My friend (still is my friend) drove over my Canon EOS Elan 7...the camera, however, could still rewind the film and could still pop the flash out.
And I still use my Canon A-1 from 1981 as my primary 35mm camera because it never lets me down. And I have a CanonScan FS4000US film scanner as well.
BUT, when they pull this kind of crap of crippling products simply so that they can turn on more features and charge much higher prices, it makes me consider that I don't want to buy from them again in the future.
What I don't understand is that if you can build a camera with these features at this price, why someone doesn't, and eat Canon's lunch in the process!
P.S. I feel the same way about Dell, this posting being typed on one of our first, 8-year-old machines that is still used every day, and whose computers we've used exclusively up until now, but whose dogged insane refusal to use AMD processors now has me now looking for a new vendor because I can't buy an Athlon64 from Dell.
Remember when the difference between Windows NT Server and Workstation was just two registry keys, and a small program that attempted to keep you from resetting them?
Yes it was cheaper for MS to maintain one code base, instead of two, but having developed it already, they could have just given all the functionality to everybody at one price.
It's crap like this that makes me hate corporations. Maybe everything should be required by law to be sold at cost of manufacture + 10% profit. I can't believe Canon is selling the Rebel at a loss, so in truth they are just ripping off the D10 people.
It was once true (say 10-15 years ago) in the American automoblie industry that the cost difference to build the cheapest to the most expensive car was about $1000, although the resulting price difference between those models was more like $15,000. Even updated for today those figures would probably be $3000 and $25,000.
And how much less do you suppose it costs Intel to make a Celeron verses a Pentium 4, or AMD to make an Athlon64 verses a Duron? It probably costs them more to build two or more different chips than if they designed and built their best chip only!
If I knew how to effectively fight those bastards, I would!
a few days ago while reading slashdot, the little "fortune" quip at the bottom of a pageload was "'So far, we've managed to avoid turning perl into APL' -- Larry Wall". Maybe that one should be expunged from the database...;)
You bury the best piece at the very end of a nice post. This deserved to have a post of its own.:^)
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Hey, I live in the Sonora Desert. And it's called desert for a reason. And the only way you'd ever begin to get me interested in wanting that in my backyard is if everyone here was profiting from it.
Did I mention we already have a mosquito problem, strange as that might sound.
Btw, has anyone considered what adding an additional 10K square miles of evaporation will do to the weather patterns? Of course not.
If you want to use the desert, why not hydrogen farming using solar cells? Much less impact.
And in a Related Case, Denny Crane (nee William Shatner) told Eugene the judge (this is all in reference to "The Practice" ABC television, Sunday nights):
Your honor, the fact that my client's car was identified driving away from the bank robbery in no way implicates him. Recently he has been leaving his car doors unlocked and keys in the ignition. Because he does not watch the car during this period of time, he has no idea who may have actually used it for this crime. Since you cannot prove in the driver's seat he did sit, you must acquit!
by 'making my Internet connection available to any and all who happen upon it, I have no way to be certain what kinds of songs, movies and pictures will be downloaded
That has nothing to do with security, and may remove some protections you otherwise might have to keep people from breaking into your own computers.
You are looking for lawsuit immunity, which is very different than security. How well that might work is going to depend on when somebody is actually willing to go toe-to-toe against the **AA in court. So far it hasn't happened. They blackmail -- you pay. I don't expect if you just say, "Hey, I had an open Internet connection. Could have been anybody," is going to have them reply, "Oh, sorry, we're dropping our suit immediately." Their case might be weak in court since it would be very hard for them to prove it was actually you unless they served a search warrent against you, siezed your computers, and did forensic analysis on your hard drives and any CD/DVD - R/RW's they got along the way, but that's only after you get to court against their deep-pockets.
Besides, if you do open your connection intentionally, you are probably in violation of the terms of your ISP.
Your argument is essentially the same as any Freenet user has -- and that has yet to be tested as well.
Did you ever notice how often this phrase comes in at the end of judgements against industry? Not go to the legislating body and attempt to get the law changed. But instead try to get the courts to enforce the law the way they want.
Could it be -- heaven forbid -- that these laws are not popular and most people don't want them? People who vote don't want them?
You're right. I interchanged pirate and idiot at the last moment for more effectiveness, and made it less effective in the process. It's the old programmer's story of just "one last correction." At least the subject was right.
But at least I know someone read it, besides the person who modded me down instead of Funny.
