PaulG.

Sounds like the direct result of Global Warming to me!

(is there a "duck and cover" emoticon somewhere? )

Ahhhhhh!!! MY EYES!!!

What do you think?

If the topic at hand can even be remotely political I avoid Wiki like the plague. They have a cabal over there.

Cat.SinusInfection and Cat.Bronchitis

I had the Mega SinusInfection/Bronchitis Combo last winter. I've never been so sick in my life. Took me weeks to get over that. I feel your pain.

Subversion is being replaced?!?!

Die MONSTER, DIE!

Being the LabVIEW enthusiasts as we are, we usually have many versions installed and can down save. I have 8 at the moment, do I hear 9?

List them. Beta's count.

... Am I missing something? Wrong software? Forget software, do it by hand? Just a few more hours to get past the bump in the learning curve and see how wonderful this stuff is?

Glancing over the Wiki article I would have to say (IMO) yes, yes and yes. I thought this is what notepads and white boards were for. I spend too much time learning new software as it is.

While I'm not in this situation, I can envision a rare one. Both Jeff Phillips and I posted this scenario in our previous posts:

1) Buy LabVIEW 8.6 in October 2008 (get one year of SSP)

2) Get all 8.6 bug and maintenance releases.

3) Under SSP, you upgrade to LV2009 when NI releases it in August 2009.

4) You do not renew SSP in October 2009

5) You still get the 2009f2 and f3 fixes, but not SP1 as your SSP has expired

At that point you are not required to "pay" for SP1 if you don't feel you need, but you also can't install it. But if you do you need it, you would need to "pay" for it by renewing the SSP on your license. The cost for that varies by how long your license has been inactive.

Whether you interpret that as actually paying for SP1 or paying to renew your SSP (and getting SP1 as one of the benefits) is up to the indivdual. Like I said, I think that situation would be pretty rare.

-Scott

Indeed. You and Jeff are right. And it would be pretty rare. But "rare" has a sneaky way of eventually becoming "precedent".

I still don't see any way anyone is actually paying for SP1. If you are, can you tell us how that happened?

Excellent point. Maybe we (me) are getting a little too upset over something that rarely actually happens, i.e. paying for LV bug fixes.

I think it was the way it was worded on the NI page in my original post. To paraphrase the way I understood it: "We spent 3000 man hours fixing 100 bugs but YOU have to pay for it ..."

(sigh)

I'm not going to argue about the SSP, but I do take exception with "Stop writing crappy code" <- NI's code isn't crappy.

I don't think I've ever said that NI's code was crappy before today.

100 bugs that take 3000 manhours to fix is crappy code. I think NI's push to get a new revision out every year is making their quality suffer. Code that has that many bugs and took that long to correct did not spend enough time in Beta testing.

On a post from Info-LabVIEW I read something disturbing. Then I looked it up myself. From this page:

"... LabVIEW 2009 Service Pack 1 software represents more than 3,000 hours of engineering time and addresses nearly 100 bugs in LabVIEW 2009 ... Only customers with active SSP membership at the time of release (February 15, 2010) will be able to activate LabVIEW 2009 Service Pack 1 and the latest versions of the modules...."

What could possibly motivate NI to charge us money to fix their bugs?

Stop writing crappy code, NI. Fix it before you ship it. I can imagine how buggy 2010 is going to be.

Climate scientists hope independent reviews will reverse public’s loss of trust.

Good luck with that. It's kind of hard for a review if much of the original data were DELETED.

This is my 666 post. I must be the Global Warming/"Climate change" antichrist.

PaulG. at LAVA = PaulG. on the Dark Side.

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"Inappropriate Public Forum Adjectives"

WT ... !?

That has to be the most "politically correct" way of saying: "Your comment was removed by the moderator due to offensive content" I have ever heard.

Now I am DYING of curiosity. PM me, Norm and tell me what you said.

I love it when I'm right.

For Phil Jones to admit any of this demands my utmost respect.

"Hey, boss ..."

" ... These stations, they believe, have been seriously compromised by factors such as urbanisation, changes in land use and, in many cases, being moved from site to site..."

"Hey, boss. Since we can't prove global warming for the last 15 years or so would it be OK if I stick this thermistor up your @SS?!"

Global warming, uh, umm I mean "cliimate change": The biggest scam in history.

Thank you Chris,

Now all I have to do is post about 700 more that are NOT in the Lounge to feel legitimate.

Ben

I love the Lounge.

Congrats, Ben.

Dear all,

I tried to build up a circuit which controls current though a DC motor. The motor needs to generate strong torque; and the input power will be battery ~12V 2400mAh battery pack. Previously, the motor has been tested. The peak current needed is 5A@30V for ~1s. Then there will be 1 second break before another peak.

