Re: [9fans] new toy - gmap

[David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>]

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On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 4:11 PM, LiteStar numnums <litestar@gmail.com>wrote:

> The committee is forming a subcommittee to finalize committee membership,
> which will then create a standard with which you can put things on top of
> other things. The committee will be made up of thing-putters who each have
> their own implementation, and we'll leave a good portion of the details
> "implementation defined", and call it Common Thing.
>
> We will then begin work on ANSI Common Thing, ISO Common Thing, Common
> Thing the Thing 1,2,3,...N & you will still need to read the Steel Bank
> Common Thing library to figure out the correct thing putter attributes...
>

Sadly, I believe I've worked on such projects.


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> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:59 PM, J.R. Mauro <jrm8005@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > That seems to be endemic. People putting things on top of other
>> > things. Which reminds me that people aren't wearing enough hats!
>>
>> There's a committee for putting things on top of other things, isn't
>> there?
>>
>> >
>> > brucee
>> >
>> > On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Akshat Kumar
>> > <akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net> wrote:
>> >> I just wanted to see it in a box with blue borders amidst other
>> multi-colored
>> >> boxes with blue borders, atop the sea of grey.
>> >>
>> >> 2009/3/13 Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net>:
>> >>> It just generates a gmap map or satellite image of the place you name,
>> >>> try http://maps.google.com to see a demo.
>> >>
>> >> ak
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
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>
> --
> And in the "Only Prolog programmers will find this funny" department:
>
> Q: How many Prolog programmers does it take to change a lightbulb?
>
> A: No.
>  -- Ovid
>
>    "By cosmic rule, as day yields night, so winter summer, war peace,
> plenty famine. All things change. Air penetrates the lump of myrrh, until
> the joining bodies die and rise again in smoke called incense."
>
>    "Men do not know how that which is drawn in different directions
> harmonises with itself. The harmonious structure of the world depends upon
> opposite tension like that of the bow and the lyre."
>
>    "This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god
> or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire,
> kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures"
> -- Heraclitus
>

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