FLAnatic

You took the "intelligent programmers" (that I didn't write in the first place, just agreed with the OP's point) thing out of context and used it in response to a different issue.

We could sit here all day long and post contradicting links without changing each others minds. Believe what you want, i'll do the same.

From PaulG:

"can't believe so many otherwise intelligent PROGRAMMERS can be so flippant about cooking data, manipulating data, using "tricks" on data, hiding data and DELETING data for nefarious purposes."

The articles I linked to discuss the global cooling of the past 10 years argument which happened to be mentioned by you and are also related to the problem of manipulating data, and using tricks on data concerning the intelligent programmers quote.

I'd say the 10 year global cooling trend is a pretty good clue.

Here are some interesting articles related to your statement. But all of us "intelligent programmers" are experts on the climate right?

http://arstechnica.c...he-beholder.ars

http://arstechnica.c...-statistics.ars

QUOTE (PaulG. @ Jun 4 2009, 11:49 AM)

Compared to who? President Teleprompter?

Do smart,wise, intelligent and educated people have to resort to using a Straw Man? :-)

Just in case someone hasn't seen it:

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/trek...e=most_pop_dugg

I would say that those who posts in threads that they themselves created just to keep the thread alive after everyone else on the board has lost interest are half-cannibals and are at animal level.

QUOTE (Maca @ Mar 12 2009, 10:55 PM)

Don't you mean: Omniscient

I'm pretty sure he meant Omnipotent. He is...... Omnipotent after all..... which would also make him Omniscient I assume? :-)

QUOTE (Maca @ Mar 12 2009, 09:43 AM)

I would assume he has been contracted to design an algorithm to mine for funny youtube videos and post them on lava and implement it in LabVIEW to increase morale in the LabVIEW community. He is merely testing it out. It looks like this may have backfired and some morale seems to have decreased.

QUOTE (Aristos Queue @ Feb 2 2009, 08:08 PM)

Up until recently, NI employees couldn't take the various LV certification exams because there just weren't enough graders and priority was given to customers. That's changed this year, and today I took the CLAD, along with a large faction of NI, including many of the LV R&D team. Yes, I did pass. I thought it was an ok exam, with a few wording problems I hope we can get cleared up for future test takers. I only had a serious problem on two of the questions, one of which was wording and the other was a case of me knowing too much about how LV works behind the scenes.

CLD? Maybe. But a part of me wants to hold out for a CLD exam that includes LV classes. I mean, I'd kind of be undermining the prostelytyzing I've been doing the last few years if I actually admitted that someone could be a true LabVIEW developer without classes!

On a tangent note:

Q: What are you if you are naked while answering a 40-question multiple choice exam about LabVIEW?

A: SkyCLAD!

Q: What are you if you swim 1 mile, bike 20 miles, run 2 miles and then take a a 40-question multiple choice exam about LabVIEW?

A: IronCLAD!

Others are welcome to try their own puns, but I should warn you... the only other word in English that uses the letters "clad" together is "clade" and making jokes off of it won't be easy. You may have more success in other languages.

Q: What would you call a program written to take the CLAD test for you?

A: AutoCLAD

I was wondering what is the typical screen resolution used in the industry for programming on the block diagram? I assume if you are working in a group of developers, all of them would be using the same resolution? Typical style rules are to try to maintain your block diagram on a single screen, and if not that, make sure you only need to scroll in one direction. But as many of you have probably experienced, what you can put on a "single" screen is different depending the the resolution of the environment, for example I was given a program from another developer that was created using a widescreen monitor. This is not his fault since he was probably not told otherwise, but it makes looking through his code a chore for me.

QUOTE (neB @ Dec 3 2008, 12:56 PM)

I once had to worth side-by-side with a developer from a competing company that actually coded with one hand in his pocket! It drove me nuts watching him try to get things wired etc. Iusually just said "Here let me do it!" right up until he started to run the mouse at the same time I was running the track-ball.

Ben

Assuming now that he was using a single monitor...Ctrl-E alone should take that extra hand out of his pocket.

QUOTE (Minh Pham @ Dec 2 2008, 10:36 PM)

How is it possibly decrease the productivity , I think 2 monitors is the minimum for programmer nowadays.

my life would be much harder if i have to develop projects using a single monitor now i guess.

2 is enough, 3 sounds abit luxury

Well you never know, there could be people out there for whatever reason found that they worked better on a single monitor. While overall the forum highly recommends the dual monitor setup, some people have pointed out certain issues they have had with it.

QUOTE (pdc @ Dec 2 2008, 01:44 PM)

If your are afraid of increasing your productivity, you can open LAVA on the 2nd screen then increase your ability with the same productivity.

How can I say no to that?

I have been wondering if anyone has tried developing LabVIEW applications using a dual monitor setup, 1 monitor dedicated to the front panel and the second monitor dedicated to the block diagram. I have not tried this myself but have wondered whether it would increase(or possibly decrease) productivity while coding and debugging.

I have been programming with LabVIEW for several years and I'm at the point where I would like to eventually become a CLA. I would like to take the Intermediate I+II and Advanced architecture courses to firm up what is necessary to pass the certification exams and just improve my programming style and knowledge in general. There are a few options for the training including instructor led, self paced and online courses, based on the course material covered, are there any differences that might make me choose one or the other or are they identical in that respect?

QUOTE (JustinThomas @ Sep 18 2008, 09:31 AM)

I don't think the queue would be destroyed if its already in memory as the Force Destroy terminal on the Release Queue vi is FALSE by default

You are correct. I just tested your theory out by running a named queue in a loop in one VI and then created a second VI which obtained the named queue and then released the Queue. The queue in the original VI wasn't destroyed unless I set the Force destroy to "True" otherwise it kept running normally.

