James Beleau

I mean obsessive by saying to be a geek there needs to be a target for the geekyness. How 'obsessive' they are could be their measure of geek-dom I guess. The point was that to be a geek, there must be something over which a person obsesses which also puts them into the catagory of 'pecular', ie strange to the general public. Such as biting the heads off things, which the term originated from.

Consiracy 6: Zombies are fantasy! Zombies are real, believe! http://www.archaeology.org/online/interviews/zombies/. Be prepared http://www.amazon.com/Zombie-Survival-Guide-Complete-Protection/dp/1400049628.

I too reverse those definitions. Geek is the pecular/dislikeable person. It is associated with a particularly singular obsessive personality. Starwars and star trek followers would be a geek. Intellegence is not a prerequisite. Excessive knowledge about their obsessive subject is. Nerd is a derogatory term for intellegent people to call them unattractive, which is one of its meanings. These would be the people that forsook social standing for the pursuit of academics in general and tend to be the ones that end up high paying careers.

Whether or not 'climate change' is real is almost irrelevant in the face of other more immediate conspricies. I no particular conspricy order. 1. Stop breathing so much; You are making ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respiratory_system? 2. Whatever your feeling on global warming/climate change or whatever they want to call it, Polution is real. Do not believe me; check it out first hand here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zug_Island Polution is bad if you breathe; See point 1. 3. 'Peak oil' http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/, unsastainable energy, etc. However you look at it, even if you believe oil bubbles up magicaly from the earth's core http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenic_petroleum_origin and is unlimited, there is an undenyable limit to how fast we can obtain it. This exists when you compare an ever expanding demand for energy with a finite rate of energy aquisition. Either a) the population of this planet must cease its increase or declines AND b) economic growth also stagnates/receeds OR new sustainable energy sources are found. These sources require our current low cost energy sources to research and implement. Yet people donot want to concern themselves with new energy sources until after the now low cost ones become a problem, which then leads back to a lack or resources to achieve these new resources. Waiting until leads to both a and b occuring on its own much more severly. Life today is like partying with all your cash on payday then not having money for rent. PS. Even the conservative experts expect this within 30 years. 4. Helping the poor is the best way to ensure everyone (including the rich) get richer. 5. Cash-for-Clunkers was a conspiricy against SUVs? An SUV was the leading vehicle bought during cash for clunkers. http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/07/autos/cash_for_clunkers_sales/index.htm I shall see what more I can dig up tomorrow.

Adding dataflow to a local seems too easy.

LabVIEW does not work with a "copy-modify-merge" method. That method is for text based code. Binary files such as a LabVIEW vi are source controlled by lock/unlock, single person changing code at one time method. How this differs is that in C+ for example, multiple functions would be in one file. Perhaps your entire program would be one giant text file. In LabVIEW by contrast, you have many little files that separate each function called a 'subvi'. With the one text file situation it is very reasonable to have multiple coders working on different parts of the code, different functions, etc within one big file. Therefore you implement a merging method. LabVIEW on the other hand, one function is typically one file, thus locking that one file for changes does not interfere with the work of the other coders. They are working on the other functions they locked. Then as each person gets the updates LabVIEW uses the new changes subvis. This is very similar to the SCC merging the changes to two text files and each coder recompiling.

You are in the denial phase. The sooner you accept you need to wipe that machine and fresh install the sooner your head bashing will end. Multiple installs/uninstalls of NI-DAQ and now MAX has always been very bad. I did get a custom exe that attempted to wipeout traces. Even with that I had to fully uninstall everything NI before running it and reinstalling.

I disagree with alfa above. Your definitions are off. There are many terms for rating attributes of the mind that are commonly confused. Smart is often used in place of intelligent, wise, or educated. It actually means sharp; as in a sharp wit, or when hit saying, "that smarts". A comedian with fast comebacks or rapper who strings together rhymes real time would be smart. It is a social, speech related measure of the mind. This is what President Bush was bad at. Intelligent is problem solving & logic related. IQ is a measure of intelligence alone. Intelligent people are often bad at smarts because their brain works faster than their mouth or better than they can express with words. The genius professor you hated because they could not teach you anything is an example of intelligent but not smart. Supporters of Bush claim he is in this category too. Wise is discernment or insight into situations. This is also called 'street smarts'. It is about making judgments and choosing right. Animals are considered wise; they know no logic, have no education, yet they know what they should do in a situation. Knowing the details of clouds, what the different kinds are, and how rain forms are examples of education. Knowing to go inside because it is raining is wisdom. This is the most important thing retarded or autistic people are missing. Autistics can be genius, but may still need someone to make sure they remember to eat. Engineers are stereotyped as intelligent, but not wise. Educated is commonly confused these days with all three of the above. An education is great for specialized job preparation, and random trivia is good for winning games. It is not a measure of the mind. It is simply a level of training. Knowing or not knowing something is simply a matter of exposure and/or training. Good spelling is from education. For example; a person that graduates high school or gets a bachelor’s degree in 8 years is just as educated as someone who finishes in 4. That does not make either of them intelligent. It just so happens that smart, intelligent and wise people tend to also perform better and educate easier.

I thought pure data had to be passed in as a string using a stored procedure. I recall there being some issue with special characters causing failures using normal SQL statements.

With proper source control in place you should not need to compare changes from two different developers or students in your case. Mergeing changes from different developers does happen in text based languages. LabVIEW works differently. There are more files for each application. Each file, called a subvi, is similar to a function call that would be included in 1 text document in languages like C+. Typically when implementing source control for LabVIEW each file is only used by 1 developer at a time. This is a lock or check out method depending on the terminology of your source control. SVN and the client tortuse(sp) are free. I think Jim K. has a totorial on how to set it up even.

After selecting additionl elements manually, following 'Init' requests, the arrays will randomly switch between the correct size and the size they were when you added elements. Once the vi is saved after this occurs, this issue persists even if LabVIEW is restarted. Download File:post-5278-1149869446.vi