Today, I had the misfortune

to visit the NXP (nee Philips) website. I am replacing a legacy part and needed the original datasheet for comparison purposes. It's not a website, it's marketdroid mental masturbation.

We've had these rants before, of course, but I'm getting to the point of writing an open letter to semi mfrs - on the lines of 'just give me the content'. There's a place for javascript (I like the way TI and OnSemi [for example] use it for the parameterisable lists), but don't make the entire website non-navigable without it; and don't make me use Flash.

I use FF2 with NoScript and nxp.com is not navigable at all unless I enable javascript and Flash (ugh).

I wrote them a nastygram (which will no doubt be ignored). It's a pretty website for the investors and an excuse when they start to go down the tubes "...but the website looks so nice with all those animations. It's not our fault nobody buys our products..." where in reality it _is_ their fault. Nobody buys the products because the website is not targeted at it's proper audience.

I made a final decision today to not bother looking for their parts any more - there's nothing they have I can't get elsewhere, especially in the original design stage where I can choose parts based on availability, functionality and decent documentation (another pet peeve).

ok - rant mode off (for now). We now return to our regular programming.

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Cheers

PeteS

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PeteS
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Are you back yet from your UK vacation? Or are you doing work while on vacation?

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mrdarrett

I'm back from vacation (I live in the UK nowadays :) - I was trying to deal with something a cow-orker hosed up.

I went to the highlands and sampled many a fine malt - now I'm wishing I was still doing it ;)

Cheers

PeteS

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PeteS

The last time I visited a Morrisons they stocked a pretty decent selection of malts. No need to go to the highlands for that.....

Meindert

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Meindert Sprang

Buying a malt at Morrisons vs tasting it at the distillery is rather like the difference between buying a fish at Morrisons and getting it at the dock off the boat.

Cheers

PeteS

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PeteS

Not long now until the most Northerly Scotch is ready for consumption - late this year for the three year old and late 2008 for the 5 year old. Check out

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for details. It's pretty dear to pre-order and the taxman will want another cut on delivery but it would be good to have a few bottles of the first run (which might become a good investment - how much would a bottle of the first Talisker go for?)

I grew up in Shetland so I must declare an interest in plugging the local booze. I can also recommend White Wife and Simmer Dim real ales

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as worth a try if you come across them.

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Tom Lucas

3 year old whiskey is going to be pretty rough - that's the minimum age it has to be before you can even legally call it whiskey. There are very few self-respecting malts that are less than 8 years old.
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David Brown

I know and it worried me somewhat, especially considering what they are charging. However, I think there must be some 8yo due for an appearance because I dimly remember them beginning to mature the whisky quite a while ago (and it's been easily three years since I was last on the island).

Still it's darn cold up there and a bit of rough whisky would be welcome to warm the cockles ;-)

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Tom Lucas

When were you last there ?

You're required to register now if you want to download anything. Sheer idiocy if you ask me.

Graham

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Eeyore

I just looked and downloaded a couple of ds without registration. Only Javascript, no flash also.

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ciao Ban
Apricale, Italy
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Ban

Eeyore wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com:

The reason is a good one, it might just need a better answer. If people are using automatic tools to trawl their database, maybe to set up their own as a way to trap business, the original source loses out twice, first in bandwidth costs, later in lost business. They probably want to make sure that if someone comes after their stuff it's a human wanting something specific, not some kind of virtual riever.

I don't like the new blocks and annoyances, but I can see why their being tried. Still, if these sites would dispense with the feature rich added value pumped up extra silliness they'd maybe save even more bandwidth and money, but such is life...

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Lostgallifreyan

They must have changed it, thank goodness for that !

It's still horribly slow though. It wasn't that bad when it was Philips.

Graham

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Eeyore

Hello Graham,

But it was almost as bad. Remember that nonsensical wait for "...stockquote.philips.com..."? Plus nobody seemed to have ever taught their web designers what a packet latency is. 180-200msec EU-US, usually. Oh, and nobody there seemed to have grasped the concept of mirror servers. They still don't.

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Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com
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Joerg

I was raised a little to the south of you (in Wick), and my great grandfather worked in the local distillery. After he retired, the workers would bring him a bottle of 'white whisky' once a week, and a bottle of the good stuff (marked as failing to meet standard, but that was just a ruse) every fortnight.

It's cold there too - went there last week to catch up with family.

Cheers

PeteS

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PeteS

It took around 12 hours for me.

Graham

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Eeyore

Well I am currently at about 28 hours (or more).

As they expect everybody to use their webforms if the web forms are not working nothing gets through.

-- Paul Carpenter | snipped-for-privacy@pcserviceselectronics.co.uk PC Services GNU H8 & mailing list info For those web sites you hate

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Paul Carpenter

Sometimes Google can find a 'back entrance' for you.

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Homer J Simpson

I wonder how many companies have opened sales offices in Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria.... because of those stupid forms!

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John Devereux
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John Devereux

Hello John,

Nope, they are going to places like Malaysia and Singapore...

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Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com
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Joerg

I pity the poor sap who's phone number is:

0123456789 (that UK format. It's in the town of Bedford if it actually used)

tim

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tim(yet another new home)

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