How do you propose doing that? I may be wrong, but I only can think of 5 credit card companies, and if Visa does this, I'd be shocked if Mastercard, Discover, American Express, and Synchrony Bank (counting them as they're the ones who do most store cards) didn't start offering this as well. I don't know about you, but I shop at more than 4 stores with my credit cards and even use them to purchase services.

Honestly, I'll be surprised if Synchrony doesn't already do something like this and just doesn't make it publicized the way Visa did. Lords know GE Capital was notorious for sketchy stuff, thus they changed their name to Synchrony in a more successful rebranding than Comcast could do.

I can state with absolute confidence that they can, and do export them. There's a brand of microphones (sE Electronics) that is absolutely good and reliable and exported from China.

With Chinese manufacturing, unless you tell them you want it to be this level of quality/this caliber/this higher price point, my understanding is their culture TEACHES them from an early age to be as frugal as possible. As such, making things cheap is inherent. If the Western companies that work with the Chinese factories were to tell them they expect things to be of higher quality, we probably wouldn't have that preconception, though those cheap, crappy products we're referencing probably wouldn't exist then.

If you click on the score, you'll see the actual moderation that's been done. Ironically, you're right AND the post has at least one, "Troll," mod at this point.

Yeah, definitely do not miss 10.7. I seem to recall 10.8 not being any better, but Snow Leopard was my favorite, by far.

I've personally jumped ship to LUNA and been quite happy with it. UA seems to have hired all the devs that did any of the good work with Pro Tools and have come up with a nice system. My Apollos integrate directly just like the interfaces when I was using the university's HDX rig with Pro Tools back in the day.

Last time I actively used Logic was 9 and I saw what Apple did to Final Cut. When they nerfed the hell out of Final Cut Pro X, I was afraid they'd do that to Logic, too. Glad they didn't, but I did always find my audio editing to take longer in Logic than Pro Tools (and now LUNA), personally.

That said, I'll never understand Ableton Live, though it is probably the best DAW for low resource systems.

Maybe they fixed up some of the memory issues after 10.7? I remember a lot of people complaining about it at the time and personally having notably more background processes running constantly in 10.7 than 10.6.

I, too, was recording multitracks, but, by the nature of my gig at the time, I had to be in Pro Tools, so Avid's memory hog did take over to some extent. My MBP of that era was maxed out to 16GB about a year after I got it because of Avid. Man, I'm getting PTSD thinking about Pro Tools 10 and 11...

And, yeah, good call doing it when you did as I bet in the next year or two the SO-DIMMs for that era MBP will be unobtanium and cost 3x what you paid for them then.

Unfortunately. Otherwise, 8 MB of RAM could run the OS, though one would like more if they're actually using it for any actual tasks.

All joking aside, since 10.7, Mac OS X (now macOS) has been getting bloatier and bloatier. I remember having to upgrade to 10.7 for a program I needed and, as memory serves, the OS's memory footprint when not running any other applications nearly doubled from running 10.6.8.

My kingdom for a mod point! What a perfect first post!

FTS, I read it as his way to make the makers of Apex fix the problems. I'd say this would be more like someone telling the NFL they have a security flaw at that stadium and then, during the game, running out onto the field. Lord knows fans running onto the field has happened before, yet I bet 95% of /. didn't know it happened...

Interesting. Thank you for your explanations! This actually is causing me to consider putting more into my life insurance and less into my 401k (I expect I'll be leaving a good chunk of money to my beneficiaries).

I'm sitting here at a regular day job that does not require much computer skill, so maybe my view is slanted from the rest here, but I don't get everyone decrying this as dumb.

I would venture to guess that the average adult doesn't know a bit from a byte, so at least Indiana is trying to bridge that gap. I imagine this isn't going to be a coding camp type school or anything like that, just a basics of computer science. With the way the world is so reliant on computers, I consider this a good step, kind of like how driver's education is a requirement for graduation in many districts.

And to the people who are saying that you shouldn't force people to learn things they don't want to, you've had it happen to you your entire life, why are you saying others shouldn't? Heck, maybe those people will discover they actually enjoy computer science by having a sample of it. I know I thought I'd dislike algebra, until I was forced to take it.

Do you have a source for this statement? I can't find anything supporting your statement with my Google fu.

Funnily enough, the last time I heard a spiel from a front man about piracy, he made commentary to the effect of, "This one's off our new album, if you haven't heard it yet, there's a torrent of places to find it." Went back to their merch table and bought a shirt right then and there.

I genuinely read this as some engineers wanted to try to make a Sony product do something that it absolutely was designed not to do. Not really as a, "Everybody should buy this so that it can be hacked to do this thing!" situation. It's a proof of concept, not a final mod (TFA even lists that there's not a mod released yet).