I believe that MBASIC shipped with a majority of CP/M machines. It shipped (generally version 2) on nearly every eight bit machine of significance except the original Apple ][, the TI 99, and the Atari 400/800 (and some other non-disk based machines).
Once the Apple ][+ came out (the only difference was that it had the Autostart ROM (with no disassembler) and Applesoft (e.g., MBASIC 2) instead of Apple Integer BASIC), it outsold the original by several to one (and then put the//e into the mix . ..).
The result is that most Apples shipped with MBASIC--which functioned as the operating system for most intents & purposes.
So prior to Mac, nearly all of Apple's machines ran MS . . . (and most of the early macs ended up with MS Basic for Mac).
So there is *something* reasonable to the notion that MS was outselling Apple before Windows & Mac.
A central agency publishes a table once a year of the rates for 5 digit zipcodes. Each zipcode has an associated entity.
Retailers pay quarterly with a single check and a spreadsheet by entity.
And, yes, there are a handful of zipcodes with multiple entities. Either they work out and submit to central their split, or the funds stay in escrow until they do.
>... rent (or own as I do) the movie "The Shoes of the Fisherman" from 1968.
Or be *really* drastic and read the book . . .
(Btw, the elected bishop in that was closely patterned after the actual Ukrainian Catholic leader who was imprisoned by the Bolsheviks, and reputed to have been the runner up when Pope Paul was elected. The book was written before Vatican II, but significantly foreshadowed some of its events . ..).
No results are released save the elected Pope, and the witnesses are bound to secrecy as to who the other candidates even were (but there have been rumors, possibly based on big mouths, possibly not).
It isn't a single vote, but a series, until someone gets two-thirds (under the newer rules, the super-majority eventually drops).
And "conclave" is *quite* literal: con clave; "with key."
This comes from two occasions when the cardinals did not get around to electing a pope, living the good life.
The people of Rome locked them in a leaky building, sending in only bread, wine, and water until they elected a Pope.
And there is not, nor has there ever been, a claim that the *outcome* is Divinely inspired (with such a belief, the right of the Emperor to confirm would have been pointless). It is believed that the Holy Spirit *guides* the cardinals, but it is up to them to them to accept the guidance (and, demonstrably, they have notably failed to do so at times).
See the movie "The Pope Must Diet," in which an attempted mafia manipulation of the Papal Election is bobbled, the name written down wrong, and a bumbling priest takes over . . .
Easter was *never* calculated with the Jewish calendar.
Early on, it varied wildly by region. Various schemes were used in different areas. There were some *prohibitions* against using the Jewish calendar, and with relation to the relative order Passover and Easter (complicated by a couple of Jewish calendars in use [also note that the Jewish calendars would calculate for the Friday, and the Christian for the Sunday, which is going to automatically create an occasional month's difference with some schemes]).
There was no universal date for easter.
Eventually, at the Nicean council, it was set as the first Sunday following the first full moon after the equinox.
This was then sent to Antioch (or was it Alexandria), which had the best astronomers, who produced tables for calculating Easter.
Over time, the calendar drifted from the events, and Pope Gregory published a newer calendar with a more sophisticated leap year, and skipping a bunch of days that year. Skipped days varied from country to country, as it was adopted over a surprising long period.
The Roman Catholic Church (and by inheritance, Protestants) use a newer, longer set of tables (72 years rather than 14? I forget). As a result, the astronomical event is still missed something like once a century.
The two calculations frequently produce the same Sunday.
Most of the Roman Catholic Church uses the New Calendar for Easter, while most Orthodox use the Old Calendar. Many Eastern Catholics (most of those in the US; few outside) use the new, while a handful of Orthodox use it, too. And in predominantly Orthodox areas, the Roman Church itself uses the Orthodox date so as to celebrate simultaneously.
More than I meant to write. But, anyway, the while related, the Jewish and Christian calculations have never been the same.
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I believe that MBASIC shipped with a majority of CP/M machines. It shipped (generally version 2) on nearly every eight bit machine of significance except the original Apple ][, the TI 99, and the Atari 400/800 (and some other non-disk based machines).
Once the Apple ][+ came out (the only difference was that it had the Autostart ROM (with no disassembler) and Applesoft (e.g., MBASIC 2) instead of Apple Integer BASIC), it outsold the original by several to one (and then put the //e into the mix . . .).
The result is that most Apples shipped with MBASIC--which functioned as the operating system for most intents & purposes.
So prior to Mac, nearly all of Apple's machines ran MS . . . (and most of the early macs ended up with MS Basic for Mac).
So there is *something* reasonable to the notion that MS was outselling Apple before Windows & Mac.
hawk
*shrug*
However you spell "WinCE", it still makes you wince . . .
hawk
It's not that complicated.
A central agency publishes a table once a year of the rates for 5 digit zipcodes. Each zipcode has an associated entity.
Retailers pay quarterly with a single check and a spreadsheet by entity.
And, yes, there are a handful of zipcodes with multiple entities. Either they work out and submit to central their split, or the funds stay in escrow until they do.
hawk
Yes.
This isn't "malware;" it's "stupidware."
hawk
Gosh, ole Ben Franklin was *really* forward thinking . . . :)
hawk, still not certain he could finish his freon ice sculpture in just one hour . . .
hmm, looks like we've got a moderator that's new around here, too . . .
time to quote Zaphod Breeblebox . . .
hawk
>Why didn't you say up front that you had not read the fine article?
