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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Caring for Yunnan's elderly in the one-child era
Posted byLiumingke1234, why is it so sad that people want to live their own lives. Children do not ask to be born. It is a great conceit of parents to expect to be raised by their own parents and then to be taken care of by their children. Each generation is responsible for the future, not for the past.
If you are elderly and can't take care of yourself or haven't made arrangements to be taken care of, the only fault is your own (barring any unforeseen circumstances). We all know that we are to going to age and at some point become feeble. Why is it our children's responsibility to take care of us?
I ask this as a childless, 56 year old, who is an only child.
Yunnan serial killer gets death penalty
Posted by@laotou, thanks for your comment. I think that there are two completely different worlds at work here. The official CPC line about harmony is a thinly veiled ideal of group think and uniformity rather than the kind of community spirit and cooperation we normally think of. The other world is the continuous improvement in the well being of a large number, albeit a minority, of Chinese people who have formed a large middle class open to a world of ideas and information beyond Chinese borders. As their children are exposed to the benefits of communal responsibility, as they experience more and more acts of selfless kindness by those around them, social responsibility and true harmony may yet come I the next generation. Let's hope so....now what to do about the other 900 million Chinese!
Yunnan serial killer gets death penalty
Posted byYou've lived in China long enough to realize that there is virtually no sense of communal responsibility. It's every man for himself. Think about the traffic, getting on a bus or trying to buy a train ticket. Because traiditionally one could not rely on anyone outside of immediate family, everyone else is suspect. Hence, no one is willing to get involved.
Interview: Howard Dyck
Posted byThanks for the great interview. I'm delighted to hear about the, obviously, active classical music scene in Kunming. When I lived there, I'm ashamed to admit that I had no luck in finding concerts like those discussed in the interview. I always wondered what the students who bought all those instruments from the musical instruments stores lining one long street near downtown were doing with them. Now I know.
Kunming police launch website for foreigners
Posted byAs usual, it's nothing but a show. The "laws" may be written, but until there is rule of law, it's all a bad joke. They are deluding themselves.