You need better tax accountants ;)

There was me thinking the US invaded Panama not so long ago.

I can easily understand the Chinese wanting other options, let alone the capacity improvements.

I expect my 22" monitor to be 22" across the diagonal of the viewing area. I expect it to be approximately 19" wide viewing area (depending if its 16:9 or 16:10) and somewhere between 20" and 21" wide depending on cost.

I also generally just don't give a shit. As long as the screen dimensions are correct (16:10) and and the screen is approximately the correct size (21" to 23" viewable area) and it fits in the space I've allocated for it (so the physical dimensions and fuck-all to do with diagonal viewing area) then it's all down to whether it supports the resolution I want, the view angles, the refresh rate, the colour depth, reliability, input options and price.

I want a 2560x1440 monitor, to keep pixel pitch sensible at the view distance I'm using it around 27" is about right and the total height of it has to be low enough that I can see my 40" TV over the top. I'm watching cricket as I type this. So I looked for monitors bigger than 24", smaller than 30", at that resolution, and worried about the quality not the fucking size.

Worrying about whether something's advertised as 22" when it's 21.5232" is asinine, focus on the shit that matters.

What the fuck does $MOVIE have to do with Linux?

e.g. I just opened a terminal and..

You sound incompetent.

http://www.torquenews.com/397/...

(note that's from 2011; it's now available on multiple models)

Bring the vehicle slowly and safely to a halt.

Yes, it's then a hazard to other drivers. I think a static hazard is probably better than one doing 70mph.

I think in the UK slamming on the brakes for a full emergency stop for a duckling, resulting in an accident, could easily be prosecuted. It's not safe driving, it's not considerate to other road users, there are a couple of different things it could come under.

None of that would prevent the person that rammed her being liable for that act though - as you say, it's their responsibility to assure that they can come safely to a halt without colliding with the vehicle in front. Her stupid behaviour does not negate their responsibility.

May mitigate it though. I'm not sure on that one.

In my country 'engineer' is not a trade mark or regulated title. 'Chartered Engineer' is.

Now I happen to be a chartered professional myself, just not a Chartered Engineer. Could be if I wanted to, with software engineering as the discipline, and no studying of computer science required.

But your world is naive and simplistic. Developing and engineering are different. Being a craftsman and an engineer are different. Being an artist and an engineer are different.

But hey, keep using the wrong word and trying to impose your regulatory environment on others. Enjoy.,

Well then, software engineering clearly is 'real' engineering.

Tell me, created many bridges lately in which the budget was cut in half, the timescales reduced by two thirds, the width of the gap you're crossing doubled, the traffic changed from cars to trains, back to cars then become cars on trains, and the construction crew outsourced to India, all after you've already laid the foundations? And still delivered?

Stop fucking comparing a 60 year old maturing discipline with a completely unrelated millenia old one then.

Bullshit.

Now admittedly physics grads make (in my experience) the best software engineers but pretending you have to study science at degree level to become a software engineer is elitist bullshit.

Computer science graduates tend not to become great software engineers.

But your arguments were flawed to start with. Software engineering and software development are not the same thing at all. Any cunt can get a program to work, learning the engineering disciplines around that takes time, experience and study.

Think of it this way:
- a developer gets code to work
- an engineer gets code to work in a predictable manner
- a scientist explores how the code works

A great engineer doesn't need to know how, they need to know what. A scientist will know the theory but may not be able to apply it in practice. A developer may get lucky.

I just had to work with a CS graduate who insisted that you couldn't possibly rebuild a web page in the browser as it had to be done server-side.

Finding an example that proved him wrong turned out to be quite tricky. I started with "Open a web page. You choose which one" and to get solid proof of dynamic page creation we actually had to go to the website he chose.

Yeah. Total cost for components has consistently over the last 15 years or so been £40 to £80 lower than the cost of components + build/test/warranty.

On a £2000 computer that's a margin I can cope with.

It's not even the time, it's the fact that if one component is broken out of the box the builder can do the legwork to find out which one and replace it. If I'm building myself it's a pain in the arse to track down whether it's the motherboard, the PSUI, the CPU or some random other component causing an issue.

Fuck that, just build it for me. I chose the bits to go inside, it meets my needs, I'm a software guy; I don't do my own plumbing, boiler repairs, gardening or car maintenance either.

Because multithreaded workloads are easier to code, coordinate and link together than trying to do it using independent processes.

Thread one rendering, thread two processing network traffic, thread three processing UI, thread four doing complex calculations in real-time to support all of the above.. try splitting that across four processes for a single app. It just doesn't make sense.

Don't forget that deleting it implicitly creates a copy of it in your 'deleted items' folder.

Now you're a creator too.

Sure, good luck with that one.

After all, you're talking about playing with the big boys here. They got where they are because they're good at it, not because they lucked into some useful information.

Make just the slightest mistake when you make your moves and you'll be obliterated. And lets face it: if you're in IT it's probably not because you have great people skills, political acumen, charisma or connections.