The only way BFL is even half interesting anymore is when he tries to pick a fight with another vendor or says something ridiculous and becomes even more infamous. (for his...errr "awesome-ness")

Furthermore, the fact that Avalon and various others over on BitcoinTalk have posted that it's "impossible" for us to do the things we do further validates the reasoning that we do not want to release our processes. If the competition thinks something is impossible, great. Let them flounder around and do things their way and we have no intention of enlightening them as to why their process(es) is(are) crap and how to fix it.

 If you are really bored, you can go back to June and read the threads where it's "impossible" that we are doing a full custom build. It's also "impossible" that we are on 65nm. It's also "impossible" that we can achieve 1 GH/w. It's also "impossible" that we can produce a 40 GH/s device. It's "impossible" that the Jalapeno can be powered off of the USB, etc... yet now all these things are accepted as true... even though in June they were "impossible."

Amazing how things are impossible until someone does them.

I downloaded the bitcoin wallet program yesterday.  After 24 hours+ it is still "synchronizing with network".  About how long does this process take these days?