Bill Sux

I thought XP came with a Roxio variant? Every XP install I have used, you just drag the files into your CD directory and off you go.

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Not sure about laptops, but Toshiba have always served me well. AS for desktops and servers (commercial environment) i think its hard to beat HP these days.

Hello Don,

I thought about that often. Problem is, afterwards some of the software packages that you need may not run anymore because they don't come in a Linux version and don't like the emulator.

Regards, Joerg

Hello John,

Tell me about it. "You want to go to church with THIS tie? You've got to be kidding ...".

Once we had to provide a glass panel in front of the front panel. Tinted glass, no less.

Your web site looks fine, no frills, just the facts. That is what engineers need.

Regards, Joerg

Hello Ban,

Huh? That is one of the better web sites.

As Fred already said, have you recently looked at the glitter sites of some European semi mfgs? IMHO, if the web designers or decision makers of Philips, Infineon, ST and others were half as competent as the people (probably just one person) that set up John's site my design-in rate of their stuff wouldn't have dropped to close to zero. And that's big bucks after something goes into production.

Regards, Joerg

Hello Fred,

I wonder when they will ever quit the wait for that stupid stock quote whenever you click to the next level. I mean, who cares?

Whenever I used that site I usually got fed up and moved to ONSemi.

Regards, Joerg

Looks fine to me. Just the sort of site I want to find when I'm looking for a particular product. No management-speak, no arty-farty crap, just information.

I wish more sites were like that. Have you tried navigating Philips Semiconductors recently? IT for IT's sake!

Aesthetics, schmaesthetics. People in the market for instrumentation/avionics make decisions based on function, not form.

I never even noticed the perspective until you mentioned it. How many others did, I wonder?

All I saw was pieces of equipment. I was more concerned with examining the build quality.

That sounds like a solution looking for a problem.

I'm not.

Agree, personally. A hint - read the Windows "privacy statements". There's some enlightening stuff in there about things that get sent to Microsoft, as well as about every other form of data gathering or accumulation in Windows. But just think about the Microsoft stuff, and consider what you'd do with such information if you were an evil dictator... scary.

Reading the privacy statements is a good source of things to disable, if you can.

I can get Philips data sheetsfrom their web-site without too much trouble. I hate the small print they seem to feel compelled to use - presumably they are trying to present too many choices on a single screen - but I've not had much trouble getting the data I want.

I've not used the Infineon and ST web-sites as much, but from what I remember of them I didn't have too much trouble digging out the data I wanted, though they didn't make it all that easy or pleasant.

----------------- Bill Soman, Nijmegen

I can get Philips data sheetsfrom their web-site without too much trouble. I hate the small print they seem to feel compelled to use - presumably they are trying to present too many choices on a single screen - but I've not had much trouble getting the data I want.

I've not used the Infineon and ST web-sites as much, but from what I remember of them I didn't have too much trouble digging out the data I wanted, though they didn't make it all that easy or pleasant.

----------------- Bill Soman, Nijmegen

Hello Martin,

They'll never figure it out. Some day they will wonder what hit them.

If that household has teenagers age 16-19 and cars the statistics will again change drastically.

Regards, Joerg

Hello John,

You can click on the non-flash version but it's still a crummy site because that leaves tons of voids in the pages. Plus no budgetary pricing which is a big turn-off for me.

The topper are the Europeans though. What really blew my mind was that the Infineon site came back with no matches after a search for the BSP297. I mean, their very own part. Pathetic. Now it somehow finds it.

Regards, Joerg

Yeah, a while back I sent an e-mail to snipped-for-privacy@intersil.com "praising" him for having a non-flash set of pages available. I'm not sure the sarcasm came through, though.

I read in sci.electronics.design that Terry Given wrote (in ) about 'Larkins website sucks[was Re: Bill Sux]', on Wed, 17 Aug 2005:

If you didn't let her, she never will be. Then you'd be entirely ruthless.

I read in sci.electronics.design that Terry Given wrote (in ) about 'Larkins website sucks[was Re: Bill Sux]', on Wed, 17 Aug 2005:

Neither were my relatives in Sussex. Cross country between two villages was about a mile. But it was still 'a mile' if you went by road, the other two sides of a right-angled triangle.

I wonder when the statisticians will start looking at sales revenue(sp?) and site flash content.

Somewhat OT, there was a sci program on BBC world service with a statistician who showed, in the US, that a house that owns a swimming pool and a gun, there are more deaths from use of the pool than with a gun , by about a 100:1 ratio

martin

"martin griffith" schreef in bericht news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

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It's less messy to drown folks in the pool than having to shoot them.

Perhaps Bill Sloman can shed some light on this.

;)

Hello John,

Another possible reason: There is a cool pub in the other village. So when people go there they can't or at least shouldn't drive. However, the walk may now have become more of a meander which can turn the short axis into a mile.

Regards, Joerg

Hi Clifford,

where does one find that? XP...

Cheers Terry