QUOTE (crelf @ Sep 18 2008, 09:23 AM)

Thinking out loud: The first VI either creates a new queue, or obtians an existing queue (if a queue of that name and datatype exists in memory) - I wonder if they're trying to make sure that if the queue already exists, it's destroyed, then recreated.

That's probably it! Thanks.

I'm looking at some code, and I'm not sure of the reasoning behind the way the Queues are being created. There are a few queues in the program which are all initially created this way. A queue is created and then destroyed right away, any errors are cleared, and then creates the queue again with he same name and data item and begins queuing items. Does anyone know why the initial Obtain->Destroy would be necessary? Maybe I'm missing something.

QUOTE (Tops @ Jun 25 2008, 09:36 AM)

Hi. Found this nice forum and it seems like a good place to be.

I have a bit of troubble with implement a time delay between cases. Its probably easy but i need som help on the way.

I simplify this to a vi with 3 cases, A B and C. Start in case A, wait 4s, move on to Case B, stay 4s move on to C, stay

4s and staro over. I works the first time, but after staring over it get stuck in B. It seems fine in highlight.

Comments?

What is happening is that Each "elapsed time" resets and starts timing right away. After 4 seconds have passed at B, 4 seconds have also passed at C and A, so it cycles through those states instantly after the first time through, and then sits at B while the 4 seconds elapses again. The display looks like its sitting at B but it just cycling through A and C faster than you can see, which is why it looks like its operating normally when in debug mode. You need to reset the timer the first time you enter a new state. Here is a way of doing it.

http://lavag.org/old_files/post-11511-1214407165.vi'>Download File:post-11511-1214407165.vi

QUOTE (Val Brown @ Jun 14 2008, 02:32 PM)

It isn't even that Einstein is more accurate per se -- it's more complete. The difference is that Einstein's model reduces down to Newtonian mechanics when the "special" conditions of classical mechanics apply, for instance when not traveling near the speed of light or near a gravity well, etc.

Isn't it more complete AND more accurate? Like measuring distances on a sphere with a ruler and a tape measure. For very short distances relative to the circumference the ruler and tape measure will show almost identical results although the tape measure will still be more accurate due to the curvature, but for long distances around the circle the ruler will not work at all yet the tape measure will still work.

QUOTE (BrokenArrow @ Jun 12 2008, 04:45 PM)

"Everybody's stupid but me" - Homer Simpson (after deciding that going to church is a waste of time)

The internet is on computers now!

QUOTE (eaolson @ May 23 2008, 10:48 AM)

I have to disagree. The only place you can ever really talk about "proof" in any sort of technical sense is mathematics and that's really applied logic, not science. Nothing in science ever reaches the point of being "proven", just supported by a great deal of evidence. Even that doesn't mean that it's invulnerable: Einstein showed Newton was wrong and someday, we're going to figure out where Einstein was wrong when we manage to explain general relativity and quantum theory.

The problem seems to be that people with ulterior motives like to claim that well-accepted, supported ideas aren't "proven" and then their crazy idea has credence.

I just want to point out that Einstein did not prove Newton was wrong. Newtons theories work quite well for special cases(classical mechanics) I would say Einstein took it to the next level where newtons theories no longer worked, at speeds approaching the speed of light for example. His model is just a more accurate description.

Maybe I'm just being picky about the use of "wrong" :-)

QUOTE (Antoine @ Jun 9 2008, 06:11 PM)

I did ask for it, but I didn't receive the mail form the admin :thumbdown:

I was actually really into this and was hoping to solve all of the problems at some point. I've solved 90 of them but haven't visited in several months. Most of my solutions have been using c++ although I did solve the pathfinding problems using LabVIEW.

QUOTE (Biswa @ Jun 1 2008, 01:05 PM)

Hi there, I am measuring the output of a mechanical manipulator in response to band

limited gaussian white noise. This then allows me to calculate the transfer function using -

cross-power spectral density of the stimulus and the response divided by the auto-PSD of the

stimulus. I have been able to achieve this in matlab. Now, I want to nullify the effect of the

manipulator using a inverse filter with 1/transfer function of the manipulator. This will

ensure that the noise that I inject in the manipulator passes faithfully without imposing the

transfer function of the vibrator. I am using invfreqz for getting the filter coefficients in matlab. How can I design an arbitrary filter in labview with filter coefficients exported from matlab ? Best, BSG

In the advanced Filtering menu(located in "signal processing->filters" there is an FIR filter VI allows you to design a filter with arbitrary forward coefficients or IIR filter VI that you can use that allows you to input Forward and Reverse coefficients to design a filter and if you enter only forward coeficients the VI operates as an FIR filter. Is this what you are looking for?

I just wanted to add that these VI's are not available in the base LabVIEW package.

QUOTE (fuzzycontrolfreak @ May 15 2008, 01:29 AM)

Hello there,

First of all, sorry for the poor paragraphing of my previous post, the reason is that I pasted my original message from NI developer zone, and it ended up quite messy.

I have attached a sample code of my problem, and I have tried it and it does the same problem, please see what I am doing wrong, and please note that I use LabVIEW 8.0.

Thankyou for your help,,,

Bedair

If you double click the "Convert to Dynamic Data" VI you will enter edit mode. Select the "single waveform" option and then the data should retain the "dt" sampling rate information needed to label the x-axis of the graph properly.