"Notice to Airmen", or NOTAM. Not Notice to Air Missions. I am a private pilot BTW.

I totally agree. We have gone 100 percent backwards in usability and user interface. I totally hate these design decisions. The people who came up with this garbage deserve a special place in hell.

... Skynet was born. A few years later than expected, but nonetheless...

Lego's biggest failure was to keep making new Mindstorm products completely incompatible with the prior generations. I had a whole bunch of Mindstorm V2 stuff, and it all became instantly incompatible with anything after that, and Lego didn't even bother to keep the old software available, let alone compatible on anything beyond Windows 98. I have looked at the more modern sets numerous times (and I now have 4 kids that could benefit if I were to buy them), but I was so turned off by the planned obsolescence every few years that I never could convince myself to pull the trigger. I'm glad I didn't bother. My kids are better off learning real skills with Arduino, Raspberry Pi, etc.

Fascinating that there is no mention of Apple, which does exactly the same thing. I wonder why? Oh, could it be because some of the iPhone models just started being manufactured in India? Wouldn't want to upset Apple, now would we?

This made me think about all the ridiculous advertising and shady marketing Apple has done in years past. They flat out lied about stuff all the time, boasting fake performance claims over Intel in tests that the suspiciously could not be replicated by anyone outside of Apple because they were rigged to make Apple look better than it actually was. Or maybe that's just marketing in general, LOL. At any rate, I've seen so many BS statements from Apple that I knew were not true that I've been forever skeptical whenever Apple makes a claim. Case in point... before Apple started using Intel processors, they made so much noise about how they were faster than Intel with their PowerPC yadda yadda. Then why, several years later, did they start using Intel processors? Just curious. LOL I'm not disputing nor care about the M1 or M2 stuff. Maybe it's faster, but don't care. Doesn't matter to me. I use what I like that best suits my needs (which is not Apple), and someone else is going to use Apple products if it better suits their needs. So what? No need to compare.

A streaming service nobody wanted nor needed. Totally not surprised it is shutting down, but surprised it happened this quick. I remember thinking to myself months ago when I first heard about CNN+ this was going to flop. I just could not see anybody wanting nor paying for this garbage. They overestimated the appeal.

I'm a private pilot. FAA certified panel-mounted GPS systems for airplanes can cost anywhere betwee $2,000 on up to $20,000+. Just saying.

What a crock of BS. Has nobody seen Google's voice seach? It already does 99% of what Siri does, and all they have to do is make a different app with the same code as google voice and just add a series of lookup tables that convert common phrase fragments into Android commands. Easy Peasy. If I had the source code to google voice search, I could do it easily. (I am a professional programmer, btw) it should be fairly easy for Google to duplicate everything Siri does just by adding a little additional code. It would take them days, not years. I love how the author doesn't know jack about anything.

This coming from the company that created the Google Chrome webbrowser, which purposely bypasses ALL of Windows Security features to allow it to be installed even on the most locked-down user accounts. Seems ironic that that they would tout this when their own software uses the same techniques utilized by malware and virus authors.

This is BS. This is nothing more than an excuse for Verizon to squeeze more money out of customers. I am getting frakked in the the a$$ by Com-Xfinitysucks-castic by ridiculuous price increases and equipment fees. I pay over $100 a month for 1.5 mb download and digital basic tv, and that's WITHOUT HD. If I want HD, I have to pay an additional $40 per month plus an upcharge on an HD box. Now Comcast just forced me to get these stupid DTA boxes which eliminate the ability to get any free HD channels and effectively eliminates the QAM channels I used to be able to pick up on my LCD HDTV. WIthout the DTA I can only watch 15 channels. And of course they only give you 2 "free" DTA's... if you have more TV's, you have to rent them for $2 a month. Nothing but a SCAM. I am cancelling Comcast. And when Verizon ends the unliminted data plan, I am cancelling Verizon. Seriously... I might as well forego internet all together. Frak these companies who make it so expensive to enjoy technology with their 400% upcharges on services.

I had to write an iPhone/iPod Touch app for work. The Objective-C programming language and the XCode IDE are probably the worst tools I've ever had to work with, with the exception of having to do apps in horrible JavaSwing once-upon-a-time. Actually the graphics programming is pretty decent but the Objective-C syntax is just retarded. Anyway, the draconian control Apple has over their platfrom should be alarming to all developers. Forcing what tools (and hardware) developers have to use, forcing developers to pay $100 a year just for the right to use the tools, and no guarantee you will ever be able to get your hard work on the App Store are all reasons to boycott the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad development. You say that the Google Android platform is no alternative? Only time will tell. I personally believe that the iPhone/iTouch/iPad market is only a temporary star for Apple. Eventually they will get knocked down by better products with better developer support and without all the draconian BS Apple forces on developers.

Obviously you don't know what you're talking about... You keep referencing MFC and Visual Studio 2008 together like they are somehow related. If you were doing something in Visual Studio 2008, you were unlikely developing a MFC app. MFC is ancient and rarely used anymore. You were either doing something in WinForms, WPF, or a console app. If you think C# is a god-awful hack of language, then you, sir, are an idiot. Go play with your cocoa and let us real developers do the real work.

Having had to do development on the iPhone/iPod Touch for work, I can tell you that I personally hate Objective C/XCode/Cocoa. It's one of the worst designed programming languages I have ever used. The vector-based graphics and animations are great, but the language is so backwards and retarded. It's not very hard once you figure out how to do stuff, it's just a pain because it is so unconventional. And I mean that not in a good way. Having done years and years of development in C++, Java, VB.Net, C#, and mostly recently WPF applications with C#, Objective C just feels inferior in EVERY way. Any experienced GUI developer who has had to do anything with the absolutely atrocious XCode Interface Builder knows what I'm talking about. (Although I would argue that doing GUI work in Java using ANY of the GUI frameworks is 10 times more painful than using the XCode Interface Builder. If you want to do good GUI's, Java aint the right tool, period.) I laugh at Apple wanting to force developers to use their own language. What did you expect from Apple? They are draconian and anti-open source and anti-developer. This is the reason that eventually the iCrap will be overshadowed by better products from competitors in the future.