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Same brand, same batch, same usage.
Come to think of it, this Christmas I almost didn't get home as the electric handbrake of our VW Passat broke in a very stuck position.
With the help of a heat gun, a hammer and a lot of swearing I manage to get to the workshop where I have to change the brake caliper costing just €800.
Two weeks later it breaks on the other side too.
If I had had the engineer from VW close by at that moment, I would have applied the same treatment as I did to the broken caliper.
But worst of all, who the f*** needs electric handbrakes anyway?
<edit>You're not working at Volkswagen are you?  </edit>
modified 10-Feb-15 9:26am.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: But worst of all, who the f*** needs electric handbrakes anyway?
That's because cable handbrakes fail once in every 358,976,167,876,563,675 uses, and electronic stuff never fails.
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Thats why I always make sure to estimate the cost as twice if we have a pair of parts in any system. If one part fails, I am mentally prepared to accept another failure soon.
Curse of my Job 
cheers,
Super
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: You're not working at Volkswagen are you?
Wish I did. Anyway I am just live 100 Km from the VW main plant in germany. So Please have the hammer in handy. if you need some support, give me a shout and I will be there in say 45 mins
cheers,
Super
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If the usage is identical, sure, but different monitors in a multi-monitor set-up are extremely unlikely to suffer the same wear and tear unless they're swapped around regularly.
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It all depends what was the major stress on the Monitor. I have two monitors which are identical and are always ON at the same time.
So the stress of environment/time etc are similar. The only differce is that I use one monitor for purely watching some videos and other one not.
Now failure relating to something unrelated to the "job" of playing video should be similar on both the monitors. May be there is a faulty diode which cannot withstand "Power_ON" for not more than 300 weeks. In that case probability of the failure having at same moment is very high. Similarly Power surge can weaken the monitors and so on. There are many scenariou where usage is not a factor for failure
But I agree with you, Usage is one stress factor which should prevent the identical failire rate.
sorry for rambling on....
cheers,
Super
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super wrote: sorry for rambling on....
Don't apologise. I enjoy reading sensible rambles.
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Statistics show that the seven-year-itch is when things start falling apart.
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It's no big secret that electronics often have a limited lifetime built in. Often it's something that could easily be protected by a small component that would have cost only a few cents. Without it, some little transistor will slowly degrade and fail after a certain time. With both monitors probably having seen almost identical usage, it's no big wonder if they reach their 'timeout' almost at the same time.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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If they are from the same manufacturer, (and specifically from the same batch) I'd say it's pretty high: I've had it with hard disks (the wife's HDD died, then my identical one died a few days later) and so forth.
To the point where I deliberately use different manufacturers for all of the disks in my NAS: if one fails, it's not likely that a second will go soon after - and before I can get a replacement in.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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They were mated for life and one couldn't go on without the other one. Like The Notebook
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Here you go:
Cheap capacitors right next to a heatsink.[^]. That kind of little design flaws are no coincidence at all.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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Changes are pretty high for that to happen... if there is a power surge, or other environmental issue. You might want to make sure nothing else is wrong before plugging in the new ones.
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Pualee wrote: if there is a power surge
I was going to bring that up. A power surge could definitely take out both monitors at the same time (or close enough to it).
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Well, in this case I'd have to agree with the man, posting pictures of people on a Twitter account can hardly be considered a real job 
Not without Photoshopping the picture a little bit anyway.
modified 10-Feb-15 6:37am.
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Good! I like this kind of news...Maybe next time we will hear about sunrise too...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Until the day someone breaks into his house or steals his car or worst. Then "da ppoliss nevva uokks".
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I've had my house broken into, and I've had two cars stolen.
The police were ******* useless; all they did was cost me time.
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I know - to a friend of mine someone broke into his house and the cops told him, referring to the thieves, "they have to make a living too!".
And a chronicle fact: a man hears thieves trying to break in, he arms his legally kept gun and shouted "I am armed: get away". The b***ards called the cops, who confiscated the gun and the gun license from the guy.
So yes, police IS useless and costly. But I dislike more all those ACAB guys who then runs to them crying for help when there's trouble.
EDIT: I can't say c o c k s as in c o c k ing a gun. It is automagically beeped!
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Then say cóck instead!
veni bibi saltavi
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I don't know about a proper job, there are times I would like some of those mofus to do the bloody job at hand. This morning I wasted a good two hours trying to get an answer out of the Met Police.
Me: "Has the request been dealt with?"
Plod: "You will need to speak to the case officer, let me put you through to my PC Woodentop."
Woodentop: "This case is being handled by PC Plod, let me put you through."
... [ad inifinitum]
veni bibi saltavi
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: [ad inifinitum]
Sorry to hear that.
The Solution: Legalize Crime
What they should do is legalize crime. Then, the beauracrats would create all kinds of forms for the criminals to fill out and the criminals would be so busy filling out everything in triplicate that they wouldn't have time to steal other people's stuff. 
I know. I know. Ingenius!
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newton.saber wrote: The Solution: LegalizeLicense Crime
FTFY 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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