Are you worried about weight or health?

For your heart, you need aerobic exercise 20 min/day 5+ days/week. So for lunch, run 20 minutes and eat while working. Or bike. Or climb lots of stairs. Sweat. Give yourself a sponge bath in the handicapped washroom if you have no shower available

For strength, you need to stress your muscles to the max 3x/week. Look up "body weight exercises" or join a gym or buy some elastic bands you can attach to stationary objects and stuff in your backpack or briefcase for portability.

But for weight, you just have to eat fewer calories. Switch to more fibre and less fat foods. Eat fruit for snacks, not pop or chips. Eat more vegetables, nuts, and seeds. Trim all fat/skin off your meats. Make eat smaller portions. Stay hungry until your weight is what you want.

Ideally, do both.

tOM

It's hard to measure battery life definitively because there are so many ways to use a computer. Online gamers or DVD watchers may get 1 hour while writers offline get 3.

What I've done with XP is to use SpeedSwitchXP to cut cpuspeed to 60% on battery, turn the screen down lowest, turn off wifi & bluetooth, remove USB keys and any other removable media, set and use BattStat, which allows me to turn off the screen with f8.

tOM

You're right. You can just add the attribute "hidden" and stick it at -9999 and the user won't see it.

tOM

Oh yeah? OK, invert a matrix in C, and then in APL (or J). Make the C program accept binary, integer, single precision or double precision arrays, real or complex numbers.

Try programming:
sin=: 1&o. NB. Function to be approximated
x=: 5 %~ i. 6
c=: (sin x) %. x ^/ i.4 NB. Use of matrix divide

tOM

If the tech handling the request was in India, what law applies?

tOM

But the GPS aerial will likely be put on the roof to "foil" such attempts. You'll just have to cut the wires.

tOM

We need to return to the pre-auto era, with cycling and walking, and some public transit, for a healthy future city.

tOM

And away from floods, tornados, and fires...

tOM

If the recording is still for your exclusive use, then who cares what agent or where it is stored?

tOM

How do you know Big Brother isn't already subsidizing anti-malware programs, which are a great place for a back door for Big Brother. Perhaps scan for VIP keywords, use some voice/face recognition with the microphone and camera, send off some UDP packets (or hide amid SSL traffic) to Big Brother's computers with interesting news....

OTOH, with Echelon and sisters, perhaps such efforts are gilding the lily.

tOM

I want more nuclear power plants. Safe nuclear power plants. No CO2.

Local nuclear power means no shipping refined products to burn in generators (with many resulting accidents as well as CO2 production.

Heck, nuclear power ships could be used in disasters and a host of other opportunities.

tOM

I hope we don't become polarized on this.

What is the purpose of copyright? If the purpose is to encourage creators, the right should die with the creator. If the purpose is to restrict access to our ancient heritage, then give it away. tOM

APL is the original matrix computing language, since morphed into J and K. Why handle just one number/character at a time? tOM