Re: Sunday photographer Just to be contrary
thanx for explaining -- i feel MUCH better now :) best, mishka On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 22:42:20 -0500, Peter J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Damn now you made me look it up. For the baseball predictor it has nothing to do with City. (...) Mishka wrote: i believe both were boston (red sox and patriots -- man, i have been living in this country far too long! ), no clash best, mishka
Re: Sunday photographer Just to be contrary
I'm glad somebody does... Mishka wrote: thanx for explaining -- i feel MUCH better now :) best, mishka On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 22:42:20 -0500, Peter J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Damn now you made me look it up. For the baseball predictor it has nothing to do with City. (...) Mishka wrote: i believe both were boston (red sox and patriots -- man, i have been living in this country far too long! ), no clash best, mishka -- I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime. --P.J. O'Rourke
Re: Sunday photographer Just to be contrary
- Original Message - From: Graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] No surprise that the F6 is selling well. Most of the problem with camera sales was not digital cameras, but the world economic conditions. But things are on the rise again now. I'vw mentioned an 11 year economic cycle many times, and no one listens. I find it strange that none of the so-called economists mention it. Of course I have only lived through six of them: 1948, 1959, 1970, 1981, 1992, and 2003 being the bottoms of the cycle, so maybe my sample is not large enough. Hm... In sync with the years of minimum solar activity in the sunspot cycles...:-) How's that for economic theory? Jostein
Re: Sunday photographer Just to be contrary
Jostein wrote: - Original Message - From: Graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] No surprise that the F6 is selling well. Most of the problem with camera sales was not digital cameras, but the world economic conditions. But things are on the rise again now. I'vw mentioned an 11 year economic cycle many times, and no one listens. I find it strange that none of the so-called economists mention it. Of course I have only lived through six of them: 1948, 1959, 1970, 1981, 1992, and 2003 being the bottoms of the cycle, so maybe my sample is not large enough. Hm... In sync with the years of minimum solar activity in the sunspot cycles...:-) How's that for economic theory? Jostein Good as anyone else's! g keith whaley
Re: Sunday photographer Just to be contrary
Hi Jostein, On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 17:31:59 +0100, Jostein wrote: Hm... In sync with the years of minimum solar activity in the sunspot cycles...:-) How's that for economic theory? Well, it's really more of a hypothesized predictor. As one, it's no worse than the which conference won the Super Bowl predictor, which IIRC was remarkably accurate for about 30 years, and may still be, for all I know. Or maybe the Super Bowl one was for US Presidential elections rather than the economy. TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ
Re: Sunday photographer Just to be contrary
Superbowl and World Series were pretty good predictors of the US Presidency, this year they clashed, I can't remember which won. Doug Franklin wrote: Hi Jostein, On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 17:31:59 +0100, Jostein wrote: Hm... In sync with the years of minimum solar activity in the sunspot cycles...:-) How's that for economic theory? Well, it's really more of a hypothesized predictor. As one, it's no worse than the which conference won the Super Bowl predictor, which IIRC was remarkably accurate for about 30 years, and may still be, for all I know. Or maybe the Super Bowl one was for US Presidential elections rather than the economy. TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ -- I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime. --P.J. O'Rourke
Re: Sunday photographer Just to be contrary
i believe both were boston (red sox and patriots -- man, i have been living in this country far too long! ), no clash best, mishka On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 19:42:11 -0500, Peter J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Superbowl and World Series were pretty good predictors of the US Presidency, this year they clashed, I can't remember which won. Doug Franklin wrote: Hi Jostein, On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 17:31:59 +0100, Jostein wrote: Hm... In sync with the years of minimum solar activity in the sunspot cycles...:-) How's that for economic theory? Well, it's really more of a hypothesized predictor. As one, it's no worse than the which conference won the Super Bowl predictor, which IIRC was remarkably accurate for about 30 years, and may still be, for all I know. Or maybe the Super Bowl one was for US Presidential elections rather than the economy. TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ -- I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime. --P.J. O'Rourke
