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That greatly depends on the country. In Switzerland, 500 EUR banknotes are common, though not as much as 500 CHF banknotes (you can use those to pay for your morning bread). UBS has ATMs for different denominations in many agencies and airports. Here, for instance, the leftmost ATM only gives out 100 EUR banknotes.

Actually, there are several - complex background, including a mirror, widely varying colors and textures (e.g. the hat feather),

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or take your pick...crop to hearts content...

http://www.bigstockphoto.com/s...
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Thus it provides a useful test for face recognition and segmentation of natural images with or without color. The image was originally chosen by chance, but it's because of these qualities that it has been commonly used for so long.

Yes, its a suitable image. But its not uniquely suitable. Any of thousands of other images are equally suitable.

Hell, I could recreate the pose with a volunteer model (wife), 10 minutes, and trip to the thrift shop for.

In any event, you shouldn't take seriously any computer vision papers based on results from a single image.

Of course.

Actually, there are several - complex background, including a mirror, widely varying colors and textures (e.g. the hat feather),

http://www.ringwoodbiology.co....

or take your pick...crop to hearts content...

http://www.bigstockphoto.com/s...
http://www.bigstockphoto.com/s...

Thus it provides a useful test for face recognition and segmentation of natural images with or without color. The image was originally chosen by chance, but it's because of these qualities that it has been commonly used for so long.

Yes, its a suitable image. But its not uniquely suitable. Any of thousands of other images are equally suitable.

Hell, I could recreate the pose with a volunteer model (wife), 10 minutes, and trip to the thrift shop for.

In any event, you shouldn't take seriously any computer vision papers based on results from a single image.

Of course.

from modern poultry farming systems. Lovely.

http://www.bigstockphoto.com/i...

- Taking a picture of London's double-deck red bus: common place.
- Taking a picture of London's double-deck red bus in front of the Big Ben: common place.
- Doing selective desaturation with Photoshop: common place.
- THINKING about taking a picture of the red bus in front of the big Ben and selectively decolorizing the picture: common place (only takes a semi-professional photographer).
- But DOING it is now Copyright Justin Fielder, thank you very much.

[Insert your worst insult here] you!

If you cared enough about your art, you wouldn't give a shit if somebody else was able to enjoy it without paying you for it; the mere creation would be enough. Same with my poetry- if I could get people to copy it for free (and they most certainly HAVE) it's enough that my message gets out there.

I care about my art but I also care about feeding myself. That includes photography and writing. Yes, I used to write poems, as well as articles for magazines and I was working on a book. However I lost my ability to write when I had an accident. So while I can still photograph I haven't been able to write. And one of the things I had wanted to do was photojournalism.

However, the need to make money inhibits my ability to write poetry- the need to make a living off of it destroys the art.

See, you admit not being able to make money off writing "detroys the art", yet your position would make it even harder to make a living off of your creations. I've been thinking of signing up with some microstock websites that sale photographs such as iStock Photography, Shutterstock, and Big Stock Photo. If copyrights didn't exist, as soon as I were to upload any photo someone else would be able to sale them themself.

Likewise with all creation- if you can't bring it to market in 4 months, forget it, because the R&D will negatively impact the bottom line and some bean-counter will pull the project because it's not "making money".

Tech companies spend much more tyme on R&D than just 4 months. Look at Apple and the switch to Intels. Apple had Mac OSX running on Intels for years before they switched. Just this weekend, Saturday, there was a discussion on new dvd drives that were triple layed and another where a company had come up with a 1 terabyte hd. I seriously doubt it only took 4 months to develop them. As for an individual doing it, unless they were able to find a big company to buy them out, it could take a year or more to get the funding to build a factory never mind getting something out of the door. But it could take a year to find a buyer too.

I've seen far too many projects destroyed by capitalism and the stock market to believe that capitalism is capable of creating anything at all- any invention comes to market IN SPITE OF capitalism, not because of it.

It wasn't capitalism that destroyed these projects, it may of been bean counters or company executives, but it wasn't capitalism. It coud of been that those who killed a project didn't see it of any use, or that it would cost too much money to bring to market. At least capitalism allowed an attempt, unlike communism.

For instance, I'm a photographer. I have a lot of good samples of my work on my website, and people searching for a photographer in a particular market or of a particular style would do well to find my site.

Have you thought about using any of the small stock agencies? There's iStockphoot, Shutterstock.com, Big Stock Phot as well as others. The three above and others are royalty free and don't pay much, in an article in the current print edition of Popular Photography the highest paying pure photo only pays up to $1.00 though it may be only 25 cents. However if you have and buyers download hundreds a week then it can at least pay for itself if not be your only source of income. After reading the article I've thought about trying to join one myself though I'm not a pro, in part because I'm not. I have one problem in photography, as a professor I had once said, my composition needs to be worked on, but the more you shoot the better you get.