Gary Rubin

Well said, Crelf

Thanks for sharing

I think bugs are things that they didn't intend to introduce. Because this was intentional, it's probably considered an "enhancement".

My wife would mostly just use it for word processing and email, so a lot of those Windows 7 Starter limitations might not matter too much. I saw that HP just announced a model based on the new Atom. I guess others will be following suit soon.

Well, that probably reduces the chances of it being stolen, especially since most people would mistake it for an ugly throw-pillow. And there's no need to worry about figuring out which is yours at the airport security line.

Hi all, I'm seriously considering getting my wife a netbook. Anyone have any recommendations? Any models to avoid? Thanks, Gary

Sorry, Cat. No answers for you - just a comment. Based on some of the past posts, I'm not convinced that the modification to the cursors between version 7.1 and 8.x was necessarily a good thing.

I like the idea of ultrasonic sensors, coupled with a webcam equipped with facial detection software and tied an el/az positioner with a pellet gun on it... So what if you have to wear 50 lbs of batteries to power it all...

Sounds like fun testing to be a part of. cRIO chassis + modules are rated at 30g?

I've done my own using sines and cosines to convert from rectilinear to polar coordinates. It's slow, like you indicated. I have no experience with picture controls - there might be a smarter way to do it there, but it seems you still have the same remapping issue.

Can you post example code? There are many tricks to make LV run faster, but we'd have to see what you're doing to know what might be slowing things down.

Maybe we need this guy to weigh in on the nerd vs. geeks discussion...

I think it would be a good thing to get LabVIEW into the middle schools or high schools outside the scope of the FIRST program. I don't have any experience with FIRST. I would expect, however, that it provides a cool project for the computer geeks (or is it nerds?), but how many non-computer geeks does it bring in? I'd be curious to hear from those who are involved in FIRST.

Back to the original topic (sort of). The Washington Post had an article about the decline of computer science classes in high school. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/20/AR2009122002477.html Does NI push LabVIEW at the high-school level? Seems like it would be a great introduction, allowing students to learn the concepts without getting bogged down in syntax.

Just tell them you're a physicist. That seems to end the conversation pretty abruptly.

Trash-talking on LAVA? "You call that a wire! I've seen better wiring from a 3-year-old! I'll show you a real wire!". "Your mother was a global, and your father smelled of sequence structures! I GOOP in your general direction!"

Gotta love the topics of conversation on LAVA!

We are doing something very similar to this. Computer A is running C code. Computer B has 2 or 3 different LabView EXEs that can be run, depending on what the C code wants done. We have a very lightweight Labview EXE on Computer B that's just listening for a TCP/IP command from computer A, then launching the appropriate EXE. TCP/IP in LabVIEW is very easy.

Wanted to bump this up, in case AQ has time in his life again.

"We're knights of the round table, we're in-de-fati-gable"...

12.82051%. Does that mean I passed or failed?

You could go back even further: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace

On a somewhat related note, I did that science talk for my daughter's kindergarten class. When I asked if anyone knows what a scientist does, I got 3 answers: 1) Tries to learn about things by studying them 2) Makes potions 3) Mixes things together and makes explosions. I'll bet that the kid who provided answer 3) got her information from watching cartoons.

This is potentially interesting.

According to LV8.6 Help: I figured that if the front panel indicators are not updated and the indicator is not connected to a terminal, there's no need to allocate memory for that indicator. I guess that's not the case, because a disable structure around the indicators did speed up my process considerably. Also, welcome to LAVA. Gary