I think one of the confusing things is ARM holdings doesn't sell physical chips. They sell a spec (verlog code I believe) that can be turned into a chip. Add some usb, memory, video card, maybe wireless and you get a system on a chip.
ARM sells many things, that many different customers use.
One is a license run the ARM ISA, so you can design a chip from the ground up. Another is a license to produce a reference implementation of a single processor design. Others peripherals and options exist too.
So, in short, a microprocessor architect might be needed to build an ARM chip, depending on how one was going about it.
and to be clear, what Apple has is the ISA license. Apple's ARM CPUs are not just the reference design from ARM. I'm not enough of a hardware person to know if they are modifying the design or have implemented the ISA from scratch, but their chips seem to be significantly faster than anyone else's so they're clearly doing something smart :)
Except that it isn't short. ARM licenses their architecture which you can implement but that implementation also must pass a verification test and you can neither add anything nor leave anything out. ARM also licenses IP cores in its traditional fabless role.
There are about 15 architectural licensees. Apple and NVidia are architectural licensees.
The funny thing is that when Acorn spun off ARM some 25 years ago, Apple owned a chunk of the new company, since they used ARM6 for the Newton. The new chip's MMU was actually designed by Bob Welland, one of the fathers of Newton OS, for which he concocted the whole protection domain feature.
This is basically what Reddit was doing before with "shadow bans". IIRC they had to stop because they just couldn't keep up with it and were banning people that shouldn't have been.
But I think the real barrier to adoption is that most people don't mind using centralized systems. If their Visa card works when they swipe it, they don't think beyond that. If it's easier for the end user when systems are centralized, breaking people out of this mindset will be very difficult.
I'm fairly pro privacy, but where it comes to currency, I don't see the benefit.
I certainly don't see the benefit of burning the amount of energy the average bitcoin transaction is now responsible for, when (as you say) I have Visa.
And with Visa I can charge-back if I get ripped off. Bitcoin is, AFAICT an actively worse proposition for me.
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To some degree, Juno's stated differentiator is being the best ride hail app from the drivers perspective by:
- 50% of founder equity goes to drivers
- 10% vs 20-25% cut of fares
- no pooled concept (this may be purely because they're too small to support it, though it is also unpopular with drivers
Good for you, but a lot of people care about supporting the more sustainable and fair businesses and pay extra for that. Buying only on price and thus personal gain is short sighted and will eventually lead to worse market conditions in many cases.
To put it the other way around, why not care? In NYC Juno is no more expensive than Uber (in fact there's a promo rate on right now), so if I have the option, why wouldn't I choose the option that does best by the person driving me around in their car?
Even if I were entirely selfish it wouldn't be in my interests for them to be stressed and rushing to cram in as many jobs as they can.
This is why I don't get why Uber tries to "undercut competitors". Even if they succeed, the second it stops bleeding money and raises prices competition will reappear. It's not like it is hard to install another app.
It doesn't sound like they have been hacked directly. This looks like the same things as TeamViewer where hackers are using password lists from other breaches to attempt to compromise the high value remote desktop targets.
Recently hipchat released a major UI rewrite, and now there's no way to turn off autocorrect. It's almost useless for developers discussing code, if every technical term you type gets replaced with the first non-technical word that is "close enough."
I am assuming you're on OS X? You can right-click on the input field, and under "Spelling & Grammar" you can turn off auto-correct. This is an OS feature, not something HipChat specific.
This seems awfully shortsighted. Perhaps some 'home' devices are gratuitous at this point but certainly there are other uses for headless devices to be connected to the internet.
Yes, the only thing that benefits from a an internet connection is a computer, but eventually everything will need to have a computer in it.
NYC Mesh pays for it through donations. Last I checked they were trying to setup a 501c3 to manage this, unsure of the status though.