Re: Anyone get a Pictiva OLED to work?

Eric Smith wrote:

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I'm really unhappy about this whole "register to download data sheets"
phenomenon.

Sometimes this also is there to reduce denial-of-service attacks, where
some bot machines in eastern europe, log in and merrily download all the
PDF's they can find. Nice way to clog the pipes.....

Yesterday I needed to download data on a Samsung ARM-based
SOC. I know I've downloaded data on the same chip in the past without
registering, but now they require registration. I was willing to do that,
but the registration system they are using will ONLY work if you run
their ActiveX control. This is a problem for three reasons:

* I use Firefox, not Internet Explorer, because IE's security has more holes
than swiss cheese.

* I'm not running Windows, so I couldn't run IE and ActiveX even if I wanted to.

* Even if I *were* running Windows and IE, I wouldn't run ActiveX controls from
web sites. The whole idea is abhorrent. At least Java has a carefully
designed security sandbox for applets; ActiveX security is just about
nonexistent.

Did you complain to Samsung ?

I remember Philips had a nonsense on their web site, where they linked to a stock ticker in the technical web pages, and that link was often
very very slow : result was you could not load technical info, because
some idjit had decided the stock price was important to everyone on the planet. I (and others) pointed out that was not quite true, and I see
that is now removed from the technical pages.

So, the speed may be glacial, but these big companies will respond....

-jg



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