From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <283f5df10903131623o3f073edrd6394b710cbf7bcd@mail.gmail.com> References: <4e6ca2050903131127x111fabc6t840a26eeaa123abf@mail.gmail.com> <4e6ca2050903131337g798c7db1radf7e75c36816f75@mail.gmail.com> <775b8d190903131544h34fc9d32q2ba5baa4e71546e3@mail.gmail.com> <3aaafc130903131559k77030308ge663106a291bb1ca@mail.gmail.com> <3e1162e60903131611h60253a6aic90d9e3151b19b0@mail.gmail.com> <3aaafc130903131617n428da8f2w8f14156691c1aa26@mail.gmail.com> <283f5df10903131623o3f073edrd6394b710cbf7bcd@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:26:41 +1100 Message-ID: <775b8d190903131626s5f8116f1g8fb630841c580ca6@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: bb5124a6-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 More fish! On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 10:23 AM, LiteStar numnums wro= te: > The project will still go down as one of bitter in fighting, name calling= , > ego stroking, chaos wrapped up in a book you need to purchase for $250 US= D > (plus tax & shipping) in order to put things... > > > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 7:17 PM, J.R. Mauro wrote: >> >> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 7:11 PM, David Leimbach wrot= e: >> > >> > >> > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 3:59 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? >> > >> > Perhaps we can secure a government grant to fund the study of putting >> > things >> > on things. >> >> The Minister for Home Affairs, who is wearing a striking organza dress >> in pink tulle, with matching pearls and a diamante collar necklace, >> has promised to sacrifice his project of building 88,000 million >> billion houses to give us funding. >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> > 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, until 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 upo= n > 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 an= y 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 >