Michael Aivaliotis

David Lynch is a brilliant filmmaker but somethings gone awry on this one...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k357ErdUQyk

Any of our German LAVA friends know about this? Is he really saying that?

Part2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_5VPd93Ytk

I've just hit the 10th viewing of these videos. I can't stop watching them. Benny LAVA rocks!

I've just added the LinkedImage extension as requested.

Happy Birthday Justin (32). Awesome contributions to the forum and NIWeek video's.

QUOTE(TobyD @ Nov 16 2007, 11:52 AM)

I had no idea this was an actual religion. I retract my earlier comment about sacrilege and appologize profusely to any who may have been offended by my remarks :worship: .

Not really, but in the context of LabVIEW, it has special meaning to LAVA members. We definitely need an entry in the LabVIEW Wiki on "spaghetti code" and the FSM (Flying Spaghetti Monster).

An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything

News article about the above.

Yes, I know what you're thinking. Is that Jim?

Or perhaps we should all wear these lapel pins at NIWeek. Too bad they're $33. I'd probably buy one if they were like $5. Too expensive.

QUOTE(jdunham @ Nov 15 2007, 05:42 PM)

Do you have a conditional disable structure on the diagram or in a subvi? If you have changed the conditional symbol definition in your project, then the same VI could definitely be working inside the project but broken outside of it.

No, it's not that.

Not sure what causes this but I've experienced this several times lately.

I run a toplevel VI several times and somewhere I get an error on the error cluster. So I decide to start debugging by opening up the subVI's. When I open one of the subVI's I notice that it has a broken run arrow and now I also notice that my toplevel VI has a broken run arrow. How is it possible for LabVIEW to run broken code? The only thing I can think of is that the broken code has not propogated to the current running application instance until I open it up. Not sure why however since I only have one instance. I have the project environment open too.

I guess that makes 2 in the special "required outputs" club.

I also mentioned this on my blog post.

QUOTE(hugh @ Nov 14 2007, 01:01 PM)

Assuming that someone really wanted to reverse engineer my executable like a large corporation. they send it to Russia and throw a ton of money at it.

But I dont make any sense of my internal VI names would they be able to accomplish this and could I make it even harder for them to do this. I am a small company and the last company my partner started got ripped off by a huge company who just infringed on our patents and put us out of business and we just did not have the money to battle them in court.

You can try contacting NI but I think they will just give you a fluffy answer. Please prove me wrong.

I would recommend doing whatever it takes to secure your app:

• Name mangle your VI names
  
• blank out the icons
  
• Remove all comments or descriptions
  
• strip the diagrams
  
• http://forums.lavag.org/VI-s-vs-SubVI-s-t3897.html' target="_blank">in-line critical code
  
• Use unnamed queues etc.
  

Also, price your product so that it's cheap enough to purchae instead of hacking. For example, instead of selling it for $10,000 make it $100 and sell more.

For the messy LabVIEW programmer in your life. One way to send a message.

Flying Spaghetti Monster tree ornament

QUOTE(Aristos Queue @ Nov 12 2007, 05:28 PM)

Suppose I develop patentable work for NI. Under the terms of my employment, I get a fee when NI files for the patent and a second fee if the patent office approves the patent. And that's it. Is that reasonable? If the technology leads to a massive explosion of NI's income, should I get a share of that? We could have that debate all day.

Or, how about you get a cut from every copy of LabVIEW sold because it contains some code you wrote. So If I write some text in a word processor, I'm a writer with certain rights, but If I write some text in a programming dev. environment, I have no rights. Hmmm. explain to me the difference...

QUOTE(EJW @ Nov 12 2007, 05:34 AM)

... ONe nice thing i like about the event structure though is when you respond to a control in the value change event, you have both NEW and OLD data available to you without using locals or shift registers.

I agree. However this feature is available to state machine and NON-state machine architectures. It's a feature of the event structure.

QUOTE(vito @ Nov 12 2007, 08:04 PM)

Can someone explain the difference between State Diagram and State machine?

Category:Design_patterns

QUOTE(Norm Kirchner @ Nov 12 2007, 07:59 AM)

I would much rather have the "control resize to tab" be integrated into the environment.

Edit\correction Well, now that I experimented more with PJM's solution, it seems that we already have this feature. Cool!

The contract is between film and TV producers and the Writers Guild of America. The writers already have a contract via the union walking in. The current contract does not cover online or portable media issues. The writers already get a cut from broadcast and film releases. The main issue is that the concept of "broadcast" is changing... What about youtube?

I wonder if the idea of a LabVIEW programmers union has some traction...

I added a PDF version to the original post. PDF version.

Chris, your new avatar is totally f***ing me up. Do you want me to fix that for you dude?

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It was back in November of 2002 when I decided to start the LAVA website and forums. Brown? What was I thinking. . I took LAVA, which started as the first independent advanced LabVIEW user group and then started hosting meetings myself. It was pretty awesome to meet with LabVIEW users outside of the traditional sales oriented framework of the NI funded meetings.