They're their enemy there? 

If they can deliver, it's not bragging.  Customer satisfaction can be easily obtained by intentionally decreasing expectations, then over-delivering.  I expect first shipping to be on the last day of October 

Here is a full-sized side by side wallpaper  .

All that the future cards will need is to be designed by default to operate in a lower power eco-green-earthy mode.  Who wouldn't like that, right?  You could even use these future gaming beasts in eco-mode with one PCI-e power connector instead of two (the green colored one is the one you'd use, of course) .

In EU countries, the non-green one could be covered with tape or something saying "Don't remove this!!! BAD! NO NO!"

Then include a simple software or firmware utility for all non-EU customers to UNLEASH THE BEAST. After pressing "I accept" to prove that you're not in an EU country, then it's all good, and you can game just like anywhere else in the world  

I'm sure nobody will find a way to smuggle such software into the EU.

Problem sovled.

At some point, the block reward will be less than one half of a Satoshi, right?

Yeah maybe for bitcoin to be considered a commodity, not a currency - it's best for that commodity to simply be called bitcoin.  But if bitcoin were a virtual currency backing a virtual commodity, Bitcoinium has my vote (this would be pointless, though).  Bitium sounds too much like Bitumen (heavy crude oil).

There is no 5890, but the 5870's cypress core featured disabled shaders for the 5850 and 5830 lines.  These GPUs were not binned due to defect, but designed for each product line to be physically limited in amount of available shaders.

My best guess is that the BFL Little Single will consist of 4 ASIC chips (spaced in a square or diamond pattern as it relates to the released reference board pic), or that it'll have a full 8 chips and a cheaper VRM system, probably with a fixed low voltage that does not allow significant overclocking.  I doubt there will be significant variance in the quality of ASIC chips produced.
 

I totally agree.   Please take it down a notch, Inaba ... at least until the first ASIC ships. Upon first shipment of ASICs, a middle finger for all douche bags will be in order.  But until then, wouldn't it be better to focus efforts on resolving supply chain/ marketing/ BFL website issues?  I am sure there are more serious things than this forum - in the meantime, let the douche nozzles spray what they will.

Long time lurker, infrequent poster    Stopping in to check on the forums during this last year has been entertaining, but what I have to say is usually answered by reading other posts.   However, this thread is especially stupid.  It's good to finally be a part of it

Nevermind what I said before about this topic- It's likely the case that ice chill just wants some free stuff  

So, lets say I am a hard drive manufacturer with an 1000GB hard drive for $100, and a 2000GB hard drive for 200$

After you've already bought the first draft 2000GB non-watered-down premium version of the drive, you'd then demand I reduce my performance for the 1000GB after I've figured I'd have some excess level of board and enclosure production?  Even if I just wanted to make available a 2 platter drive for the masses?   Wow...  Am I, the manufacturer, supposed to cave to some wave of DB protest? Only a scam would react to you in the way you want, ice chill.  I'm glad Josh / Inaba made things clear.  BTW, this isn't a Walmart return desk -  It's a pioneering place in the formation of the world's first established peer to peer cryptocurrency.

It does make sense that the effect of a failure of one Little Single would be of less consequence than a failure of a Single, although worrying about two Little Singles could be more trouble than it's worth.  Asics should be highly reliable, so variance reduction may just not be worth it.

A bigger question - If these ASIC chips are highly overclockable, might air cooling using the reference heat pipe cooler favor the Little Single (as there are would only be 4 chips to cool)?   I remember seeing in a post someplace that the Mini Single will use the same heat sink / fan setup as the Single.  However, given the released design previews, water cooling kits may be made available as an option for future overclocking.  In the case of a water-cooling setup, the long term advantage goes back to the SC Single.

I'd rather have an SC Single, due to simplicity of setup and long term efficiency- as scrybe said, redundant VRMs = waste. For me, Little Single is also a waste of potential for a beautifully designed board (that has potential to be used in a water-cooled setup).

Nevermind, I found the original image on Google.

Edit: since the original was removed by Inaba, I removed the one I found on google 

Welcome to bitcoin talk, newbies!

At least he said he was in Florida (a hint) 

Wow, I'm really starting to trust this guy!   

Do you own any bitcoins?

I've never traded locally, but here is a site that lets a person trade cash for bitcoins locally - https://localbitcoins.com/   Pretty interesting.  What would be neat is if someone opened up a bank-like exchange location for such meetings.

Let's say BFL selling a bitcoin-mining product line based on ASICs is like AMD having sold a bitcoin-mining product line based on GPUs.  AMD never owned the the network any more than Levi Strauss owned the gold of miners he sold the highest quality pickaxes, tents and jeans to during the gold rush.  Besides, there are other bitcoin ASIC-type products on the horizon from other developers.