Re: Sunday photographer Just to be contrary
I thought of the posibility of it be connected to the sunspot cycle, but that did not change due to WWII (grin). graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com Idiot Proof == Expert Proof --- Jostein wrote: - Original Message - From: Graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] No surprise that the F6 is selling well. Most of the problem with camera sales was not digital cameras, but the world economic conditions. But things are on the rise again now. I'vw mentioned an 11 year economic cycle many times, and no one listens. I find it strange that none of the so-called economists mention it. Of course I have only lived through six of them: 1948, 1959, 1970, 1981, 1992, and 2003 being the bottoms of the cycle, so maybe my sample is not large enough. Hm... In sync with the years of minimum solar activity in the sunspot cycles...:-) How's that for economic theory? Jostein -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.7.0 - Release Date: 3/8/2005
Re: Sunday photographer Just to be contrary
Damn now you made me look it up. For the baseball predictor it has nothing to do with City. From 1952 to 1976 if the American League (AL) won the world series the Republicans would win the presidency. If the National League (NL) won the series the Democrats won the Presidency. (100%). Since 1976 it's been split evenly). But since 1920 this predictor has been right about 71 1/2 % of the time. If I could predict anything that well I'd be rich. The Red Sox are an AL team by the way. I was wrong about the Superbowl it was actually a single team, the Washington Redskins, from 1940 to 2000 if the Redskins won their last home game the incumbent party kept the White House, if they lost the incumbent party lost. This was 100%. Prior to the 1940 the Redskins weren't in Washington and they weren't the Redskins. In 2004 the Redskins lost the crucial game. (Oh well another swell theory down the drain). Mishka wrote: i believe both were boston (red sox and patriots -- man, i have been living in this country far too long! ), no clash best, mishka On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 19:42:11 -0500, Peter J. Alling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Superbowl and World Series were pretty good predictors of the US Presidency, this year they clashed, I can't remember which won. Doug Franklin wrote: Hi Jostein, On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 17:31:59 +0100, Jostein wrote: Hm... In sync with the years of minimum solar activity in the sunspot cycles...:-) How's that for economic theory? Well, it's really more of a hypothesized predictor. As one, it's no worse than the which conference won the Super Bowl predictor, which IIRC was remarkably accurate for about 30 years, and may still be, for all I know. Or maybe the Super Bowl one was for US Presidential elections rather than the economy. TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ -- I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime. --P.J. O'Rourke -- I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime. --P.J. O'Rourke
Re: Sunday photographer Just to be contrary
On Mar 9, 2005, at 5:31 AM, Jostein wrote: Hm... In sync with the years of minimum solar activity in the sunspot cycles...:-) How's that for economic theory? I do remember reading something recently about the sunspot cycle affecting solar radiation which in turn affects crop yields which then affects the economy. Not sure if it was proven or debunked though. Probably both :) Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
Re: Sunday photographer Just to be contrary
On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 12:45:46 +0100, Sylwester Pietrzyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/columns/sm-mar-05.shtml Interestng conclusions. And information that new Nikon F6 sells very well is surprising too. Apparently there are a lot of people still using film for PRO work too (Natoinal Geographic should be a good example)... From the article: Lord, I don't think I have the strength to face a world without Leica I'm just now getting used to a world without Deardorff! This is off topic, but for those of you with an interest in large format, Mr. Deardorff is once again making view cameras under the name J. Deardorff Photographic Products Intl., or DPPI. I have a scan of the catalog that was presented recently by the man himself. It's a VERY LARGE file (~12MB) for only 37 pages. If anyone wants a copy, I'll be happy to post it at my personal site for download. Perhaps someone with a copy of Acrobat would be willing to resize it? -- Scott Loveless Born free. Taxed to death.
