Zero fucks given, regarding presence or non-presence said stickers. [Pssst. I tore the label off my mattress too!]  That is the correct response. Unless their chip emits RF which hoses up your Bluetooth causing your wireless game controllers to glitch causing you to die in HALO. Then you rage.  Really, the only people who are going to care is BFL and the FCC. Unless BFL ends up in court over something, then the plaintiff would care. Eh.. Yes and no.. It should get certified for lots of reasons. If it's not UL listed, I sure as hell wouldn't plug it in. There ABSOLUTELY have been cases of insurance companies refusing to pay for a burned down house/building because the fire was caused by an unlisted device. Enigma Yeah, UL is a different story. The FCC stuff is pretty benign...unless you get malignant tumors from RF. Then not so benign. |
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I find it suspicious, that every person (almost) who has received a unit then creates a YouTube video.. I think they are shipping out only to reviewers to suck more people in to buy their devices. So you mean kind of like a ponzi scheme? Exactly. Except absolutely NOTHING like a ponzi scheme. But other than that, sure... It amazes me how many haters there are on this forum, who cannot be bothered to pick up a dictionary. If you want to know what a ponzi scheme is, think about how social security works. By that definition, all facets of all governments are ponzi schemes. If no more people enter the workforce, then eventually no more taxes and no more spending. |
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Zero fucks given, regarding presence or non-presence said stickers. [Pssst. I tore the label off my mattress too!] That is the correct response. Unless their chip emits RF which hoses up your Bluetooth causing your wireless game controllers to glitch causing you to die in HALO. Then you rage. Really, the only people who are going to care is BFL and the FCC. Unless BFL ends up in court over something, then the plaintiff would care. |
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FCC approval takes a lot of time and money, just saying...
In the US, all products containing electronics that oscillate above 9 kHz must be certified. The law that governs this is FCC Part 15 (Title 47 CFR Part 15). Should cost less than $20K. This cert might be what is holding up their bulk product shipments. Who knows, BFL is a black box that says they will ship black boxes. Does the FCC have a clause stating that if less than X units are built and shipped, then FCC certification doesn't apply? I don't know. Also, I don't know what you're referring to regarding black boxes, for I clearly see a logo on them.
black box Noun Any complex piece of equipment, typically a unit in an electronic system, with contents that are mysterious to the user. |
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WTF? What is this supposed to be? If this was a test to raise the BS flag on their customers then I have to say they passed with flying colors.
Edit: According to Josh, that video has nothing to do with BFL.
OP you might want to change the title.
You'd think someone with your user name would be able to figure out that this video is bogus. It's pretty obvious the "BFL PCB" shown in the video is actually an ATX motherboard, this was posted as a joke.  Yes I recognized the board right away. What threw me off was that there was NO mention whatsoever of it being a joke, parody, what have you. Big time investors don't know any better so they will take it seriously. Shit like that can get you sued. FYI. Big time investors don't write checks based on YouTube videos. Small time nitwits and Yahoo! might. |
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FCC approval takes a lot of time and money, just saying...
In the US, all products containing electronics that oscillate above 9 kHz must be certified. The law that governs this is FCC Part 15 (Title 47 CFR Part 15). Should cost less than $20K. This cert might be what is holding up their bulk product shipments. Who knows, BFL is a black box that says they will ship black boxes. |
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So they exist after all
So the faggots who spend most of their days bashing BFL on this forum are suddenly quiet
I wouldn't know, I've had them on ignore for ages.
Oh, no, they're still talking. Mostly going into tinfoil-hat areas of "well, the forum poster has a BFL sig, they must be working for them and making this up!" We are not quiet, but like most BFL supporters you have know idea what you are talking about (in this case you just admitted you don't read the posts of people who are negative towards BFL and thus have no clue what they are talking about, yet you make claims that they are silent /boggle). Everyone that I know has acknowledged that BFL has shipped 6 or 8 Jalapenos. The speculation now is focused on when they will ship the 3000+ Jalapenos ordered, when the redesign of the other units will see the light of day, and when those redesigned units might ship in bulk. Every day that BFL delays shipment is one less day their investors can hash before the 490,000+ Avalon chips hit the blockchain later this summer. Gigahashes are the new Megahashes. Until BFL can ship enough product to affect the blockchain difficulty, Avalon is (sadly) the only game in town. |
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Yea right, troll away, it's about the same size as a Core 2 duo and it's heatsink/fan, which runs at 65watts all day. So the Jalapeno at 30watts is going to be a lot easier to cool.
