That is almost exactly how they usually do it, but they many times negotiate per company. However, it does look like ARM trying to have a redo on their contract that they have had in place for a very long time, now that ARM is more popular. When it was the cell manufactures that made it possible for ARM to be in the current position it is in precisely because of the terms ARM had in its contract years ago. Qcom may have a good case as they have put arm chips in computers before (omnitracs). ARM saying it has to be tied with a modem, and buying another company does a full reset on the existing contract may not go far.
so... if qcom included a "modem" on their server board would arm be happy? well not happy, but would it satisfy arms interpretation of the contract?
I could totally see every single server board saddled with some obsolete appendix of a cell baseband to satisfy the letter of some sweet contract qualcom had with arm saving the company a fair few million.
Possible. But more than likely they will meet in the middle and ARM will get something and QCOM will get something. But no where near what either is asking. But qcom does have a stronger position.
Having to write one for a class in college made me a master of pointers and C. Arrays within arrays rendering to Z buffers and crude matrix operators. Now all built into a nice lib and 3 calls away.
That is not how layoffs worked in companies I have worked at. The goal is to reduce 'head count' and in the real world cost.
They rank you by pay and tenure. Then decided if they can do without you. It almost rarely has anything to do with how good you are. But more 'my project would not finish in x time if y was gone'. Then they decide to keep the whole project or not and if they get rid of the project that means maybe 15 other people can go too.
After a particular level in many large companies you become a cost number instead of a person.
What you are working on may seem important. At least it is to you. But in the grand scheme of things most of what we work on is ethereal. I have been in this industry coming up on 30 years now. Very little of what I have ever worked on is even in production anymore. Thousands and thousands of lines of code, just gone, of no use anymore. I just hope whatever I did work on can help me with the next few thousand.
> Everyone knows they're being tracked everywhere they go physically and on the web
That sounds good to some people. But if I mentioned it to most people in my family they would probably be rather weirded out by it. They probably also would have no idea of the scope of the size of it and how it is being used against them.
It is what is driving spacex. They also embrace failure. It is where they learn what went wrong and fix it. At one point they were 4 rockets away from going out of business. I think they got down to the last 1 or 2 and they worked and spacex got to stay around and do cool stuff. Without money that company would not exist. They are now forcing the whole industry to re-think what it means to fire a rocket off. They have shifted everyone into thinking reuse is the best way forward. Where as before everything was mostly a one off special one time build. That profit is what is making them sustainable instead of the whims of some senator from whatever state decides to spike your program in favor of his buddies program.
There are a few vids of people trying it in the first cities. The consensious was pretty 'meh'. Cities traffic is 'interesting' as its priorities are not the same in real life. Usually a roundabout and playing with the priority tool worked better. In the second one the alg is very different though so it may help some. Getting one setup and the lights timed correctly would defiantly be a challenge.
There was also Meebo, which allowed you to login to all of them via a web interface (which I believe none of the messengers had natively) without installing the respective clients!
Meebo was sick. I remember they never made any money though as an IM webapp, and eventually fully pivoted to some kind of on-page ad toolbar that site owners would add to their sites...for some reason.
