a 31.5 BMI.... Yep, I've got a bit of a gut and a very small spare tire.
That is all consistent with moderate obesity. That gut and "spare tire" is intra-abdominal (adipose) fat, which indicates increased risk of heart disease. BMI is used for statistics because it is easy to measure consistently. To better judge your own health, measure waist size - but it has to be done correctly. It is not belt size, or trouser size. Less than 94cm(37") is generally healthy for men. More than 102cm (40") is high risk. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waist
I weigh about 260lbs now. I eat sensibly, get exercise, but none of it does any good at reducing my fat.
Obviously you are not eating sensibly for your condition. Slow metabolism by itself will not make you fat. You have to be eating as if you still had a faster metabolism. Adjusting eating habits is difficult, which is why so many of us get larger in middle age. Each snack or meal is a choice.
So what are your credentials for dictating what is proper "parlance of the English language"?
While the parent was looking up all those style guides, they should have checked a dictionary, and found that "parlance" means idiom, ie informal English.
Sure, almost every country on Earth has done it. But the US government seems to struggle to change even trivial things. As an example look at their coinage. Last I saw, they still had pennies in circulation, which everyone hates, and the biggest common coin was 25c, which buys just about nothing. After decades of inflation, every other developed nation has removed the smallest denominations from circulation, and introduced larger ones. How is the US, an otherwise capable bunch, unable to do this? Vending machines need banknote readers, which are expensive, awkward and unreliable, unless you have brand new notes. If they can't change the coins, what hope is there of metric? (And don't get me started on the US banking system:-)
I find it very surprising that the most open eReader on the market today is the Sony.
Sony is a huge corporation. While the left hand is suing downloaders and rootkitting customers, the right hand is sneaking off and selling DivX players. I was pleasantly surprised to put a home-burned DVD with 720p mpeg4 avi movie in a PS3, and it just played!
Actually, it is worse. They support the one and only mobile phone which does not need it. The N900 already has an excellent mozilla-based web browser in MicroB. Fennec is very slow in comparison, and unlike to get much acceptance in it's current form. (what the n900 needs is a half-decent maps program, or a better mail client, or jave-ME,... not another browser.)
You could say the same about any pornography, unless they paid for it, or otherwise encouraged its production. Do you legalise the possession of all child, violent and bestiality porn? Denmark did that for some years. It's a tough question as to where to draw the line.
A guy has just gone to court in Australia, after being caught with lots of photos of naked boy toddlers in his camera, taken discreetly (he thought) in parks or beaches or some such. His excuse is that he was obsessed with circumcision and wanted to show his wife that most boys were uncircumcised. Good luck with that one in court! Now if I caught that guy photographing my kid, I'd be pretty freaked out and maybe even do something that would land me in court. But really, he's probably just a sad git, and low on the list of people we should really worry about. (drunk drivers, thieves...) Its going to cost a pile of our taxes to prosecute and possibly punish this guy for his [alleged] crimes. I'm not sure what will be achieved.
It's got bluetooth. It should tether with anything.
Any chance of bluetooth tethering to my Nokia? Oh wait, the Nokia fits my pocket, does multitasking, Flash, has camera, GPS, a real keyboard, notification, Skype, and allows "competing" software (e.g. firefox) to be installed. Oh and it runs Linux.:-)
Expensive! In Australia, best price for no-contract postpaid SIM is 1.5c/MB, only pay for what you use. OR $15/month 1G plan with others. But then the iPad will probably retail for twice as much here.
I read somewhere the the most removed any two humans are from each other is 53rd cousins,
That would mean a common ancestor only a 1000 or so years back. How isolated were the Australian Aborigines over the last few thousand years before white settlement? There are still "full bloods" remaining. Or do they all have traces of shipwrecked Portuguese sailors and Indonesian fishermen in their blood? The Tasmanian Aboriginals were more isolated, but none are left.
You can get commercially available unlocked iphones. They just cost so much that nobody does it.
Note that this is a US-only perspective. Here they are not generally network locked, except for prepaid. But they are still DRMed up the wazoo. You can jailbreak it, but why fight the supplier when you can choose a non-evil one instead?
Luxury!! My first CPU was the Intel 8080. That did not even have integer arithmetic! We had to learn how to do our own binary long-division and multiplication using shifts, adds and subtracts. Nothing but 1s and 0s. And sometimes we didn't even have 1s. Tell that to young people today....
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a 31.5 BMI.... Yep, I've got a bit of a gut and a very small spare tire.
That is all consistent with moderate obesity. That gut and "spare tire" is intra-abdominal (adipose) fat, which indicates increased risk of heart disease.
BMI is used for statistics because it is easy to measure consistently.
To better judge your own health, measure waist size - but it has to be done correctly. It is not belt size, or trouser size.
Less than 94cm(37") is generally healthy for men. More than 102cm (40") is high risk.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waist
I weigh about 260lbs now. I eat sensibly, get exercise, but none of it does any good at reducing my fat.
Obviously you are not eating sensibly for your condition. Slow metabolism by itself will not make you fat. You have to be eating as if you still had a faster metabolism.
Adjusting eating habits is difficult, which is why so many of us get larger in middle age. Each snack or meal is a choice.
So what are your credentials for dictating what is proper "parlance of the English language"?
