voice-over and time beam

[Yan Yu]

1000% ditto to Ben!David is one of the most helpful and incredible resource
for this forum! He is always so sincere in helping us all.
Eprime forum has always been a super friendly and supportive group. Let's
keep enjoying the intellectual exchanges and friendship here.

Yan



On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:23 AM, ben robinson <baltimore.ben at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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