Justin Goeres

QUOTE (crelf @ Aug 27 2008, 01:58 PM) The wiki has been http://wiki.lavag.org/LabVIEW_configuration_file/Block_Diagram#UseNumbersForNewVIIcons' rel='nofollow' target="_blank">updated. Please, sir, I want some more?

QUOTE (MJE @ Aug 26 2008, 10:40 AM) I believe the canonical name for this pastime is Hide The Dots. .

QUOTE (crelf @ Aug 27 2008, 12:38 PM) Yes, master. When I have time .

For historical reference, Aza Raskin is the son of Jef Raskin (deceased), the father of the Macintosh project at Apple. Ubiquity is very obviously an outgrowth their work at the Raskin Center. They're doing some really neat thinking & research about how humans relate to data and how computer UIs do(n't) assist in that. Very cool stuff. If you watch the demos at the Raskin Center (especially the Zooming one, as I recall), you can see parallels with some of Jeff K's ideas and his 2007 NIWeek Keynote where he was talking about using LabVIEW for all levels of system design from top to bottom.

As Aristos Queue warned us last year, the INI key to stop LabVIEW from automatically putting numbers in the corners of your VI icons has changed in LabVIEW 8.6. It is now Note that it now appears to apply to all the new VIs you create, instead of just those in .lvclasses and .lvlibs. :thumbup:

QUOTE (crelf @ Aug 18 2008, 06:10 AM) I'm confused, too. This all feels a little bit sockpuppet to me.

I bought Madden 07 when I first got my Wii, and really loved the controls. However, it's a fairly complicated game and I wouldn't necessarily recommend it unless you already like (video-game) football. There's supposedly a sort of "beginner's mode" that EA was really proud of, that's supposed to make it easier for your grandma (i.e. anyone over 30?) to play, but I never tried it out. It looks like for Madden 09 they've added some more new features to try to keep the game approachable for normal humans. My wife & I both really like Wii Fit, but I don't know if you can find it very easily yet. I got lucky and snagged one at Amazon. WarioWare: Smooth Moves is another game the wife and I both like. It's not terribly complicated, but it's fast-paced and cartoonish. Might be fun for a drunken party, but we never have drunken parties so I can't be sure , but we've gotten some enjoyment out of it. Outside of those, I really love my Wii but don't play it all that much, and I don't keep track of what the newest/hottest games are. However, when I get an itch to get something new, I usually just go to metacritic and start reading down the list of highest-scoring games 'til I find one that sounds like something I'd like . I have not tried any of the downloadable virtual console stuff, because I am a cheap bastard. EDIT: Anybody who wants to trade Wii numbers send me a PM. For those who don't know, the basic thing this allows us to do (as far as I know) is have our Miis appear in each other's consoles (if we choose) .

I'm dropping in a bit late to this discussion, and most of what I would've said has already been covered. There's just one thing I feel like adding, though. The original thrust of the discussion was source code control vis-a-vis LabVIEW source files, but something to bear in mind when choosing/deploying a versioning system is that projects typically consist of lots of different types of files, and nearly all of those files can benefit from version control. That's why it has never really bothered me that SVN/TSVN doesn't integrate with the LabVIEW project environment. I see it as a tool for managing all my project-related documents, not just source code. If virtually every file I use for project work can benefit from versioning, then I should have an ex-LabVIEW versioning workflow in my head anyway. I don't feel like I need the process duplicated in the development environment. In fact, a friend of mine in a totally unrelated field actually used Subversion & TSVN to manage all the revisions of his Master's Thesis and related support documents. The only thing he knows about source files is that they end in things like .c, .h, .vi, etc. and that he never wants a job where he has to touch them . Other Notes: Even back when I was operating independently, TSVN performed beautifully for me even as a single developer (with an occasional assistant or collaborator). Even the threat of merge conflicts just forces clear communication between developers, which is a very good thing. What's more, Subversion/TSVN are pretty light-weight, so it was always a snap to install them on a customer's computer to do a project checkout on-site when necessary.

QUOTE (jgcode @ Aug 12 2008, 04:07 PM) That's exactly what I thought when I originally heard that story: "Wow, it's good I got off that bus in Minneapolis." For even more fun, this is the user page for the person who made that video (not the person who posted the one I originally linked). If you're into watching this sort of psychological train wreck (I know I am, but I feel a little dirty afterwards ), check out the one where invisible waves are rocking her house, and also the one about the moon.

