I really like this business model. Instead of making a product and shipping to customers, you collect tons of money in preorders, delay, delay, stall, then when the market price on the items comes down tremendously, you ship them something that cost you 1/6th what they paid! In the meantime, you get to buy five more miners with each order you took for your personal mining farm.
Awesome!
Gotta realize...the 8th year of Business Ethics that ol Joshy Zipkin taught (at Penn State) clearly said the end reaction of any delivery should be the example used in a post that appears to have been to have been removed in error. But recall this is the primary lesson for his 1st year students. You are missing valuable insights here. This lesson leads to the look of satisfaction below!!
http://i.imgur.com/VPV1ZEO.jpgI got mine delivered today... Doesn't work... But I got it...
- Box was of questionable condition, well traveled, but well packed.
- Daughter-board didn't have the PSU power connected.
- One screw has stripped threads, trying to remove the cover to fix connections.
- One board had the ribbon data-cable connected, but no power-cable connected.
- The board without the power... the smaller heat-sink was not tightened at all, screws were just dropped into place and setup to be tightened, but never actually tightened.
- All the boards have 1-8 loose screws that attach the board to the main heat-sink.
- There is a sticker with the IP written on it, it is wrong.
- The memory-card has a similar sticker wrapped around it, with the ending IPV4 that matches the sticker on the outside, but not the IP on the net, as reported by windows.
- None of the IP's, (the one on the sticker, or the one from the "network connections details"), works to connect to the unit, with a browser.
Other notes: Lights on the boards, about 6-8 of them, just blink green... on/off/on/off/on/off/on/off
Not sure if it is ok, dead, or what... No screen to let you know what it is doing, where it is at, or what is going-on. Not sure if this is just someone's custom OS on the memory-card that needs a special program, or what...
Taking it apart and tightening the screws was a lot easier than the older designs. Lot less dead metal too, but still a little over-kill. (The exhaust is horribly restricted, defeating the purpose of having the 80-watts of fans wasting power.) It is still progression though. Now if I can just get it to run.
Should I attempt to PuTTY into it? (SSH)
I believe this is the feeling AMT was looking to get from it's customers:
http://i.imgur.com/5il5t0b.jpg