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Originally Posted By: muikabochi I hate the idea of photos being too big and breaking up a webpage. muikabochi, it doesn't break the page because you would use a thumbnail (links with different sizes are automatically produced for each pic). From the thumbnail below in 3 clicks you get to the full sized version and F11 makes it fill the whole screen.

Originally Posted By: muikabochi Sounds like moaning for moanings sake which some people seem to take real glee in. I started this thread to see if anyone knew how to make an album on an unrelated website. It was someone else who mentioned SJF's image hosting facilities. But on that topic, to say you can upload 8MB pics here is pretty irrelevant when everything gets resized down to I'm guessing little over 600 x 400. I take my pics at 2048 x 1536 and they're always well under 1MB but excellent picture quality (aesthetics of photography doesn't come into it). Sorry I didn't want to sound

Originally Posted By: thursday Quote: I just hate not being able to see photos in their original size. Bit mystified about this. What res have you go on your mon? Monitor is at 1280 x 800. I take photos at 2048 x 1536. So yes, I can't see the whole photo full sized but I like to be able to look at it full sized to check details. Same with looking at other people's pics. It's a shame how everyone's got great 7+ MB digi cameras but as soon as they share pics over the web they get resized to something slightly bigger than a thumbnail.

Originally Posted By: SJForums They should come out "good". The point being made in a previous thread was that if you want them to be close to 100% quality, you might want to upload at 750 pixels wide as that is the size they are fixed at. However, they should come up looking good whatever size you upload them at. If they do not, please let us know and we will take a look. Mine weren't "bad" but the resizing did introduce some jaggedness, particularly noticeable on straight lines. Not a big deal. I just hate not being able to see photos in their original size. Not that I'm saying it'

Originally Posted By: thursday you want to post a pic that is 4000 pixels wide? It gives you links for smaller version but allows people to click on whatever you post to get to the full sized version.

Originally Posted By: joshnii If they are snow pics you can upload them here up to 8MB. but they get resized, don't they? I uploaded some here recently and they didn't come out too good. Later I read I should have resized them to I forget what for a better result. But on 1 pixelhosts they're not resized at all and no loss of quality - exactly the same as the originals. Even Flickr won't do that.

no help pages. Pretty basic site but good because you can upload 3MB pics full size. Emailed them but no reply yet.

Anyone using it? When I put the mouse pointer over the Albums button a box pops up in the middle of the screen with New Album and Root Gallery. But as soon as I move the pointer off Albums to click New Album, the box disappears! How can I make a new album?

want to end up like this? Then drink cider! (that's me on the left)

for Hakuba last season my impression was there were a few restaurant jobs going in late December (ie. after the season had already started) which you'd only get by being there. They might not be many hours - most people doing them already had other jobs. If you post your email address I can send you names of some places to try. If you're serious about getting a job I'd stay in the cheapest accommodation you can find from late December and ask around. (This is just my experience of Hakuba, I don't know about other resorts.)

Originally Posted By: SJForums A few votes for blizzards at resorts in Hiroshima and Aomori, posted on the same day, coming from Argentina (!) amongst others have been deleted Coming from Argentina doesn't necessarily make them invalid. They might be using a proxy server.

Any info on Cortina? Sure they won't open officially this weekend but does any lift run there regardless of snow? I'm going there Sunday not to ski but would there be anything skiable, even if it meant walking up the hill?

white lightning? That comes on blotting paper, doesn't it?

Originally Posted By: Black Diamond do a Japan road trip. Great idea! And it's not only movie stars who sleep in carparks. I believe there's quite a tradition among regular Japanese and I've talked to a few gaijins who've done it the whole season. Originally Posted By: Black Diamond a nice heater with a long extension cord, you could spend a month quite comfortably. Are you suggesting stealing electricity? Invest in a -15 sleeping bag and you should be ok. Apparently some vans have heaters you can run for a few hours without killing the battery. Might be worth buying a small 2nd hand v

Originally Posted By: Go Native In the US after their 'credit-driven bubble' as you put it, plenty of people have swooped in to pick up bargains in the aftermath [...] if you believe, as I do, that prices will eventually go up again then this may not be a bad strategy. But how long is eventually? In the UK if you bought at the peak of the 1980s housing bubble, you'd have to wait 13 years for your investment to be worth as much as you paid for it. Another peak 18 years later (2007) and another crash, which still hasn't bottomed out. Worth noting prices carried on dropping for 7 years after t

Hakkoda in Aomori prefecture (furtherest north on Honshu) looks amazing. Haven't been there myself.

Originally Posted By: Jynxx I wonder if there is such a thing as too much powder for some people. I heard about a resort in the US which closed all season a few years ago because of too much snow. Lift pylons were buried.

Originally Posted By: TJ OZ Chewing gum can work really well also as it hardens in the cooler temperatures. Thanks, I will try this.

Originally Posted By: Tubby Beaver like those crazy single seated lifts that have no safety bar...they would NOT be allowed back home. ha ha, true. And don't dynamite avalanches just get Patrol to ski across the top.

Originally Posted By: Tubby Beaver I think in many laws they let things go that our countries would not. Its a mixed bag, in general less restrictive than our countries. Which laws are they?

Originally Posted By: Black Mountain Japan is such a nanny state. I have to agree with that. But then once in a while, like Nozawa Onsen fire festival, they'll chuck the rule book out the window and go completely crazy with stuff which would never get past heath & safety in the UK and I'm guessing Oz too.

Originally Posted By: Black Mountain You pay 30,000 - 90,000Â¥ for a board but 1000Â¥ for a stomp pad is too expensive? I paid the equivalent of 18,000 yen online for a great board from the US which I couldn't have have got here for any money. Super wide for my size 13 feet and nice and long. 1000 yen for a generic stomp pad is a joke. Those studs should be diamonds! Ski gear is very expensive here.

Originally Posted By: Tubby Beaver but when you fall with these on, its the hard plastic that takes the heat, not your wrsit bones. So although your hand is bent slightly back, it doesn't bend any further back because the plastic "bone" has absorbed the impact So broken wrists are impact rather than snapping breaks? Then the inner wrist guard makes sense. Interesting. I've also seen gloves with the guard on the outer wrist.

How long before the lifts rust to pieces and the pylons fall down? Probably before the trees grow back on the runs. Sad to see resorts go under but kind of nice how everything returns to nature in the end.

Originally Posted By: iiyamadude Indeed the staff walked under it, in their elaborate tunnels. I'd like to see those tunnels. Maybe someone could do a snowmobile tour there.