Come on, seriously. It's CDE. You know, the closed source desktop that preceded KDE. To look at it in these circumstances and say it looks "horrible" could be compared to Windows 95 being open sourced and you skipping to saying "it's out of date". There's a massive piece of the puzzle you just skipped over here.

In fact, I'm left wondering if you'd even heard of CDE before this article. I hate to say it, but you're reading Slashdot - we expect you not to RTFA most of the time but to be blind to something like CDE is fairly unforgivable.

I'm an RS customer, I order lots from them but only sporadically and often in trivial quantities. I've never had any problems with them at all.

One example would be me forgetting I needed a particular resistor for an amplifier I was building. It was a 1W carbon film 820Ohm. The minimum order was 10, coming to a total of about €0.60. Sure I had to pay maybe a fiver for delivery...but you can be damn sure a guy from RS drove 80km to my house in a van the next morning and put it through my letterbox.

So yeah sure they may not be setup for home orders but before this Raspberry Pi bottleneck they've had no problem dealing with regular chaps like myself making orders that are small enough to only be a distraction.

If you ordered from RS, check your spam folder. They send their emails from odd domains in their control...for example their website is rswww.$TLD. However your email might be from sales@$TLD.radionics.com and within the email say it's coming from rsonline.

Basically although they're a fantastic company to deal with they really do not have their head around managing their domains and are harming themselves by unintentionally sending a few spam triggers.

It's disheartening that a person cannot distinguish between exporting to a sanctioned country to selling to someone with cultural links to said country. At that rate you'd better stop selling to anyone speaking Spanish in case they violate sanctions against Cuba.

I am genuinely shaking my head that my choice is between believing the salesperson is an unashamed racist hiding behind ignorant interpretation of policy or that a person could be that stupid as to confuse the two.

I'd say it's more the case of explaining why redditors remember the earliest years containing coherent and knowledgable discussion. You had a focussed audience with a vested interest in getting quality discussion going. When the great unwashed outnumber these quality submissions you get a link aggregator that thinks it's a forum, where every second post is in the form of a badly phrased meme.

Hello fellow Irishperson. It is just too hard...I mean we all hate Fair City and to be fair it's not that bad as much as we just know all the actor's faces and it just feels corny as if your family were acting out the script in front of you.

Same walking around San Francisco or Hawai'i...I felt like Harry Callaghan or Steve McGarrett should be screaming past me in some old guzzler.

Scotch adj; a largely obsolescent adjective meaning having to do with Scotland and usually now considered pejorative (unless related to food or drink).

Is it Received Pronunciation that you're referring to?

Would sell? It has already!

I have to agree with this article, I've always assumed it was just the American preconception of "old worlde". Different enough to be remote but still in the same language.

On the other hand as an Irishman I often find it hard to find escapism in Irish TV and to a lesser extent, film. The familiarity of it all doesn't work as well while on the other hand so much of our media is American that even when I visit the USA there is an element of otherworldliness about the whole experience.