Ouch.... ni ?

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I'm not quite fan of soft that "pretend to know better than me what I mean" I always turn off "automatic tool selection", I also turn off automatic correction in MS Word...

I was surprised to see that if I write "ask NI people" and post, my post was be changed to be "ask National Instruments people"..

the work around is to "quick edit" and "complete" without changing anything in the text.

I don't really mind because it doesn't not change the meaning, and it makes things clear for people who would not be used to that acronym.

But still... If a new LAVA guideline asks me to write "National Instruments" instead of "NI" I would do, but I don't really like my posts to be modified without my knowledge .

[Jim Kring]

I agree -- I really dislike having my posting content altered behind my back. If I say "NI Week" I don't mean "National Instruments Week".

Can we please turn this acronym expander off?

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QUOTE(Michael_Aivaliotis @ May 31 2007, 06:34 AM)

This is because you should write it NIWeek like it's suppose to be written.

And what about "NI" that becomes "National Instruments" ?

Will "MS" be turned to "Microsoft" shortly ?

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Testing the auto-expander...

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WTF? IANAL but I'll take a SWAG. IMHO NI ("NI") should not be expanded. Imagine if every post containing ASCII, OOP, CAPTCHA, HTML or TCP/IP were auto-expanded. OMG I might not recognize my own writing. The thought of this leaves me ROFL.

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Just wanted to see how much it expanded; play time over...

BTW and FTR, I'm not excited about autoexpanding.

LV_Punk FKA pbrooks 100 and AKA Phil Brooks (CLAD and testing for CLD on Monday).

OK. Stop it. I will. Really. TCIGTM (the coffee is good this morning).

P.S. Placing quotes overrides the autoexpansion. It only expands NI as a single free standing instance of the "word". I was also able to enter Alt-255 in front of and behind the "word" to fool the expander... Strange. When I come back to the post later, the ALT-255 doesn't seem to "stick". If I edit and view the post it's OK for a while...

P.P.S. acronyms might not be such a bad idea, if they could function like the ones that I added to this post via "insert special item" "Insert: Acronym". Someone not familiar with CLAD could over over the word and see it's definition... Oops, remembered this post...

[crelf]

QUOTE(Jim Kring @ May 31 2007, 10:38 AM)

Can we please turn this acronym expander off?

...or wikify instead?

[eaolson]

QUOTE(Jim Kring @ May 30 2007, 07:38 PM)

I agree -- I really dislike having my posting content altered behind my back. If I say "NI Week" I don't mean "National Instruments Week".

And whoever has heard of The Knights Who Say National Instruments?

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QUOTE(eaolson @ May 31 2007, 05:01 PM)

And whoever has heard of The Knights Who Say National Instruments?

good shot :thumbup:

[Aristos Queue]

QUOTE(eaolson @ May 31 2007, 10:01 AM)

And whoever has heard of The Knights Who Say National Instruments?

One of our intern T-shirts says this...

There's also another intern T-shirt that says "The End of the World is NI". ;-)

[Yair]

QUOTE(Aristos Queue @ May 31 2007, 07:16 PM)

There's also another intern T-shirt that says "The End of the World is NI". ;-)

:thumbup:

This will probably puzzle quite a few people.