Rental stores HAVE to use rental versions of the movies. Just stick it in your dvd-rom -- sometimes the volume label for the disc will even SAY rental. Usually the front of the disc will.
I've bought a bunch, more than 100, previewed DVDs from rental stores but I haven't seen any disk labeled or saying "rental". A few did come in cases from the store though, I've got some "Blockbuster" stamped cases.
decided to skip the whole rental thing and try to capture the larger home video purchase market with cheaper first-available DVD's. This is because people don't generally buy a movie they've already watched. Naturally, rentals, therefore, cost them money, since people who rent (which was the only way to watch new releases during the VHS era) don't usually buy.
I must be unusual as I never rent movies, but I buy a lot. Actually the only reason I bought a DVD player was because one movie I saw at the theatre I had to get however when it did come out I could only find it on DVD. I got it through Amazon, though I had to wait more than a month before they had it, I put my name on Amazon's waiting list.
Don't give me bullshit about how you didn't see the license until you bought the software, because you can still return the software if it's not been installed yet. It's the law.
Have you tried to return a disk when the packaging was already opened? I have and all I have ever been allowed to do was to exchange it for another one of the same thing.
Can autodesk skirt this by making its software connect to an autodesk server and validate the presence of a (non transferrable) user account?
I'd think that that was a violation of the First Sale doctrine. The second problem is that it would require the computer AutoCAD is installed on the have internet access, and I bet there are a number of PCs in the industry without that access. A bunch of architectural and graphics businesses would then be angry.
A couple of days ago I talked with someone in a photography store. I was looking for a recommendation for a monitor, and the person there said that several of the people there use cheap Macs and Apple monitors and get what they need to do done. I won't say that was useless but apparently you do. Maybe photography isn't demanding for you but it's more than many other things, about the only thing I can think of that's more demanding, other than servers, is video. Here's a search of Photo.net for Mac Mini". Here's what one Mac mini user says: "Hi, I have a recent Intel Mac Mini (2 GB RAM, 2 GHz Core 2 Duo), and I use PS CS3 daily to edit 16 bits TIFFs converted from raw (10 megapixels). Saving/loading big files can take a while because of the slow internal hard drive in the Mac Mini, but otherwise editing feels fast, even with several full bitmap layers." Other comments say the Mini isn't that good for photography though.
You're going to tell my friend he needs to plop $1,300 for a Mac instead of a $600 Gateway PC to do essentially the same thing?
No I'm not, see above. Also Apple sells refurbished Macs, I just checked the website and they list 2 Macs under $1000. One is a Refurbished iMac 20-inch 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo for $950, $150 less than new. Another is an Refurbished iMac 20-inch 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo SuperDrive also for $950, this one's original price was $1500.
What I found interesting was that they also listed a MacBook Air, which came out recently, for $150 under it's retail price.
Remember, we're talking about people who would like to own a Mac but don't really need one since their PCs are doing what they need just fine.
After 10 years I switched to Macs from PCs because they gave me too many problems. I've had to replace 3 mobos and 2 hdds in the first year of owning a new PC. I also had to reinstall Windows a number of tymes. About the only good thing about PCs is that they are easy to install new hardware and upgrade.
Maybe my experience with PCs is unusual but I've had too many problems with them and a working computer is more important to me.
Of course. I don't see how it is relevant to this discussion. I'm not proposing common ownership and neither did Henry George. What was your point?
What did he mean then?
It is just an opinion based on the observation that where there are ample natural resources and not excessive population that poverty only seems to be found where there the land or natural resources is in the hands of a few.
I agree but that's because of those in power and not because of capitalism. For instance the conflict in the Niger Delta is portrayed as over oil. However it stems from the fact that those in power are from a different ethnic group, tribe, than those who live in the Delta. Government is in the hands of one group while the population of the Delta is from another group and the government is giving money to it's own and not the others. Under capitalism much of the money would go to those who live on and own the land.
By the way if we opened the border to Mexico I'm sure that those who chose to come to the States would experience a big improvement in their quality of life. Do you support substantial immigration to the US? I'm convinced that a major root cause of poverty in both the US and Mexico is the fact that a lot of the land is kept out of useful production by owners and that the problem would be reduced or even eliminated if income taxes were replace with land tax.
I support open borders, I believe anyone should be able to live anywhere they want as long as they can afford it. In Mexico, as I have said repeatedly, part of the problem of poverty is because the US government gives big agricultural businesses namely Archer Daniels Midland and Cargill billions of US taxpayer dollars. NAFTA then allows these companies to export corn to Mexico where they can sale the corn for less than Mexican farmers spend to grow corn. If Mexican farmers didn't have to compeat unfairly with US businesses then more could make a living on their farms.
Like you I also oppose income tax, but I would not replace it with a federal property tax, which I believe is unconstitutional anyway. Instead what I'd do is put the government back into the limits put on it by the Constitution of the USA. The Constitution says what and only what the government can do, if it does not say the government has the power to do something then it does not have that power. For instance it grants no power for the FCC, FDA, DOE, HUD, or Education Department. By eliminating all the extraconstitutional agencies, bureaus, and departments, a sales tax and user fees would provide enough money to run the rest of the government, federal government.
