--- Fast food restaurants "say it's a way to ease the burden placed on overworked employees..." --- So fast food restaurants seem to admit they overwork employees?

I have a Brother laser printer w/duplex. It still works well after more than a decade. It even accepts non-Brother toner cartridges, though I've found they are not as good as the Brother toner cartridges.... :)

Once the epitome of quality, now it seems to have become more of a low quality bottom-feeder, with the apparently forced printer-supplies subscriptions and malfunctioning equipment. What has happened to the HP of old?

when he wrote The Road Ahead. ... so, what good can he be as a prognosticator?

Once the epitome of quality, now it seems to have become more of a low quality bottom-feeder, with the apparently forced printer-supplies subscriptions and malfunctioning equipment. What has happened to the HP of old?

}} -- Now I want to try Notion. -- {{ ---- I'll pass. Notion looks like little more than a huge vacuum for personal data.

This prediction from the guy who seems to have missed the onslaught of the Internet back in the day .

... that I'll actually be able to buy a Raspberry Pi in the near future?

WeatherUnderground took its first degrading in quality when The Weather Channel bought them. Then IBM bought the data services of The Weather Channel (leaving the cable studios to some other company). IBM's weather.com is still one of the better out there, though, and their app is private-labeled by many TV stations around the country.

... there seems to be a bit of a trend towards hiring on-air weather personalities instead of meteorologists to provide the weather forecasts in the TV news (one local stations describes them as a "weather presenter"). These on-air weather personalities do little more than read the visuals that the weather models present, and provide no insight behind what the models are showing and do not comment upon the accuracy of what the models might be showing.

{{{ --- I do remember VB being EVERYWHERE. --- }}} Maybe everywhere in Windows. But does that make it "the world's most dominant?" OK, maybe we need to determine how to ascertain what "dominance" means for a forced-bundled programming language.

... whatever happened to that assertion?

Huh? So the article starts off with a lie...

... and I saw nothing relevant to this topic. What's up?

... isn't that an oxymoron?