Re: About GSM project

On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:38:37 +0200, David Brown
<david.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Bit Farmer wrote:
haresh wrote:
My Last post many friends have problem abt my university. I join this
group for help. If i said any thing wrong then sorry.
Right I am working project which is using 8051 to connect GSM modem
And GPS receiver .Its for tracking vehicle and send MSG on my or any
mobile about vehicle location.

So If u have any idea Let me know right now i have a problem circuit
design.

Thank You,
Haresh

Haresh,

Your request was just fine. The problem is that many newsgroups are
populated with people who 1) want to make a joke about your request, or
2) want to sound so knowledgeable that you request is just an irritation.


His request was *not* fine. It was written in barely comprehensible
pseudo-english (I am a Scot living in Norway - I am fully aware of the
difficulties of learning and communicating in a second language.

I am mostly working for a company with offices all around the world,
but with very few people in English speaking countries, so in
practice, none of us speaks English (my 3rd language) as the mother
tongue. Meaningful phone contacts may become problematic due to very
different accents, but even in such cases, an e-mail conversation will
usually solve the problem.

Maybe due to this background, understanding some questions in this
newsgroup is not so hard, but making sense of any unrealistic
assumption is the problem.

But I
also know that if you can't speak or write a language reasonably, you're
going to have a great deal of trouble persuading people to bother
listening to you). International communication in technical fields like
embedded design is done in English. If the O/P wants to be an embedded
engineer and to communicate with people from different countries, he
needs to learn English. It's not fair, it's not "right" - but it *is* a
fact of life.

I fully agree with this.

Also if working with industrial automation, knowing some German is
useful, since some documents are not available in English or are
translated by Babelfish :-).

Even when you bother to read his posts, the project is totally beyond
him (based on his posts). Either his "big name" university (does "big
name" mean internationally renowned - if so, why not tell us the name?)
is failing badly by giving students projects with no appropriate
guidance, or the student himself is failing badly by not using the
resources available. He has figured out the main components for his
design (although why he is specifying an 8051 is beyond me), but
apparently hasn't a clue how to turn these into a workable design, and
probably hasn't a clue how to program the system. This isn't something
that we can help with here - he needs to take appropriate courses and
study appropriate books before getting to the point where we can help
with the details.

It's not that I don't want to help a student, it's just that giving
technical advice like you did is not the help he needs.

I have also seen this, when someone asks how to do X and the reply is
that do A, B and C and then the original poster asks

1.) What is A and how do I implement it
2.) What is B and how do I implement it
3.) What is C and how do I implement it

If this is the likely result of answering what is X, it is no doubt
that it is hard to get any responses.

However, in this newsgroup at least, after the initial question asking
about what is X, asking about what is B.3.2 would indicate that A and
C and most part of B is understood and does not require spoon-feeding.

Paul

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