RNAse is the bugbear of RNA work, its a normal part of every cell and its job it to break up RNA (which it does very well). When its in the cell its kept under close control, however if the cell is broken up (to extract RNA for example) the control is broken and it eats any RNA it can find.
Darned DRM. You'd think I would at least have fair use rights over my own body!
The difference is that Mr Blunkett wants the ID card to become a commonly requested form of ID, so that we will (practically, not legally) be compelled to carry them around with us all the time.
Not many people at the moment carry a driving licence. There's no need to, it's bulky, and you might lose it. Far better to leave it at home in the fire safe.
I think you're treating "warp speeds" as speeds, when you should probably think of them as power ratings. For the same power, Enterprise will move much faster further away from a star's gravity well. You can't say that because it takes ~2000 times as long to go to Qo'nos (Kronos, whatever), it must be only ~2000 times further away.
This has the very desirable property, that Enterprise will move faster through the boring bits of a journey, and slower than a drunked snail when anything of equal or greater mass is in the vicinity (e.g. another ship).
You'll notice that when Enterprise does take a long time to cross empty space, it usually isn't empty - there's a nebula, a gravitational anomaly, a cloaked ship, or a heavy plotline. Any of these can distort spacetime, effectively gumming up the warp nacelles.
This behaviour is a natural consequence of warp field theory, in which the fundamental constant is not the speed of light, but the Standard Programme Length, from which the whole of QED (Quantum Episode Dynamics) arises.
So you'll need to employ nine times as many election officials as the Canadians. Shouldn't be too hard - your population is nine times theirs, you know.
Also, the U.S. has about 5 times the population, and IIRC crime rates in general are not linear, but rather exponential, in regards to the population
Ah, the solution is simple then. Break up the U.S. into individual states. Each state will have nothing more than a handful of shoplifting cases every year.
They don't have a Windows-only shop. They already have a good operating system on some of their servers (as mentioned in the post).
Fair point. Although it isn't absolutely clear - the questioner had previously worked on a project with a Unix server component. They didn't say whether it was at the same company, or whether that company might have been working for two different clients.
My point was that there are many factors you need to take into account before deciding to switch platform, technical and otherwise. The great-grandparent asked what the problem was; I was saying that the capability of the hardware to run Linux and the simplicity of the Linux install process (both identified as pertinent by the great-grandparent) are possibly the two most trivial factors.
The questioner may now be working or consulting for a Windows-only shop, in which case hiring someone to support a non-standard (for that environment) system after the questioner is gone would be a significant cost. The server component for this project may require significant development to port to Linux - or may be closed-source and third-party. Maybe the project is to develop a server component that can be sold to Windows-only clients as well as to Linux-friendly clients. Or maybe it's a true heterogenous environment, and the decision to implement this particular project on Windows was made for sound technical reasons.
As for the rest of your post, I'm a little confused. You claim to buy in to the B.S. about Windows being so trivial it doesn't even require support staff (MS don't claim that - they offer certification for support staff!), but then you claim that Windows can't compete in any category with Linux.
That's an incredibly strong claim. Not just inferior to Linux in many categories or even inferior to Linux in every category. Can't even compete, in any category? I guess that explains why Windows has such a minuscule share of the market.
Reduce Windows IT support headcount (make people redundant)
Hire Linux IT support/developers
Obtain budget for new hardware (I assume you didn't really mean that all the other apps on that server have to be ported from Visual Basic, so we're actually talking about a new server here)
Explain increased staff costs and new hardware to senior management
Explain free, "unsupported" software to senior management (or did you want funding for a Redhat support contract too?)
Convince senior management it's a good idea
Then either...
Install Linux
Port app to Linux
Test
or...
Update CV (called a resume in French)
Hit the job websites
Phew! Well, at least you didn't have to...
Change a single registry setting on an otherwise working system
I'm happy running Linux at home (actually I run BSD, but that's besides the point), but I'd need a damn good reason before I'd suggest "just installing Linux" in a Windows-only shop.
Unfortunately, it only takes a small percentage of idiots to make us all suffer. With email, if 1E-5 people are gullible enough to be taken in by a spam, you can make more money than it takes to harrass the 99.999% of the rest of us.
Suppose the figure of a typical response rate of 0.001% to a spam campaign is accurate. This doesn't mean that only 0.001% of the online population are suckers - how many organ enlargements can any one person take? The respondents must be drawn from a larger pool, e.g. 1% of the population. Each sucker may respond to several spams (how could they afford that essential operation, if not with an affordable loan or attractive Nigerian business opportunity?) but there must be a limit.
If I am right, I predict that at the rate the spammers are going, they will soon exhaust the available suckers. As the response rate falls, the spam industry will shrink to a sustainable size (based on one new sucker a minute?).
When this starts to occur, we will have a unique opportunity to compute the actual size of the sucker population, based on the amount of spam they were capable of responding to.
