I'm pretty sure any typical Fidonet BBS system did this sort of thing back in the 1980s. They used a Nodelist which categorized other Fideonet nodes geographically and including a topical index of store-and-forward discussion areas called Echoes. There was definitely "a plurality of computers" on Fidonet. The echo tossers and netmail handlers could be considered as agents handling "search requests" from other systems. The nodelist was divided into zones which represented major geographical areas and some file and message transfer functions limited searches to a single zone ("elect one of said hierarchy of geographical areas") before providing results. It's been years since I used Fidonet but I think you could argue that it embodied many of the principles described in this patent. You might find similar functionality in Usenet systems back in UUCP days too.
The nouveau project is actively working on a free software driver for nVidia cards that will hopefully replace the nv driver one of these days. They could use some help.
If this were going to be voted on in the Senate tomorrow, there would be a senate bill listed at the LOC website. I can't find one. The bill everyone keeps pointing out, HR 418, is a House bill, which has already passed. Here's the link if you haven't seen it enough times already:
Just to check, I called my state representatives. They don't seem to have reliable information either. John Cornyn's office said the Real ID Bill had been stripped from the appropriations bill, sent to committee, and definitely would not be voted on this week.
But Kay Bailey Hutchison's office said that while the thing called "Real ID Act" had been removed from the appropriations bill, portions of the actual text of the bill had been moved back into the appropriations bill without the "Real ID" name attached. She said there was no way of finding out which parts of the Real ID act will be in the final appropriations bill until it's published in a few days. She also said there would be no vote until after it was published, so there should be time to read it contact representatives again if needed. But she didn't know what the designation of the bill would be, making it a bit hard to look up at LOC.
I'm worried by the disagreement between the two offices. Has anyone else called their rep to find out what's going on?
>First, you have a patient who is trying to >diagnosis and treat his own condition.
This is usually the only way to get something fixed these days. Most doctors are very resistant to doing anything that could be called diagnosis. Their answer to everything is usually to ask you a few questions, interrupt you after hearing the first sympton they can connect with some common malady, and then decree what's wrong with you. As in Patrick's case, it's common for the doctors to ignore facts which don't fit (after all, how could stupid patients possibly know anything about all that hard "doctor stuff").
Most doctors seems to diagnose everything I get as "something that's going around" and prescribe antibiotics. I usually have to do their research for them and then come back for another visit, demanding the specific tests needed to diagnose the problem (which sometimes requires moving to a more cooperative doctor), and then insist on proper treatment based on the test results.
Fortunately, many medical texts are available online which contain the information needed to self-diagnose. But you still need a competent doctor to perform or authorize tests and prescribe treatments.
Over the years I've found it very rare to meet doctors who actually take an interest in diagnosing an illness by using specific tests to determine the cause instead of just prescribing antibiotics. They are out there, however, and worth looking for. Just don't expect to find one easily. Most doctors seem to be lazy, disinterested, or simply not capable of diagnosing patients. Sturgeon's rule (90% of everything is crap) applies to the field of medicine as much as any other field.
When I find a doctor that resists doing tests that could result in a diagnosis, in favor of randomly prescribing common drugs, and who argues against "doctor shopping" when a doctor is obviously wrong, it raises major red flags for me as a patient and is a good indication that a better doctor is needed ASAP. I hope Patrick can find some competent doctors in time. They're rare.
It seems to me with all the sites going up on this wacky search phrase, there will be lots of questions about it all. What better way to answer them that to put together a FAQ? and what better page than a FAQ to rank number one on Google?;-)
If you have questions post them here and I'll answer them in the FAQ.
