bthylafh wrote:becoming obsolete. This is Windows 7.
Whew. What a relief. I feel soooo much better.
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bthylafh wrote:becoming obsolete. This is Windows 7.
End User wrote:GE's statement is clear - iOS and macOS available devices available to their global workforce.
I'll post it again:
"GE will standardize on iPhone and iPad for mobile devices and also promote Mac as a choice for its global workforce of more than 330,000 employees."
End User wrote:Why are you a member of a tech site whose primary purpose is to push the latest tech news?
End User wrote:Why are you a member of a tech site whose primary purpose is to push the latest tech news?
End User wrote:Why are you a member of a tech site whose primary purpose is to push the latest tech news?
End User wrote:Why are you a member of a tech site whose primary purpose is to push the latest tech news?
Glorious wrote:End User wrote:Say goodbye to the Enterprise
"GE will standardize on iPhone and iPad for mobile devices and also promote Mac as a choice for its global workforce of more than 330,000 employees."
Yeah, OK. See, I don't deal with Predix, but I do routinely deal with its direct competitors and you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.
"promote Mac as choice" = You need MacOS to develop for iOS.
This isn't remotely about replacing the Microsoft Corporate laptop/desktop, it's about developers working in Industrial Automation making apps with red/green lights relating to instrument readings on industrial devices so managers can look at them at home or on the floor. It's about how a minor division at GE are now being issued Macs because that's the only way they can build SDK to offer to those developers.
You're completely off-base with this.
derFunkenstein wrote:This gels with my experience. My "choice" was to either develop for iOS on a Mac or or not develop for iOS.
Captain Ned wrote:End User wrote:Why are you a member of a tech site whose primary purpose is to push the latest tech news?
Keep it up and the impending lock is on you.
Glorious wrote:I could have been issued a Mac too, but I strenuously made the case that we'd be ill-suited to develop apps solely for iOS (at the time you had the choice of blackberry, android, or iphone as your work phone) and instead advocated that we stick to web screens that can be viewed on anything.
spiketheaardvark wrote:Lab equipment is the worst. Electron microscopes and scintillation counters are among the worst. The technology has been around for a long time, new machines are still rather expensive, but they not noticeably better than the old equipment. The real pain comes in trying to get the data off of these things and onto you laptop. A usb port is a very welcome sight. 3.5 floppies aren't a big issue becuase you can still by USB power external drives. I'm not sure what I'd do if I needed 5.25, i'm not sure the drive or the media is still available. you'd probably have to move the data through two three different machine to get it to something sufficiently modern. I'm convinced most burnable CDs are sold to scientist trying to move data. My new problem is Win XP machines not recognizing my 64gb exfat flash flahs drive. It's to big for fat32 and there are so many Mac users around I don't what to use NTFS. I keep a small flash drive around work with the patch file to enable exfat just this reason.
derFunkenstein wrote:The Mac is literally a hardware dongle for iOS build support. I have Xcode installed because I need the CLI tools (which I don't directly use because Visual Studio scripts the build process), the iOS Simulator for iOS testing, and Application Loader to interface with iTunes Connect. Everything else either comes directly from Microsoft or has a Windows equivalent.
Glorious wrote:But, you know, most importantly, Apple now ruling the non-BYOD corporate phone world is not displacing Microsoft. Microsoft was never there, and their attempts to try were obviously dead several years ago at this point (right? not sure exactly).
Glorious wrote:Some of the aforementioned PCs on my desk are only there because they have literal hardware license dongles, you know, on their parallel port.
Glorious wrote:derFunkenstein wrote:The Mac is literally a hardware dongle for iOS build support. I have Xcode installed because I need the CLI tools (which I don't directly use because Visual Studio scripts the build process), the iOS Simulator for iOS testing, and Application Loader to interface with iTunes Connect. Everything else either comes directly from Microsoft or has a Windows equivalent.
heh.
Some of the aforementioned PCs on my desk are only there because they have literal hardware license dongles, you know, on their parallel port.
I'm not any sort of OS zealot, much less a UX one, and I always find it really weird when people get all worked up about the relatively trivial matter of what platform they prefer---Oh, that's nice. You have a choice?
K-L-Waster wrote:Glorious wrote:Some of the aforementioned PCs on my desk are only there because they have literal hardware license dongles, you know, on their parallel port.
