On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 5:10 AM, William "Chops" Westfield wrote: >> And people can be very careless when they're spending other people's >> money. > > I figure the automated free sample system is largely a realization > that it's a lot cheaper overall to (nearly automatically) ship out > samples to "maybes" than to have qualified personnel screen for > "realness." =A0An hour of FAE time would buy a lot of $1 parts... The problem is that when it comes to cost-down ideas when the Lean/Six-Sigma Department is running out of other ideas, this is apparently an easy target. ;-) -- = Xiaofan http://mcuee.blogspot.com -- = http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist