On 2006-05-27, Richard Clark wrote:

Two things wrong with this:
1) He's in Ankara (West, not East);
B) We get the same the same urgent requests from American students in
Florida (and all points north and west of there too).

I) I guess if I'm going to generalize I'd better pay more attention.

Two) I still think there's a cultural/language issue going on. I get
questions all the time from people about projects on my web page.
Almost all of the ones from people with Chinese/Indian sounding
names (hard to tell where they're from if they don't volunteer it and
they're using Yahoo mail!) are demanding. Here's the first example
in my inbox, although this one is relatively tame:

] i'm very interesting about this project because i want to use this simple card
] for a simple interface with the hardware outside for example for a simple
] input/output. i want to ask about the schematic of this project. Can you help
] me for this. i wait your answer as soon as possible.

In contrast, American students seem to just cut and paste requirements
from the handout. ;-)

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