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Canon Digital Rebel Hacked Into A Pseudo-10D
Reverb9 writes "When Canon introduced the Digital Rebel, the world's first entry-level Digital SLR camera, many remarked on its similarities to the 10D , its $500 more expensive big brother. In fact, the two cameras share much of the same technology and so Canon implemented a number of software-based limitations to avoid destroying sales of the professional-oriented 10D. Now, a new hack that restores a previously hidden menu along with a few additional tricks has added nearly all of those 10D features to the Rebel, with an arguably superior user interface to boot. Canon has so far said little on the hack but certainly cannot be happy with its potential effect on sales. This is, however, a reality that more corporations are having to confront. In an era where programming labour is relatively cheap and computer connectivity more frequent can artificial, marketing-driven, barriers between technology products, last?"
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Yes.
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And there is peace
There is love
And there is OS X!
And it's slashdotted already? Sheesh.
Anyway, I've always disliked it when companies charged more money for the same technology, without the crippled-ness of the cheaper version. It seems somehow dishonest.
America, oh America land of the depraved!
America, oh America oh my how you have changed
From each young stockbroker to every gutter whore
Would you recognize yourself as you stood before?
For freedom, that would face down any demand
For inclusiveness, that will draw no lines in the sand.
Where are you going and where do you stand?
I'll stop while ahead
Woo hoo I cheesed that up, sorry drinking pale ale and eating 6 month old reese's peanut butter cups. Sugar plus beer makes me try to write folk music like bender when you stick a magnet on his head.
An Education is the Font of All Liberty
So, you're saying not everyone agrees with MoveOn.org and people actually support the war in Iraq? Who wudda thunk...