My plan is to build up a "capacitor train" which has ~5 "high energy density" capacitors. My circuit will include a boost up circuit to change the 12V to 30V DC and then charge the capacitors. After that, the circuit will control the capacitors discharge the energy to motor in sequence; and it will control the recharge of capacitors.

(The circuit has to be as small as possible)

my questions is where I can find the small and "high energy density" capacitors for this circuit?

Why would you want to use capacitors? Look at using a MOSFET circuit. A FET will most certainly be able to handle the current requirements but it will leave a footprint about the size of a small, surface-mount IC.

Thanks god for Global Warming, or we'd be in real trouble! (that was for you, Paul )

So how's all the climate change workin' out for ya? Actually, I put little stock in brutal winters when it comes to "climage change". It just might be a brutal winter. I remember winter of 2003 being very mild. My family and I taking a walk in 50 degree weather on Christmas Day. That's unheard of.

And the last two winters here in MI have been brutal. Cold and lots of snow. This winter has been a little cold and very dry. I'm not complaining. Drive one rush hour in the snow with the Motor City nutcases and I think you would understand.

I feel bad for my east coast and midwest friends (You and Ben off the top of my head) and my folks and daughter got hit pretty hard and often down in Ohio for the last couple of weeks. But I've been getting a real kick out of the fact that DC was SHUT DOWN for a week and all those politicians had to deal with all that snow. If DC is shut down they can't do any harm.

God has a sense of humor.

Awesome nuclear power.

25 MW that can fit in your basement.

At 1/3 the cost of "conventional" nuclear.

I agree exercise is boring. I have started to play tennis. This is FUN. You run around smacking the hell out of a little ball. Great for stress relief a lot of exercise and FUN!

I have to agree.

I hate exercise but I love tennis. I didn't start playing until about 10 years ago. I was just over 40 at the time but my SO at the time was an athletic Brit who loved the game. She took me to school. I fell in love with the game so much we joinded a local tennis club where we could play even in the winter. Even though I got very good very quickly (she said I was a "natural") I was such a "newb" (and she had been playing since she was a kid) it goes without saying she kicked my "Yankee @ss" every single match.

I never had so much fun getting my @ss kicked by a girl.

Watch out for Mr. Bookman

I was never much a Seinfeld fan, but that was hilarious.

But if I may offer my $0.02... I have had a one hour commute to and from work for years. I got into Podcasts and audio books when my daughter got me an iPod Shuffle a couple of Christmas's ago. I recently upgraded to a Nano. I love my commutes (except when the roads are bad). However, I still love my books and have been thinking about getting a reader of some sort. The bulk of a book is what I don't like the most. (Anyone lug around Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged?) I also like the idea of having more than one thing to read on such a small platform.

Negating "Climategate": Copenhagen Talks and Climate Science Survive Stolen E-Mail Controversy

From "Scientific" American. Read the comments that follow.

Is CBS moving in on this story?!

All taxpayers across the globe should pay attention to squandered tax dollars, but more importantly, we should all pay extra attention to the carbon footprint left in Copenhagen by the "elite" Global Warming/"Climate Change" hypocrites.

It is exactly what I wanted to say. Nobody believe that global warming is an invention of a huge conspiration of scientist .

I don't think I've ever said that this scam is a "huge" "conspiration" of scientists. There are a few at UEA that most definitely conspired - on numerous occasions - but it's bigger than that. It's in-your-face FRAUD. It's not much of a conspiracy if major players are refusing to release data under Freedom of Information Act requests where the requests themselves are public knowledge and open for scrutiny. Governments and politicians are not scientists but they are heavily involved in this scam and again, it's not much of a conspiracy since many of the nations involved are democratic and open. The media spikes stories all the time if it does not fit the political view of the station managers and owners. That's why "mainstream" sources such as ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, BBC, NYT, NPR all pretty much say the same thing about GW/"CC" and are not reporting much on it unless it supports GW/"CC". But we have alternatives to the alphabet soup. That is why I don't think of it as a "conspiracy". But I could understand how it could be considered a conspiracy if you are only getting your news from mainstream sources and not paying much attention to anything else.

My guess is that it's the reaction to the whole thing (i.e. "Climate Gate") that's thought of as an American thing. My feeling is that much of the rest of the Western world (other than us) think of climate change as a non-controversial fact.

That might be true. However, there are a number of folks in Europe who feel duped as much as we do. Also, I don't see our "alphabet soup" lame-stream media going after the "Climategate" story. Maybe it's only a "Vast Right-Wing" and Fox News conspiracy.