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The first book is really just setting the scene. The next two books have a more conventional structure and at that point the story really motors along as the future/past stories unwind and the connections between the two are revealed. I'd recommend persevering as it does get to the quality of...

Are you sure there isn't a letter in there somewhere telling you what to do? There nearly always is. I would read that as sending the text on your old SIM card, then swap to the new SIM.

Promotion by the actors, ie, red carpet premiers, magazine and TV interviews, etc.

When the account owner for VM broadband/TV/Phone gets an O2 mobile phone contract (even if that's from being transferred from Virgin Mobile as part of their migration to O2), then you get your broadband bumped up to the next tier for the same price. The marketing for this is Volt.

Yeah, and they even did the announcement for it, just like they announced Cavill was back in the suit. Then they changed their minds because it doesn't match Gunn's new vision of doing all his own favourite characters that no one else has heard of.

Apparently that was scrapped (again) after James Gunn took over the DCEU at WB. Same as Henry Cavill was back as Superman, then scrapped again when Gunn arrived and everything shook out.

Like many directors, as soon as he's doing his own movies, the issues of his poor writing comes up. With Watchmen and 300, Synder used the comics directly as the storyboards, and the stories and characters are much better for it.

It reads a bit different the second time around when you know what the outcome of the flashback sections are. People are not who you thought they were. If you're going to skip "State Of The Art" (Culture short story anthology which is a bit of a mixed bag), then the next book is "Excession"...

William Gibson is one of the first authors to popularise the cyberpunk genre, though arguably Bruce Sterling and Walter Jon Williams got there first. Later, the likes of Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash" raised the genre to it's apex.

Cheaper for the publisher, not cheaper for the customer. They just said that to get people on board with digital distribution, but they were always going to keep that money in their pockets, rather than pass it on to the customer.

Have they changed it from needing a load of AI analysis of the game on Nvidia's servers? If so, it's still only tied to a subset of Nvidia's GPUs, versus FSR that works on everything, including competitor Nvidia cards.

It's no surprise that devs will use FSR (that's easy to install and works on everything), versus propriety DLSS that only works on Nvidia tensor cores and is harder to implement needing Nvidia's programming help.

Most modern sat-navs have the ability to ping annoyingly when you go over the speed limit. You need to get her one of those to have on all the time. It will probably also warn her where the speed cameras are.

One of my favourites. It's amazing as the clash between two star faring empires comes down to a game between two men - all to send a message. Some good twists at the end as well. The next book (Use Of Weapons) has a lot of Wasp Factory style, as the story is played out alternately in the...

They've been trying to build this for years in a Canadian bay that has a massive tidal range, but they can't build any kind of turbine that doesn't get quickly ripped apart.

30fps on consoles, 60fps on PCs. I won't be surprised if the PC modders get involved in stripping out the FPS and resolution limits.

Yes Dune Messiah is much shorter. IIRC, it's about half the size. Dune contains so much more than they are ever going to get into a movie. Even a mini-series would struggle with less than twenty hours of TV to play with, just for the first book. It's a shame because so much of the missing...

Very sticky, but it depends on if they are doing any engineering work in your area that resets DHCP or resegmenting the area - rare but possible. IIRC, I've had my current IP for several years, but there's no guarantee it won't change at some point.