From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <283f5df10903131611k4cd3a3eq2f2e7d06e7cf1fab@mail.gmail.com> References: <4e6ca2050903131127x111fabc6t840a26eeaa123abf@mail.gmail.com> <4e6ca2050903131337g798c7db1radf7e75c36816f75@mail.gmail.com> <775b8d190903131544h34fc9d32q2ba5baa4e71546e3@mail.gmail.com> <3aaafc130903131559k77030308ge663106a291bb1ca@mail.gmail.com> <283f5df10903131611k4cd3a3eq2f2e7d06e7cf1fab@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:12:33 -0700 Message-ID: <3e1162e60903131612hc71672dyb36fa7f2717e7e9b@mail.gmail.com> From: David Leimbach To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=000e0cd32e0a6013a70465083c77 Subject: Re: [9fans] new toy - gmap Topicbox-Message-UUID: bb30263e-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --000e0cd32e0a6013a70465083c77 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 4:11 PM, LiteStar numnums 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. > > > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:59 PM, J.R. Mauro wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Bruce Ellis >> 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 >> > 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 : >> >>> It just generates a gmap map or satellite image of the place you name, >> >>> try http://maps.google.com to see a demo. >> >> >> >> ak >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> >> > > > -- > 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 > --000e0cd32e0a6013a70465083c77 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 4:11 PM, LiteSta= r numnums <lites= tar@gmail.com> wrote:
The committee is forming a subcommittee to finalize committee membership, w= hich will then create a standard with which you can put things on top of ot= her things. The committee will be made up of thing-putters who each have th= eir own implementation, and we'll leave a good portion of the details &= quot;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...<= div>

S= adly, I believe I've worked on such projects.
=A0


On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:59 PM, J.R. Mauro = <jrm8005@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com> wrote:<= br> > 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, is= n't there?

>
> brucee
>
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Akshat Kumar
> <a= kumar@mail.nanosouffle.net> wrote:
>> I just wanted to see it in a box with blue borders amidst other mu= lti-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 y= ou name,
>>> try http:= //maps.google.com to see a demo.
>>
>> ak
>>
>>
>
>




-- And in the "Only Prolog programmers will find this funny" depart= ment:

Q: How many Prolog programmers does it take to change a lightb= ulb?

A: No.
=A0-- Ovid

=A0 =A0"By cosmic rule, as day yields ni= ght, so winter summer, war peace, plenty famine. All things change. Air pen= etrates the lump of myrrh, until the joining bodies die and rise again in s= moke called incense."

=A0 =A0"Men do not know how that which is drawn in different dire= ctions harmonises with itself. The harmonious structure of the world depend= s upon opposite tension like that of the bow and the lyre."

= =A0 =A0"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 fir= e, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures&qu= ot;
-- Heraclitus

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