Let's hear it!

[deadly7]

I really hate the way labview is implemented with several background processes that are started when I log in to my machine. I spent two hours the other night trying to figure out why the hell my data acquisition card wasn't working. It was all because I didn't have every last one of the damn processes running. Why doesn't NI just program it so the processes open and close upon Labview's launch and shutdown? That'd make sense to me, but whatever.

Or, do what every other company has managed and make Labview run in one process... Labview was one of the worst experiences I've had in a lab.

[dark_drake]

I really hate the way labview is implemented with several background processes that are started when I log in to my machine. I spent two hours the other night trying to figure out why the hell my data acquisition card wasn't working. It was all because I didn't have every last one of the damn processes running. Why doesn't NI just program it so the processes open and close upon Labview's launch and shutdown? That'd make sense to me, but whatever.

Or, do what every other company has managed and make Labview run in one process... Labview was one of the worst experiences I've had in a lab.

I'd love that, too. Seriously, I thought I had a corrupted install based on the error the data acquisition card was throwing at me. Why don't they have an error saying a necessary component isn't running?

[Sidoh]

Happy π day! :D

[Blaze]

In celebration of Pi day, I ate a cheese sandwich.  ???

[deadly7]

I'd love that, too. Seriously, I thought I had a corrupted install based on the error the data acquisition card was throwing at me. Why don't they have an error saying a necessary component isn't running?

Yeah, I was setting up something to utilize Labview to collect data from a substrate and it was the biggest PITA. Needless to say, I left that lab out of hating engineering. =)

[rabbit]

In celebration of pi day, I'm staying late at work god dammit

[iago]

I'm going out for dinner with my family. They think it's for our respective birthdays (since me/my mom/my sister all have birthdays within a couple weeks of today), but they're wrong! I'll reveal the *actual* reason for our dinner on the next exciting episode!

[Sidoh]

I'm going out for dinner with my family. They think it's for our respective birthdays (since me/my mom/my sister all have birthdays within a couple weeks of today), but they're wrong! I'll reveal the *actual* reason for our dinner on the next exciting episode!

No need.  I've already figured it out.

You're going to show them your pierced eyebrow and do the pi dance.

[iago]

I'm going out for dinner with my family. They think it's for our respective birthdays (since me/my mom/my sister all have birthdays within a couple weeks of today), but they're wrong! I'll reveal the *actual* reason for our dinner on the next exciting episode!

No need.  I've already figured it out.

You're going to show them your pierced eyebrow and do the pi dance.

Heh, for those of you who don't read my Facebook updates, my mom sounded kinda bummed. But, in her words, "at least you aren't an alcoholic or drugger" (she meant "drug dealer" :) ).

I haven't told my dad yet (or talked to him)... *shrug* he won't care. It's just more fun to leave it as a surprise. :)

[dark_drake]

Yeah, I was setting up something to utilize Labview to collect data from a substrate and it was the biggest PITA. Needless to say, I left that lab out of hating engineering. =)

Can I leave engineering, too?

[CrAz3D]

In celebration of pi day ... I did nothing for pi day, but went to the winery with girlfriend and her sister, bought two suits and a pair of slacks, and have had a good few beers. The women should be back with meat for me to grill. Good.

[Joe]

In celebration of Pi day, I'm eating pizza. It's round!

[Newby]

I ate some apple pie today!

[deadly7]

Can I leave engineering, too?

I'm doing something that would make every statistician cry by taking my extremely limited experience working in engineering and extrapolating out to all fields, but I just can't see myself doing benchwork on a daily basis. It was interesting, sure, but it was more often than not just annoying. Too much hands-on work and not necessarily enough high-level thinking. And unless you're a project manager, that seems to be the case among many engineers I've seen. "Work on this small part of this gigantic design."

[Sidoh]

http://tauday.com/

This is interesting, but I'm not sure I agree with the conclusions.