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Faraday Future on track to start production of FF 91 this month if funds come through
Faraday Future said Wednesday it plans to start production of its all-electric FF 91 Futurist SUV at the end of March after years of delay, lack of capital and internal drama that threatened the company’s existence. Faraday Future had previously indicated that production would start in March, but had yet to select a date. There […]
Faraday Future on track to start production of FF 91 this month if funds come through by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch
Dota 2 Hero Guides celebrate 10 years, used in 91% of matches
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The Life And Loves Of A She-Devil author Fay Weldon dies aged 91
CNET Touts ‘Massive’ Microsoft Office Deal: 91% Discount on a Lifetime License
You can ditch the subscription (with recurring charges) and snag a lifetime license of access to Microsoft’s Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, OneNote, Publisher and Access for just $30…
That’s back at the lowest price we’ve ever seen, and a whopping 91% off the usual price of $349.
However, this deal expires in just a few days, so be sure to get your order in soon.The offer, from StackSocial, applies to both the Windows and Mac version of the software.
Now, you can always opt to use the free online version of Microsoft Office (which has far fewer features). But compared to the online Microsoft 365 subscription suite that costs $10 per month or $100 per year, this downloadable version is a phenomenal bargain.
The Mac deal ends today, but the Windows deal extends through December 28th, according to CNET’s article. “The two big caveats: You get a single key — which only works on a single computer — and there’s no Microsoft OneDrive Cloud Storage included.”
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Massive Microsoft Office Deal: Save 91% on a Lifetime License Today – CNET
Microsoft Office Is 91% Off, and You’d Be Nuts to Miss Out – CNET
Crucial’s P5 Plus NVMe SSD is down to £91 at Amazon UK
The Crucial P5 Plus is one of those drives that turn up in these deals articles a lot. That’s because it’s designed to undercut the likes of the WD SN850, Seagate Firecuda 530 and Samsung 980 Pro, offering slightly slower sequential speeds at a lower price point. That tradeoff is one that I’d make in almost every situation, as you’ll definitely notice the extra money in your wallet more than you’ll notice a fractional difference in game load times!
The P5 Plus’s 1TB model is the one discounted today, with a drop to £90.86 – that’s the lowest price we’ve ever recorded for this model and a good value for a high-end SSD suitable for PC and PS5.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr., Computer Design Innovator, Dies at 91
Until the 360, each model of computer had its own bespoke hardware design. That required engineers to overhaul their software programs to run on every new machine that was introduced. But IBM promised to eliminate that costly, repetitive labor with an approach championed by Dr. Brooks, a young engineering star at the company, and a few colleagues. In April 1964, IBM announced the 360 as a family of six compatible computers. Programs written for one 360 model could run on the others, without the need to rewrite software, as customers moved from smaller to larger computers. The shared design across several machines was described in a paper, written by Dr. Brooks and his colleagues Gene Amdahl and Gerrit Blaauw, titled “Architecture of the IBM System/360.”
“That was a breakthrough in computer architecture that Fred Brooks led,” Richard Sites, a computer designer who studied under Dr. Brooks, said in an interview.
But there was a problem. The software needed to deliver on the IBM promise of compatibility across machines and the capability to run multiple programs at once was not ready, as it proved to be a far more daunting challenge than anticipated. Operating system software is often described as the command and control system of a computer. The OS/360 was a forerunner of Microsoft’s Windows, Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. At the time IBM made the 360 announcement, Dr. Brooks was just 33 and headed for academia. He had agreed to return to North Carolina, where he grew up, and start a computer science department at Chapel Hill. But Thomas Watson Jr., the president of IBM, asked him to stay on for another year to tackle the company’s software troubles. Dr. Brooks agreed, and eventually the OS/360 problems were sorted out. The 360 project turned out to be an enormous success, cementing the company’s dominance of the computer market into the 1980s. “Fred Brooks was a brilliant scientist who changed computing,” Arvind Krishna, IBM’s chief executive and himself a computer scientist, said in a statement. “We are indebted to him for his pioneering contributions to the industry.”
Dr. Brooks published a book in 1975 titled, “The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering.” It was “a quirky classic, selling briskly year after year and routinely cited as gospel by computer scientists,” reports the Times.
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