I was wondering what was meant by land versus property taxes, it appears that as used in the link, "property" is "improved" land, ie it is being used for an economic gain. So land that's not "improved" even if it provides a valuable service, such as purifying water, will be taxed but if it's bulldozed and built on it won't be taxed. In other words, "Let's pave the world."
yeh fewer and fewer labs are processing E6, it's a tough line to manage if you don't have the volume
For class E6 wasn't a problem. After we shot an assignment, usually 5 exposures (without bracketing) but we were encouraged to use up the rolls, we turned them into the lab where other students developed the film. After the semester ended the store I took film to had to send E6 to another location as they didn't have the facilities where I went. But I'm hoping the association I mentioned earlier, IFP Minnesota, which has darkrooms members can use has what's needed for E6. Now I haven't developed E6 before so I'd need someone to show me how it's done. They may have someone who teaches it as before anyone uses the darkrooms they have to take a class on developing film they give.
i picked up a minolta scanner for 35mm a few years back, but... the lab has a $100,000 scanner that does up to 4X5 sheet film... so... i'd rather use theirs;)
Just today I stopped at a Best Buy, on the way to Home Depot for gardening stuff, and asked if they had any film scanners. The person there showed me a flatbed scanner with a film attachment. I already have one, however I was thinking that maybe I'd get one, mine is an old one and only has a 2400 dpi resolution whereas the one he showed me was 4800 dpi. Also one of them cost $80. When I turned film in at a store for development I also ordered a CD which costed something like $15. Scanning the film myself, after 5 rolls it would be paid for. However I didn't particularly like the software it came with. The OCR, which I'd use a lot, was ok but I didn't like the graphics editor. What I really would like to get is a dedicated film scanner, I haven't seen any flatbeds that can scan medium format film, the largest I've seen is 35mm. However film scanners can scan larger film sizes. I suppose what I could do is develop enlargements then scan those.
for now i just use my darkroom for alternative processes.... cyanotypes.. liquid light, that sort of thing
I'd like to try different alternative processing myself. Last year I read a review of a book that goes into difference processes written by a professor at U Chicago. One of the methods in the book the review mentioned was using orange juice as the developer.
where a lot of photographers are tripping up in the switch to digital is that their used to shooting negatives.... which are very forgiving
This is why we used slide for class and not negatives. You can make a mistake on an exposure and with negatives it won't show up but with slide it will, half a stop under or over won't effect negative much but it will with slide.
- It's spread out rather thin in the vast majority of the patches, added to point 1&2 makes it hard to harvest without engandering sea life (eg, large nets whilst getting your plastic, would capture the ole 'nanimals too).
It already endangers wildlife. Depending on how it's done cleaning it up could very well remove the danger.
The point is that a president is more than just the leader of the country, they are the face that people are looking at as "The United States". The fact that Barack Obama refused to wear a flag pin (which is an implied part of the uniform, yes uniform) is the same as if he insisted on wearing jeans that sagged half off of his ass, a mohawk, an old shitty t-shirt from the 90s, and some nasty old crappy skate shoes or something.
Wearing it as a politician is the same as wearing a suit. Not do so is disrespectful.
I don't know what this, "refused to wear a flag pin" is about. As an American though, one thing is that I am ashamed at some of the stuff the government, and citizens, have done. Secondly, between the three current candidates, Hillary, McCain, and Obama if I had to vote for one of them I would for Obama. Remove him from the pool so it's between Clinton and McCain I'd vote for McCain.
The critters dump their organic waste into the water, where it is recycled by other critters. Why shouldn't the humans? (They already do it on ocean-going vessels.
And ships' dumping causes problems in some places.
the great thing about computers and photography, is that once your film is out of the soup and scanned... you're digital
I've been looking around to see what was available in film scanners. One store used to carry some but I haven't seen any lately.
the lab i use does C41, they also do B&W by hand
I used to do C41, shooting and developing, however in the last photo class I took we used positives, slide film, and E6 developing. The Profs required it because it's not forgiving of exposure mistakes like negative film is. Though I've never developed E6 I think I'll stick with slide. For now I turn my film into a lab but I want to setup a darkroom. More than likely what I'll do, at least at first, is use the darkrooms an association of photographers and other graphics artists has in my area. As for B&W, there's a market some are getting into. Fine art photographers shoot and display B&W. Others shoot B&W then hand paint photos, which is easy with a computer.
To be clear, I mean that people who are unhappy with their situation should take control of their lives and steer their way out of it, not tumble about as the wind blows around them and complain about how much their life sucks.
I agree with everything else you say, but have a problem with the above. Some people are unable to control their own life. Because I'm a survivor of a Traumatic Brain Injury, TBI, life itself is a struggle for me. Many of those coming back from Afghanistan and Iraq will also find what a struggle their life is too. Of course they went into the military on their own, but will still struggle. Me, I was injured while riding my bike after my classes in college. I was trying to improve my life, just as they wanted to protect the US, now I'm worse than if I hadn't gone.
supermarkets in poor areas usually charge more than in rich areas because people in rich areas have more options.
And in a free market someone can step into the void and offer food for less in the poor area.
