These are differentiated Retinal Epithelial Cells (RPE).
http://download.thelancet.com/flatcontentassets/pdfs/S0140673612600282.pdf
This is neither rash, nor precocious. This is a Phase I/II trial, not some mad scientist shooting up random cells into rubes in the woods. I'd recommend that anyone reading this exchange read the linked journal and not put an excessive amount of faith into people talking authoritatively and with big words:)
The RPE cells that ACTC has in this trial were originally developed from a line that ended in termination of the fetus. ACTC does have a single cell extraction technique that extracts a single cell from the Blastomere stage of the embryo, but from what I've read changing to a line started from that process at this point would set the research back by introducing delays as the IND would need to be changed.
NB: I own ACTC stock, I'm very interested and probably biased, but I'll try to accurately repeat what I've read other places. Take my opinion with a grain of salt, I'm a true believer:)
2010 has the option to store files outside of the DB and not as blobs in it. Actually, I think this is in 2007 with SP1 also using an API but don't quote me on that...
Surely someone in the EDI world was doing something close enough to this patent in order for it to be prior art. I'm not a lawyer, but EDI is old and exchanging documents with predefined data structures goes way back...
Every EDI partner agrees on a standard and a document type before exchanging information. This is the defined structure of the data, stored in a separate document (UCS 5010, etc.)
Someone should go down this path and see if it is prior art.
1) You smoke. People who work in tech support smoke. 2) Do you drink and / or drug? My experience with TS folks is that they tend to have a higher rate of both than the norm. Do you happen to fit any stereotypes of either of these? I have long hair for example - people assume I'm a pot smoking hippie. 3) You probably spoke negatively of your current employer. This is because TS sucks. However, this is a huge warning sign for employers. 4) You probably think you are above your current job, and it comes out in the interview process. People don't like people who are like this.
If I am totally off the mark, my apologies. If even one of these sound like you, then you may want to think about what you can do about it.
PS> Being a smoker isn't ever going to be the stated reason you didn't get a job. I don't think it can be, officially. Still, it's the same as showing up wearing too much cologne - people take their sense of smell seriously. Smokers generally don't smell good (too much smoke, overcompensating mint, etc) and it does hurt their odds of success. It's not something I would consider in an interview but I've watched it happen to smart people who should have been moving ahead.
I would be you money that someone put a custom Regular Expression in to their spam software looking for numeric IP addresses. I had to do this on my inbound spam filters at work because we were getting hammered by the Storm stuff.
Three words.
Bose. Wave. Radio.
People buy that crap for about the same price. Apple is just looking to get that market.
I mean really, people buy the Bose Wave Radio to hear Paul freakin' Harvey on AM stations.
Maybe he's not doing anything secure with his IM client and just doesn't care? Perhaps he just doesn't want people leeching his bandwidth on the wireless?
Maybe his POP mail is mail home to Mom and has no significance?
Maybe he *gasp* wants the Toshiba to phone home.
I'm sorry - I'll VPN in to work if I need to do something that actually matters. If I'm sending my mom a cookie recipe, I'm not going to bother with an encrypted tunnel. Also, if I'm asking my friend Pete if he wants to grab a beer, I'll use AIM because that's what he is on.
I'll make a note to not send him my Social Security Number via AIM, though. Thanks for that.
If you could stop them accurately and safely, you could use them at hospitals to transfer organs for transplants.
Well, assuming you could safely transport organs at 400-500 mph...
Would be a heck of a lot quicker to launch one from the roof than it would be to get a helicopter there, fuel it, etc. You could keep a lot of them available on standby and send multiple organs at the same time.
You know, I'm 30 - and I just for the first time in my life realized that "to gyp" was a racial slur.
I honestly don't think many people of my generation are aware of this. I can see the root now, but it had never occurred to me before just now.
I was in a hurry, as I was voting before heading off to work. After I finished voting, I was walking to the table to hand the card back when my cell phone vibrated. I walked outside with my phone to take the call, away from the other voters... with the card still in my hand.
Ok, so that would have just meant that ~I~ didn't get to vote... which would have been bad, but not the end of the world. That's not the interesting bit though! What I later heard was that there is only one card per voting machine. Had I not returned the card, that machine would have been out of order for the rest of that election. I can't confirm this to be true, but if it is, that's really scary!
I think any third rate magician wouldn't have a problem substituting a card of their choice for the community card in this system.
Actually, come to think of it, you could swap the card out in private right at the booth.
I wonder how long it would take for someone to come up with a pirate card for this (assuming tha the machines ever see the light of day again)? A read-only card that would cast the same set of votes over and over again...
Wouldn't it be easier just to build some sort of error checking device for paper ballots, and have that at the polls when you submit your ballot?
There's got to be a better way to fix the problems with paper ballot voting than moving it to computers.