You must be new around here . . .
hawk
>2. No flash. No moving about. No Sound.
Bingo.
No blink; no animation.
Stay the *)*&% put.
I have never, ever blocked an ad just for being an ad.
I *do* block everything that moves around when I" trying to read, including part of what sites fancy to be "content."
(Hey, dummy: I'm *reading*. I don't want some scrolling bar of video).
I even have adblock set to "allow unintrusive."
Oh, and make sure they're coming off a blinding-fast server--waiting for something to load is another reason to block it's domain.
hawk
Well, if emacs can get an editor http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/02/16/0251239/evil-almost-full-vim-implementation-in-emacs-reaches-10, why can't firefox have a browser?
hawk
Alice's sister, perhaps? :)
hawk
More efficient, perhaps, but outside of racing, you're still a pansie for not depressing the clutch and actually shifting the gears yourself . ..
hawk
p.s. Get off my lawn!
> At no time in our history would guns have helped us
>rise up against the government either.
Whereas, we actually pulled that off . . . against a European overlord.
And two of the three North American attempts since then have been successful . . . (California & Texas, yes; Confederacy, no).
hawk
The article is wrong, and overstates the risks.
It, in a fit of alarmism, claims that there are 5,200 of these.
In fact, there are only 5,199 now . . .
hawk
>... rent (or own as I do) the movie "The Shoes of the Fisherman" from 1968.
Or be *really* drastic and read the book . . .
(Btw, the elected bishop in that was closely patterned after the actual Ukrainian Catholic leader who was imprisoned by the Bolsheviks, and reputed to have been the runner up when Pope Paul was elected. The book was written before Vatican II, but significantly foreshadowed some of its events . . .).
(Thre are also two more books in that "trilogy")
hawk
Not just secret, but a very well kept secret.
No results are released save the elected Pope, and the witnesses are bound to secrecy as to who the other candidates even were (but there have been rumors, possibly based on big mouths, possibly not).
hawk
This type of election scales *very* poorly.
It isn't a single vote, but a series, until someone gets two-thirds (under the newer rules, the super-majority eventually drops).
And "conclave" is *quite* literal: con clave; "with key."
This comes from two occasions when the cardinals did not get around to electing a pope, living the good life.
The people of Rome locked them in a leaky building, sending in only bread, wine, and water until they elected a Pope.
And there is not, nor has there ever been, a claim that the *outcome* is Divinely inspired (with such a belief, the right of the Emperor to confirm would have been pointless). It is believed that the Holy Spirit *guides* the cardinals, but it is up to them to them to accept the guidance (and, demonstrably, they have notably failed to do so at times).
hawk
See the movie "The Pope Must Diet," in which an attempted mafia manipulation of the Papal Election is bobbled, the name written down wrong, and a bumbling priest takes over . . .
hawk
Yes.
Everyone should study projects that never get to the finish line.
Duke Nukem has finally managed to disqualify itself . . .
hawk
IOW, we need to *increase* greenhouse grasses . . .
hawk
So perhaps a velociraptor solution for cows . . .
hawk
Easter was *never* calculated with the Jewish calendar.
Early on, it varied wildly by region. Various schemes were used in different areas. There were some *prohibitions* against using the Jewish calendar, and with relation to the relative order Passover and Easter (complicated by a couple of Jewish calendars in use [also note that the Jewish calendars would calculate for the Friday, and the Christian for the Sunday, which is going to automatically create an occasional month's difference with some schemes]).
There was no universal date for easter.
Eventually, at the Nicean council, it was set as the first Sunday following the first full moon after the equinox.
This was then sent to Antioch (or was it Alexandria), which had the best astronomers, who produced tables for calculating Easter.
Over time, the calendar drifted from the events, and Pope Gregory published a newer calendar with a more sophisticated leap year, and skipping a bunch of days that year. Skipped days varied from country to country, as it was adopted over a surprising long period.
The Roman Catholic Church (and by inheritance, Protestants) use a newer, longer set of tables (72 years rather than 14? I forget). As a result, the astronomical event is still missed something like once a century.
The two calculations frequently produce the same Sunday.
Most of the Roman Catholic Church uses the New Calendar for Easter, while most Orthodox use the Old Calendar. Many Eastern Catholics (most of those in the US; few outside) use the new, while a handful of Orthodox use it, too. And in predominantly Orthodox areas, the Roman Church itself uses the Orthodox date so as to celebrate simultaneously.
More than I meant to write. But, anyway, the while related, the Jewish and Christian calculations have never been the same.
hawk
>Not all musicians are like this one who laments not having "a significant live business".
I read that as "having music that people want to listen to." . . .
and .4c per listener is much, much more than the radio royalties . . .
hawk
Nah, they just get that for releasing the same . . . :)
hawk
>I thought the whole idea for W8 was to have a single interface for different devices?
That's why they had to stop distributing them on disks. Wiseapples kept sticking them in the microwave.
Worse, some of them had so little reseblence of a life that they knew how to translate the runes.
"One OS to rule them all; one OS to find them. On OS to bring them all, and in the darkness bind the. In the land of Redmond, where the shadow grows."
hawk
Wow.
*You* are about the last one I expected to see as I stumbled through this place . . .
It's been a few years.
hawk