edit: even as old as I am, I still have not learned to just shut up and listen

And you never will. I certainly didn't.

God you are an idiot. You are definitely CreativeX level of incompetence and stupidity, congratulations for removing any doubt.
Bumping will take less than a day, actually, but we are allocating two days just in case. Set up and tooling is what takes the most time, which is what we are trying to shave down. Do I need to give you a quarter as well to go buy a clue? Hell, go get it from Bryan Micon, the racist, homophobe... he never used his, so I'm sure he's still got it.
I appreciate you taking the time to post here with such an informative post, but the rest of us (your customers) would like a little more information. Where are you guys exactly in your schedule, and are there any delays to your week-of-the-10th shipping date?
BFL does not communicate with it's customers on BitcoinTalk, you'll have to come to the BFL forums if you want real information. As evidenced by greyhawk, it's impossible to hold intelligent conversation here with people like him around, retarding up the place.
Not to be ass, Josh, but I believe you may be in error on this one (bold above).
If I remember, the silicon is 17x17mm. The package is 29x29mm. I'll measure it and confirm when I get into the office today.
I didn't do the research, but there's a slight possibility user BFL was directing the above reply to non-customers only.
Later, bud.
~Bruno K~
That was then. We have abandoned BitcoinTalk as a useful means of discourse, it's likely beyond repair at this point, unless the mods grow some nads and actually ... you know ... moderate (It looked promising a couple weeks ago, but that quickly faded into nothing). Until people like PuertoLibre, CreativeX, Greyhawk, et al are banned and/or moderated into oblivion it's pointless to have any sort of serious discussion here. When a large portion of the posters in a thread have absolutely nothing useful to add to the conversation, the signal to noise ration spirals out of control. The above mentioned people are just a small subset of the wastes of humanity that post here... they are incapable of intelligent discourse so they just wreck the place because it's amusing.
Hey, don't knock the moderators.
They actually have to put up with reading your posts and not tapping that Ban button. That takes a LOT of ZEN and practice to achieve that much.
In fact, you ought to compensate them. I believe
you are desensitizing them to the point that they compare regular trolls to the likes of you (Inaba/Josh).
At that point no troll can overcome your blazing style of trollmanship.
No one trolls Bitcointalk as hard as you do. If they can't/won't ban you...then why would they ban the lessor trolls?
I didn't start tapping out crap till you started naming people by name. Learn not to be so insulting even when it
isn't necessary. Otherwise you have to accept that you are creating your own troll-ish conditions.
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You ask Mods to ignore your trolling (and flames) but to ban others?
Get a grip. (No, that is not an invitation to troll more.)
Just post something useful, informative and not personal.
There you go, the start of a useful post.