Comment Re:Huh? (Score 1) 1574
You are right - it isn't 300,000. It's more like 70,000 - bit still, why quibble over the numbers? It's the spirit of the argument that counts.
Submission + - Saudi Oil Output Down 8%: Choice or Need?
Prof. Goose writes: "The author concludes, after an extensive analysis of a lot of data/charts/graphs that:
Big (and bad) news. http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2325"* Saudi Arabian oil production is now in decline.
* The decline rate during the first year is very high (8%), akin to decline rates in other places developed with modern horizontal drilling techniques such as the North Sea.
* Declines are rather unlikely to be arrested, and may well accelerate.
* Matt Simmons appears to be right in Twilight in the Desert, but the warning did not come until after declines had actually begun.
I suggest that this is likely to place severe political strains on Saudi Arabia within a year or two at most.
Submission + - Disk drive failures 15 times what vendors say
jcatcw writes: "A Carnegie Mellon University study indicates that customers are replacing disk drives more frequently than vendor estimates of mean time to failure (MTTF) would require.. The study examined large production systems, including high-performance computing sites and Internet services sites running SCSI, FC and SATA drives. The data sheets for the drives indicated MTTF between 1 and 1.5 million hours. That should mean annual failure rates of 0.88%, annual replacement rates were between 2% and 4%. The study also shows no evidence that Fibre Channel drives are any more reliable than SATA drives."