I just registered a domain and will put up the first draft of the nigritue ultramarine FAQ at www.nigritudeultramarines.com shortly. Let's see how long it takes to get into Google. Feel free to add a link from your site. (please note that ultramarines is plural in my domain name by the way)
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I'm pretty sure any typical Fidonet BBS system did this sort of thing back in the 1980s. They used a Nodelist which categorized other Fideonet nodes geographically and including a topical index of store-and-forward discussion areas called Echoes. There was definitely "a plurality of computers" on Fidonet. The echo tossers and netmail handlers could be considered as agents handling "search requests" from other systems. The nodelist was divided into zones which represented major geographical areas and some file and message transfer functions limited searches to a single zone ("elect one of said hierarchy of geographical areas") before providing results. It's been years since I used Fidonet but I think you could argue that it embodied many of the principles described in this patent. You might find similar functionality in Usenet systems back in UUCP days too.
The nouveau project is actively working on a free software driver for nVidia cards that will hopefully replace the nv driver one of these days. They could use some help.
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/
http://wiki.x.org/wiki/nv
If this were going to be voted on in the Senate tomorrow, there would be a senate bill listed at the LOC website. I can't find one. The bill everyone keeps pointing out, HR 418, is a House bill, which has already passed. Here's the link if you haven't seen it enough times already:
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http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.R.41
Just to check, I called my state representatives. They don't seem to have reliable information either. John Cornyn's office said the Real ID Bill had been stripped from the appropriations bill, sent to committee, and definitely would not be voted on this week.
But Kay Bailey Hutchison's office said that while the thing called "Real ID Act" had been removed from the appropriations bill, portions of the actual text of the bill had been moved back into the appropriations bill without the "Real ID" name attached. She said there was no way of finding out which parts of the Real ID act will be in the final appropriations bill until it's published in a few days. She also said there would be no vote until after it was published, so there should be time to read it contact representatives again if needed. But she didn't know what the designation of the bill would be, making it a bit hard to look up at LOC.
I'm worried by the disagreement between the two offices. Has anyone else called their rep to find out what's going on?
>First, you have a patient who is trying to
>diagnosis and treat his own condition.
This is usually the only way to get something fixed these days. Most doctors are very resistant to doing anything that could be called diagnosis. Their answer to everything is usually to ask you a few questions, interrupt you after hearing the first sympton they can connect with some common malady, and then decree what's wrong with you. As in Patrick's case, it's common for the doctors to ignore facts which don't fit (after all, how could stupid patients possibly know anything about all that hard "doctor stuff").
Most doctors seems to diagnose everything I get as "something that's going around" and prescribe antibiotics. I usually have to do their research for them and then come back for another visit, demanding the specific tests needed to diagnose the problem (which sometimes requires moving to a more cooperative doctor), and then insist on proper treatment based on the test results.
Fortunately, many medical texts are available online which contain the information needed to self-diagnose. But you still need a competent doctor to perform or authorize tests and prescribe treatments.
Over the years I've found it very rare to meet doctors who actually take an interest in diagnosing an illness by using specific tests to determine the cause instead of just prescribing antibiotics. They are out there, however, and worth looking for. Just don't expect to find one easily. Most doctors seem to be lazy, disinterested, or simply not capable of diagnosing patients. Sturgeon's rule (90% of everything is crap) applies to the field of medicine as much as any other field.
When I find a doctor that resists doing tests that could result in a diagnosis, in favor of randomly prescribing common drugs, and who argues against "doctor shopping" when a doctor is obviously wrong, it raises major red flags for me as a patient and is a good indication that a better doctor is needed ASAP. I hope Patrick can find some competent doctors in time. They're rare.
It seems to me with all the sites going up on this wacky search phrase, there will be lots of questions about it all. What better way to answer them that to put together a FAQ? and what better page than a FAQ to rank number one on Google? ;-)
If you have questions post them here and I'll answer them in the FAQ.
I just registered a domain and will put up the first draft of the nigritue ultramarine FAQ at www.nigritudeultramarines.com shortly. Let's see how long it takes to get into Google. Feel free to add a link from your site. (please note that ultramarines is plural in my domain name by the way)
robots.net frequently has articles on Micro Air Vehicles and Micromechanical Flying Insect robots. The Berkley MFI Project Overview is another good place to get more info.