QUOTE (jgcode @ Aug 8 2008, 04:29 PM) I've not yet used any USB DAQmx hardware with VMWare on my MacBook Pro. I did try some USB DAQmx stuff about 18 months ago with a beta of Parallels and had lots of weird problems. Basically, the only real solution was to keep the device unplugged until I needed it, plug it in, and then unplug it again and unmap/remap the serial port in Parallels every time I shut down my app. I doubt the situation is still that bad (it was a beta, after all), but that's my only data point. Sorry I can't be of more help. Eventually I will know more about this kind of thing .

Alas, I normally code in silence. Occasionally I'll put on something without lyrics, and I went through a phase a few years ago when I liked to code to techno/electronica. The problem is that the same part of my brain that likes music seems to also be involved in coding, and I get really distracted by the music. Then I have to pick up one of my cats and dance around the room with it, and that's more than you wanted to hear anyway, so I'll stop.

Pretty compelling evidence! :ninja: It reminds me that I didn't get to tell my story at NIWeek this year about the time I spent 6 hours on a Greyhound bus with a crack whore and a conspiracy theorist. :beer:

Oh, sweet Jesus... OK, just for the record, that picture is from NIWeek 2007. It's not from last week. And I'm not really asleep .

QUOTE (Ton @ Aug 1 2008, 01:11 PM) I feel like I should have a witty retort to this, but I don't.

QUOTE (Christina Rogers @ Jul 30 2008, 08:19 AM) This is sort of orthogonal to the discussion, but I have also had an issue with the quality of the only Zazzle shirt I've ordered in the past. Specifically, the screenprinting on it (a black line drawing on a grey long-sleeved t-shirt) faded really fast. It was noticeably faded after a single trip through the washer. I have a couple LAVA shirts and also another Zazzle shirt I just got, but have been very careful washing them so far (and only washed each one once or twice). It will be interesting to see how they hold up.

I'm arriving the weekend before to visit relatives and staying through Thursday night. :beer:

QUOTE (LV_FPGA_SE @ Jul 24 2008, 10:58 AM) Which is roughly half the temperature outside, where a bikini is recommended.

QUOTE (Aristos Queue @ Jul 15 2008, 02:31 PM) Point taken, at least for the scope of the problem you're proposing. This occurs more often for me with set/get methods, where one class will have a data member named Port that's say, a VISA resource, while a sibling of it has an item named Port that's a TCP/IP port number. But since you outlawed accessor methods in Rule #9, that's orthogonal to the problem.

QUOTE (Aristos Queue @ Jul 15 2008, 11:22 AM) I would register a minor objection to this one, because LabVIEW won't allow static methods in a class to have the same name as static methods in an ancestor or child class. I regularly name VIs things like "Matrix Dot Product.vi" (if it was a member of Matrix.lvclass) instead of "Dot Product.vi" simply to prevent myself from clobbering that name later. The overarching point about naming, however, is still relevant.

QUOTE (Val Brown @ Jul 14 2008, 10:23 AM) That's a really interesting point. :thumbup:

QUOTE (Darren @ Jul 13 2008, 09:18 PM) On the contrary, I think it's actually a bunch of equally un-hip conference geeks laughing themselves silly over something that's only funny in their context . And I mean that in the nicest possible way, even though that sort of thing never, ever happens at NIWeek . Besides, http://lavag.org/old_files/monthly_07_2008/post-2992-1216043006.png' target="_blank"> ...and I didn't get any pop culture references in it, either.

QUOTE (crelf @ Jul 11 2008, 03:53 PM) But the bread is sooooo tasty. I hope the universe survives long enough for me to eat it.

My wife made two loaves of bread last night with chocolate chips in them. But despite thorough mixing, approximately 80% of the chips ended up in one loaf. I am concerned that this means the entropy of the universe may be decreasing and THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS HAS BEEN REPEALED. How big a problem is this?

QUOTE (normandinf @ Jul 11 2008, 04:40 AM) That problem could easily be solved by just calculating the lengths in pixels, and then adding scaling parameters for physical screen size and resolution. If anyone is feeling really clever, you might even be able to get that information from the OS. On the other hand, it would be easy to take a poll or two to find the most common screen size & screen resolution on LAVA, and call that the standard LAVA screen. Then diagrams could be measured in standard LAVA kilometers.

This hamster deserves a Mindstorms NXT set more than any other hamster on the planet.