No that is not.  That is how an engineer or a team of engineers CAN (not always) get their asses canned in the real world.  In this market it is different you are correct because honestly who else can anyone go to (yes I know buy 10 Ants, etc).  That quote only applies to certain sectors.  

Oil and Gas - You spend XXXX amount of time and $XXXX in resources (cash/time) and produce a product not close to what you claim.  Well you are from Texas too (same here) correct?  Canned

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Computer - I've watched first hand teams try to pass off things at IBM for Storage, Intel and Power.  There were plenty fired even after the product was pushed out.  I know multiple people at DELL that same thing happened, hell sometimes it wasn't their fault it was management.

Either way dprohpet I take it your in Austin?  I'll be up there at Boost Logic in a week or so bringing my car up.  I'd love to see the setup in person (maybe you will have the others) or if you can get me a walk through of Cointerra (i know you guys/gals watch but maybe I'll get a PM/email).  

Cointerra did release a good product they are shipping very slow to all the customer base but that's part of small business.  The 2.0 TH/s number was harder to hit and you had customers threatening to sue, refund, etc. if they didn't release.  So instead of taking a few more months to try and push harder (which they knew would be bad for everyone) they released it and are going to try to get those numbers up with firmware, etc.  

I know I have talked plenty of crap last few days but never trashing the hardware but it truly is a very good setup.  Had I not gotten into mining way to late (Christmas day I registered) I would have ordered a few.  Hell I sent an email over New Years time while in Vegas trying to start off with 10 terraminers to start with the possibility of large amounts more.  Of course response was no and the lady responded with they don't need any investors (not sure how she came up with that part LOL).  After that it was just sit and watch pre-orders pop up for stupid amounts of money (until recently on a few).  So maybe the next version the V??? will be mine!