Whee! I'm first! What software are we berating now? I didn't look.

Heh heh... You have a point about body mass indexing... that's for sure. I am almost scared to submit my own apps to you, heh heh.

this is like 4 lines of code, people.

take your mass in kilograms, divide by the square of your height in meters.

I mean, it's hard to do the conversion for us idiots that use feet and pounds instead of meters and kilograms, but....

Oh wait. This is version 1.1.

Wow, new features. It will now copy the result of the calculation to the clipboard via an incorrect UI.

wow.

Methinks PvT should have a similar index for calculating the worthlessness of software...something along the lines of PISI: Pointless, Ineffective Software Index.

Here's the formula: Take the number of words in the review, divided by the download size (in MB), and multiply that number by the PvT score. For example, BMI Companion would have a PISI of 2,113 ((156/.812) x 11), while Lunamoth would have a PISI of 571 ((274/.480) x 1).

Alright people, get cranking out the PISIs for all of the software that's been reviewed here! What are you waiting for?

what is my body mass index on the moom or mars ?

What we really need is a Booty Mass Index.

Why is mine coming up negative 8?
Ooops, forgot, I'm made from anti-matter.

Sorry folks, carry on.

Love,
The Anti-Winky

will this work whilst playing hillbilly wack. ?????

I have a big butt.

Installing Linux on a Dead Badger.

One of the most useful articles I have ever read.

Wow, bad luck for the van Tols that Zombie Badgers are illegal in Wisconsin.

Life is so unfair sometimes ...

*Sigh!*

Norm should mass market this program with an advertising blitz to promote a new dieting service: Norm's Chipper Program.
The Chipper diet involves eating whatever you want whenever you want but to regularly run yourself through a wood chipper on a weekly basis. Just WATCH the pounds fly off of you. No, you literally can WATCH them FLY off you!
The chipper program can even be used to target specific areas of weight gain! Putting it on around the thighs? Only that part needs to go through and soon you'll have the thin and trim legs you desire! Arms getting flabby? Stick them in! Jowls starting to sag and sway? Dunk your head in for a quick trim!

And the great thing about the Chipper program is its so easy! No complicated schedules to follow, limiting eating requirements, or annoying exercise routines to repeatedly go through. And if you go off the Chipper program you can always go back on at anytime if the weight comes back.

Norm, it's all yours cause I get a nice and healthy stipend from the government as well as access to any military force I require and permission to nuke planets. So I don't need the money. Enjoy!

If you're intending to lose weight without diet or exercise, let me suggest contracting a disease. Dengue fever should do the trick in most cases. For the truly morbidly obese, cholera is a better choice.

As people are trying to eat dinner around here, I will refrain from suggesting liver cancer.

You're welcome.

I have a big weiner. Er, I mean I have a big butt. Er, someone just posted for me so whatever.

Unfortunately, there is some sort of a correlation between your height, weight and how healthy you are. If you are outside of a certain range. If you take a large number of "healthy" people and then calculate their BMIs, it will tend to have a normal distribution. You can then calculate where a specific "not necessarily healthy" person's BMI lands on that distribution and it will tell generally tell you if you are healthy or not.

The big deal is, there simply aren't 20 million Herculean folks running around out there, and of the ones that are, half of them are on steroids so aren't healthy anyhow.

Then there are those of us with large weiners. There aren't many of us, but the BMI doesn't apply in this case. Simply put, if you have a "good" BMI, you are likely healthy a certain percentage of the time, if you have a "bad" BMI, you are likely unhealthy a certain percentage of the time. It doesn't mean you are or aren't.

Bah. Just took my last STATs class today, can you tell?

longdongsilver, consider this a warning. Factual information has no place here on PvT or in the comments section either and could amount to heresy. And that means you WON'T be invited to the semi-decadal barbeque provided by aussie boy.

Yikes! I don't know what I was thinking. I think I had a few too many down at the pub before posting that one.

Picking on obviously useless software now? Certainly, PvT hasn't gotten anywhere near the bottom of the barrel yet. Shame!

zombie linux badger

BTW - The US Navy uses this same calculation to determine sailor's body fat. If a person's body fat is too high, they put them on remedial physical training (The Chubb Club)

"Certainly, PvT hasn’t gotten anywhere near the bottom of the barrel yet"

That's what the forums are for...

My guitar wants to kill your Mama.

Thief!! Thief!! Thief!!!

You're not allowed to steal your kids stuff, are you Frank? Never mind that you're dead, that's no excuse.

I'm still not sure what's funnier ... the review or the thought that someone actually bothered to write this program. You know, I bet that it wasn't acutally a person who wrote it. This smacks of artificial intelligence to me, maybe it's a cheap shot at the human race from computers. Make us all feel fat and flabby, then we feel lazy, then we don't bother defending ourselves from the onslaught of electrons ordering our missiles to find other missles like them and have a gathering at high speeds.

FIGHT THE POWER!!!

Look here brother-who you
Jiving with that cosmik debris?
Now is that a real poncho or is that a Sears poncho?
Don't you know, you could make more money as a butcher?
So, don't waste your time on me

calculates bmi whilst playing hillbilly wack and after to compare. also with lunamoth.

calculates bmi after exhaustive search for clues to prove cars and pvt are the same person.

WC:

Frank released "My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama" in 1970, when Dweezil was less than a year old. Dweezil released his version in 1988. Now who stole from whom?

Damn Mr. Knowitall

good