From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 18 14:10:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8C3D37B41F for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 14:09:58 -0800 (PST) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 3626B14C03; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 23:09:57 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Nils Holland Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New European Warranty References: <20020118224754.A804@tisys.org> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 18 Jan 2002 23:09:56 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20020118224754.A804@tisys.org> Message-ID: Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Nils Holland writes: > In the computing field, I have made the following observations: If > you buy a mainboard, CPU, graphics card or whatever, it is likely > that it would fail *very early* if there is actually some > manuafcturing defect. [...] The failure rate for such devices is > somewhat high in the beginning, then gets low for a lot years, and > as the device really becomes old, the failure rate increases again. This is known as the "bathtub curve". > In the end, what I've been wondering about is this: What's the good thing > about this new warranty regulation? The folks that made it up probably > wanted to protect the customers, but realistically, if I have to pay a > higher price on about *every* item I buy and only benefit from the extended > warranty in 1% of the cases or so, doesn't it do more bad than good? I think you'll change your tune the day your 7-month old motherboard fries and you get a new one under warranty thanks to the new European regulation :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message