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[Hooovahh]

Fair point but I'm guessing that the application brought back into XP looked like a program made for XP, not a program written in LabVIEW.  If we design our UIs to look like what the modern standards are today, then they will look dated in a few years.  If we design them to use system then our UIs will continue to look modern as new OSs come out...that is if system is still the primary UI controls used in the OS.  Of course as time goes on I feel the UI is less important and the UX is one that the users usually remember more.

[thoult]

Also fair points - but a slightly different requirement is king for us here - the user experience should be as consistent cross platform as possible, as the production process could (and probably will) still be here in twenty years on a different OS.

Of course, our robot overlords by that point will have replaced us all in the manufacturing industry... 🙂

[Hooovahh]

Okay two more, one recent, one not recent.

<POP!>

Boss: This is one of those conversations I didn't think I would have to have with the team, but lets not have firecrackers in the office.

Coworker: What's the copay on hearing aids?

Hooovahh: WHAT!

And the not recent one.  We had a recent new hire in the group, lets call him Bob.  Our group had about 8 coworkers, a manager and a supervisor.  We were in one of our weekly team meetings where the boss talks to the team and understands where we were on our assigned tasks, and talks about the new work coming up.  During this meeting the manager had his laptop connected to the projector and was showing stuff when his Outlook popped up with a notification of a new email coming in.  In the lower right corner on the wall was the email subject.  "Bob failed his drug test" which came in from HR.  We all saw it, and the boss saw it, and he stopped what he was doing and closed the notification (which again only drew attention to it).  We all looked around the room at each other.  Then Bob made an expression that could only be described as "Welp."  Then he stood up and walked out of the room, never to be seen again.

[Blokk]

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@Hooovahh wrote:

Okay two more, one recent, one not recent.

<POP!>

Boss: This is one of those conversations I didn't think I would have to have with the team, but lets not have firecrackers in the office.

Coworker: What's the copay on hearing aids?

Hooovahh: WHAT!

And the not recent one.  We had a recent new hire in the group, lets call him Bob.  Our group had about 8 coworkers, a manager and a supervisor.  We were in one of our weekly team meetings where the boss talks to the team and understands where we were on our assigned tasks, and talks about the new work coming up.  During this meeting the manager had his laptop connected to the projector and was showing stuff when his Outlook popped up with a notification of a new email coming in.  In the lower right corner on the wall was the email subject.  "Bob failed his drug test" which came in from HR.  We all saw it, and the boss saw it, and he stopped what he was doing and closed the notification (which again only drew attention to it).  We all looked around the room at each other.  Then Bob made an expression that could only be described as "Welp."  Then he stood up and walked out of the room, never to be seen again.

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That is a kind of moment, when you feel you have nothing left to lose! 😄 Bob could have just stand up and say, "sorry guys, I need to shot myself in the toilet, I am back shortly!" 😄 ...you know, just to leave the company in an elegant way, haha 😄

About this projector+laptop pop-up message:

many years ago when I lived the happy and irresponsible life of the university students, I just woke up after a rough party night in the dormitory, in the morning. Nothing unusual that time, neither in that, I wrote to my PhD supervisor on gtalk chat: "Hello, I had a long night, too much beer, I drop in to the department only by afternoon" (well, we had flexible work time, and our professors were cool, easy-going people, so nothing unusual was in such msg).

But what I did not know that just when my msg went to his laptop, it was connected to a projector. Laptop with running the active chat app... Well, right then, he was just delivering a basic physics lecture to about 200 students, and he just did not understand why everyone suddenly woke up and laughing 😄

The next day my professor just said: "hmm, I think I should not forget to logout any chat app before lectures..." 🙂

[Hooovahh]

Unfortunately this one wasn't connected to a projector but a screen cap was taken.  While working at a company we would often use IM to talk to each other even though we were in the same office.  It was easier to ask some questions this way and then you'd have a record of it. 

So two engineers were talking to each other.  One engineer was asking about the signal processing that the software was doing.  One guy said "I think I'm going to try analyzing the data through a low pass filter" or something like that.  The problem is the popup notification in the corner only shows so many characters so what was seen in the preview in the corner was "I think I'm going to tray anal..."  Still funny but would have been better during a team meeting or something on the projector.

[altenbach]

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@Hooovahh wrote:

Unfortunately this one wasn't connected to a projector but a screen cap was taken.

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Completely unrelated, but triggered my brain with a combination of "projector" and "cap".

Some moron was using the DLP projector and wanted to blank the screen for a minute for a side discussion. Instead of using the software blanking feature or the blanking button on top of the projector, he/she had the glorious idea to just put the black plastic cap on the lens. Anyone with marginal physics background can calculate what a couple hundred watts of light energy concentrated on a 2 inch piece of black plastic will do. 😮

[jcarmody]

Ten years ago I was finishing up a week of teaching LabVIEW Basics I & II by completing the student evaluations while the class was completing a task.  I had neglected to look up to see that I was sharing my student assessments on the big screen.  I was almost as horrified as the worst student in the class. 

[Hooovahh]

Well it could have been worst.  Also that seems to have happened to a lot of teachers over the years.

[JÞB]

A new one for me

Me: Boss here is that new tool

Boss: What if the Data is a string of comma separated values?

Me: I thought about that

[Hooovahh]

What is a group of LabVIEW nerds called?  The best I could come up with is a "Bundle of LabVIEW nerds".  Or maybe like a spool of LabVIEW nerds since we deal with wires all day?