jcarmody

Have you tried to read your ini file? It's not human-readable but it's correct. My file looks like: [Cluster] Start = "\00\00\00\00ÉË$ \00\00\00\00\00\00\00\00" End = "\00\00\00\00É̃L\0FÙ\00\00\00\00\00" My vi reads it like: What time zone are you in? When I read your ini file, I get:

I read this on my daily news feed: "altruism is praxeologically impossible." - from here and here These are two essays written by an Austrian economist. The second link above considers a situation where a grenade is thrown in front of a patrol and five responses are considered. Here's his conclusion regarding the response that has someone throwing his body on the grenade to protect his comrades: I enjoy economics and have studied the Austrian Value Theory but I didn't approach this thread from this angle.

I haven't yet grasped what 'hero" means, but I do feel that the word is overused. Anyway, I'd suggest that there is great reward received by those that develop CR code, LV Wikis and posts on LAVA. I couldn't begin to pay for the code review, tips and suggestions that I've recieved here. Adding three projects to the CR was a small price to pay (not that it was required) compared to the benefit I've received by participating in this community. I don't belong among advanced architects, but I can follow some of the advanced topics discussed here and it seems that everyone is benefiting from the discussions. I almost wrote that I don't see anything selfless in these forums, but I really do. When a LabVIEW beginner asks a simple question and receives an answer from an advanced LabVIEW professional, I see something selfless and beautiful. Perhaps your reward is the good feeling you get after doing it, but I think it's more that you're very nice people. Prov. 27:17 - As iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. It applies to LabVIEW, too.

From that point of view, yes, they are both selfish acts. I don't know if removing the anticipated future guilt is enough of a motivation, though, or even a consideration. I don't believe I would feel guilty for not acting on behalf of strangers; I have my own family (read: selfish interests) to look out for. I would certainly act if the risk was low enough (but that either makes me practical or cowardly, certainly not heroic). One premise in Atlas Shrugged is that selfishness, although damned by society, is necessary for achievement.

Amen. Leave the property concerns to the insurance companies.

My comment isn't intended to address the beginning of your post, but the last two sentences made me think of Atlas Shrugged so I extrapolated my thought and merged it with your comment to get this: a man who runs into a burning building to save his children is selfish; the one who does it to save strangers is a hero.

Don't tease me. I wanna make a dominoes score counter out of a web cam.

Any sufficiently advanced [vi] is indistinguishable from magic. ~ Arthur C. Clarke

You'll have to determine the serial commands required to command the scale to return the weight. I looked on Chatillon's website but couldn't download the manual. Perhaps you have a manual and can post the section containing RS232 commands.

This is NOT A SCAM. We need to do something before an "Eruption of the Yellowstone Supervolcano Destroy the United States as We Know It". Is ALGOR available?

Welcome to LAVA. The functions you need are found on the Input Device Control palette. Untitled 1.vi

Here't the first thing that crossed my mind as I began reading your post - Things You Should Never Do

This group has been holding LV User Group meetings in Raleigh pretty regularly. I know somebody that used to work there, so I can say that they're a solid company. BTW - I'd like to suggest that your LAVA user name is inaccurate; my name is also Jim. They haven't had one for quite a while and the person that used to run them isn't there any more. I'll ask if they're planning to do any more. PS - I met you there when you came to explain the JKI SM. PPS - I live in Selma and work in Wilson, NC.

Definitely worth a thread here!

I'll add Vugie's Scripting Sandbox as another great place to look.

I have. Jim

Of course I do, sir.

No, sorry. I've never shot past 300yds.

One time my shoulder got so sore that I didn't want to finish my round of five shots. I got through them, but it sure is a kicker. Cool. This is my first cruiser; it's a 2007 VT750C that I've ridden for ~32k miles.

Books are very militaristic over here; very often they march in column formations. Except for the SW Engineering books which can't decide on the best architecture to use. Funny, it would be ironic to shoot Tolstoy's work with a Russian Nagant, but I can't bring myself to shoot literature (whether good, bad or boring). I debated whether I should even publicly admit to shooting books, as revered as they are by some people. I decided to go forward because I have a ton of books that nobody wants. I can't give them away, so I'll have a little fun with them.

Please check out my new blog, the Gun Book Review, when you have a few minutes to waste. It's a tongue-in-cheek parody of serious review-type blogs where I'll discuss one of the things I do for pleasure (when I'm not programming in LabVIEW).

Tell me you did that on purpose

How 'bout if you enter into a contract with me then find that I've broken the law? Is it reasonable for you to expect, when entering into the non-disclosure arrangement, that you will be bound to keep evidence of illegal activity secret?

Today's cartoon, for those of you that don't have XKCD in your RSS feed.

No. It's probably because I was beginning to play around with them and thought they were fun. (I still do. ) Bonus link.