[Coco] Something of interest to the design people here

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings;

I just got an email from TI advising me they will no longer ship samples 
to anyone requesting a sample if they are not registered at TI with a .biz 
domain name.

TV engineering is a funny business, and I have in my time designed and 
built several very unique things to do a labor saving job at a tv station.  
Unfortunately, the market for such an individual device is also limited to 
other tv stations facing similar technical problems, which is a roundabout 
way of saying that to sell even 100 such devices is a resounding success.

Thats not enough potential profit to put a 1 inch adv in the trade 
magazines, and you darned sure can't put an effective sales pitch in that 
1 inch adv.

Methinks ti.com, in setting such a samples policy, since they themselves 
are a .com domain, is both ironic, and the aim of that change will result 
in some holey feet, aka shot themselves in the foot since they have 
automatically disqualified 99.9% of the designers that are even web 
connected.

Methinks the marketdroid that came up with that idea should be encouraged 
to find a non-technical line of gainful employment.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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