Also for the same reason, supermarkets in poor areas charge more at the register than the marked price more frequently.
Which I believe is illegal, by law an item has to be sold for the price on the label or in an ad, unless there is a sign by the items saying the advertized price is wrong.
Some types of goods are not voluntary purchases. Food, for instance. You can't go without it, so you have to buy it at whatever price it is available.
Sure it's a voluntary exchange, you may not like it but it is voluntary, no one's standing there with a gun pointed at your head saying you have to buy the food. You can also grow your own food. As I'm on disability and don't work I live on a small fixed income. Because of this I am a member of both Costco and Sam's Club, where I can buy in bulk at low prices. Though in the case of Sam's, it's not allowed to sale the same item as Walmart does at a lower cost. Also I garden even though I live in a city. I spent a few hours in my garden today, where I'm growing acorn squash, broccoli, cauliflower, cucumbers, peppers, tomatillos, and tomatos. The end of summer and beginning of fall most of what I harvest I will be preserving. Most of it I will can or pickle. And for "desert" I'll have blueberries, rhubarb, and strawberries. For those who don't have the space for a garden, and all it takes to grow some things is a window, community gardens and city farms are growing. That's where many Cubans get their food.
As LouAnne Johnson (Michelle Pfeiffer) says in one of my favorite movies, "Dangerous Minds", "There are no victims in this classroom."
an unregulated free market supports and encourages tyranny, and takes away freedoms
How so?
What I specifically dispute is the idea that all trade is inherently fair.
Here I agree, it most definitely isn't fair that the US government gives billions of taxpayer dollars to hugh agricultural corporations so they can export and sell corn in Mexico and Central America cheaper than farmers there pay to grow corn. That however isn't free trade, under free trade there wouldn't be the billions of dollars in subsidies yearly. Just this year congress passed a $290 billion farm bill. Bush vetoed it, one of the very few things he did I agree with, but the House of Representatives overrode the veto. And more than likely Archer Daniels Midland, who the Libertarian CATO Institute ("Free Minds and Free Markets") wrote about in the study "Archer Daniels Midland:
A Case Study In Corporate Welfare" will get billions of those dollars.
From what I've seen, free markets allow greedy and selfish people to accumulate more money than cooperative people.
By encouraging greed and discouraging cooperation, a free market system ensures that everyone will have to act in a greedy and selfish fashion in order not to be taken advantage of by the greedy and selfish.
That's not a free market, what you're talking about is the Corporate Aristocracy Thomas Jefferson warned of. A free market is cooperative, ie it requires a voluntary exchange. I cooperate with you by giving you something, or performing some service, you want and in exchange you cooperate with me by giving me something.
Split the property into two separate concepts and re-assess your statements. ...
I think the land and natural resources need to be divvied up differently.
Google Henry George for one practical and tested method of doing this.
Wiki's article on him says he was anti Chinese immigrant. Besides newspapers, that's some he shared with William Randolph Hearst. During WWII besides the Japanese Hearst wanted to put the Chinese and all other Asian into internment camps. He pressed his "yellow peril".
From wiki "George preferred taxing unimproved land value". That misses all the services land offers. For instance wetlands purify water and recharge aquifers. By taxing those lands he'd encourage people to build on that land thus depriving people of fresh water.
It is the land ownership that **created** the poverty in the first place.
Cite please. Actually land ownership allows people to improve their economic lot in life. Even those immigrants Henry George opposed.
Apple's not pitching all of its systems as high-end professional workstations, but they are hitting the top (or close to it) of each segment.
Ok.
The iMac is certainly upper-end for all-in-ones. It's not the top system out there for performance workstations (which is what the Mac Pro is for). It's certainly nicer than the Dell AIO systems and the ZeroPC stuff.
I see the all-in-ones as a waste, most people keep their monitors longer than the keep their computers.
The Mini has stiffer competition from Asus and Shuttle
The Mini is a waste too, but because it doesn't include a monitor it's not as bad as an all-in-one.
Their laptops are fairly high-end in their segments, too. The Air is a really nice thin-'n'-light. The MacBook is solid, and the MacBook Pro is great. Compare any of them to a Thinkpad or a Vaio on price and features.
The Air looks "pretty" but it doesn't have an optical drive, CD or DVD. The only way to, for instance, install software is via a network. Or an external drive.
What you said about high end is clearer now. And in that I agree. Then again Apple works on making things "just work".
my last two comps I did build myself and they work great and I saved a lot of money.
When my last PC died I priced the parts at brick and mortar stores to rebuild it and the parts cost more than buying a new PC did. Just a mobo, cpu, ram, and hdd cost more. you might say I could have ordered them online from Newegg but if I have a problem with something I want a physical store I can go to for help.
Ya, but you don't have to buy a Dell and that is the point. With a Dell you get a pre-assembled computer. But with my current comp (and the one before that) I built it from parts and saved bank.
But how many people can build their own computer? Most people wouldn't even try to build their own. And you can't just get the parts from anywhere. When my HP died I went shopping looking for part to rebuild it, and all the parts together cost more than simply buying a new computer no matter where I looked. The parts may be cheaper online like at Newegg, however when I have any trouble I want a local brick and mortar store I can go to.
But for the individual building it yourself can save a lot of dough.
Only if you're a geek.
It's the inability to do that with a Mac that annoys me.
Buying a Gateway wasn't just a mistake, it was a hugh mistake. Buying the Alpha was a mistake too, I liked it but had trouble installing software on it. I should have bought Macs instead. At least for my desktop, then a Windows laptop. I bought the Gateway though because they had just bought the Amiga and I was hoping they'd revitalize it. When I ordered it, I even had the store include a note saying I'd like to buy a new Amiga when it was released.
my university had labs full of them.... nothing but issues
When I got it I hadn't heard anything bad about Gateways though I did hear and read some good things. Before getting the Alpha every review I read said that with FX!32 almost any Windows program could be installed on it. However what I didn't read was that the software had to be 32 bit and not 16 bit.
laptops are no good because you can't calibrate the monitor, no color correction.... good call looking for the external monitor.
But you can take it with you. Then you'd have an external, large screen, monitor in the studio that was calibrated. The built in LCD with the laptop would then display the pallets and tools.
go with a lacie or an eizo, if you get an Eizo, go with the CG line, not the CE line
Thanks. Googling for "lacie OR eizo photography" the first result is from Photo.net, however I'd searched photo.net a number of tymes and couldn't find collaborated recommendations for a monitor. I did find what to look for though, values such as certain contrast ratios, brightness, and luminance.
it'll hurt buying one of those more as someone on disability.... but so will buying a decent DSLR
Right now I work with film, 35mm and I've been looking at medium format bodies. Maybe a 645. I love working in darkrooms, however I would like to get a DSLR. I've been drooling over the Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III, but as you say that's way out of the ballpark of what I can afford. Plus in another year or two it'll be dated. I figure that if I can make money as a photographer then I can buy a DSLR but not before.
photographers are going out of business left and right
A number of articles I've read in magazines like "Photo District News", PDN, and "Digital Photo Pro" say photographers have to find work differently than how their used to finding it. Doing such things as contacting NGOs to see if they will sponsor you. Check out "Digital Photo Pro's" article "Creative Commons". While not strictly about finding work it does touch on a couple of ideas. Some say the works there you just can't use the same methods to find them. In college a number of photo students I talked with wanted to create an online portfolio, and store from which they could sell photos. Other areas are in sports and weddings. Say a family has Jr playing in the little leagues or sis is a figure skater, I don't want to stereotype but my mind's not working well now, they may hire a photographer to shoot their child then put the photos on a website as well as print a book. Wedding photographers are doing the same thing. Because I'm coming from computer tech I figure I might be able to combine the two, create the photography websites as well as sell photos. Well in a way coming from both, in high school I was involved with and took classes in both comp sci and photography and though my major was with computers I also took more classes in photography.
I am one of an estimated six people that like Windows ME.:D Great stuff... IF it works with your hardware and doesn't result in winrot.
My last Windows PC came with and still has ME on it. It worked better than Windows 95 and 98 but I still had trouble with it.
I can do larger BUT I often have a backpack (which is ALL my travel gear).
I have 2 backpacks. The smaller one is big enough for my 17" MBP to fit in along with a few other things, such as a couple of 8 1/2" by 11" books. And when almost full it can fit into one of the pockets of my bigger backpack. While I've thought of getting an even bigger backpack, I'm so out of shape I don't know how much I can carry now, I've had it weighted down with about 50 lbs where I've carried it a couple of miles but because of an injury I sometimes tire too easily. While I was stuck without my car I used it for grocery shopping, and it's a couple of miles to the grocery store I went to. What I'd like to do is some hiking while carrying my laptop and camera equipment. If I could, I'd even like a Sterling Engine I could take with me to recharge my batteries.
I do know people who would love to own a Mac and can't afford them (or justify the cost over a cheap PC)
If someone can't afford a Mac then almost certainly they can't afford a Windows PC either, unless it's Asus's bargain basement Eee PC. I think what most people who say Mac are too expensive really mean is that they can't buy a Mac with the configuration they want.
No, all they have to do is stamp the words "Upgrade: for computers with OS X 10.3 or earlier only" on the box - which is effectively what they're selling anyway.
Apple's newest OS, Leopard or OS X 10.5, can be installed on a PowerPC G5. Because I'm a member of Apple Developer Connection I receive update dvds every couple of months or so, however some who got their Macs with Tiger before Leopard was released got free Leopard upgrades.
More likely, Apple will stop selling their OS as a boxed product.
That's hardly likely without a deafening outcry. Apple's newest OS, Leopard, still runs on PowerPC G5s. While Mac hardware may last several years, some users will upgrade their OS before they get a new Mac.
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Rental stores HAVE to use rental versions of the movies. Just stick it in your dvd-rom -- sometimes the volume label for the disc will even SAY rental. Usually the front of the disc will.
I've bought a bunch, more than 100, previewed DVDs from rental stores but I haven't seen any disk labeled or saying "rental". A few did come in cases from the store though, I've got some "Blockbuster" stamped cases.
Falcondecided to skip the whole rental thing and try to capture the larger home video purchase market with cheaper first-available DVD's. This is because people don't generally buy a movie they've already watched. Naturally, rentals, therefore, cost them money, since people who rent (which was the only way to watch new releases during the VHS era) don't usually buy.
I must be unusual as I never rent movies, but I buy a lot. Actually the only reason I bought a DVD player was because one movie I saw at the theatre I had to get however when it did come out I could only find it on DVD. I got it through Amazon, though I had to wait more than a month before they had it, I put my name on Amazon's waiting list.
FalconDon't give me bullshit about how you didn't see the license until you bought the software, because you can still return the software if it's not been installed yet. It's the law.
Have you tried to return a disk when the packaging was already opened? I have and all I have ever been allowed to do was to exchange it for another one of the same thing.
FalconCan autodesk skirt this by making its software connect to an autodesk server and validate the presence of a (non transferrable) user account?
I'd think that that was a violation of the First Sale doctrine. The second problem is that it would require the computer AutoCAD is installed on the have internet access, and I bet there are a number of PCs in the industry without that access. A bunch of architectural and graphics businesses would then be angry.
FalconA couple of days ago I talked with someone in a photography store. I was looking for a recommendation for a monitor, and the person there said that several of the people there use cheap Macs and Apple monitors and get what they need to do done. I won't say that was useless but apparently you do. Maybe photography isn't demanding for you but it's more than many other things, about the only thing I can think of that's more demanding, other than servers, is video. Here's a search of Photo.net for Mac Mini". Here's what one Mac mini user says: "Hi, I have a recent Intel Mac Mini (2 GB RAM, 2 GHz Core 2 Duo), and I use PS CS3 daily to edit 16 bits TIFFs converted from raw (10 megapixels). Saving/loading big files can take a while because of the slow internal hard drive in the Mac Mini, but otherwise editing feels fast, even with several full bitmap layers." Other comments say the Mini isn't that good for photography though.
You're going to tell my friend he needs to plop $1,300 for a Mac instead of a $600 Gateway PC to do essentially the same thing?
No I'm not, see above. Also Apple sells refurbished Macs, I just checked the website and they list 2 Macs under $1000. One is a Refurbished iMac 20-inch 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo for $950, $150 less than new. Another is an Refurbished iMac 20-inch 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo SuperDrive also for $950, this one's original price was $1500.
What I found interesting was that they also listed a MacBook Air, which came out recently, for $150 under it's retail price.
Remember, we're talking about people who would like to own a Mac but don't really need one since their PCs are doing what they need just fine.
After 10 years I switched to Macs from PCs because they gave me too many problems. I've had to replace 3 mobos and 2 hdds in the first year of owning a new PC. I also had to reinstall Windows a number of tymes. About the only good thing about PCs is that they are easy to install new hardware and upgrade.
Maybe my experience with PCs is unusual but I've had too many problems with them and a working computer is more important to me.
FalconOf course. I don't see how it is relevant to this discussion. I'm not proposing common ownership and neither did Henry George. What was your point?
What did he mean then?
It is just an opinion based on the observation that where there are ample natural resources and not excessive population that poverty only seems to be found where there the land or natural resources is in the hands of a few.
I agree but that's because of those in power and not because of capitalism. For instance the conflict in the Niger Delta is portrayed as over oil. However it stems from the fact that those in power are from a different ethnic group, tribe, than those who live in the Delta. Government is in the hands of one group while the population of the Delta is from another group and the government is giving money to it's own and not the others. Under capitalism much of the money would go to those who live on and own the land.
By the way if we opened the border to Mexico I'm sure that those who chose to come to the States would experience a big improvement in their quality of life. Do you support substantial immigration to the US? I'm convinced that a major root cause of poverty in both the US and Mexico is the fact that a lot of the land is kept out of useful production by owners and that the problem would be reduced or even eliminated if income taxes were replace with land tax.
I support open borders, I believe anyone should be able to live anywhere they want as long as they can afford it. In Mexico, as I have said repeatedly, part of the problem of poverty is because the US government gives big agricultural businesses namely Archer Daniels Midland and Cargill billions of US taxpayer dollars. NAFTA then allows these companies to export corn to Mexico where they can sale the corn for less than Mexican farmers spend to grow corn. If Mexican farmers didn't have to compeat unfairly with US businesses then more could make a living on their farms.
Like you I also oppose income tax, but I would not replace it with a federal property tax, which I believe is unconstitutional anyway. Instead what I'd do is put the government back into the limits put on it by the Constitution of the USA. The Constitution says what and only what the government can do, if it does not say the government has the power to do something then it does not have that power. For instance it grants no power for the FCC, FDA, DOE, HUD, or Education Department. By eliminating all the extraconstitutional agencies, bureaus, and departments, a sales tax and user fees would provide enough money to run the rest of the government, federal government.
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I was wondering what was meant by land versus property taxes, it appears that as used in the link, "property" is "improved" land, ie it is being used for an economic gain. So land that's not "improved" even if it provides a valuable service, such as purifying water, will be taxed but if it's bulldozed and built on it won't be taxed. In other words, "Let's pave the world."
Falconyeh fewer and fewer labs are processing E6, it's a tough line to manage if you don't have the volume
For class E6 wasn't a problem. After we shot an assignment, usually 5 exposures (without bracketing) but we were encouraged to use up the rolls, we turned them into the lab where other students developed the film. After the semester ended the store I took film to had to send E6 to another location as they didn't have the facilities where I went. But I'm hoping the association I mentioned earlier, IFP Minnesota, which has darkrooms members can use has what's needed for E6. Now I haven't developed E6 before so I'd need someone to show me how it's done. They may have someone who teaches it as before anyone uses the darkrooms they have to take a class on developing film they give.
i picked up a minolta scanner for 35mm a few years back, but... the lab has a $100,000 scanner that does up to 4X5 sheet film... so... i'd rather use theirs ;)
Just today I stopped at a Best Buy, on the way to Home Depot for gardening stuff, and asked if they had any film scanners. The person there showed me a flatbed scanner with a film attachment. I already have one, however I was thinking that maybe I'd get one, mine is an old one and only has a 2400 dpi resolution whereas the one he showed me was 4800 dpi. Also one of them cost $80. When I turned film in at a store for development I also ordered a CD which costed something like $15. Scanning the film myself, after 5 rolls it would be paid for. However I didn't particularly like the software it came with. The OCR, which I'd use a lot, was ok but I didn't like the graphics editor. What I really would like to get is a dedicated film scanner, I haven't seen any flatbeds that can scan medium format film, the largest I've seen is 35mm. However film scanners can scan larger film sizes. I suppose what I could do is develop enlargements then scan those.
for now i just use my darkroom for alternative processes.... cyanotypes.. liquid light, that sort of thing
I'd like to try different alternative processing myself. Last year I read a review of a book that goes into difference processes written by a professor at U Chicago. One of the methods in the book the review mentioned was using orange juice as the developer.
where a lot of photographers are tripping up in the switch to digital is that their used to shooting negatives.... which are very forgiving
This is why we used slide for class and not negatives. You can make a mistake on an exposure and with negatives it won't show up but with slide it will, half a stop under or over won't effect negative much but it will with slide.
Falcon- It's spread out rather thin in the vast majority of the patches, added to point 1&2 makes it hard to harvest without engandering sea life (eg, large nets whilst getting your plastic, would capture the ole 'nanimals too).
It already endangers wildlife. Depending on how it's done cleaning it up could very well remove the danger.
FalconThe point is that a president is more than just the leader of the country, they are the face that people are looking at as "The United States". The fact that Barack Obama refused to wear a flag pin (which is an implied part of the uniform, yes uniform) is the same as if he insisted on wearing jeans that sagged half off of his ass, a mohawk, an old shitty t-shirt from the 90s, and some nasty old crappy skate shoes or something.
Wearing it as a politician is the same as wearing a suit. Not do so is disrespectful.
I don't know what this, "refused to wear a flag pin" is about. As an American though, one thing is that I am ashamed at some of the stuff the government, and citizens, have done. Secondly, between the three current candidates, Hillary, McCain, and Obama if I had to vote for one of them I would for Obama. Remove him from the pool so it's between Clinton and McCain I'd vote for McCain.
FalconThe critters dump their organic waste into the water, where it is recycled by other critters. Why shouldn't the humans? (They already do it on ocean-going vessels.
And ships' dumping causes problems in some places.
Falconthe great thing about computers and photography, is that once your film is out of the soup and scanned... you're digital
I've been looking around to see what was available in film scanners. One store used to carry some but I haven't seen any lately.
the lab i use does C41, they also do B&W by hand
I used to do C41, shooting and developing, however in the last photo class I took we used positives, slide film, and E6 developing. The Profs required it because it's not forgiving of exposure mistakes like negative film is. Though I've never developed E6 I think I'll stick with slide. For now I turn my film into a lab but I want to setup a darkroom. More than likely what I'll do, at least at first, is use the darkrooms an association of photographers and other graphics artists has in my area. As for B&W, there's a market some are getting into. Fine art photographers shoot and display B&W. Others shoot B&W then hand paint photos, which is easy with a computer.
FalconTo be clear, I mean that people who are unhappy with their situation should take control of their lives and steer their way out of it, not tumble about as the wind blows around them and complain about how much their life sucks.
I agree with everything else you say, but have a problem with the above. Some people are unable to control their own life. Because I'm a survivor of a Traumatic Brain Injury, TBI, life itself is a struggle for me. Many of those coming back from Afghanistan and Iraq will also find what a struggle their life is too. Of course they went into the military on their own, but will still struggle. Me, I was injured while riding my bike after my classes in college. I was trying to improve my life, just as they wanted to protect the US, now I'm worse than if I hadn't gone.
Falconsupermarkets in poor areas usually charge more than in rich areas because people in rich areas have more options.
And in a free market someone can step into the void and offer food for less in the poor area.
Also for the same reason, supermarkets in poor areas charge more at the register than the marked price more frequently.
Which I believe is illegal, by law an item has to be sold for the price on the label or in an ad, unless there is a sign by the items saying the advertized price is wrong.
Some types of goods are not voluntary purchases. Food, for instance. You can't go without it, so you have to buy it at whatever price it is available.
