I think the biggest thing to know about explaining mining or even Bitcoins, is who is your audience. If you are talking to a non-technical person, sure you can tell them you are making money out of thin air. But if you are telling somebody else, all of the definitions here are great.
I'm sure everything will come in just fine. I'll say that my order with greaterninja is quite large and as much as I would love to get mine this week, I don't expect them to come in until next week. It just gives me a little more time to get everything in order on my side.
I have two Antminer S1's. And I have been trying to find out which pool I like the best. I have tried Eclipse and ghash.io, but the biggest problem I have with both of them is that neither of them tell you how well you did yesterday. So there really is no way for you to compare one service to another. I know there is luck involved in solving. But why doesn't anybody have any historical information on basically how many bitcoins I mined yesterday or the day before? Are they scared that people will leave and go try somebody else?
Or are these just the only two pools that don't offer this information?