I have bought both programs and the “Your Baby Can Read” program  is a  sure program to make your baby as dumb as you spending $150-$200 on the most brain distractive program I’ve ever seen in my life.

I have no idea what Dr. Roberts is all about but he is just a man with enough money to advertise and he himself has no idea what a human brain is all about, don’t believe the commercials  you see on TV, go with Dora from Nick Jr and Brainy Baby series found at:  http://www.brainybaby.com/ and you shall thank me.

I understand the strict mathematical formula used to determine property taxes based on comparable sales values within a specific year, nevertheless, our local assessors are purposefully acting dump and evaluating all properties in a given area at a similar values regardless of location, age, views and other factors that usually play a big role in determining the true value of a property in the real market.

The increase in assessed property values throughout Breckenridge and Summit county is adding a heavy burden on an already struggling community making it harder for businesses and families to survive the current nationwide economical crises where everyone is being demanded to pay taxes on property values that exceed the current market values by almost %20-40%. 

Many community residents are being forced to sell their commercial and residential properties due to the higher taxation and the lack of local economical stimulation.   Summit county residents who bought their homes over 10 years ago for $200,000 – $300,000 and have lower paying jobs find it very difficult to pay property taxes on an assessed $800,000 property values.  Property tax reform is really needed in Colorado where, like many other states such as Florida, property owners are taxed on the purchased value and never on the assessed value of their properties.  It is unfair for government assessors to impose such a burden on our community now and in the future.

Pink is my favorite color, if and only if, it was a cute outfit for my little baby girl. As for a phone code-named Pink, it almost sounds like the marketing department at Microsoft is going 100% metro-sexual.  I will never buy Pink and I am not really sure if I know anyone who would let go of their iPhone for Pink.

Sorry Microsoft, you lost me 10 years ago when I decided to format my brand new toshiba notebook and replace your windows with RHL 7.  Pink is not going to bring me back but I like your beta of Windows7, not enough to leave Apple’s OS X though.

Is Microsoft losing the innovation battle?  My short answer is yes. I have successfully converted all my clients to OS X because I really got sick and tired of getting at least one phone call a day about MS machines that just don’t work.  So long Microsoft, I will stick my my OS X and Linux machines and I will run your OS under a virtualization platform for testing purposes only.  As for your phone, pink doesn’t belong in my pocket.

I’m generally  disappointed by at&t’s wireless service and I would have to say that a number of friends in our mountainous  area agree with me that at&t’s coverage in the Colorado mountains has been less than sufficient and the number of missed calls is just becoming unbearable. Addicted to my iPhone and my ability to establish ssh connections directly to my servers along with all the other bling bling the iPhone has to offer I find myself stuck with a wireless provider I don’t appreciate and it would be really nice if I was able to use my device on some other network.  There is a rumor about iPhone on Verizon and if the rumor is true, then we should expect the iPhones to be running on the most capable wireless network in the US this year.

With the slowing economy it just makes a lot of sense for Apple to target multiple wireless providers and maximize on the their profits by selling the phone directly to consumers who can in-turn choose their provider or switch providers as they please.

It is really time to end this legalized monopoly and give consumers a choice.

I’m not going to describe and analyze the technology as much as I would like to focus on the fact that fear is limiting innovation and in most cases the wrong people are hired to do such projects.  Innovative individuals and extremely smart engineer find it difficult to work on such projects for corporations that choose not to pay them more  than what they would make if they just run their own small businesses.

So to stop the hackers, we must pay innovative individuals the right money, otherwise, power will be out for few minutes until backup systems go online, if there is a backup system. Knowing how most corporations cut corners to save money, such technology could be problematic at first but eventually the system will be perfected.

I was able to get some replaced by manufacturers at no cost but we had to pay for the majority of them.

I have tried all manufacturers and in most cases when a machine is used excessively to process video and or transfer huge amount of data we lose the hard drive in about 1 year.  

I have been searching for high altitude hard drives but I have not been able to find any that has specific high altitude design specifications.  The interesting observation is that my 3rd generation 30G iPod still works. I dropped my iPod in snow while skiing, I dropped it on rocky hiking trails on the deck and once it dropped and bounced down the cement driveway leaving few nice dents in it.

Next time you decide to take your laptop with you on your ski vacation, seriously, back up your data before traveling or risk loosing your data, especially if you are in the habit of moving your notebook around while it’s turned on.

VirtualBox preformed very well, it took some minor work to get my os x partitions mapped, nevertheless, it worked perfectly and I was able to play video clips from my hard drive and online videos without a glitch.

One issue that bugged me about Parallels Desktop 3.0 was the heavy CPU load I experienced when running windows even when no windows applications are launched. VirtualBox had a much lower CPU load but still it was peaking at about 10% which is acceptable, however, I was looking for a much lower CPU load due to the fact that I’m forced to run Windows XP for hours at a time using my MacBook Pro while powered through the battery. Lower CPU load will eventually give my laptop longer battery life.

Not very happy with the CPU load, I upgraded to Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac and to my surprise the upgrade was worth it. Parallels has finally managed to move this product from a beta like application to the best virtualization platform I’ve ever used. My peak CPU usage while Windows XP is active in the background moved down to an average of 1% and that increased my battery discharge time by 56 minutes and one could imagine how happy I am with the results.

If you need virtualization on your portable Mac and you use your battery extensively then Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac is the Ultimate choice. Otherwise, I’m really a fan of VirtualBox and I believe that with time, VirtualBox is going to deliver a product comparable to the current version of Parallels.

The steering wheel is just fantastic and I am still not sure what function they had in mind for such an apparatus except for releasing steam pressure from the water based cooling system.

One could only imagine how computers would look like in 50 years, most likely future generations will view my lovely macbook as a ridiculous object the same way we view this fancy computer concept put together by the RAND corporation back in 1950.

The concept of a keyboard has been out there for a while as the input method of choice. As we advance our knowledge in the field of VLSI or even possibly a totally different computing technologies that will unleash new processor speeds, we will witness a shift from physical input device to speech and gesture based input.