Oh God, I remember HASP dongles.
Not favourably, of course...
just brew it! wrote:I suspect we'll start to see similar issues with flagship capacity HDDs in a few years, once the helium has had a chance to leak out.
Glorious wrote:I'm not any sort of OS zealot, much less a UX one, and I always find it really weird when people get all worked up about the relatively trivial matter of what platform they prefer---Oh, that's nice. You have a choice?
videobits wrote:Pic of hardware locks for the new players.
The parallel ones actually go back to early 90s. White ones are Rainbow Technologies locks...another of the names from back then. As I recall, these were originally plugged into the back of a 486DX50 running DOS 3.3.
Why I still have them in a bin at work is a whole other issue....my personal museum of odd stuff I guess. And yeah, I still have the 5.25" floppies for some of that software too.
spiketheaardvark wrote:I loath those hasp keys. Only place I've seen them is to protect software whose only purpose is to run $100k+ scientific equipment. What good is it to pirate the software that I can't use without the machine? University pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for a machine and yearly service contract at 5-10% the cost of the machine and they get all stingy with the software to run the thing.
derfunkenstein wrote:Ah but that's the point. If you want to make your product available to ~50% of the North American mobile audience, you don't get a choice. You *have* to have a Mac.
Glorious wrote:Yeah, no choice. I have a Dionex IC system licensed by a USB dongle in WinXP. A second OI Analytical TOC analyzer runs Windows CE from an SD card and the app that processes the data via network runs only in WinXP. Longer ago, I had two chromelean cards that could be run in a single PC by stacking the dongles on the parallel port running in Windows 3.11 and later on windows in OS/2 (ran smoother than just using windows which was not up to running two of the boards on the same PC).derFunkenstein wrote:The Mac is literally a hardware dongle for iOS build support. I have Xcode installed because I need the CLI tools (which I don't directly use because Visual Studio scripts the build process), the iOS Simulator for iOS testing, and Application Loader to interface with iTunes Connect. Everything else either comes directly from Microsoft or has a Windows equivalent.
heh.
Some of the aforementioned PCs on my desk are only there because they have literal hardware license dongles, you know, on their parallel port.
I'm not any sort of OS zealot, much less a UX one, and I always find it really weird when people get all worked up about the relatively trivial matter of what platform they prefer---Oh, that's nice. You have a choice?
bthylafh wrote:Yes to the insanely expensive part.spiketheaardvark wrote:I loath those hasp keys. Only place I've seen them is to protect software whose only purpose is to run $100k+ scientific equipment. What good is it to pirate the software that I can't use without the machine? University pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for a machine and yearly service contract at 5-10% the cost of the machine and they get all stingy with the software to run the thing.
Probably to deter people who'd balk at paying four to five figures to upgrade to a newer version of the software and would go the yo-ho-ho route instead. Scientific instrument s/w is insanely expensive even without a support contract.
Mr Bill wrote:Yeah, no choice. I have a Dionex IC system licensed by a USB dongle in WinXP. A second OI Analytical TOC analyzer runs Windows CE from an SD card and the app that processes the data via network runs only in WinXP. Longer ago, I had two chromelean cards that could be run in a single PC by stacking the dongles on the parallel port running in Windows 3.11 and later on windows in OS/2 (ran smoother than just using windows which was not up to running two of the boards on the same PC).
Glorious wrote:Mr Bill wrote:Yeah, no choice. I have a Dionex IC system licensed by a USB dongle in WinXP. A second OI Analytical TOC analyzer runs Windows CE from an SD card and the app that processes the data via network runs only in WinXP. Longer ago, I had two chromelean cards that could be run in a single PC by stacking the dongles on the parallel port running in Windows 3.11 and later on windows in OS/2 (ran smoother than just using windows which was not up to running two of the boards on the same PC).
We have a chem lab for steel (etc...) sample spectography: we just upgraded a machine/instrument to Windows XP this year!
Glorious wrote:Yup.
That was exactly what I was getting at (maybe unsuccessfully): I typically don't have any sort of choice in regards to platform, which is why I think it's so weird that people obsess over the trivialities between them.
Glorious wrote:We have a chem lab for steel (etc...) sample spectography: we just upgraded a machine/instrument to Windows XP this year!