Staying awake?

999 was originally chosen as a number that required some intent to dial, as it was the longest dial on a rotary phone.

I seem to remember Apple and Microsoft owning stock in each other and having a cross-licensing deal.

I'm not so sure about that. I've seen cases where big-guns enterprise software has changed name and it's had a more positive impact. Users might have ignored a few point-version upgrades, even the occasional major upgrades. However when that new banner goes up it must be all new and good!.

Colours and words have a more tangible effect on the non-technical.

No, Audi and Volkswagen's entire new line has LED headlights on all of their models this year and the A4/A5 have had them for 4-5 years now.

But don't think I'm agreeing with Tastecicles, because they're almost wrong. They are only the dipped/low-beam headlights as LEDs are not yet legal in the USA or Europe for full or high-beam use. But as for this usage, even SEAT has them now on some of their models and that's one of VAG's "budget" brands.

Okay, enjoy our World Wide Web.

Yours sincerely,
Europe.

Analogies are a bad debating tool. They sometimes work but they are not often logically sound.

If you really want to have a restaurant analogy in this case you should frame it like this. A restaurant that has 95% of business already, already has you as an existing customer for an unrelated product requires you to walk through their restaurant to a small door in the back that allows you access to the town's other restaurants. Their undue weight is approaching monopoly in that their inertia allows them to obscure competitors.

If you're not engaged in monopolistic practises then of course you will not be deemed anti-competitive. A monopoly does not serve the consumer.

Around these here parts they're less acquired taste and more like required reading.

I think you may be thinking of S40 devices. The S60 devices were typical smartphone battery-eaters, maybe slightly better than Android/iPhone in that maybe you got 36 hours instead of 24 but it's the S40 devices than ran for a week.

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and say it looks "horrible" could be compared to Windows 95 being open sourced and you skipping to saying "it's out of date".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.