carlsson

If I'm not mistaken, the forum is hosted by other servers/systems than the main AtariAge site. Thus it could happen that one system temporarily is down while the other still are working.

There may have been some arcade games from 1980 that used the same or similar hardware platform: Z80, VDP, PSG as ColecoVision did 2.5 years later, depending how willing TI was to sell their custom chips to third party manufacturers. I still think June 1981 should be a pivotal month, when the 9918A version with bitmaps came out and shortly after non-TI systems begun using it.

The nominal state is to be at the office 100% of the working hours, but apparently I don't have to lay off completely when I'm home sick, if I'm capable to get something done.

Actually, they have a special page about scams for those interested:
https://help.judge.me/en/articles/8380171-fraud-warning-notice

More likely a misformed database query, where someone who got legitimate access to the order history is setting up automated feedback forms but mistook the criteria which orders to select, perhaps every one marked as delivered but no previous feedback given. Those of us who work with SQL know how easy it is to miss one field in the selection query and get far more results than anticipated.

Ah, I'm going on 20 years this summer. In the first few years, I only posted every now and then as I've never had much of an interest in Atari things, but as the forum has expanded, I've come more often in recent years.

No idea, the nurse said a lot of people are coughing and getting it back all the time, just like there is nothing to do about it except standard medicine and hope for the best.

Eventually I could not withstain any longer, so I called my health care provider, spoke with a nurse and have received prescription for a cough syrup. It took them 24 hours to carry out the prescription but apparently this first step wasn't harder than so. Now I'm not sure the medicine will remedy my state but I'll at least try.

Since the world population anyway is twice what a 32-bit integer can hold, will AtariAge "do the math" and go directly to accommodating a 64-bit number of members? Yes, that would involve quite a lot of aliens but hey, we've been involving those in our video games for years. Mostly shooting them, but still.

Strepsils fortunately still is prescription free, at least the variant/strength over here. But I'm thinking stuff against cough that actually does something. The most recent products in that category even fall back on old housewife tricks, which other experts already have dismissed, yet they sell it for good money. Yes, I can drink hot tea, thick juices and small doses of strong liquor unless I want to see a doctor for my four weeks old cough, but in a world where every purchase is logged to you, I feel there may be a quota for some of the lighter addictive drugs, so you could buy one bottle of morphine based cough syrup per year, but not four bottles.

Man United knows how to make football interesting. Their most loyal fans probably disagree to that statement.

Well, the package arrived today so it only took four working days to move the parcel 5 miles within the city. Actually I'm working close to the distribution center though I don't believe they handle customer pickups there.

How far in? Perhaps a pencil or gently scratching with a precision screwdriver would work. Watch out though so you don't injure yourself.

My package arrived in my city on Tuesday. It still hasn't arrived at the pick up point and no indication when it will happen.

Haha. 7 days later and the package is somewhere in the vicinity, but no definite delivery date yet. It has been in town for three days now. I suppose the S in UPS stands for slow?

Perhaps save up for a trip to Spain, North Africa, Middle East in the beginning of August, 2027?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_August_2,_2027

For a very short while, I was following an earthquake tracker. There are several of those, with different front ends and perhaps sometimes different input data. I see the latest one was in New Jersey just short of two hours ago.

The site Earthquake Track says there have been:

• 122 earthquakes (M1.5 or more) in the past 24 hours
• 870 earthquakes in the past 7 days
• 3,495 earthquakes in the past 30 days
• 51,311 earthquakes in the past 365 days

Of course most are small, at great depth, at sea or in mostly uninhabited locations but the fact they're recording more than 100 shakes per day worldwide is rather impressive.

I am _so_glad_ that I don't have to worry about any of this.

Do they need to evaluate you before you can apply?

Sarcasm: Perhaps they know something about your health that you don't yet...

In an hour, Europe will also get into summer mode!

If it is the Codex Argenteus, also known as the Silver Bible, I believe $60 is a good price.

Actually the Catholics had already since the 8th century noticed a discrepancy between the March equinox according to the calendar and the observed one. Several attempts were made to fix this, including that both Roger Bacon and Dante observed it. Pope Sixtus IV invited the mathematician and astronomer Regiomontanus in 1475 to do something about it, but the latter died shortly after arriving in Rome. As astronomy observations advanced, some 40 years of calculations and preparations took place until pope Gregory XIII finally issued a papal bull that this was a serious matter as the calendar was 10 days wrong and the new calendar skipped from October 4 to October 15, 1582. Of course it took several centuries before most had adapted, but at least the Catholics knew which date it really was.

Also all this date comparison originated from a friend comparing the dates for Easter Day and the Eid. I begun looking up if those ever have or will coincide, but since both are moon based (for different parameters of the calculation), it seems those will never end up on the same date, often though Eid happens on the exact same date as Easter Day the year before. For similar reasons, I'd expect that Mardi Gras and Eid also never will happen on the same date as MG is a fixed number of days before Easter Day. It is easier with Christmas, New Year, Halloween, Valentine's Day etc that have a fixed date in the Gregorian calendar.

Of course the Gregorian calendar doesn't really start until 1582, so dates preceding it would have to be in Julian dates in order to make sense. The difference was about 10 days at that time, so possibly the previous coincidence was a bit later than 1413. Then again the Hirji calendar used in Muslim countries also used to be (*) dependent on moon observations more than calculation so it is not clear that ancient dates are exact.

(*) I understood there was some harmonization of the calendars and their computation ability just a few years ago, while at the same time more and more countries migrate to the Gregorian calendar for civil, non-religious purposes.

Actually I saw a dead badger on the highway today, but I didn't stop to smell it.