have to heat it up like a BBQ to get the chips off that board. The first time I stripped the chips off a board it took me about an hour because I couldn't figure out why it wasn't coming off... I finally cranked it up to around 450 and had a very tight nozzle on it and the chip came right off. I had to have the air right up on the chip, if I put it at "normal" distance, the solder just won't melt... the board has a very efficient thermal plane, so it will start migrating the heat out of the chip rapidly.
Don't worry about catching the board on fire, your wand should not produce enough heat to cause any problems with the board itself. Just be careful of some of the surrounding components... however, I think the worst case scenario is a few junction temps that max out at 120C, but it's doubtful you'll reach that if you have focused air on the chip itself.
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Wow, out of 45,000 units shipped, you managed to find... wait for it... 12 failures.
Now, I don't claim to be a math whiz or anything, but... I'm gonna say the failure rate is quite acceptable.
Lets be generous and say you found 1/100th of the actual failures, so that means there would be 1200 failures... a whopping... wait for it... 2.6% failure rate.
Holy hell batman! Stop the presses!
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The chips come off nice and easy with hot air or IR as well. You'll have to re-ball them, but I've pulled the chips off with a hot air wand almost completely intact ball wise. With some focused IR heating, you could probably get the chips off completely intact.
Josh, if you were to use an IR pre-heater under it and a hot air gun what temps at the nozzle and the board would you use? What temps would fuse the chips internally. C I can't recall what temps I used... I had to max out my Hakko hot air wand though to get it to go. It's that @#$#@ lead-free solder, makes it a bitch to work on. I hate it so much. |
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The chips come off nice and easy with hot air or IR as well. You'll have to re-ball them, but I've pulled the chips off with a hot air wand almost completely intact ball wise. With some focused IR heating, you could probably get the chips off completely intact.
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Yes, put heatsinks and a fan on the MOSFETs if you are pushing it that hard. Sorry, I would have mentioned that, but I just assumed people would cool those automatically.
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What's even funnier about this whole Bicknellski fail train is if he had ordered BFL chips, he'd actually have a working product. LOL indeed. Bick is so full of fail, it's almost painful to watch... but not really.
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Well, never thought I'd run into that limit, jeez. Shares are still counted properly - they are processed individually and share count is wiped between batches, so the actual payment mechanism for shares only deals with small numbers of shares. The round share counter is just a simple ++ counter.
I'll get that fixed shortly.
*EDIT* - Fixed... we shouldn't run into that particular problem again.
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2FA removal requests usually take up to a month or more before they are acted on, due to the nature of 2FA. Please be sure to back up your 2FA seeds! The whole point of 2FA is to prevent unauthorized access. If it can be removed easily, then it's useless.
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/sigh ... yeah it was a normal SD. Normally I had used a micro to SD adapter and had a micro in there, but on that day, it was a regular SD... so the last flight of that rocket is sitting on a memory chip that I can't access. I still have it in the drawer, but I don't think I have any boards compatible with it anymore, so even desoldering it and putting it on another board would be problematic.
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This is very interesting.
However, I have a few questions regarding the components used:
- Are the components cheap to replace?
- Do you offer any guarantee on the shelf life of the drone?
- Would you offer a repair service with all costs included if anything goes wrong?
This would be pretty fun to show off to some friends. Although, I'm assuming if you do crash. Then there isn't going to be much of it left.
Depends on how bad the crash is, really... a few years ago I built a rocket with an HD camera in it... one launch I forgot to put the ejection charge in it, so it crashed spectacularly. Even the SD card didn't survive, which I thought would survive just about anything, being so small and light. I suspect a plane would be more apt to survive a fall, since it isn't built to reach a very high terminal velocity and that wing design would really cut down even an uncontrolled fall's impact/decent rate. |
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Ok, I'm intrigued. How much for a rotor wing drone?
Although a fixed wing one is pretty awesome as well... hmmm... How about larger ones with more flight time? How do these do in wind?
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I think that regardless of everything, we should sue them and see what happens. I receive a lot of questions via pm with persons interested to sue them, but everyone stops, due to laziness i think.
Well, they lied about the promised delivery time, they promised something that they knew would have never happen and we can easily prove that. I really don't see what else is needed.
I have money i want to trow away against HF. And arbitration looks like a dead track. Again, please, let's do something serious. (i can already visualise ice or their peers trolling me with this post, but who cares...). I want to have john to regret what he said about how many lawsuit bfl had. It's the minimum they deserve.
If we get nothing with such a lawsuit, at least we will be able to have said ourselves that we have tried.
Cause frivolous lawsuits are a great way to further overburden the legal system and block legitimate grievances from getting aired in a timely manner. GG! David, please stop watching LA Law and thinking the US legal system is like you see on TV. It's nothing like TV dramatization and Perry Mason doesn't actually exist. |
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The same heatsink that comes on 60 GH/s long boards are the ones I'm referring to.
Ah, ok, haven't seen one of those personally. Is there a part number or something I can order that sink from somewhere? Or something similar aftermarket? I will say that checking it this morning that the copper heat sink I have on the bottom is contributing a *lot* to keeping the board cool-ish. Heat can go either way, and a good sink on the bottom seems to work well at 5. As for the warrantly, yeah this is way beyond "I just opened it to peek". If it blows up it blows up. I (and anyone else trying this) can deal with that. :-) Yeah, we have a new heatsink that goes on the bottom of the units that are shipping with newer units that replaces the flat reinforcement backplate. Email me one of your order numbers and I will see if I can get a heatsink sent out to you so you can give it a test. |
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