Seneca5 Software Blog » Grumpy http://www.seneca5.com/blog Expert LabVIEW™ Development Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:09:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Automatic, Smautomatic http://www.seneca5.com/blog/2010/03/automatic-smautomatic/ http://www.seneca5.com/blog/2010/03/automatic-smautomatic/#comments Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:49:57 +0000 GrumpyOldMan http://www.seneca5.com/blog/?p=326 automatictoolselectionWhen I head out to my work shed to build something with my tools, the tools I use are picked by one and only one person…me! That’s the way LabVIEW used to be, too, back in the good old days.

Now it’s all about the young kids and their automatic tool selection. La-ti-da! Manual tool selection was good enough for us, and it should be good enough for them too!

I don’t let my work shed tell me when to use a hammer and when to use a screwdriver! And if I ever get any of those new “power tools” I won’t want my shed picking those either!

]]> http://www.seneca5.com/blog/2010/03/automatic-smautomatic/feed/ 1 It’s LabVIEW, Stupid! http://www.seneca5.com/blog/2010/03/its-labview-stupid/ http://www.seneca5.com/blog/2010/03/its-labview-stupid/#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:09:50 +0000 GrumpyOldMan http://www.seneca5.com/blog/?p=313 LVSepiaIn my day, we knew that LabVIEW was an acronym, so we spelled it with capital VIEW as God intended! We knew it because we were there when it was being made. Sure, the first versions of LabVIEW were icons chiseled on stone tablets, but we liked it that way!
And there is one thing for sure we knew: the VIEW in LabVIEW is an acronym, so it needs to be capitalized.

It is not Labview, LabView, or LABVIEW.  It’s LabVIEW!

Maybe we could never remember what the acronym stood for but we knew it was one.

Violent Inhuman Enormous Wildebeest
Vital Inheritance Expense Withholding
Virtually Idiot-proof Enhanced Whatchamagig

It doesn’t matter. It’s an acronym. Now you know. So spell it right!

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