If I am wrong, I predict that within a few years, absolutely anyone will be able to spot a sucker a mile off. They're the ones with the 88GG mammaries and 100ft members (permanently erect from wholesale v18gr8, and raw from free nude webcams), wandering around with a spaced-out look (herbal medicines), and homeless after re-re-re-re-mortgaging.
Either way, we will know exactly how many of them there are out there. The spammers are to be applauded for conducting such a bold and far-reaching study of human behaviour.
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Not many people at the moment carry a driving licence. There's no need to, it's bulky, and you might lose it. Far better to leave it at home in the fire safe.
Well, obviously that's perfectly safe for your data - but it wouldn't be much use for protecting a password database.
This has the very desirable property, that Enterprise will move faster through the boring bits of a journey, and slower than a drunked snail when anything of equal or greater mass is in the vicinity (e.g. another ship).
You'll notice that when Enterprise does take a long time to cross empty space, it usually isn't empty - there's a nebula, a gravitational anomaly, a cloaked ship, or a heavy plotline. Any of these can distort spacetime, effectively gumming up the warp nacelles.
This behaviour is a natural consequence of warp field theory, in which the fundamental constant is not the speed of light, but the Standard Programme Length, from which the whole of QED (Quantum Episode Dynamics) arises.
So you'll need to employ nine times as many election officials as the Canadians. Shouldn't be too hard - your population is nine times theirs, you know.
Fair point. Although it isn't absolutely clear - the questioner had previously worked on a project with a Unix server component. They didn't say whether it was at the same company, or whether that company might have been working for two different clients.
My point was that there are many factors you need to take into account before deciding to switch platform, technical and otherwise. The great-grandparent asked what the problem was; I was saying that the capability of the hardware to run Linux and the simplicity of the Linux install process (both identified as pertinent by the great-grandparent) are possibly the two most trivial factors.
The questioner may now be working or consulting for a Windows-only shop, in which case hiring someone to support a non-standard (for that environment) system after the questioner is gone would be a significant cost. The server component for this project may require significant development to port to Linux - or may be closed-source and third-party. Maybe the project is to develop a server component that can be sold to Windows-only clients as well as to Linux-friendly clients. Or maybe it's a true heterogenous environment, and the decision to implement this particular project on Windows was made for sound technical reasons.
As for the rest of your post, I'm a little confused. You claim to buy in to the B.S. about Windows being so trivial it doesn't even require support staff (MS don't claim that - they offer certification for support staff!), but then you claim that Windows can't compete in any category with Linux.
That's an incredibly strong claim. Not just inferior to Linux in many categories or even inferior to Linux in every category. Can't even compete, in any category? I guess that explains why Windows has such a minuscule share of the market.
Convince IT management it's a good idea
Reduce Windows IT support headcount (make people redundant)
Hire Linux IT support/developers
Obtain budget for new hardware (I assume you didn't really mean that all the other apps on that server have to be ported from Visual Basic, so we're actually talking about a new server here)
Explain increased staff costs and new hardware to senior management
Explain free, "unsupported" software to senior management (or did you want funding for a Redhat support contract too?)
Convince senior management it's a good idea
Then either...
Install Linux
Port app to Linux
Test
or...
Update CV (called a resume in French)
Hit the job websites
Phew! Well, at least you didn't have to...
Change a single registry setting on an otherwise working system
I'm happy running Linux at home (actually I run BSD, but that's besides the point), but I'd need a damn good reason before I'd suggest "just installing Linux" in a Windows-only shop.
You could also run .com files that were in user area 0 (or was it 15?), whichever area you were in.
Unix (and CP/M?) used "-" for switches, but DOS also supported "/" for convenience. They could do that since they didn't need a path separator.
At least, not until DOS 2.0.
I knew Florida had been in the news for something other than spam a few years ago.
Suppose the figure of a typical response rate of 0.001% to a spam campaign is accurate. This doesn't mean that only 0.001% of the online population are suckers - how many organ enlargements can any one person take? The respondents must be drawn from a larger pool, e.g. 1% of the population. Each sucker may respond to several spams (how could they afford that essential operation, if not with an affordable loan or attractive Nigerian business opportunity?) but there must be a limit.
If I am right, I predict that at the rate the spammers are going, they will soon exhaust the available suckers. As the response rate falls, the spam industry will shrink to a sustainable size (based on one new sucker a minute?).
When this starts to occur, we will have a unique opportunity to compute the actual size of the sucker population, based on the amount of spam they were capable of responding to.
If I am wrong, I predict that within a few years, absolutely anyone will be able to spot a sucker a mile off. They're the ones with the 88GG mammaries and 100ft members (permanently erect from wholesale v18gr8, and raw from free nude webcams), wandering around with a spaced-out look (herbal medicines), and homeless after re-re-re-re-mortgaging.
Either way, we will know exactly how many of them there are out there. The spammers are to be applauded for conducting such a bold and far-reaching study of human behaviour.