I am willing to bet that if Microsft started giving their software away for free tomorrow and opened up all their servers to deliver it, a certain percentage of users would still try to get their copy off of their favorite P2P network -- and get trashed as a result!
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Yes, with the Director's Commentary track, and the Deleted Scenes and Bloopers.
And I still use my Canon A-1 from 1981 as my primary 35mm camera because it never lets me down. And I have a CanonScan FS4000US film scanner as well.
BUT, when they pull this kind of crap of crippling products simply so that they can turn on more features and charge much higher prices, it makes me consider that I don't want to buy from them again in the future.
What I don't understand is that if you can build a camera with these features at this price, why someone doesn't, and eat Canon's lunch in the process!
P.S. I feel the same way about Dell, this posting being typed on one of our first, 8-year-old machines that is still used every day, and whose computers we've used exclusively up until now, but whose dogged insane refusal to use AMD processors now has me now looking for a new vendor because I can't buy an Athlon64 from Dell.
Wow, that's worth $500.
Yes it was cheaper for MS to maintain one code base, instead of two, but having developed it already, they could have just given all the functionality to everybody at one price.
It was once true (say 10-15 years ago) in the American automoblie industry that the cost difference to build the cheapest to the most expensive car was about $1000, although the resulting price difference between those models was more like $15,000. Even updated for today those figures would probably be $3000 and $25,000.
And how much less do you suppose it costs Intel to make a Celeron verses a Pentium 4, or AMD to make an Athlon64 verses a Duron? It probably costs them more to build two or more different chips than if they designed and built their best chip only!
If I knew how to effectively fight those bastards, I would!
One working example on one day does not put them lightyears ahead of anyone. An installed, working system that people can use -- and afford -- might.
You bury the best piece at the very end of a nice post. This deserved to have a post of its own. :^)
I think he means Thor in particular, and the rest of the council not far behind him, her, uh...it.
Smells like a troll to me.
Ludites reading /. now. What is this world coming to?
'Nuf said.
No, I mean like in the middle of the desert. The ocean is over a hundred miles away.
Hey, I live in the Sonora Desert. And it's called desert for a reason. And the only way you'd ever begin to get me interested in wanting that in my backyard is if everyone here was profiting from it.
Did I mention we already have a mosquito problem, strange as that might sound.
Btw, has anyone considered what adding an additional 10K square miles of evaporation will do to the weather patterns? Of course not.
If you want to use the desert, why not hydrogen farming using solar cells? Much less impact.
Schmeiser should be suing Monsanto for tresspass.
This is the judge we need for the SCO case. With someone like this, this farce could have been over by now.
And this is ever so much better than actually buying Mac hardware because...?
Shouldn't that be: A Mac P2P User's...
Your honor, the fact that my client's car was identified driving away from the bank robbery in no way implicates him. Recently he has been leaving his car doors unlocked and keys in the ignition. Because he does not watch the car during this period of time, he has no idea who may have actually used it for this crime. Since you cannot prove in the driver's seat he did sit, you must acquit!
That has nothing to do with security, and may remove some protections you otherwise might have to keep people from breaking into your own computers.
You are looking for lawsuit immunity, which is very different than security. How well that might work is going to depend on when somebody is actually willing to go toe-to-toe against the **AA in court. So far it hasn't happened. They blackmail -- you pay. I don't expect if you just say, "Hey, I had an open Internet connection. Could have been anybody," is going to have them reply, "Oh, sorry, we're dropping our suit immediately." Their case might be weak in court since it would be very hard for them to prove it was actually you unless they served a search warrent against you, siezed your computers, and did forensic analysis on your hard drives and any CD/DVD - R/RW's they got along the way, but that's only after you get to court against their deep-pockets.
Besides, if you do open your connection intentionally, you are probably in violation of the terms of your ISP.
Your argument is essentially the same as any Freenet user has -- and that has yet to be tested as well.
Did you ever notice how often this phrase comes in at the end of judgements against industry? Not go to the legislating body and attempt to get the law changed. But instead try to get the courts to enforce the law the way they want.
Could it be -- heaven forbid -- that these laws are not popular and most people don't want them? People who vote don't want them?
Just who owns and runs the country anyway?
It's hardly green if the electricity comes from a fossil fuel fired plant.
Or am I missing something?
Only that this is probably what Apple has already been using in their iPods.
You're right. I interchanged pirate and idiot at the last moment for more effectiveness, and made it less effective in the process. It's the old programmer's story of just "one last correction." At least the subject was right.
But at least I know someone read it, besides the person who modded me down instead of Funny.
Hey, this is Insightful!