One or more of the hosting center buildout pictures clearly show what appears to be A/C drops and power strips mounted on the enclosures. It looks to me like they had the electricians finish before they started building the enclosures. It is a raised floor data center and the A/C drops were left under the floor to facilitate ease of enclosure instalation.
Trivia: the suction cup floor tile pullers are often colorfully refered to as deck-sucker's.

Another of the pics clearly shows Cisco equipment (router and switches) already powered up and being configured and tested.

They could WORST CASE use pre terminated ethernet cables and get miners online as fast as people can carry them into the data center.

There ARE things worthy of concern without this particular non-issue in the mix.


YMMV

soon?
 

As a stupid american consumer - delivery means on the damn truck that is on my way to my house.

As per UPS: http://www.ups.com/content/us/en/tracking/tracking/description.html

"In transit":  Your shipment is moving within the UPS network and should be delivered on the scheduled delivery date.
"Out for delivery": The shipment has reached the local UPS facility responsible for delivery and has been dispatched to a UPS driver.


Also "package delivery date" means when a package delivered not shipped.

Agreed. 'Delivery' does not mean 'I just generated a shipping label, yay!'

Not very smart to have idle rigs sitting somewhere, wouldn't they "test" them for a month or so instead? Fucking amazing company they are, you order from them and they don't deliver until you can't make any return, then you move on to another supplier and they start to bang their kit out so you can't make as much there either. Then maybe they top that and get monarch out on time and in numbers ..although that does seem unlikely.

If they were willing to ship out of line when people attempted chargebacks, they were probably also willing to accept 6 figure bribes to move MiniRigs out the back door when the difficulty was below 10m.  I don't trust BFL one bit.  Network protection for themselves while a tiny 20TH operation on the side is running is also possible.  Or a combination of all of the above.  Maybe a class-action against BFL will come.  But they have hidden their tracks well because nobody proactively had a private investigator tailing them.  There might never be any proof for a successful class-action.

I personally think the ASIC generation has screwed over the small miner for good.  BFL was the last shot at making a decent return for yourself, but they kept it all.  Now the difficulty is going to run away from everyone.  If you can't build your own, you have no advantage.  Why would people be honest and ship money printing boxes when there are so many sneaky things you could do with that?  I'm not gonna jump the gun and say KnC is doing this, but people really need to be careful.  I would get refunds if you can.  There is just too much hashrate coming online now.  November is many difficulty changes away.  And you don't come online alone.  Everyone else does too.

There are going to be a lot of disappointed people come December.  I would say $5K was still too expensive, but if they were cheaper, people would just buy more anyway.  The greed of previous ASIC developers have pretty much set the tone going forward and turned this industry into a rich mans game.  If you aren't on the inside and willing to give head, I think you better find some other way to make money.  Holding coins is far more important if you still have any left.  If you blew it all on mining equipment, you are probably at a huge loss.

Kncminer.cn have changed their news post,
http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dkncminer.cn%26client%3Dsafari%26sa%3DX%26hl%3Den%26nfpr%3D1%26biw%3D768%26bih%3D928&rurl=translate.google.com.au&sl=zh-CN&u=http://kncminer.cn/news/demo-machine-shanghai/&usg=ALkJrhi7amzFm5rfNZ-vwJIOgCc8i4R91w

"In October, we will be in china to present you the genuine machine...."

But the original month is still there on their FAQ

http://translate.google.com.au/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http://kncminer.cn/&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dkncminer.cn%26client%3Dsafari%26sa%3DX%26hl%3Den%26nfpr%3D1%26biw%3D768%26bih%3D928

"In the end of September, we will present you in Shanghai...."

As long as it don't change it to "in 2 weeks"

So how many of you that ordered early have received your Sept Orders?   Oh wait....   NONE     LMFAO


So funny

Heh shitty how they try to edit the news like that without any mention of an edit.

I thought that too. Limiting miners produced and supporting their customer base was a nice idea. Then came CHINA. No-one opens up in China to limit sales. (Nor do they start referal schemes). We think we have an idea of the impact of KnC rigs coming online, but are the chinese sales included in that, or even in the same order list as the ones we're on? They could be completely separate and massive, I hope not for our sake.  No real word from them for a while at this crucial point is annoying too, the silence is deafening. Which would you be doing, posting pics of racks being assembled, or the hosting faciilty ready to rock and roll? Easy answer for me, I'd be happy to share that after all the work I'd done.  Even if we can't really do much about the production/delivery but wait, they still haven't said anything about the power supplies they recommend or that paperclip bullshit, or the interface for the miners or any manual ...easy things to do and helpful especially to new miners. All ASIC manufacturers seem to hit the point when they have the money safe in the bank where they don't give a  toss about customers anymore and assume an air of arrogance towards them. KnC were never like this, but a lot of the stuff we've learned from them has been the result of customers and forum members contacting them and asking questions then reporting back here or prompting them to make a statement.

The whole industry has an air of arrogance. "Pay your money and STFU and wait" kind of thing. People will say that Apple don't release daily reports about new products...but I'd say that you don't miss a few grand of income when Apple deliver your iThingy a month late. This industry is unique as far as time sensitivity is concerned. IF a builder gave you an estimate, took your money and acted in the same way he'd be called a cowboy and you'd be dragging him through court or worse not making excuses on his behalf.