--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon <mdixon.6569@...> wrote: > > Bhairitu, I apologize for blessing you with poverty. May > you never become rich, instead.
LOL! Hiya, Mike. Happy New Year. Where ya been? > ________________________________ > From: Mike Dixon <mdixon.6569@...> > To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Sunday, January 1, 2012 1:34 PM > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Happy Boxing Day! > > > My blessing for you then is, may you always remain poor. > > > ________________________________ > From: Bhairitu <noozguru@...> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 1:21 PM > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Happy Boxing Day! > > > Â > > I'd have to be rich first to do that. I'm not rich like you, Mike. > Given the current economy that may never be possible. The rich became > rich because our government allowed them to so they owe back the > public. Greed is a mental illness and we can reopen the closed public > mental hospitals to treat the greedy rich. > > On 12/30/2011 12:44 PM, Mike Dixon wrote: > > But, but .... you could start a new *tradition* that would be much more > > altruistic. You could make some rich person's servants love you more than > > the people that pay them for their labor.OR, we could just let the > > government buy them gifts and make the rich pay for them. > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: Bhairitu<noozguru@...> > > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 12:01 PM > > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Happy Boxing Day! > > > > > > > > > > That's not the tradition. I heard Nicole Sandler explain it on her show > > and the tradition was that the rich only gave gifts to their peers on > > Christmas and then on the day after to their servants. > > > > On 12/27/2011 10:41 AM, Mike Dixon wrote: > >> Why not give a box of goodies to somebody else's servants? > >> > >> > >> > >> ________________________________ > >> From: Bhairitu<noozguru@...> > >> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > >> Sent: Monday, December 26, 2011 12:43 PM > >> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Happy Boxing Day! > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> Be sure to give some gifts to your servants! > >> > >> I don't have any servants because I'm not one of the 1%. But I've been > >> getting acquainted with my new camera to find what all it does and > >> doesn't do. One little unclear bit of information is that the camera > >> does shoot in Apple's iFrame mode which is probably NOT of much use. > >> iFrame was developed to make HD video editing easier but only supports a > >> resolution of 960x540 which is kinda halfway between SD and HD. Netflix > >> actually streams some of their non-HD offerings in this resolution. > >> iFrame stores each picture as a full frame or what is known in MPEG > >> compression parlance as an i-frame. > >> > >> Though I had my eyes set on a Canon T3i DSLR I couldn't justify the > >> expenditure at this time and since I was given a Best Buy gift care a > >> little over a week ago used it to buy a Canon PowerShot 310 HS. This > >> camera supports iFrame but you have to use it from the manual settings. > >> The camera does not have a 960x540 setting but apparently stretches the > >> 960x540 image to 1280x720. Ugh, not so good as 720p should have more > >> detail than that. So iFrame is of not much use. > >> > >> But the 1080p setting shoots at 24 fps which is what I've been wanting > >> for years and the image is crisp. One 1.5 minute video I shot Christmas > >> eve created a 440 MB QuickTime MOV file so there is little compression > >> going on using the AVCHD format anyways and the file loaded fine into my > >> editing software. Video analysis software showed it was pretty much as > >> standard AVCHD file mostly of p-frames and some i-frames. My bet is the > >> p-frames don't use a lot of compression. This camera shoots better > >> video than my 2005 $1800 Sony camcorder which only did 1440x1080i and > >> the Canon was only $180. The camera has both an USB port and an HDMI > >> port. I'm using Class 10 sdcards with this camera which happened to be > >> on sale this last week for $15. The higher speed card is recommended to > >> prevent dropouts. > >> > >> And of course the camera takes great stills. I haven't had a really > >> good still camera since I had an SLR back in the 1970s. > >> > >> > >> > > > > >
