Well corporations do this because they (rightly) assume customer is dumb. It is a pity for those who know how to handle that but for the majority whose camera will end in support area of Pentax, they'd better avoid that if they can.
Always like that, tune to the majority of people (dumb usually). Otherwise: too many problems. 2007/3/7, Wilko Bulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 08:47:18AM +0100, Thibouille wrote.. > > Yes of course. It often works like that for good (most of the time) reasons. > > Because of that "most of the time" clause is exactly the reason why it is a > bad idea. > > Seen this too often with customers (that is in the professional IT area, > but the principle of allowing a downgrade remains sound) > > Wilko > > > > 2007/3/7, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > That's not surprising. I know that's the way I'd design a firmware > > > upgrade to work. > > > > > > Dario Bonazza wrote: > > > > Doug Franklin wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > >> Why do you say that, Ken. Am I missing something? It seems to me that > > > >> I set up two SD cards, one with the old firmware and one with the new. > > > >> A simple swap of the cards and the "magic startup" to load new firmware > > > >> and I'm set. Does the 1.11 (or whatever) firmware notice that I'm > > > >> trying to load an older version and refuse? > > > >> > > > > > > > > Exactly, just tried that :-( > > > > > > > > Dario > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Entropy Seminar: The results of a five yeer studee ntu the sekend lw uf > > > thurmodynamiks aand itz inevibl fxt hon shewb rt nslpn raq liot. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > > [email protected] > > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > > > > > > -- > > Thibault Massart aka Thibouille > > ---------------------- > > K10D,Z1,SuperA,KX,MX, P30t and KR-10x ;) ... > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > --- end of quoted text --- > > -- > Wilko > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille ---------------------- K10D,Z1,SuperA,KX,MX, P30t and KR-10x ;) ... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
