Stevens wrote: > Auto manufacturers try to predict how their interiors and their paints will > last, too, but until both are subjected to the Texas sun they are only > guessing. The North has salt that kills cars; in the South it is the sun. > Only when they obtain empirical data can they be sure and that data takes > a long time to gather. The same goes for optical media manufacturers. Any > longevity rating is a SWAG, at best, which is the reason for my cynical > view. >
Sure. As anyone who's ever had a couple of hard disks fail can attest, MTBF numbers are mostly fiction. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
