Topic: here's just how screwed ASIC buyers are - READ THIS if you have a preorder - page 7. (Read 23356 times)

Fair enough. I guess the odds are better than playing the lottery.

I sincerely wish you good luck.

A roi of 1 year with a difficulty x15 of what it's right now, and the hope of receiving my hardware soon.

These 2 alone are not enough, what made me really change idea is that I really think the bitcoin economy to grow of several orders of magnitude in the future. I will mine to keep, not mine to sell.

It's a bet.

What made you change your mind?

Given the posts I made on this thread, I find it fair to disclose that I ended up investing a fair amount into ASIC.
Lets see what happens.

+1

Exactly, what manager is going to defend that feature azhead of their bonus? If you really want the feature to stay in, they have to really want it too.

Software never makes it to ideal, someone always releases it...

Given that the first site I checked, Newegg appears to have such a system for their order numbers, I'll concede this (not sure what their invoice numbers are doing though). Thinking back, when I worked on an e-commerce site back in the late 90s, we used an increasing-by-1 system but just started with an arbitrarily large number.

Someone's hacked into my autobiography...

But at my company, we have 1 programmer: me So all the code works flawlessly and I don't have to deal with incompetent morons that are in programming for the money instead of due to their intelligence level.

During college I had to work on a huge car rental program and my partners in my group were a guy that was dropping out the next semester and a 55 year old lady being retrained by her work.  It got a score above 100% because I wrote 90% of it plus the bonus extra hard part

C'mon haven't you people ever worked for a real company?

As a lead developer you provide a project plan to do the project right.

As a mid level manager you find ways to shave time and dollars off of the project plan.

Developers complain "but it will suck"

They give the installer task to the intern who is sucking the mid level managers cock. She can't code but she works late and produces poor quality rubber band and duct tape shit spaghetti code  quickly.

The boss's boss gives the boss a bonus for coming in under budget.

Neither the boss, nor the boss's boss will ever (EVER) actually look at the software.

The support team deals with the fallout and hates the developers for being so lazy.

It's how it works.. When you've been doing this for 22 years like I have you just roll with it. You don't get upset when projects you put your life and soul into get tossed in the trash because of the color of a button (but we can change that!) just so some manager can get credit for having produced a revolutionary new software product. You become jaded, you've already written everything ever so you become a cut and paste programmer while reading news on the web and running your bitcoin side business from your relatively high paid senior developer job.

All is right in the world...

The fact is:

Even BTC price drop to 1$, there are plenty of people waiting there to pick all of them up
Even difficulty drop to very low, there are plenty of people waiting there to mine more coins

Since all of them know that the total amount of BTC is limited

Unfortunately in SOME form of the business system there will need to be an orderly ascending unique identifier for each transcation. Typically this is done at the invoice # level where each new invoice is +1 above the previous, regardless or how/what/why. This is needed for auditing purposes.

That said.. for a sales order #, there is likely a lot more freedom with that, but i would imagine it would still need SOME kind of rhyme or reason vs just being totally random.

Uhhhh maybe you should read BFL's shipping policy before saying that I had assumed everyone reading this post had done that but that does not appear to be the case 



That unfortunately results in an almost 100% chance that you won't get 100% of your order during the initial shipment and also that if you didn't place an order before July 2012, you're definitely not getting 100% of your order (if you ordered more than 1)

The people expecting to get all their $$$ back in a week are the ones that had preorders in on the first day, and will (likely) be receiving the first ASICs out.  And those people very likely will have a 100% ROI in around a week, provided the BTC price doesn't take a sudden dive.

I'll let you know. 

Yes, you do. But the rowid of the database is not the way to do it. A better way is to choose an arbitrarily large number space, choose a number from it randomly and check for uniqueness. There are other methods too. At the least, they should not be easily guessable.

You need a unique reference to run a business, the customer needs that reference as well. The best they could do is obfuscate it (with double SHA2?) or something, but why would makers of web-store software even care about that in a general case? Outside this fishbowl community attempting to decode order numbers is generally a futile exercise, so why expend the effort on the feature?

Succinctly put and overall quite right.
I actually remember a quote from one of my business classes later in college, and it comes from Sam Walton: "There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else."
In other words, keep your customers happy and they'll keep coming back to you. BFL had some trouble with this to start, but given they have a fair amount of competition this time around I don't see why they wouldn't want to make us happy. Otherwise I'll go buy from bASIC

Oh, and:

LOL yay for vastly overestimating quantities!

Cough. Oracle. Cough.

Nobody is immune from bad installer decisions, larger companies just have more inertia, and tend to get stuck longer.

yeah, .NET wouldn't be idea for the driver operations  Although they obviously use DirectX lol.  But yeah, it's the freaking interface!  To just show a window on a screen to millions of customers, they picked the least likely to work method and then don't even include the framework installer itself in the driver or a downloader for it!  That's like a $100,000 company mistake not a $1 billion+ company mistake.

I think that they use .net for something different than the core drivers.

Most probably the GUI of the AMD control center or something like that.

It would make sense to me.

Np at all with drivers my side, i must be lucky.