The sad thing is that this seems to be pretty much par for the course. If only we wait just a little while and skip all those annoying intermediate steps, we will soon have fantastically good rockets / fusion reactors / whatever else without having to pay anything...

Whatever works best for you. Really, I'm not picky.

What have geeks come to these days... Ok, in your own words, you eat fewer calories than you burn to lose weight. To lose weight, you can therefore do one of the following three things:

1. Eat fewer calories.

2. BURN MORE CALORIES.

3. All of the above.

The item under number 2, "burn more calories", is best achieved using exercise. Why you state that losing weight has little to do with exercise, and get modded informative for your efforts, is beyond me...

You know, as long as you think of it as suffering, you won't lose weight. Why not think of it as investing in yourself?

Occasionally I have these late-night eating-urges. I find that by ignoring them for ten minutes, and just focusing on something else, they go away. I'm sure that if I sat down and started feeling incredibly sorry for myself for allowing my poor body to starve, I'd be eating a lot more.

The other thing I do, and I find helps really well, is making sure my house is not stocked with snacks in the first place. If I wanted to snack _right now_, I would have to go to the supermarket to buy snacks first. Typically that barrier is enough to stop me from doing it. I do keep fruit around the house though - if the feeling of hunger has not gone away after ten minutes I eat an apple or a banana or something like that.

I've read this whole discussion so far... Including the summary and article that come at the top. Unfortunately, while it mentions that the majority of deaths were obese people, there is nothing to indicate the extra risk that obese people run: is it only a marginally greater risk of death, or do they all die?

In your case, I sincerely wish you best of luck if and when the flu becomes a global pandemic. You probably still have a couple of months to try to lose some weight to prepare - because despite your words, you have a significant chance of losing weight if you want to. On the other hand, you probably don't have much chance of avoiding the swine flu when it really starts. We'll see if you are still posting come spring.

Well, at least you saw a pretty decent list of monitors that are smaller than 19", with a resolution above 1280x1024, then ;-)

Hope it will do you some good!

Sure, and taking someones picture will steal their soul as well. And now you can get a camera and a GPS in a single convenient package, so you can both take the souls of the natives _and_ conveniently avoid their local culture at the same time!

Meanwhile, back on planet Earth, my GPS has brought me to more interesting places than I care to count, places I would never have visited without this handy tool pointing the way (or at least helping not to get lost). I'm sure the next generation won't even know what the phrase "getting lost" really means, just as being "out of contact" will have no meaning to them. A map will be about as useful to them as a sextant is to us (what? You sold yours on Ebay years ago? Shameful!). And personally, I wish them all the best with it!

Check out here as well...

Who am I kidding. The article was posted hours ago while I slept, no one will ever read this now...

Actually if you check here, you will find that an implementation of the exact same Lucene done in C++ is about three times faster than Java.

Sorry for spoiling your moment there...

Ah, thank you. So indeed, an implementation of the same algorithm turns out to be _three times_ as fast in C++ than it is in Java (see here).

I wonder if eldavojohn wishes to comment on that?

Yes, that's pretty much you yes. Different algorithms, therefore different performance. Reimplement Lucene in C++, then see what the differences are in terms of speed (and if you care, code size, complexity, etc.). Until then the comparison is totally meaningless.

And gee, what's with the defensive attitude...

That's just utterly disgusting. Do people in the US really believe that you can eat food that's fallen on the floor if you pick it up fast enough?

You seem to know what Maemo actually is. Since the summary doesn't care to enlighten us, could you maybe do the honors?

That's not true.

Geocachers of Slashdot unite!

Yesterday I almost broke my daily record with 42 finds, but I came home too late to do the logging. Today the site was down all day long. Well, tomorrow then...

As for KPexEA: great service!