-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-02-20 at 06:51 -0600, Stevens wrote:
How can any outfit claim 100+ years reliability for any product that hasn't existed for more than a few years?
It is done by ageing tests. The item is subjected to stress, temperature extremes, vibrations, humidity, etc, to see how it behaves and make a durabilty prediction. They can be mistaken, but it is the best that can be done. For instance... have you seen in Ikea a demo of a drawer being closed and opened about once per two seconds, with a compressed air piston? Measuring the wear they can predict durability in years for normal ussage of a few operations per day. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF2vG+tTMYHG2NR9URAuM8AJ9Rd2ZiwXmNtSej+xWvC8FVit34hQCglWdB ujK3VT+4er+qiQ25uU/Urxo= =7nK8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org