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FWIW: I now really understand the benefit of automated diagram cleanup - it works wonderfully on the hundred or so VIs that I just created using scripting. Thank you NI!

As is oft the case with xkcd, the mouse-over text is perfect.

Want!

I was

Go Sphero with V I Engineering, Inc.! We'll be giving away 2 Spheros - you can control them with your smartphone as a remote control, play games with it, and more! Sphero is an Orbotix Smart Robot on the inside and an opaque, high-impact polycarbonate shell on the outside. It's even waterproof. With speeds of up to 3ft per second and a 50ft plus range, Sphero's Bluetooth connection makes him ready to play as fast as you can launch an app Why would you say that?!? I'm in Michigan!

Wow - there's already over 100 tickets sold! Get yours now before they run out

It's that time of year again. What will the next installment of the LAVA BBQ bring? One thing is for sure - door prizes galore! Past prizes have included (just to name a few): home-made creations, gift-cards, tablets, books, IPods, LabVIEW goodness, software, bottles of Truchard wine, Ardunios, Zunes, copies of VIPM, Symbio GOOP Development Suite licenses, signed books and even a few plane rides (yes, you read that right). Be creative! By donating a prize you and your company will receive free advertising in this thread and bragging rights on the night, so what are you waiting for? Check out the cool prizes below (knowing there will be more added to this thread as NIWeek approaches), and try to top them. If you would like to donate (please do, we really appreciate the LAVA-love) feel free to add a prize below with the details. If you haven't already, get your 2013 LAVA BBQ tickets here!

I kinda miss FORTRAN77.

"...every time you make a singleton, God kills a start-up, two if you think you’ve made it thread-safe." Brilliant!

Mwuuuhahahaha!

Agreed - the year Norm turned up without any pants on still haunts me. PS: got my ticket

You can't. Same way that you can't be sure that any url is actually going to the reputable URL that it claims to be going to. The main difference is that bit.ly doesn't even pretend to be taking you to a reputable URL. Why? Because bit.ly isn't about trying to represent anything that's trustworthy - it's about whether you trust the bit.ly's link *poster*. Okay, that is kinda neat - thanks for sharing. Note: the @lavag twitter account uses bit.ly exclusively as our link shortener. Why? Because we like to occasionally look at which of our posts interest our followers: bit.ly gives us stats on that, so we can better hone the types and frequency of tweets. So there.

Still waiting for my goddamn tshirt...

It depends on what your version of LabVIEW is - it's possible that VIPM uses a different RTE (which it installs itself), so if you installed LabVIEW, installed VIPM, then uninstalled LabVIEW it's possible that LabVIEW either blew away a VIPM dependancy (eg: RTE). So you could reinstall LabVIEW and then reinstall VIPM again - then all should be well. Or reimage

Love it!

All unsaved will be what?!?! Don't leave me hangin'!

A meme that's sweeping the interubes: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/harlem-shake Here's some of my favorites so far: and, of course, of very own Deidre's Jive: What are your favorites?

If you're not a CLA, you can buy a ticket to the summit here: http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/13477

Can I work for you please? The Euro summit is in Paris this year

Addmission to the summit is free for CLAs.

There's more than more space that comes with a Premium Account - there's the pride that comes from knowing you have financially supported the community

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Pretty sure the US Government might take issue with that

LAVA 1.0 had a link in the bar below the banner - not sure what happened to it. If you want it back, report this tread to get the admin's attention.

Well played.