Not when they stick it in a closed case with minimal ventilation. You mean the "closed case" with the airflow slots across the bottom and the fan that's as bit as a 65watt core 2 duo fan, maybe bigger? Name: erk Posts: 91 Position: Jr. Member Date Registered: April 14, 2013, 11:37:45 PM Last Active: Today at 12:04:51 AM 91 posts total, 70+ posts on BFL threads... Avalon employees are not ashamed to identify themselves as such. I wonder why the BFL employees are afraid to? |
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This is exactly why you don't preorder anything.
Then how do they get the funding to order an ASIC wafer? Normal people (who do not commit mail fraud to fund their schemes) put together a business plan, some expertise, and then get one or more investors to put the money up. Unfortunately for BFL, the pre-orders were the business model. |
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Pizza was thousands of bitcoins, so look at it this way: you [may yet get] a 5 GHash miner for way way WAY less than a pizza! Plus a free single included! What a deal!!! -MarkM- .. If he "pre ordered" his Pizza a year in advance then it is a comparable transaction. Amen. |
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They said "July" but they didnt say what year!  Touche sir. Well played. |
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Gigahashes are almost the new Megahashes.
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Get this through your pea brain. Post count in your case measures your inability to filter meaningful posts on topic with the thread in said discussion. Get a life get outside and meet some real people.
The person(s) who spend all their time on these forums raging against those who criticize their employer tell me to get a life. And just when I thought the irony couldn't get any thicker, we have a sockpuppet telling me about real people. |
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Sure, but you would be the first to post a troll comment in there. Wow you are dense huh.
Name: minternj Posts: 71 Position: Jr. Member Date Registered: March 30, 2013, 09:46:18 PM 65 posts about BFL... Josh's intern from a local college perhaps? |
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erk: Date Registered: April 14, 2013, 11:37:45 PM Henchman24: Date Registered: February 16, 2013, 07:04:35 AM I just noticed this. That explains a lot. |
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Can we just sticky a BFL flame thread ? Would be better than seing BFL troll comments in EVERY thread, even none BFL related ones.
Here is my list: Phinnaeus Gage smoothie k9quaint Frizz23 muyuu PuertoLibre Bitsaurus Couldn't we just put the 6 people with BFL Jalapenos in one thread and let them post their stuff there? Then every time BFL ships a thousand units, we let the BFL PR department open another thread. That should clean up this forum. |
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The Poll Question says it all-- Which OS will you run on the host computer for your BFL ASIC device?
Your feedback is highly valued. Thanks for taking the time to participate.
Windows 9 or 10? |
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Have you not read much lately? They need more capital to re-design their Little Single, Single, mini-rig, meaning new PCB, new case, new power/cooling design, new packaging... That's going to cost more time and money BFL can't afford if they still haven't ship anything... So they ship a few to buy themselves a little bit more time and money. They are not as dumb as some of you guys made them out to be. They sure are good at stringing their poor customers along.
They could mine as much BTC as they need without having to "string their poor customers along". But they couldn't mine that BTC without the capital for the wafer or specialized equipment to make the first mining rigs. If they had large amounts of Jalapeno's or Singles working, they would be mining with them. |
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I got a feeling if they keep shipping in those boxes some of them will get stolen.
+1 Shh don't tell them this. They may actually figure this out. LOL Making it obvious what they are shipping, is utterly stupid. and unprofessional... it's all a farce, 8 units for 2 days of assembly... we still didn't see inside of the product, thermal imagining, chips inside their plastic cases mounted, proofs needed for the smart money to step in... Sorry, I think the demand to see thermal imaging is a little much. More finished product videos coming from known pre-orders would be best. One of the first Avalon customers to get his unit posted about 20 thermal image pics. I guess that is a lot to ask from BFL's user base though. |
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