Make it sexy or nobody cares.

If you think I'm joking...

The problem I see is that it's easy to make multiple accounts and give yourself positive reviews.

Got my sample!  Wonderful packaging...simple, but it does the job. Wasn't expecting a package that size for a dried pepper that small It was kind of like Christmas.

Thanks!  My roommate's dog is going to love this  

Edit:  Ate a tiny piece.  Surprisingly good flavor!  This stuff is great.

Pertains to both.

The number of BTCs created is constant, but the distribution of those BTCs is not.

Difficulty/# of miners absolutely influences price.  If BTC is worth $10 and and you have 10,000 miners receiving payouts, then the distributed average of USD payout to each person in BTC is 5 cents.  If you have 100 miners, the distributed average of USD payout to each person in BTC is 5 DOLLARS.  The 100 miners will sell their BTC faster than the 10,000 miners will sell theirs.

In other words, more miners = longer time it takes to accumulate enough BTC to reach a psychological selling point.  This absolutely influences price.

Yes, I know that to a degree the price will influence the number of miners and hence difficulty as a result of electrical costs and what not, but that's kind of the point as well...it's not a one way street.

I don't think it's a terrible proxy for 2 reasons.  1.)  It still takes time to make 200 posts.  200 posts will limit the number of joint accounts a scammer will have...it would simply not be as time-effective for them to go through making 200 posts for every 1 scam before they get banned.  2.)  You can still read their posts and decide for yourself if their posts contain value.

This isn't the wrong place for this thread.

In my opinion, the marketplace subforum should be the most exclusive for the best interest of the community.

Call it selection bias, but I read more scam ads than not.  It seems every piece of high end technology is being sold by a user under 50 posts and then everyone wonders why they get scammed.

I propose a 200-post minimum limit be enforced before anyone can post in the marketplace.

Another option would be to have 2 marketplace forums:  1 forum for users with over 200 posts, another for users with under 200.  I can tell you if this were the case, I wouldn't even glance at the under-200 forum.  I'd have no need to...I'd never buy from anyone in there anyway regardless of how convincing they are.

This is BTC, it ain't fuckin' pringles. 

HOW DO THESE SCAMS KEEP HAPPENING?!?!?!

Seriously.  How can this type of thread not look suspicious?  Has anyone actually done any stats on the relationship between low posts/no feedback and scams?

Here's my mindset going through this thread...the following happens in about 5 seconds:
"Oh...an IPad2...that'd be nice.    Only 55 BTC?  Hm....32 posts?  Warning, warning, danger, danger!"

If you're gambling you're not running a business.  Business is about profit.  Right now, paying a premium on BTC-related purchases is understandable.  You should expect to pay 10% extra, not 10% less.  That can change when you have 1.) a competitive economy and 2.) stability in volatility.  The name of the business game for now is fiat, not BTC.

45 Geist Geld coins will (I think) forever be gone.  I had 45 before my computer decided to crash and I reformatted HDD. 

Here's an update.

I fiddled with the BIOS some more.  There was no 'native IDE' option per say, but I did find an option that would enable/disable writing to the sata drives.  It was already enabled, but, for the hell of it, I disabled them, then re-enabled them.

For whatever reason, Windows decided to allow me to install itself to my harddrive, and it also allowed me to boot from the CD while my hard drive was still connected.

ALMOST.

After installing and expanding the files and rebooting to finalize the installation process, the computer now decides it wants to shut down while completing the installation process.  It's done this several times consistently now.

So, here's what I know.  Whereas earlier this did not happen, I can now have both my opitcal- and hard-drives connected and boot from the Windows CD.  I can also begin the installation process.  I cannot however complete the installation process.  Keep in mind this is on a completely formatted hard drive. 

Any new ideas?  Should I still try resetting BIOS to factory presets?

Nice point, but unfortunately, it doesn't apply here.

