On 2006-05-27, mavihot wrote:

Please help me urgently to design this problem. Thanks...

Why do East Asian requests for help always come with "urgent!!" on them?
I've seen plenty of requests that would have gotten answers but for
the demanding tone.

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Ben Jackson

http://www.ben.com/

On Sat, 27 May 2006 16:38:17 -0500, Ben Jackson wrote:

On 2006-05-27, mavihot wrote:

Please help me urgently to design this problem. Thanks...

Why do East Asian requests for help always come with "urgent!!" on them?
I've seen plenty of requests that would have gotten answers but for
the demanding tone.

Hi Ben,

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).

The end of term is coming up.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

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. ;-)

--
Ben Jackson

http://www.ben.com/

"Ben Jackson" wrote:
I still think there's a cultural/language issue going on.

I once worked for Oki Semiconductor and received a manual that had
been translated from Japanese to "English" by a Japanese Engineer.
One sentence translated as: "The user functions are functions that
are used by the user." I wondered what had gotten lost in that
translation.
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp

On Sat, 27 May 2006 21:53:06 -0500, Ben Jackson wrote:

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

Hi Ben,

My professional page got me inquiries from a private investigation of
the TWA flight 800 crash. But I got something in return, a graphic
chart of all the flight control settings from take-off until the
lights went out. The questions I got from the lawyer went deeper than
any student's final project.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC