Scanning using home scanners or even "professional" can be very time consuming and often yields fair to poor results. I recommend you find a photo lab with a Fuji Frontier mini lab. The film scanners in those machines are fast, generate beautiful scans with files large enough to easily print 12 x 18's. When I lived in Kunming there was at least one lab with equipment on Renmin Xi Lu less than a block west of Xiao Ximen.
My wife and I went skiing in Yabuli in Heilongjiang province. There are multiple lifts and it was the site of the Asian winter games. It's not Colorado or the Sierras, but it's not bad and there is equipment rental for even large sizes. The biggest drawbacks are daytime temperatures in the -35 range and some spotty snow cconditions.
Non intel Macs cannot be loaded with Lion. The minimum requirements is a Core 2 Duo Intel processor. Actually even Snow Leopard will not run on G5 or earlier Macs. Intel Macs that are Core 2 Duo or newer will have to be upgraded to Snow Leopard because that is the only version of OS X that has the Mac App store. Officially, Apple is selling Lion only as a download through the Mac App store.
Something to think about is that Lion no longer has Rosetta. That means that there is no longer any ability to run Power PC applications. Only software that is "Universal" or Intel will run. If you have an Intel Mac with the appropriate processor and the you've upgraded to Snow Leopard, keep in mind that any Power PC software you may have will not run when you upgrade to Lion.
Hope all this helps. As with any system software change, I would do a complete backup before installing anything new. I'm paranoid enough that I usually skip the .0 version and wait a couple of weeks for the .1 version. Good luck.
One of the very few worthwhile things Mao ever said, "Religion is poison."
iMovie will get the job done. You can combine HD video, stills from iPhoto, add transitions and titles and export the video in various formats from something to show on youtube, add as an email attachment or a full blown HD program to burn onto a DVD. Of course, you have to have a Mac to do it.
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Blaze destroys hundreds of buildings in Shangri-la
Posted byMy wife and were saddened to read this report and see the photos. Despite it's "commercial" bent, old town in Zhongdian was one of out favorite places in Yunnan. We will fondly remember the cheerful smiling faces of the inhabitants, the winding narrow streets and the general charm of old town.
Rebuilding will not bring back the old charm, but we hope that those who live and work there will be able to recover soon.
Patrick, thanks for the in-depth coverage.
Kunming's illegal street racing scene
Posted byCan't really do investigative journalism because the subjects of this piece (young wealthy owners of expensive cars) are part of an untouchable elite who acquired their wealth and possessions the old-fashioned way.
China billionaires call for business reform
Posted byShoei, as with virtually all of the newly rich Chinese, they acquired their wealth through theft, corruption of government officials, exploitation of land "redevelopment" and the completely insolvent Chinese banking system. There is no way that a country could legitimately produce billionaires in approximately one generation going from full state ownership to private business without a great deal (or perhaps, exclusively) criminal activity.
Kunming to become more civilized
Posted byIt's great the government acknowledges these behavioral problems, but the proposed solution is typical of an authoritarian regime. All of these issues stem from overcrowding, poverty, lack of adequate education stressing critical thinking skills and the lack of the rule of law. Bandaid measures like behavior enforcement by the chengguan will be pitifully inadequate and are stop gap measures at best. They have to start somewhere, so how about having classroom presentations in kindergarten through third grade complete with discussion sessions where real discourse takes place?
Caring for Yunnan's elderly in the one-child era
Posted byMiZixia, you may have misunderstood the part about not choosing to be born. I didn't say anything about not enjoying life or that people would commit suicide en masse. Perhaps that is your own perspective on life. What I did say is that each generation chooses to bring life into this world. Children do not make that choice for themselves. Children owe their parents nothing. That is true for every generation.