It's been 2 days.  I fiddled with it for hours.  I consulted my brother by phone who knows computer hardware very very well...he's building a supercomputer for IBM.  Obviously it was on the phone, but still, he wasn't sure either.  I talked to tech guys at tiger direct.  They were just lame.  The Geek Squad was coming this Saturday because I am a student and need my computer for school regardless of having access to certain passwords.  I ruled out a virus by formatting my HDD (really wasn't a huge loss anyway, I transferred the important stuff).  And, if it had worked, I would save $130 instantly by cancelling a Geek Squad appointment.  I don't mind sacrificing 2 hours to re-install any drivers/programs if it means saving $130.  It's not like Bitcoin guys are a guarantee.

Also took out the graphics card, swapped sata cables, inspected (and cleaned) everything in there to make sure nothing was disconnected, fiddled with multiple BIOS settings multiple times, etc.  Thanks anyway.

Unfortunately, I don't have any spare hard drives floating around.  I didn't even have a USB/SATA cable until I bought one today.

I was able to reformat the hard drive by first disconnecting the SATA from the hard drive, then booting windows from the cd, clicking install, then reconnecting my SATA to the hard drive.  After I did this, I could hit 'refresh' on the drive menu list (this is when it asks me where I would like to install Windows) and my hard-drive would pop up.  But, I couldn't install it on the drive because of the disk controller issue.  I was, however, able to reformat it.  

I thought that would fix it since after a few hours of messing with stuff, I thought there was a good probability that the boot files had been corrupted somehow, and that this was the reason that I could still access the other files on my hard drive and transfer them.  It wasn't the hard-drive SATA port, it wasn't my graphics card, it wasn't any of the wire connections (tested all those).  This is when I was beginning to think that giest geld might have had something to do with it.  I think this would be a natural suspicion at that point.  

I'm still not convinced it's a hard drive issue since I was able to successfully transfer other data.  I will try the other dude's "disk controller" solution.  Maybe something's wrong with the motherboard too.  Those are my best guesses.

Edit:  By the way, thanks for letting me know it might fry, but honestly, it worked.  I was able to plug it in at that point, hit "refresh," have the drive pop up, and then even search through the files and folders on it.

I actually booted in safe mode to begin at one point.  Interestingly, I had taken out my graphics card at a point of simply trying to eliminate possibilities (I had been using it to mine consistently for a while).  While the graphics card was out, safe mode started successfully one time only  It was the only time I was successfully able to get back into the computer.  I took care of a couple simple things before I realized I couldn't connect to the internet to do anything fancy at that point like start sending my emails essential files.  I then tried to restart it normally, and it died again.  Then I tried safe mode again, and it died again and wouldn't come back.  

Another thing I had noticed:  The longer I left the computer off before trying to boot it again, the farther it would get through the boot process.  Sometimes it would die upon "windows starting,"   some other times it would die right after prompting me for my password. I know this sounds a bit conflicting with what I said in the OP, but I was condensing at that point.  Regardless, I never had gotten to the desktop except through safe mode that one time.

Hm, I'll try that Native IDE mode thing.  I assume that that has something to do with allowing the computer to be influenced by other drives upon startup?  

I bet you don't know what the problem is.  I'm not saying "geist geld" did it, hence the parenthesis and question marks in the subject heading.  But the timing was rather peculiar.

Yeh I tried switching the SATAs from the optical drive to hard drive and vice versa.  When I did, the optical drive still booted-up fine while the hard drive was disconnected.

Can you punch BitcoinExpress for me?

Edit:   Hmmm I notice BitcoinExpress's post just got deleted...

Actually, quite the opposite.

Desire = discontent.  You are unsatisfied with the present moment.  This leads to selfishness since you want to fulfill your desires.
No desire = contentment.  You are totally satisfied with the present moment.  This leads to selflessness since you have no desires to fulfill.

Edit:  Also, no desire is not the same as no emotion.

I posted this in technical support, but due to relatively low-traffic in that part of the forum, and due to its possible relevance to geist geld, I decided to also post this here.

