New Atmel Cortex M3 runs at 96MHz, has high-speed USB

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:50:12 +0100, "FreeRTOS.org" <noemail@given.com>
wrote:

>Power consumption seems to be the fashionable thing for marketeers at the 
>moment.  NXP Cortex M0, Energy Micro, Atmel, etc. etc. are all using it.  I 
>think very often marketeers fail to understand how to market to engineers 
>though, or, as I suspect, are actually marketing to their share holders not 
>their potential customers.  A good example of this is the explosion of WEB 
>sites that use videos instead of text based articles.  I can skim an article 
>in a few seconds to get the gist of it and pick out the facts I need to 
>know.  I have very high demands on my time, so there is no way I'm going to 
>sit and watch a whole series of 5 to 20 minute videos preach marketing 
>gospel to me so I can glean just  a few facts and figures from somewhere 
>near its end.  ....but now I'm getting really off topic and just ranting 
>again.

[drifting further] but I wonder if vendors do come out ahead in "lost
sales" versus "potential leads" for those sites that *require*
registration (with a dozen mandatory fields) in order to download the
pdf of a datasheet or even the two page glossy flyer?

For a sample set of one, there is no interest at all in taking the time
to complete the form even with bogus data. Their competitors are just a
click away...

-- 
Rich Webb     Norfolk, VA

Rich Webb <bbew.ar@mapson.nozirev.ten> wrote:
> [drifting further] but I wonder if vendors do come out ahead in "lost
> sales" versus "potential leads" for those sites that *require*
> registration (with a dozen mandatory fields) in order to download the
> pdf of a datasheet or even the two page glossy flyer?
> 
> For a sample set of one, there is no interest at all in taking the time
> to complete the form even with bogus data. Their competitors are just a
> click away...

http://www.bugmenot.com
is your friend.  Though I agree, even having to resort to that would put me
off buying.

Theo