Sure it's a voluntary exchange, you may not like it but it is voluntary, no one's standing there with a gun pointed at your head saying you have to buy the food. You can also grow your own food. As I'm on disability and don't work I live on a small fixed income. Because of this I am a member of both Costco and Sam's Club, where I can buy in bulk at low prices. Though in the case of Sam's, it's not allowed to sale the same item as Walmart does at a lower cost. Also I garden even though I live in a city. I spent a few hours in my garden today, where I'm growing acorn squash, broccoli, cauliflower, cucumbers, peppers, tomatillos, and tomatos. The end of summer and beginning of fall most of what I harvest I will be preserving. Most of it I will can or pickle. And for "desert" I'll have blueberries, rhubarb, and strawberries. For those who don't have the space for a garden, and all it takes to grow some things is a window, community gardens and city farms are growing. That's where many Cubans get their food.
As LouAnne Johnson (Michelle Pfeiffer) says in one of my favorite movies, "Dangerous Minds", "There are no victims in this classroom."
an unregulated free market supports and encourages tyranny, and takes away freedoms
How so?
What I specifically dispute is the idea that all trade is inherently fair.
Here I agree, it most definitely isn't fair that the US government gives billions of taxpayer dollars to hugh agricultural corporations so they can export and sell corn in Mexico and Central America cheaper than farmers there pay to grow corn. That however isn't free trade, under free trade there wouldn't be the billions of dollars in subsidies yearly. Just this year congress passed a $290 billion farm bill. Bush vetoed it, one of the very few things he did I agree with, but the House of Representatives overrode the veto. And more than likely Archer Daniels Midland, who the Libertarian CATO Institute ("Free Minds and Free Markets") wrote about in the study "Archer Daniels Midland: A Case Study In Corporate Welfare" will get billions of those dollars.
FalconFrom what I've seen, free markets allow greedy and selfish people to accumulate more money than cooperative people.
By encouraging greed and discouraging cooperation, a free market system ensures that everyone will have to act in a greedy and selfish fashion in order not to be taken advantage of by the greedy and selfish.
That's not a free market, what you're talking about is the Corporate Aristocracy Thomas Jefferson warned of. A free market is cooperative, ie it requires a voluntary exchange. I cooperate with you by giving you something, or performing some service, you want and in exchange you cooperate with me by giving me something.
Split the property into two separate concepts and re-assess your statements.
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I think the land and natural resources need to be divvied up differently.
Ever hear of the Tragedy of the Commons?
Google Henry George for one practical and tested method of doing this.
Wiki's article on him says he was anti Chinese immigrant. Besides newspapers, that's some he shared with William Randolph Hearst. During WWII besides the Japanese Hearst wanted to put the Chinese and all other Asian into internment camps. He pressed his "yellow peril".
From wiki "George preferred taxing unimproved land value". That misses all the services land offers. For instance wetlands purify water and recharge aquifers. By taxing those lands he'd encourage people to build on that land thus depriving people of fresh water.
It is the land ownership that **created** the poverty in the first place.
Cite please. Actually land ownership allows people to improve their economic lot in life. Even those immigrants Henry George opposed.
FalconApple's not pitching all of its systems as high-end professional workstations, but they are hitting the top (or close to it) of each segment.
Ok.
The iMac is certainly upper-end for all-in-ones. It's not the top system out there for performance workstations (which is what the Mac Pro is for). It's certainly nicer than the Dell AIO systems and the ZeroPC stuff.
I see the all-in-ones as a waste, most people keep their monitors longer than the keep their computers.
The Mini has stiffer competition from Asus and Shuttle
The Mini is a waste too, but because it doesn't include a monitor it's not as bad as an all-in-one.
Their laptops are fairly high-end in their segments, too. The Air is a really nice thin-'n'-light. The MacBook is solid, and the MacBook Pro is great. Compare any of them to a Thinkpad or a Vaio on price and features.
The Air looks "pretty" but it doesn't have an optical drive, CD or DVD. The only way to, for instance, install software is via a network. Or an external drive.
What you said about high end is clearer now. And in that I agree. Then again Apple works on making things "just work".
FalconRight. Because if it had the options I wanted it would cost less.
Less than what? Another Mac? Or a Windows PC?
If you mean a comparable Windows PC, then perhaps you don't know than Mac prices are comparable to equivalent Windows PCs, ie similar configurations.
Or do you mean a Mac you built yourself? That I can't answer as I don't know how much a Hackintoch, er try this, cost.
Falconmy last two comps I did build myself and they work great and I saved a lot of money.
When my last PC died I priced the parts at brick and mortar stores to rebuild it and the parts cost more than buying a new PC did. Just a mobo, cpu, ram, and hdd cost more. you might say I could have ordered them online from Newegg but if I have a problem with something I want a physical store I can go to for help.
FalconYa, but you don't have to buy a Dell and that is the point. With a Dell you get a pre-assembled computer. But with my current comp (and the one before that) I built it from parts and saved bank.
But how many people can build their own computer? Most people wouldn't even try to build their own. And you can't just get the parts from anywhere. When my HP died I went shopping looking for part to rebuild it, and all the parts together cost more than simply buying a new computer no matter where I looked. The parts may be cheaper online like at Newegg, however when I have any trouble I want a local brick and mortar store I can go to.
