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You've got to be kidding. I find the RS website impossible to use. I always refer to the printed catalog. Also they want me to register to access data sheets etc.

Of course it's easy to just punch in a part number and get taken to the appropriate result. But if you're searching a bit less specific -- say, for a certain kind of connector you've seen somewhere, everything falls apart because there's no such thing as a parametric search engine. Turning tha pages of the paper catalog is much quicker.

--Daniel

The RS papperbok seems to have been compiled by the editor of the legendary Encyclopedia of Celestial Knowledge, in which animals are divided into: (a) belonging to the emperor, (b) embalmed, (c) tame, (d) sucking pigs, (e) sirens, (f) fabulous, (g) stray dogs, (h) included in the present classification, (i) frenzied, (j) innumerable, (k) drawn with a very fine camelhair brush, (l) et cetera, (m) having just broken the water pitcher, (n) that from a long way off look like flies.

Unless you know fairly precisely the part number of what you want, you can't determine in advance whether a given connector, say, will be 'multipole data', 'PCB interconnect', 'audio', 'computer' or 'industrial'. And this means that the part you want is always in one of the other books.

Paul Burke

The nice thing about Farnell is that they don't charge for normal delivery and I usually get what I order the following day. That's in the UK, of course.

Leon

Paul Burke wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@individual.net:

The other thing that infuriates me about RS is their ratcheting price policy. You notice this as new products are added to their line.Take their toroidal transformers for instance. In the 160VA range, all of them are NZD110, a price that was established when the NZD was around USD0.45. A new voltage (2X15v) was added to the range and it is NZD73.40, presumably reflecting the fact that the NZD is now over USD0.72, but do all the other voltages in the range go down in price ? Not a chance!. This is also prevalent in the semiconductors - who needs a $29 AT89C51 (street price around $3) anyway. M

Think of the unemployment that would result. :)

-Bill

....and if all spam could be stopped, trillions of dollars per year would be saved, as well as all of the power required to run all of the involved computers.

Why did I know in my gut that a decent conversation on a relevant topic would degenerate into the usual bunch of crap within a couple of days?

Jim

What about all the honest workers like power company employees who have a job thanks to spam? Should they also "stare to death"? :)

-Bill

Bummer isn't it? One of the unforeseen costs of spam.

-Bill

Think about all the extra bandwidth on the net after the spam died! So what if some sleaze balls stare to death? They should have had honest jobs like cleaning toilets and digging ditches.

No, just let them catch up on maintenance that gets pushed aside, or let them go to work for the cable company! :) They are still doing repairs in Ocala from last year's hurricanes and its almost time for hurricane season again. I saw some wires still on the ground along I-75 near Gainsville a couple weeks ago that went down during Frances. Progress energy just repaired a damaged pole near my house that was damaged during Frances.

I guess it finally degenerated enough for you to join in? :)

Actually, with less spam on the net you could brows the vendor's websites faster because there would be more bandwidth free for real browsing.

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If you don't, you're already missing out on some things. The paper catalog doesn't have everything that's online.

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Problem is, a lot of the spammers are down there in your area, in Boca Raton. I wish the hurricanes had wiped them out!

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Must've been sht Spam Queen. Bitch.

Maybe so, but so far I've always been able to find everything I need in the paper catalog so it still gets a big thumbs up from me for convenience.

-Bill

They interviewed one of the spammers on local TV just before Hurricane Frances went through. She was bragging about how easy it was to opt out but couldn't see what was wrong with getting plastered with her crap in the first place.

The bandwidth problem here is getting worse. If you don't go broadband you might as well give up accessing the net until midnight. Also, newer web design software is so bloated some servers crawl to the point they don't have the capacity or bandwidth to do their job.

We should just declare all spammers as terrorist and turn the world's military loose on them. They obviously use "Weapons of Massive Disruption"!