Somewhat...
Like, why advertise something that is not yet avaiable, just because someone in the US has not yet woken up. How many hours pass by, since October the 14th began somewhere East of New Zealand, before either of the advertised and posed links worked?
Sadly, from experiance with all the internationa companies and people we have to deal with for work from here in the UK, the US are the worst for that sort of thing. Not the only ones, but far and away the worst. (I think an un-named Swiss company are next worse!)
I spent 3+ months living over in the US a few years back, and have made many visits to most parts of that country. I vividly remember the so called "international news" on the TV in some parts, that if you were lucky, might mention events in the next state.
Since then however, there has been many things to concentrate US minds on events outside their country, but still many seem blinkered as to if the rest of the world even exists. Many of those that acknowlege it does, expect US attitues and laws apply, they dont.
I in no way condone 9/11, but it was no real suprise for the rest of the world when that happend sadly. I had phone call's and emails from good friends in the US after that, who genuinely could not understand why anyone would do such a thing. And yes, there were many UK (and probably Italian) casualties too.
Still, I've worked for US based companies for most of my working life, so I should be used to it by now, so you'd think.
We've recently had a lot of demo equipment sent over, for a tour of UK and EU exhibitions. Now, the company involved builds stuff to world wide standards, and they do know about this sort of thing, so why send demo kit over that only runs on 115V, and only send US power cords! When we asked why, they hadn't a clue there was any other sort of power, let alone connectors! They were the sales/promotional types though, similar to telephone sanitisers I think.
The first test software that another US company we deal with came up with, would not install on a PC, unless you reset it's locale to the US. Something didn't like the date format. That was fixed eventualy, but it was a struggle to get them to understand. "It works OK here" was the common reply to our complaints. And we are forever getting promotional material sent over as data files, that could be done so that you could print it out on A4 paper, without having to go in and relay out the pages, because someone in the US has a "Letter" size stuck in their mind.
Nothing wrong with Italian minds. Great engineers and artists of course. And the food. Mmmmmmmmmm....... The skiing is not bad either, very well groomed pistes, so smooth (till the brits get on them!) too.
Cheers.
Dave B.
OK... Who let the smoke out?
