From owner-cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 27 23:51:30 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94CE816A41F; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 23:51:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from ext-gw.lemis.com (ext-gw.lemis.com [150.101.14.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFF1643D4C; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 23:51:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by ext-gw.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28D4D131D62; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:21:28 +0930 (CST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id F3AE8852E3; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:21:27 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:21:27 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Alexander Leidinger Message-ID: <20050927235127.GE29567@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200509252339.j8PNdj7c030486@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050926002701.GA73355@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050926003308.GF29567@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20050926213633.12b1b9c8@Magellan.Leidinger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="M8g8Xvd1npd+rU3W" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050926213633.12b1b9c8@Magellan.Leidinger.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/astro/xearth/files freebsd.committers.markers X-BeenThere: cvs-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the ports tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 23:51:30 -0000 --M8g8Xvd1npd+rU3W Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday, 26 September 2005 at 21:36:33 +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 10:03:08 +0930 > "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" wrote: > >> On Sunday, 25 September 2005 at 20:27:01 -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: >>> On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 11:39:45PM +0000, Greg Lehey wrote: >>>> grog 2005-09-25 23:39:45 UTC > >>>> Log: >>>> Specify location accurately enough for Google Maps. >>>> >>>> This appears to require 5 digits after the decimal point. >>>> Specifying 6 would pinpoint the location to about 11 cm in a >>>> north/south direction and about 8 in east/wast, which is too >>>> specific for moving beings. >>> >>> What about beings who rarely move from behind their monitor, like >>> many hackers? :) >> >> I had thought of that. But we're talking about distances shorter than >> the height of a keyboard here. You'd have to be completely paralyzed >> and communicate with the outside world via a touch pad. > > The *height* of your keyboard is 8cm or more? I didn't mention the height. But for reference, at the back it's about 6.5 cm. > Are we talking about the same direction in the 3D space? No, of course not. We're talking maps, which use two-dimensional coordinates, so the height doesn't enter into it. FWIW, my keyboard in north-south direction is 51 cm or 0.0000046=B0 wide, and in east-west direction it's 0.000002=B0 deep. It's interesting to note that phk has specified a location to 7 places of decimals in north-south direction. That's a resolution of a little over a centimetre. > I'm talking about the negative direction the gravity force typically > has here on earth. This is irrelevant in the current situation. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --M8g8Xvd1npd+rU3W Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDOdr/IubykFB6QiMRAg+cAJ0RdeHmAFOaMhUrkECSo/HPHNIsaACfamrp D/iKnstWET5cpUq07S8qN80= =B03V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --M8g8Xvd1npd+rU3W--