Try the Mint or Arch computer science degree. Much better than the Canonical one.

Are you American?

No, I'm English.

I ask only because I think only an American would expect that saying "Aman who inaccuratelyhits the spacebar?" would be an acceptable answer.

Really? It seems unlikely that a sarcastic response to typo nazism would be the sole domain of Americans.

Anyway, the question is rhetorical;

okey dokey.

I know you're an American

uh huh. Good luck with that.

because only an American would write such an absurd

I can assure you that absurdity is very popular in England.

response and have the hubris, or ignorance (or most likely both -- you and your countrymen are known the world over as being particularly stupid with an average IQ of less than 80), and expect people to accept it as valid or sensical.

Really, you were genuinely asking what "noone" was? The genuineness if it ever existed was lost in the bizarre nonsequiteurs.

Who is "noone", by the way?

Aman who inaccuratelyhits the spacebar?

This is exactly how all this nonsense started

No, the nonsense started because someone thought it was a good idea to buch the meanings used in the rest of the world and use kilo==1024, not kilo==1000.

1000-based units WERE created just to make hard drives look bigger than they actually were.

Invoke Poe's law.

I honestly can't tell.

There is no big grand conspiracy of evil marketing people versus the grand world of computer people.

1G = 10^9 in every area.

1Gbit/s = 1e9 bits per second (noone complains)
1GHz = 1e9 cycles per second (noone complains)
1GT/s = 1e9 transfers per second (noone complaines)
1GB = 1e9 bytes (oh the horror! the evil marketing oh woe woe woe)

The only reason it that 1GB = 1GiB every caught on is because RAM really relies on a power of 2 address bus, so it's always very closely tied into powers of 2 and it's convenient to round that to its nearest decimal equivalent in order to talk about it succinctly.

There was never any reason to do it for anything else, and hard disk manufacturers pretty much never used GiB when they meant GB.

And even the venerable 3.5" floppy was an unholy mixture of KB and KiB multiplied together.

What are these group policies that Linux can't replicate? I'm curious: I looked it up on google, but the descriptions are fairly high level and seems like they'd translate reasonably well.

Also, a restart manager?

I don't think this is strictly true, even though I believe it should be. We have ideas like string-theory and m-theory which, while promising ideas in the field of science, currently clearly fall under the category of a scientific hypothesis or conjecture. There is not overwhelming evidence supporting them, there s some evidence supporting them.

String and m theory are theories in the mathematical sense like number theory and set theory. There's not a shred of scientific evidence to support them since they make no testable predictions. The hope is (still) that they will one day.

Einstein changed "open and shut case" Newtonian physics.

This is wrong for several reasons. Firstly, Newton himself wasn't happy with the implied action at a distance part of his theory. Secondly, it was known since Maxwell that there was no way that EM equations could support a standing wave from any frame of reference. Third, there was an anomaly in the orbit of Mercury that was inexplicable according to Newtonian mechanics.

Hardly open and shut at all.

Copernicus and Galileo changed the "open and shut case" of a flat earth.

Eratosthenes measured the diameter of the earth over a thousand years before they were born.

For example, when does a plant become a fish?

Never.

When does a fish become an insect?

Never.

When does a mammal become a reptile?

Never.

You are arguing from a point of astonishing ignorance. Organisms very far down one clade are not going to jump across to another. To do so without genetic engineering would actually be a big blow for evolution, not prove it as you seem to think.

None of those things are proven, yet according to the Theory of evolution (caps intended) a fish became a mammal, and a reptile became a bird.

You do realise you've just written two entirely different sets of things, right?

I also invite you to go and look really closely at a bird. If you can find a petting zoo where they have a really tame ostritch. Get up close, and you can see stuff for yourself easily because they are really big. They have claws and scales on parts of them. Parts of them actually do look really reptillian, because they are.

Then go back and look at the sequence of fossils going from early dinosaurs to mid dinosaurs to some of the bird like ones.

Changing species from ape to human requires new DNA strands, not the same strand with a slight modification in the chain.

Firstly, humans are apes. We are and always will be because there is no way to escape an evoloutionary branch.

And how on earth is a strand with random modifications not new DNA? You're making up semantics that do not exist to support your view.

That's a liberal canard.

What is? Not mocking Fox news or mocking it?

I do love how people on slashdot^wthe internet love making up random shit about what "liberal" is.

Hint: being a liberal is entirely orthogonal to the indesputable fact that FOX news is terrible. It would be news if Fox actually reported a fact correctly. Most news programs are bad, but fox makes them look good by comparison.

Hell even if it was regulated to some specific frequency like microwaves you'd have to strap your microwave oven down or it move around every time you turned it on. Fighter jets have large microwave based radars in their nose cones, if that generated thrust you'd have a forward facing thrust which at the power levels he's claiming would probably be more powerfull than the jet engine powering the aircraft.

Microwaves can and certainly do produce thrust, because photons have momentum. If you dump enough out the back, you'll get a measurable force forwards. Of course then it isn't a closed system since you have photons flying out the back and off into the big blue yonder.

In fact, the radar will generate thrust, both from the emitted microwaves and also emitted infra red (heat). Just not very much, because compared to ion thrusters you need truly henious amounts of energy, meaning the weight for the power source is far far above any sane amount of fuel you might want to carry.

Kind of like if Robertson screws were better than Phillips screws, they would have been utilized by Henry Ford? That stuff often doesn't work out the way sane people think it ought to.

What? How does that even work? Phillips screws are specifically designed to cam out to protect the drivers since good torque limiting systems didn't exist then, and Robertson screws are deigned specifically not to cam out. Surely the two kinds of screw head are at the complete opposite end of the spectrum.

What?

An organisation has freedom of expression?

That's not good. It's members maybe, but an abstract legal entity?

Goddam idiot AC,

Dude, did you actually read the original post?

It was never meant to do real computational work. For that you need assembly, or straight up binary.

If that's not an obvious (and actually quite amusing) troll, then I don't know what is.