voice-over and time beam

[ben robinson]

in defense of David:
guys, i think you've misunderstood the tone of David's email, which is all
too easy to do when reading these kinds of online forums.
you asked a question the answer to which is really quite complicated to
communicate to someone brand-new to the eprime programming environment.  at
least, i had difficulty trying to answer it in a clear fashion.  David is
consistently and patiently responding to questions of this sort on an almost
daily basis it seems - just look back at forum questions and answers over
the course of the last year.  David has probably responded to and possibly
solved 80% of all questions asked here.  i, myself, might respond to 1 in a
hundred help requests, at best.  David is all over this forum.
please re-read David's post, minus any assumption that he is being
spiteful.  he's asking an honest question.
if you ask a question that is easy to answer, there are those of us on this
forum more than happy to help.  when you ask a more complicated question,
sometimes we'll have time to help, and other times when we're busy doing our
own work we'll wonder to ourselves, "why didn't they hire a programmer to
help with this?"  we've all got our own jobs to do.
David has been an incredible resource for this forum, and not one to
instigate any kind of "flame war".  please don't take offense at what he
wrote, as i don't believe it was meant to be offensive.
thanks David, and Bas, i hope my suggesting regarding how to present your
TimeBeam was helpful.

ben

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Bas en Oisin <bashartel at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Dear David McFarlane, we dont really understand where your frustration
> is coming from. We thought the use of this forum was that experienced
> E-Prime users could help out less-experienced users.
> To answer your question ("Do you want to be a psychologist who dabbles
> in computer programming, or instead a computer programmer
> who dabbles in psychology?"): Neither. We are two medicine students
> who are currently working on our scientific internship, we are a 3th
> and 4th year students. We've been assigned by our supervising
> professor with the task develope this E-prime test described in our
> previous mail. The (programming) basis for this test was already set
> for us and we wanted to improve it by adding a time-beam and voice-
> over text (we already succeded in the latter). So we are still in the
> "learning"-progress and we do enjoy it. Maybe if you could assist us
> with our E-prime problems we could assist you in your apparent social-
> skills' problems. We don't accept the tone you adress us with, we
> thought we could get some help here, but apparently we need to find
> some other way.
>
> Dear Michiel Spape, we succeded so far in programming our test, we
> just have our last few errors in completing it. We have the getting
> started guide (along with the users's guide and the reference guide).
> We just weren't able to extract the informating for u time beam during
> 1 trial out of these books.
>
> Well, we cant really thank you.
>
> Greats,
>
> Oisin and Bas
>
>
> ,.
> >
>

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