🚀 go-pugleaf

On 10/2/2012 5:43 PM, William Sommerwerck wrote:
> "Tom Biasi" <tombiasi@optonline.net> wrote in message
> news:506b5d4b$0$9802$607ed4bc@cv.net...
>> On 10/2/2012 5:21 PM, jim stone wrote:
>
>>> Not being able to find a small internet radio to buy we liked,
>>> we got a mobile phone with which we link with WiFi to a modem
>>> router, and use it as an internet radio.
>
>>> Keeping the phoned plugged into its charger all the time, we are
>>> using it to play *all-day* background classical music through an
>>> amplifier and speakers.
>
>>> Since the phone has no "moving parts" unlike a computer, we are
>>> wondering if this continuous playing all day of the phone is going
>>> to shorten its working life ?
>
>> Using anything shortens its working life.
>
> Not so. There aren't any obvious failure mechanisms in solid-state devices
> (other than dopant migration in high-power output transistors).
>
> It's also true that most mechanical devices "like" moderate use. Letting
> anything mechanical "sit" most of the time will probably cause it fail
> sooner than if receives regular use.
>
> It's now possible to build computers without moving parts (other than the
> optical drives). My new computer has a solid-state "hard disk", and you
> wouldn't believe how fast it boots up, or how fast programs start to run.
>
>
There are many factors that cause something to fail. I you don't use it, 
it has no working life. I don't wish to play semantics but if you use it 
you are using up it's working life.