From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3e1162e60903131612hc71672dyb36fa7f2717e7e9b@mail.gmail.com> References: <4e6ca2050903131127x111fabc6t840a26eeaa123abf@mail.gmail.com> <4e6ca2050903131337g798c7db1radf7e75c36816f75@mail.gmail.com> <775b8d190903131544h34fc9d32q2ba5baa4e71546e3@mail.gmail.com> <3aaafc130903131559k77030308ge663106a291bb1ca@mail.gmail.com> <283f5df10903131611k4cd3a3eq2f2e7d06e7cf1fab@mail.gmail.com> <3e1162e60903131612hc71672dyb36fa7f2717e7e9b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:15:58 +1100 Message-ID: <775b8d190903131615me7c1a1cs7913af847c1da6c0@mail.gmail.com> From: Bruce Ellis To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] new toy - gmap Topicbox-Message-UUID: bb35ccc4-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I'm ignoring the issue. I already have enough things on top of things. I'm gonna wear more hats! brucee On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 10:12 AM, David Leimbach wrote: > > > 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 o= f >> other things. The committee will be made up of thing-putters who each ha= ve >> 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. >> =A0-- Ovid >> >> =A0 =A0"By cosmic rule, as day yields night, so winter summer, war peace= , >> plenty famine. All things change. Air penetrates the lump of myrrh, unti= l >> the joining bodies die and rise again in smoke called incense." >> >> =A0 =A0"Men do not know how that which is drawn in different directions >> harmonises with itself. The harmonious structure of the world depends up= on >> 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 a= ny 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 > >