| ??? 02/26/09 08:21 Read: times Msg Score: 0 +1 Good Answer/Helpful -1 Message Not Useful |
#162869 - Quoting Andy on this Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Aamir Javaid said:
If you people say, i can give you my code for modification and making it efficient. What you say? I would have to quote Andy on that one: Andy Neil said:
If you want private consultancy, dedicated solely & exclusively to your project, then you will need to pay a Consultant for that! You have to think about something. A lot of people here are not sitting rolling their thumbs while waiting for something - anything - to show up just so they will manage to get the day to pass. Some people are consultants, and already sells their time by the hour or fixed-price/project or similar. Others have full-time ordinary jobs. But the important thing here is that a lot of people who do help on this forum get their money from being professional programmers, designers, testers, ... While it is ok to help people who have gotten stuck, it is normally not ok to continue all the way and after the normall full-time payed job continue and take over someone elses code and (re)write that for free. It would be better then to take on one more consultancy project or similar that would fetch money. The problem here is that you don't always spend so much time doing any home work. And when people post comments, you don't spend too much time reading the comments and either reacting to them by trying out the suggestions, or responding to them by telling why you think the suggestions are not applicable or exactly where ou fail to understand the specifics or the implications of a suggestion. This all falls back on you, since people who are actively spending time and thought based on the received responses will get way more help. Help on forums are free donations of other peoples time, and the OP can very much affect how valuable everyone else will think it is to donate that time and help. Don't you think you should start by rereading all answers you have received in this post. Yes, some are about differences between CRT and LED signs, but they are applicable too. Learning is not just about getting a turn-key solution. It is about understanding what what makes one solution good. And it is about understanding why other solutions may sound good but have hidden snags that you should try to avoid. This more general knowledge may result in (or come from) quite interesting discussions that can look quite off-topic, but do not ignore unless you are 100% sure that you know that you can't find important hints and ideas in the semi-off-topic posts. If you skip them you should also be able to tell yourself exactly why they should be skipped - but of course you will not be able to find a good explanation for skipping them unless you have read (and understood) them in the first place. |
