another semi web site shot to hell?
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From: PeteS on 26 Sep 2006 16:51 Eeyore wrote: > Joerg wrote: > > > Hello Graham, > > > > >>Broken web site? Try NXP. Had that "pleasure" this morning. IMHO that is > > >>one perfect example of how not to design web sites. Will they ever learn? > > > > > > The Philips semi site used to be first class IMHO. Has it changed so ? > > > > It's one of the slowest there is, at least from the US. Maybe they need > > to learn that the electronics business is an international one, > > typically. That also means they need to offer their parts through > > Digikey if they ever want to improve their design-in rates with us. > > > > And then, all you see is a guy in a green shirt when going to the site. > > How professional is that? > > Did you get the 'don't show me this page again' box to tick ? > > > > Next, they IP folks need to go back to the > > books and learn what the word "latency" means in long distance web traffic. > > I'd say it's currently slower than I've known it to be in the past. > > Graham The Philips web site has been slow as molasses from the UK for the last two years at least. Great content, if you can find it. Cheers PeteS
From: Joerg on 26 Sep 2006 16:52 Hello Daniel, > >>BTW, I didn't believe it was possible but web sites can be worse: Try to >>find a zener on Microsemi's site. Oh man... > > Oooh yes. Try to find a dual NPN transistor on their side. It's right > under "NPR Darlington transistors" -- only it takes you to the Darlingtons > as well. And if you get a transistor datasheet it only has the electrical > characteristics but no pin-out. For that you're referred to "Appendix A", > which in itself were amazing enough if it could even be found, which it > can't. It's utterly stunning. > They must have a pretty serious management problem. When I ran the division of a company I regularly went onto our web site from home, from a slow dial-up somewhere else etc., to make sure it was well navigable. If I found something amiss I spoke with our web designers the next morning and made sure it was fixed. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com
From: Joerg on 26 Sep 2006 16:58 Hello Spehro, >>>>>Pretty much like going to Radio Shack or Ace Hardware and having some >>>>>punk kid tell you that whatever you want was never made ;-) >>>> >>>>I've noticed that the current generation of 20-somethings and younger seem to >>>>have been raised in an environment where admitting you don't know something >>>>isn't OK, yet just flatly claiming that something doesn't exist or can't be >>>>done -- without actually knowing as much -- is considered perfectly OK. >>>> >>>>It's most annoying. >>> >>>Most annoying: A cretin at Radio Shack who was trying to tell me I >>>needed a gold-anodized antenna to receive color TV ;-) >> >> Did you tell him that the "Gold" is simply a dye used when it was >>anodized? > > Right after anodizing, usually. Then they seal with a sealer bath. > The magic potion in that sealer bath is what gives you 10dB more :-) I am pretty immune to the whole audio-phool saga but I must say that when I listened through a tube amp at a friend's house I was rather impressed. The dynamic range was incredible. You could set it to full blast and when the source (but not the amp) was turned off you could crawl into speaker and here nothing. Not the faintest hiss. Ok, it cost a whopping $1200 because it was hand-built. But he had a higher end amp before that which wasn't cheap either but not even close in dynamic range. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com
From: Eeyore on 26 Sep 2006 16:45 Joerg wrote: > Hello Daniel, > > >>BTW, I didn't believe it was possible but web sites can be worse: Try to > >>find a zener on Microsemi's site. Oh man... > > > > Oooh yes. Try to find a dual NPN transistor on their side. It's right > > under "NPR Darlington transistors" -- only it takes you to the Darlingtons > > as well. And if you get a transistor datasheet it only has the electrical > > characteristics but no pin-out. For that you're referred to "Appendix A", > > which in itself were amazing enough if it could even be found, which it > > can't. It's utterly stunning. > > They must have a pretty serious management problem. When I ran the > division of a company I regularly went onto our web site from home, from > a slow dial-up somewhere else etc., to make sure it was well navigable. > If I found something amiss I spoke with our web designers the next > morning and made sure it was fixed. That's because you can be bothered to use your brain though ! Graham
From: Joerg on 26 Sep 2006 17:01
Hello Pete, >>> >>>>>Broken web site? Try NXP. Had that "pleasure" this morning. IMHO that is >>>>>one perfect example of how not to design web sites. Will they ever learn? >>>> >>>>The Philips semi site used to be first class IMHO. Has it changed so ? >>> >>>It's one of the slowest there is, at least from the US. Maybe they need >>>to learn that the electronics business is an international one, >>>typically. That also means they need to offer their parts through >>>Digikey if they ever want to improve their design-in rates with us. >>> >>>And then, all you see is a guy in a green shirt when going to the site. >>>How professional is that? >> >>Did you get the 'don't show me this page again' box to tick ? >> >>>Next, they IP folks need to go back to the >>>books and learn what the word "latency" means in long distance web traffic. >> >>I'd say it's currently slower than I've known it to be in the past. > > The Philips web site has been slow as molasses from the UK for the last > two years at least. Great content, if you can find it. > Now cool that molasses down to about 5C, then you know how "fast" it is here in the US. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com |