On 10/20/2014 1:24 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:
Sadly it didn't used to be like that but engineers are getting better at making 'lifetime' one of the design specifications.
It was pointed out to me once that Engineering is the art of finding the least safe design. (It was in reference to building bridges and such. By that it was meant the design that would use the least materials, cost the least to build, But... Which was still safe. If anything, the definition of safe now seems to equate to the length of the warranty. There is some evidence the bad capacitor era was caused by industrial espionage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague#Industrial_espionage_implicate... The company I was with at the time was manufacturing computers in that time frame, and we got hit badly by these exploding caps. Joe user could, with a soldering iron and a couple hours, replace them all, for a few dollars in parts, but it never paid on an industrial scale, and a lot of mother boards got sent back upstream. -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org