On Monday, October 20, 2014 05:09:33 PM John Andersen wrote:
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_imp licated
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.
I remember the bad capacitor days. Back then I worked for a company providing industrial instrumentation. We had so many go bad that we just replaced and boards and sent them back to the home office for repair. Thank was during the time we were guaranteeing 99.9% up time. Now that was fun! -- openSUSE 13.1(Linux 3.11.10-21-desktop x86_64| Intel(R) Quad Core(TM) i5-4440 CPU @ 3.10GHz|8GB DDR3| GeForce 8400GS (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.46)|KDE 4.14.2 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org