Archive for January, 2007

Scientific Web Hosting (?)

Hello everyone, sorry I haven’t been able to post much lately, but my mother has been working me to the bone getting ready for the upcoming science fair.

Anyway, on to the meat of this post:

My question for you is: What is a good service for web hosting? I’m betting I’ll get a couple comments from this one!

Please respond. I am seriously thinking of starting my own webpage/blog, and need input.

Plus, I was bored.

You are entitled to 1 (one) prime number

I don’t know about everyone else, but this topic has been an ongoing discussion between me, my math class, and, I guess, the world:

Is 1 (one) a prime number?

And so, I offer to you a challange: Present me a reason, not any of that “Oh, one’s prime because it says any number above one can be prime” crap, I want true mathematical fact. An equation or something. Please, it’s killing me how people don’t know when I ask them. I even resorted to googling it, but I got the crap described above, so please help.

That is all.

I wonder what the normal people are doing?

Writing

Inspired by Arthus Erea’s writing section, I decided to do a little writing of my own. Try not to laugh, please…

Each day I suffer,
Always my curse,
I try and imagine:
What could be worse?

The tears and the anger
Come once and a while
Midst everyone else
I endure the trials.

Of life, that is,
That horrible course
That through each of us stumbles
Like an old working horse.

There may be a light
in the tunnel, I know
But it’s so far away
Through the cold, wet snow.

And the light may be
an illusion, a fake,
An example throughout
Of this horrid mistake.

And if it is true
And if it is real
How good will it get?
How good will it feel?

But that’s not my point,
Don’t take it that way.
Just be careful, and watch.
And think more today.

That’s it, hope you like it. At least now you understand my point about life. Please comment.

iPhone

Let me start this post with one major statement:

I love Apple.

This is a very broad statement, but it is at least more focussed then this:

I hate Microsoft (which, by the way, is true).

These statements are tied in to the new release of the “Zune,” Microsoft’s pitiful attempt to copy Apple in making a music player, and the expected release of the iPhone, the newest product from Apple. The “Zune” is a slipshod, badly made, turd colored marketing nightmare by Microsoft. They advertise many new features, such as WiFi song sharing, but these features are only the cover for another money-making ploy. For example, song sharing is a very good thing, I was actually remotely pleased when I heard of it, but the apple has a worm in it, pun not intended. The songs you share are only listenable for up to three times, in a period of up to three days. Then they are erased and may never be listened to again, unless you buy them, which brings me to the downloading service.

The downloading service costs 15 dollars a month for unlimited downloads, and this might not be bad enough, but once you unsubscribe to the service, the songs disappear as with the song sharing. For me, this is unacceptable. I much prefer iTunes, even if I were not using an iPod. The only feature that actually works as one would expect it to is the radio, and nowadays, radio is everywhere, so this feature is nearly obsolete. I will give them credit for that, though only because they need it.

The iPhone, on the other hand, has a touch-sensitive widescreen display, can, of course, make phone calls and play music, and can also browse the web. This wide array of features is very impressive for a company still only starting in the mobile world, however, some people think that this product will be the iPod killer. Usual clients and Apple fans alike will have two choices: either buy a cheaper classical iPod that mainly plays music and on top of that displays some photos and short videos, or buy the newest and more expensive Apple gadget. What’s your choice?

Posting

Part of the problem with my old blog, I think, was that I wrote two posts, then never visited it again. At first I wanted a lot of traffic and people to love me all at once, but now I realize that this is impossible. I don’t want this one to be that way, because it was really depressing, so I’m going to at least try to post at least once every day. This should be an attainable goal, but you may not hear from me for a few days at a time, as I am very apt to forget important things. So look for posts, but don’t be too surprised if there aren’t any.