They remove the feature which kept me from using google docs and sheets...

But long before that happens the question is if the laser can remain a laser.

A laser needs some kind of nonlinearity in the medium. Any nonlinearity introduces a scale. So the real question is: At which power does of-resonant driving cause transitions (e.g. Landau-Zener) or of-resonant shifts (Stark shift) and can you actually theoretically contruct a medium which fulfills the criteria to serve as a lasing medium for an arbitrary large scale of power?

As a starting point for an examination of such questions i recomment the Quantum Optics Toolbox for Matlab by Sze Tan.

If enough people expect microsoft to do it, then disappointing these people is going to do some economic harm. Microsoft should decide how it handles that.

My problems are my problems and there is no moral ground that MS can not be "nice".

IMHO that would sole the problem. Instead of making a complex bet on the custromer behaviour, ISPs should just provide access as cheap and fast as possible. Customer should take responsibility for usage.

Noscript, only per session cookies, and surfing trough a proxy.

I used Ubuntu (from 2006-2012). I used debian before and i use debian now. I could not agree more with you. What made me move away was that they stopped focusing on "Ubuntu for Computers".

When Ubuntu started, they made "Debian" + "whatever it takes to get it running without pain". That was great.

Then they continued to make small improvements which greatly improved usability (which was definitly great). I think the best releases where around 2010. Consistent, reliable, and yet compatible with most other FOS.

Then they started to push their own shit (Ubuntu one could, Unity etc.) and most of it before it was ready. They stopped focusing on fixing annoying bugs (like, problems with hibernation).

I waited for two upgrades, then i switched back to debian. Now the things which work do work consitently and all functions which are mandatory work.

My guess: when the technology which increases the data density by a factor of 100 is ready, then also the writing mechanism will be significantly faster.

I could imagine that a flat-fee per month could serve them and theirs customers well.

A market works best if all sides have the same access to knowledge. Prior to the Internet there was no big market for "i have a room which is dont use" because exchanging information was too expensive.

However, it was not at all unusual on the countryside to just put up a sign if you had a room to rent. I remember bicycle trips where we just stopped at some farm and asked and got a room there.

What is new is that you can plan this.

But the books which shaped my view on computing were
-The dragon book
-Algorithms (Sedgewick)
-An Introduction to Database Systems, (C. J. Date)
-Finite fields and their applications (Lidl, Niederreiter)
-Design Patterns
-The art of computing (Partially)

The best system i found are plain text files for the really important things, in a year/month/day directory structure. Store it locally on a usb stick and use an arbitray sync tool or version mangement to sync between your devices.

Searching these is easy.

Better nuke the reservoir form orbit, the only way to be sure.

I am lucky I grew up in the 80s I guess.

I dont the f**k care. If 4 developers who are probably not assigned on full time to this task taake only a week to give it a good start, then for sure a company could have taken the effort in the many years in which this library is in use.

I can assure you that predicting market scenarios is mor complicated that you make it sound.