But for the individual building it yourself can save a lot of dough.
Only if you're a geek.
It's the inability to do that with a Mac that annoys me.
You can build your own Mac, I first heard of people doing it in the '80s. There was even a book published in the late 1980s or early '90s. Here it is, "Build Your Own Macintosh and Save a Bundle", the second edition was published in 1992. And with an addin card, you could get the Amiga to run the Mac OS and software.
Falconthe second mistake was buying a gateway
Buying a Gateway wasn't just a mistake, it was a hugh mistake. Buying the Alpha was a mistake too, I liked it but had trouble installing software on it. I should have bought Macs instead. At least for my desktop, then a Windows laptop. I bought the Gateway though because they had just bought the Amiga and I was hoping they'd revitalize it. When I ordered it, I even had the store include a note saying I'd like to buy a new Amiga when it was released.
my university had labs full of them.... nothing but issues
When I got it I hadn't heard anything bad about Gateways though I did hear and read some good things. Before getting the Alpha every review I read said that with FX!32 almost any Windows program could be installed on it. However what I didn't read was that the software had to be 32 bit and not 16 bit.
laptops are no good because you can't calibrate the monitor, no color correction.... good call looking for the external monitor.
But you can take it with you. Then you'd have an external, large screen, monitor in the studio that was calibrated. The built in LCD with the laptop would then display the pallets and tools.
go with a lacie or an eizo, if you get an Eizo, go with the CG line, not the CE line
Thanks. Googling for "lacie OR eizo photography" the first result is from Photo.net, however I'd searched photo.net a number of tymes and couldn't find collaborated recommendations for a monitor. I did find what to look for though, values such as certain contrast ratios, brightness, and luminance.
it'll hurt buying one of those more as someone on disability.... but so will buying a decent DSLR
Right now I work with film, 35mm and I've been looking at medium format bodies. Maybe a 645. I love working in darkrooms, however I would like to get a DSLR. I've been drooling over the Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III, but as you say that's way out of the ballpark of what I can afford. Plus in another year or two it'll be dated. I figure that if I can make money as a photographer then I can buy a DSLR but not before.
photographers are going out of business left and right
A number of articles I've read in magazines like "Photo District News", PDN, and "Digital Photo Pro" say photographers have to find work differently than how their used to finding it. Doing such things as contacting NGOs to see if they will sponsor you. Check out "Digital Photo Pro's" article "Creative Commons". While not strictly about finding work it does touch on a couple of ideas. Some say the works there you just can't use the same methods to find them. In college a number of photo students I talked with wanted to create an online portfolio, and store from which they could sell photos. Other areas are in sports and weddings. Say a family has Jr playing in the little leagues or sis is a figure skater, I don't want to stereotype but my mind's not working well now, they may hire a photographer to shoot their child then put the photos on a website as well as print a book. Wedding photographers are doing the same thing. Because I'm coming from computer tech I figure I might be able to combine the two, create the photography websites as well as sell photos. Well in a way coming from both, in high school I was involved with and took classes in both comp sci and photography and though my major was with computers I also took more classes in photography.
FalconI am one of an estimated six people that like Windows ME. :D Great stuff... IF it works with your hardware and doesn't result in winrot.
My last Windows PC came with and still has ME on it. It worked better than Windows 95 and 98 but I still had trouble with it.
I can do larger BUT I often have a backpack (which is ALL my travel gear).
I have 2 backpacks. The smaller one is big enough for my 17" MBP to fit in along with a few other things, such as a couple of 8 1/2" by 11" books. And when almost full it can fit into one of the pockets of my bigger backpack. While I've thought of getting an even bigger backpack, I'm so out of shape I don't know how much I can carry now, I've had it weighted down with about 50 lbs where I've carried it a couple of miles but because of an injury I sometimes tire too easily. While I was stuck without my car I used it for grocery shopping, and it's a couple of miles to the grocery store I went to. What I'd like to do is some hiking while carrying my laptop and camera equipment. If I could, I'd even like a Sterling Engine I could take with me to recharge my batteries.
FalconJust maybe Apple is allowing this to continue to test the waters for a PC version of OS/X
Hay, I'm running a PC version of OS X. My CPU is a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. If that's not what you meant then what do you mean?
FalconI do know people who would love to own a Mac and can't afford them (or justify the cost over a cheap PC)
If someone can't afford a Mac then almost certainly they can't afford a Windows PC either, unless it's Asus's bargain basement Eee PC. I think what most people who say Mac are too expensive really mean is that they can't buy a Mac with the configuration they want.
FalconNo, all they have to do is stamp the words "Upgrade: for computers with OS X 10.3 or earlier only" on the box - which is effectively what they're selling anyway.
Apple's newest OS, Leopard or OS X 10.5, can be installed on a PowerPC G5. Because I'm a member of Apple Developer Connection I receive update dvds every couple of months or so, however some who got their Macs with Tiger before Leopard was released got free Leopard upgrades.
FalconMore likely, Apple will stop selling their OS as a boxed product.
That's hardly likely without a deafening outcry. Apple's newest OS, Leopard, still runs on PowerPC G5s. While Mac hardware may last several years, some users will upgrade their OS before they get a new Mac.
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