While the parent was looking up all those style guides, they should have checked a dictionary, and found that "parlance" means idiom, ie informal English.
Sure, almost every country on Earth has done it. :-)
But the US government seems to struggle to change even trivial things. As an example look at their coinage.
Last I saw, they still had pennies in circulation, which everyone hates, and the biggest common coin was 25c, which buys just about nothing.
After decades of inflation, every other developed nation has removed the smallest denominations from circulation, and introduced larger ones.
How is the US, an otherwise capable bunch, unable to do this?
Vending machines need banknote readers, which are expensive, awkward and unreliable, unless you have brand new notes.
If they can't change the coins, what hope is there of metric? (And don't get me started on the US banking system
You can't multiply a C or F value - it makes no sense as they use an arbitrary zero. 746K or 473C are correct.
I find it very surprising that the most open eReader on the market today is the Sony.
Sony is a huge corporation. While the left hand is suing downloaders and rootkitting customers, the right hand is sneaking off and selling DivX players.
I was pleasantly surprised to put a home-burned DVD with 720p mpeg4 avi movie in a PS3, and it just played!
.. I've not heard of anybody counterfeiting them yet.
New meaning to the term "indian giver"...
I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with that term.
Actually, it is worse. They support the one and only mobile phone which does not need it. ... not another browser.)
The N900 already has an excellent mozilla-based web browser in MicroB. Fennec is very slow in comparison, and unlike to get much acceptance in it's current form.
(what the n900 needs is a half-decent maps program, or a better mail client, or jave-ME,
It makes sense to start with the coolest device first. You think the best developers want to write for Win-Mo??
And there are other devices: N810 is official, N800 works too.
Oh , and I must point out how brilliant the Queensland police are:
but a year later police forensic experts recovered 64 images of cartoon child exploitation material in the machine’s recycle bin.
12 months of crypto analysis before somebody looked in the recycle bin?
Ridiculous.
Thought crime -- pure and simple.
You could say the same about any pornography, unless they paid for it, or otherwise encouraged its production.
Do you legalise the possession of all child, violent and bestiality porn? Denmark did that for some years.
It's a tough question as to where to draw the line.
A guy has just gone to court in Australia, after being caught with lots of photos of naked boy toddlers in his camera, taken discreetly (he thought) in parks or beaches or some such.
His excuse is that he was obsessed with circumcision and wanted to show his wife that most boys were uncircumcised.
Good luck with that one in court!
Now if I caught that guy photographing my kid, I'd be pretty freaked out and maybe even do something that would land me in court.
But really, he's probably just a sad git, and low on the list of people we should really worry about. (drunk drivers, thieves...)
Its going to cost a pile of our taxes to prosecute and possibly punish this guy for his [alleged] crimes. I'm not sure what will be achieved.
It's got bluetooth. It should tether with anything.
Any chance of bluetooth tethering to my Nokia? Oh wait, the Nokia fits my pocket, does multitasking, Flash, has camera, GPS, a real keyboard, notification, Skype, and allows "competing" software (e.g. firefox) to be installed. Oh and it runs Linux. :-)
Expensive! In Australia, best price for no-contract postpaid SIM is 1.5c/MB, only pay for what you use. OR $15/month 1G plan with others.
But then the iPad will probably retail for twice as much here.
Hey, if it's running on ARM, you can stick linux on it.
I can run Linux on my iTouch!?
I wish. Its real Unix inside, so you can port command-line apps. to a jailbroken model, but no X-windows.
One of the accessories for the iPad is a SD card reader -
"accessories"!? A 10" screen but no SD card slot or USB host? That's miserly even for Apple.
We watch cinema. Films are for the aspirational middle classes.
I'm not German. However, I will say, while my boss does laugh at the Daily Show, he utterly fails to comprehend Monty Python.
Have you tried this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Funniest_Joke_in_the_World
Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und Slotermeyer? Ja!...
Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!
(translate at your own peril. )
I read somewhere the the most removed any two humans are from each other is 53rd cousins,
That would mean a common ancestor only a 1000 or so years back.
How isolated were the Australian Aborigines over the last few thousand years before white settlement? There are still "full bloods" remaining.
Or do they all have traces of shipwrecked Portuguese sailors and Indonesian fishermen in their blood?
The Tasmanian Aboriginals were more isolated, but none are left.
are you descended from a virus on your mother's side, or your father's side?
You can get commercially available unlocked iphones. They just cost so much that nobody does it.
Note that this is a US-only perspective.
Here they are not generally network locked, except for prepaid. But they are still DRMed up the wazoo.
You can jailbreak it, but why fight the supplier when you can choose a non-evil one instead?
The N900 PIM-specific functionality is far behind what Android or iPhone is capable of.
But it does run the google-apps mail & calendar web version well - both main and mobile versions.
Yes, N900 works with the bluetooth Wiimote . Does that count?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qJT7qA-1UM
They added accelerometer support, ie tilt to move. That's about all.
coprocessor ...was switched off.
Luxury!! ....
My first CPU was the Intel 8080. That did not even have integer arithmetic!
We had to learn how to do our own binary long-division and multiplication using shifts, adds and subtracts.
Nothing but 1s and 0s. And sometimes we didn't even have 1s.
Tell that to young people today