Ok, so I'm not sure if this is a coincidence or not, but I downloaded geist geld (the new cryptocurrency) and my computer failed that very night (2 nights ago).  Now, I can't even boot to windows.

Here's what happens.  Let's say I start my computer normally.  The computer gets to "starting windows" (before prompting me for my user password) and then automatically shuts down and/or resets depending upon what it feels like doing.  If I insert the Windows 7 CD, it won't even boot from the disc.  It does the same thing...shuts down when trying to start windows (this occurs whether or not I boot from the hard drive or the optical drive). 

Now, let's say I unplug the SATA cable from my hard drive.  Then, it boots from the optical drive!  It then asks me if I want to install windows or repair my computer.  At this point, I have to re-plug in my SATA to the harddrive so that I can select where to install it.  It however won't let me install it.  It says "make sure your disk controller is enabled in BIOS" or something, but I can't find anything about this in BIOS.

I used a SATA/USB cable to transfer essential data (wallet.dat, etc.) to a laptop.  I then reformatted the hard drive in an attempt to start fresh.  But this doesn't work either.  It still tells me I can't write to that disk because I need to "make sure my disk controller is enabled in BIOS."  Now that the hard drive is formatted, I tried restarting the computer normally with both SATAs plugged in (to hard drive and optical drive).  The computer still decides to shut down while trying to boot windows from the CD.  It only boots from the CD when the SATA to the hard drive is unplugged.  Also, I should mention that I received a message at some point telling me that there was some kind of error while trying to boot windows (prior to formatting the drive).

Does anyone know what the hell is up with this?  Is my hard drive done for?  Can hard drives spontaneously just crash out and cause some kind of interference from other processes starting up (e.g. prohibiting windows from booting from the optical drive even though there's no longer any data on the hard drive)?  Can viruses do something like this?  I ask this last question due to the fact that I downloaded geistgeld the same night that this happened.

Any help would be immensely appreciated!

Edit:  Keep in mind, I was able to transfer data from my hard drive to my laptop successfully.

Ok, so I'm not sure if this is a coincidence or not, but I downloaded geist geld (the new cryptocurrency) and my computer failed that very night (2 nights ago).  Now, I can't even boot to windows.

Here's what happens.  Let's say I start my computer normally.  The computer gets to "starting windows" (before prompting me for my user password) and then automatically shuts down and/or resets depending upon what it feels like doing.  If I insert the Windows 7 CD, it won't even boot from the disc.  It does the same thing...shuts down when trying to start windows (this occurs whether or not I boot from the hard drive or the optical drive).  

Now, let's say I unplug the SATA cable from my hard drive.  Then, it boots from the optical drive!  It then asks me if I want to install windows or repair my computer.  At this point, I have to re-plug in my SATA to the harddrive so that I can select where to install it.  It however won't let me install it.  It says "make sure your disk controller is enabled in BIOS" or something, but I can't find anything about this in BIOS.

I used a SATA/USB cable to transfer essential data (wallet.dat, etc.) to a laptop.  I then reformatted the hard drive in an attempt to start fresh.  But this doesn't work either.  It still tells me I can't write to that disk because I need to "make sure my disk controller is enabled in BIOS."  Now that the hard drive is formatted, I tried restarting the computer normally with both SATAs plugged in (to hard drive and optical drive).  The computer still decides to shut down while trying to boot windows from the CD.  It only boots from the CD when the SATA to the hard drive is unplugged.  Also, I should mention that I received a message at some point telling me that there was some kind of error while trying to boot windows (prior to formatting the drive).

Does anyone know what the hell is up with this?  Is my hard drive done for?  Can hard drives spontaneously just crash out and cause some kind of interference from other processes starting up (e.g. prohibiting windows from booting from the optical drive even though there's no longer any data on the hard drive)?  Can viruses do something like this?  I ask this last question due to the fact that I downloaded geistgeld the same night that this happened.

Any help would be immensely appreciated!

Edit:  Keep in mind, I was able to transfer data from my hard drive to my laptop successfully.