Re: Sunday photographer Just to be contrary
SL the catalog that was presented recently by the man himself. It's a SL VERY LARGE file (~12MB) for only 37 pages. If anyone wants a copy, SL I'll be happy to post it at my personal site for download. Perhaps SL someone with a copy of Acrobat would be willing to resize it? Hi Scott, you can use the Ghostscript (free Postscript) from Unix (also for Windooze and Macs) with a GS/PDF viewer/converter to downsample or extract the pages. Or I can do it, if you send me the link. Best thing is that Ghostscript is free... It probably has too large images which could be safely compressed and downsampled to screen resolution for screen viewing only. Good light! fra
Re: Sunday photographer Just to be contrary
No surprise that the F6 is selling well. Most of the problem with camera sales was not digital cameras, but the world economic conditions. But things are on the rise again now. I'vw mentioned an 11 year economic cycle many times, and no one listens. I find it strange that none of the so-called economists mention it. Of course I have only lived through six of them: 1948, 1959, 1970, 1981, 1992, and 2003 being the bottoms of the cycle, so maybe my sample is not large enough. Major wars seem to modify that cycle. The bottom was mild in the US in 1970 when the government was spending billions on the VietNam war. And WWII held things off for about 4 years, the bottom of the cycle prior to '48 being 1933. Taking that 4 year slip into account I can find references that show the cycle holds back to 1900. Next bottom 2014; expect the economy to start an obvious down trend about 2010 with a possible sudden drop in the stock market a year or too befor that. Stock market crashes seem to happen at the top of the cycle. People blame them for the following depression, but the depression is going to hit reguardless of that. graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com Idiot Proof == Expert Proof --- Scott Loveless wrote: On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 12:45:46 +0100, Sylwester Pietrzyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/columns/sm-mar-05.shtml Interestng conclusions. And information that new Nikon F6 sells very well is surprising too. Apparently there are a lot of people still using film for PRO work too (Natoinal Geographic should be a good example)... From the article: Lord, I don't think I have the strength to face a world without Leica I'm just now getting used to a world without Deardorff! This is off topic, but for those of you with an interest in large format, Mr. Deardorff is once again making view cameras under the name J. Deardorff Photographic Products Intl., or DPPI. I have a scan of the catalog that was presented recently by the man himself. It's a VERY LARGE file (~12MB) for only 37 pages. If anyone wants a copy, I'll be happy to post it at my personal site for download. Perhaps someone with a copy of Acrobat would be willing to resize it? -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.6.2 - Release Date: 3/4/2005
Re: Sunday photographer Just to be contrary
Actually there are four major cycles, the 11 year cycle you mention is somewhat in dispute. Graywolf wrote: No surprise that the F6 is selling well. Most of the problem with camera sales was not digital cameras, but the world economic conditions. But things are on the rise again now. I'vw mentioned an 11 year economic cycle many times, and no one listens. I find it strange that none of the so-called economists mention it. Of course I have only lived through six of them: 1948, 1959, 1970, 1981, 1992, and 2003 being the bottoms of the cycle, so maybe my sample is not large enough. Major wars seem to modify that cycle. The bottom was mild in the US in 1970 when the government was spending billions on the VietNam war. And WWII held things off for about 4 years, the bottom of the cycle prior to '48 being 1933. Taking that 4 year slip into account I can find references that show the cycle holds back to 1900. Next bottom 2014; expect the economy to start an obvious down trend about 2010 with a possible sudden drop in the stock market a year or too befor that. Stock market crashes seem to happen at the top of the cycle. People blame them for the following depression, but the depression is going to hit reguardless of that. graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com Idiot Proof == Expert Proof --- Scott Loveless wrote: On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 12:45:46 +0100, Sylwester Pietrzyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/columns/sm-mar-05.shtml Interestng conclusions. And information that new Nikon F6 sells very well is surprising too. Apparently there are a lot of people still using film for PRO work too (Natoinal Geographic should be a good example)... From the article: Lord, I don't think I have the strength to face a world without Leica I'm just now getting used to a world without Deardorff! This is off topic, but for those of you with an interest in large format, Mr. Deardorff is once again making view cameras under the name J. Deardorff Photographic Products Intl., or DPPI. I have a scan of the catalog that was presented recently by the man himself. It's a VERY LARGE file (~12MB) for only 37 pages. If anyone wants a copy, I'll be happy to post it at my personal site for download. Perhaps someone with a copy of Acrobat would be willing to resize it? -- I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime. --P.J. O'Rourke