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These are differentiated Retinal Epithelial Cells (RPE). http://download.thelancet.com/flatcontentassets/pdfs/S0140673612600282.pdf This is neither rash, nor precocious. This is a Phase I/II trial, not some mad scientist shooting up random cells into rubes in the woods. I'd recommend that anyone reading this exchange read the linked journal and not put an excessive amount of faith into people talking authoritatively and with big words :)
The RPE cells that ACTC has in this trial were originally developed from a line that ended in termination of the fetus. ACTC does have a single cell extraction technique that extracts a single cell from the Blastomere stage of the embryo, but from what I've read changing to a line started from that process at this point would set the research back by introducing delays as the IND would need to be changed. NB: I own ACTC stock, I'm very interested and probably biased, but I'll try to accurately repeat what I've read other places. Take my opinion with a grain of salt, I'm a true believer :)
2010 has the option to store files outside of the DB and not as blobs in it. Actually, I think this is in 2007 with SP1 also using an API but don't quote me on that...
Heathen. #9 or GTFO.
Surely someone in the EDI world was doing something close enough to this patent in order for it to be prior art. I'm not a lawyer, but EDI is old and exchanging documents with predefined data structures goes way back... Every EDI partner agrees on a standard and a document type before exchanging information. This is the defined structure of the data, stored in a separate document (UCS 5010, etc.) Someone should go down this path and see if it is prior art.
No, Nathaniel - No. There must be more than this!
If I had to guess, I would say that:
1) You smoke. People who work in tech support smoke.
2) Do you drink and / or drug? My experience with TS folks is that they tend to have a higher rate of both than the norm. Do you happen to fit any stereotypes of either of these? I have long hair for example - people assume I'm a pot smoking hippie.
3) You probably spoke negatively of your current employer. This is because TS sucks. However, this is a huge warning sign for employers.
4) You probably think you are above your current job, and it comes out in the interview process. People don't like people who are like this.
If I am totally off the mark, my apologies. If even one of these sound like you, then you may want to think about what you can do about it.
PS> Being a smoker isn't ever going to be the stated reason you didn't get a job. I don't think it can be, officially. Still, it's the same as showing up wearing too much cologne - people take their sense of smell seriously. Smokers generally don't smell good (too much smoke, overcompensating mint, etc) and it does hurt their odds of success. It's not something I would consider in an interview but I've watched it happen to smart people who should have been moving ahead.
I would be you money that someone put a custom Regular Expression in to their spam software looking for numeric IP addresses. I had to do this on my inbound spam filters at work because we were getting hammered by the Storm stuff.
Can anyone confirm or deny the fact that Fry's will sell all customer returns three times before pulling a product as defective?
It used to be a guy wouldn't brag if he only had 3 seconds of thrust.
Three words. Bose. Wave. Radio. People buy that crap for about the same price. Apple is just looking to get that market. I mean really, people buy the Bose Wave Radio to hear Paul freakin' Harvey on AM stations.
Maybe he's not doing anything secure with his IM client and just doesn't care? Perhaps he just doesn't want people leeching his bandwidth on the wireless? Maybe his POP mail is mail home to Mom and has no significance? Maybe he *gasp* wants the Toshiba to phone home. I'm sorry - I'll VPN in to work if I need to do something that actually matters. If I'm sending my mom a cookie recipe, I'm not going to bother with an encrypted tunnel. Also, if I'm asking my friend Pete if he wants to grab a beer, I'll use AIM because that's what he is on. I'll make a note to not send him my Social Security Number via AIM, though. Thanks for that.
If you could stop them accurately and safely, you could use them at hospitals to transfer organs for transplants.
Well, assuming you could safely transport organs at 400-500 mph...
Would be a heck of a lot quicker to launch one from the roof than it would be to get a helicopter there, fuel it, etc. You could keep a lot of them available on standby and send multiple organs at the same time.
You know, I'm 30 - and I just for the first time in my life realized that "to gyp" was a racial slur. I honestly don't think many people of my generation are aware of this. I can see the root now, but it had never occurred to me before just now.
I was going through this trying to get 10g installed on FC1, but I'm stuck with a JRE error, even though I'm pretty sure that it's installed.
d ora1_en.html
http://staff.in2.hr/denis/oracle/10g1install_fe
Anyway, it looks like it was working, but I probably screwed something up.
I used one as well.
I was in a hurry, as I was voting before heading off to work. After I finished voting, I was walking to the table to hand the card back when my cell phone vibrated. I walked outside with my phone to take the call, away from the other voters... with the card still in my hand.
Ok, so that would have just meant that ~I~ didn't get to vote... which would have been bad, but not the end of the world. That's not the interesting bit though! What I later heard was that there is only one card per voting machine. Had I not returned the card, that machine would have been out of order for the rest of that election. I can't confirm this to be true, but if it is, that's really scary!
I think any third rate magician wouldn't have a problem substituting a card of their choice for the community card in this system.
Actually, come to think of it, you could swap the card out in private right at the booth.
I wonder how long it would take for someone to come up with a pirate card for this (assuming tha the machines ever see the light of day again)? A read-only card that would cast the same set of votes over and over again...
Wouldn't it be easier just to build some sort of error checking device for paper ballots, and have that at the polls when you submit your ballot? There's got to be a better way to fix the problems with paper ballot voting than moving it to computers.