[filmscanners] RE: HD failure [was RE: keeping the 16bit scans} OTif you don't mind losing your images

["LAURIE SOLOMON" <laurie@advancenet.net>]

You are absolutely correct; my mistake.  It would be known in those other
quarters as an inverse "bell curve." :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Frank Paris
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 8:01 PM
To: laurie@advancenet.net
Subject: [filmscanners] RE: HD failure [was RE: keeping the 16bit scans}
OTif you don't mind losing your images


> -----Original Message-----
> From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk] On Behalf Of LAURIE SOLOMON
> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 5:21 PM
> To: frankparis@comcast.net
> Subject: [filmscanners] RE: HD failure [was RE: keeping the
> 16bit scans} OT if you don't mind losing your images
>
>
> >Failure rates typically follow what's known as the bathtub curve.
>
> In other quarters, it is known as a "Normal Curve."

No, it isn't. A normal curve of failure would start out with a small
number of failures, gradually increase to a maximum, and then gradually
drag out to infinity (a small number would last for thousands of years,
which is nonsense). What he's talking about is something just the
opposite: many failures at the beginning, low failures for a long time,
then many failures at the end.

Frank Paris
frankparis@comcast.net


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