thin crust on the top two.

very thin...

and garlic wafers on the third.

holy buckets...

what temps do the top two cards run at?

"I feel so outmatched."

you have no reason to.

how many people on earth - out of a population of somewhere around 7 billion - are doing better than you are?  two or three thousand?

i note that you can probably get $50 bucks for your 5570, and pick up a 5770 for an additional 60-70 dollars or so.  that would triple your hash rate.  40ish BTC/mo in slush's pool.

go for it.  you're a student:  it's not like you have to eat or anything...

yeah.  i have an AZZA Hurrican case like that:  tons of very slow airflow.  my cards are touching 80 C, which is a bit warm for my taste.  i have a couple of fan voltage regulators on the way...

looks like some kind of MSI - "Military Class"...

let me guess...

the little insect that crawls around? 

baloney.

the US became the most powerful nation on earth because - right after our revolution - federally mandated universal education made us the best educated nation on earth.  that lasted until somewhere around WWII.  since then the corporatocracy has been incrementally whittling away at our educational infrastructure.  and it shows.

take, for example, your grasp of history...

that's been happening for a while now.  remember bruce wagner's post a couple of months ago, on behalf of a friend who would only sell face-to-face in new york, and had a metric crapton of Bitcoin?

the OPs 10-50 people with 50k+ BTC has been steadily dwindling.

in a year, we'll likely be down to satoshi, vladimir (who was not technically an early adopter), and a couple of others.

the stuff is percolating through the world.  homogeneity will be forthcoming...

interesting choice of words.  i was under the impression that these were advertisements, not spam.  and, as has been pointed out, they can be turned off in your forum settings.

i have no banners, nor am i ever likely to - but honestly, i find the increasing use of them to be indicative of the health of Bitcoin.  the more of them there are - presumably mostly paid for in some way - the more satisfied i am with Bitcoin's adoption and eventual acceptance into the mainstream.

surely you couldn't object to that?

ahh.  my gnome desktop settings are such that the 'Send' button doesn't differentiate very well.  i did it again, just to be sure...

thanks for the reply.

i put in name and email, then hit enter.  it appeared to do stuff - although no confirmation was forthcoming.

what's the line for that says:


i couldn't type anything there, so i'm assuming it's not for anything? 

i've requested an invite as well.

this is a very interesting service.  my book business needs something like this.

uh huh.  would you propose that they just walk away during the summer?  give them over to bums and insects?  not use the buildings to generate income during those summer months (which they do)?  not develop curricula?

do you have any idea what you're talking about?

they never stop 'running' schools.  not for one day.  sometimes they don't have their mainline students in them, that's all.

never taught anything, have you?

i'd be interested - should you happen to take the thing apart - in knowing how sophisticated the wallet-stealer is.

can it find a wallet.dat anywhere on any hard drive or partition?  if the wallet is on an unmounted file system, can it mount that?  if wallet.dat is renamed to something else - i.e., foo.bar - could it find the renaming line in bitcoin.conf and steal foo.bar?

+1

got a VPN provider?

i started mining in march, and the hardware was paid off in six weeks - at the then current (june) exchange rate.

right now, paying 0.108 USD/kW/hr, i pay my monthly electric bill with about 7-8 days of mining.

but i'm good with squeezing ticks out of hardware economically - been doing it a long time.

you mean instead of this:

http://www.pugetsystems.com/aquarium-computer.php

you turn the motherboard upside down and dangle the video cards in a smaller (much) tank?  that's an interesting idea.

if you go to the puget systems site, they have parts that can be sourced back to the primary vendors.  the radiators - as always - would be the key:  but i'd imagine you could use smaller ones.  their systems are designed for extreme gaming - so the CPUs, RAM, PSU, etc., are maxed-out.  with a couple of 5990s (their V. 3 test platform), they're probably putting 70% into cooling the GPUs.  you could probably use half the volume of mineral oil, and a radiator that was considerably smaller and cheaper.

stopping the oil from creeping up would be an issue.

hmmm...

there really isn't a face-palm pic on the internet good enough for this thread.

what a bunch of self-serving crap.

by jered's own admission - since you appear to be somewhat reading-challenged - he never talked to dwolla because they wouldn't respond to more than a dozen each of phone calls and emails.