Those are some of my favourite stories. Although if I remember correctly, it contains the short story version of The Bicentennial Man and you may wish to read the novella version instead which he wrote later, having developed the story some more.
I really liked Altered Carbon but I didn't like Thin Air (which is also by Morgan) so much. I really like detective stories though, like The Caves of Steel.
This is probably organised crime, like a digital version of a protection racket, demanding money or the DDOS will continue.
Hopefully, they find the people responsible.
Good. Hopefully nuclear fission will buy us enough time to get nuclear fusion working and energy will be a problem of the past.
We have several private companies pursuing fusion now (such as Tokamak Energy) so hopefully one of them will pull a SpaceX and break the stagnation. STEP and ITER look promising in any case.
It looks cute, but it's sad. I hope (s)he got better.
I mean I don't care outside of the effect it has on this. Like I'm not a Republican looking to blame the Democrats or vice versa.
Exclusivity is a part of the industry. If they want to tackle that then Sony really ought to be in a lawsuit for anti-consumer practices as well.
There is simply no other company that can compete with SpaceX’s cost and responsiveness.
If a company dominates a sector simply because it is better than the alternative companies is that a bad thing? It doesn't seem like they are blocking other companies from entering the field.
SpaceX’s Starshield has the potential to remove many of these barriers to “app” development. For companies that pay for Starshield, SpaceX will provide satellite command and control, constellation maintenance, cybersecurity, encrypted processing of data, and integration and launch services. Most importantly, SpaceX will provide a modular bus with all the payload requirements and a plug-and-play operating system.
That seems like a valuable product.
Their manufacturing capacity, combined with the lowest kilogram-to-orbit launch costs in the industry and unmatched launch cadence
This is good for space travel overall as it will lower costs, making it easier to launch more experimental components, human spaceflight etc.
This market opportunity will drive more excitement, innovation, and investment into the Starshield program, creating more market opportunities
Okay..
Honestly, these all seem like good things, one can hardly blame SpaceX for the lack of success of their competitors. The whole article really feels like "I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him."
Then remove all posts about the ATVI acquisition. It's approval by regulators is an inherently political process.
I'm not even American so I don't really care about the American politics - but it's pretty clear that it will have an effect on the behaviour of the FTC and the court.
To be honest, I think it would have been better for Microsoft to spend the money on like a hundred smaller studios. But it sets a dangerous precedent when the Government can just come in and order them not to go ahead with the acquisition.
It's not like MSFT would be remotely close to a monopoly even with ATVI. This isn't Standard Oil, but politicians want to make it out to be like that so they can claim a win.
I'm not sure "cofounder of string field theory" is a good thing - it's not the 90's anymore...
I've read all of them. The TV series is incredible as well and had the full involvement of the authors. Some stuff is done better in the books (like the stuff that doesn't translate so well to screen such as the lanky belters and zero-gravity) and some stuff is done better in the TV show (they had an incredibly good cast of actors, all of whom really added to the roles - Krisjen, Ashford and Drummer in particular were amazing).
It was a really really good adaptation and it's quite rare you see that.