Looking at the last few posts (and my communication with outing), I get the idea that the level of English of our Chinese friends is improving.
Or is that just me?

I can't agree more. Also about the tests. A good test tests if the student understood the theory, not remembering specifics (split grammar and vocabulary and test them separate). E.g. gives them some simple sentences and let them modify them to the different tenses (past, present, future and with continuous and non-continuous). There is no way a student can specifically study for that, because they don't know what sentences they will get during the exam.

Hi outing,

Those are nice, but not what I asked for. If you can give this level of quality I will be happy, but I think there is some miscommunication here:

I want your company to MAKE to movie (get some seeds, sow them, do the recording, edit the movie and send me the result).
NOT to send me a movie of the same thing other people did. I can find those things on the internet myself.

I know these things take time to do properly, but that's why I will pay you for this.

Please reply on the questions that I send you yesterday in the PM.

Cheers,

BioMike

You're funny. I send you another PM. Have a good rest and a good school day tomorrow.

There have been attempts in the past to do something with Tahoe-LAFS, but never got from the ground (to difficult for people to implement and the system seems to hang when one share goes off-line). This was half year ago, maybe things have improved by now.

Nefario,

I think it would be wise to guide them a bit more before unleashing them onto the forum. I think that is where this lacked. Also have them focus on one thing and have them do that properly. I still hope to get my time-lapse video of a germinating seed. I had some other good ideas for them, but nobody offered anything related close enough to ask for it (the time lapse was because someone offered a stop-motion video, which is quite related in the way to make it).

I guess not only the students learned a lot from this (you should reflect with them in class, what went right, what went wrong), but also you as a teacher should have learned a lot from this.

I send you a PM (top of the page, "My messages") with a bit more details on the info I would like to have from you, see if we can get a deal.

I was not talking about the paper-cut part, but more on the stop-motion part. If you can do that, you can also do time lapse recordings.
Which is what I'm interested in. I would like to have a few video's that track the germination processes of seeds from (Chinese?) plants over 3 days after germination. Your company needs to make a set up for this (during the night the light needs to go on for a short time to make the next picture), do the recording (1 hour interval, should be automated) and post process editing (make a movie out of it and put some music in it).

Here is an example of what I'm talking about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPTJ3qD1ikk

If that was the case, why would people not move to other exchanges then?
MtGox just runs fine and people are still trading there. And looking at the chart from last week, I don't see a heavy crash since the
problems in Japan started. What I do see is that not so many people are buying and a LOT of people are selling. I guess many buyers
just don't value bitcoin at $1.

Sheee... I wonder why the price is not $1 any more... and still dropping.

Is this the same thing as how the initial South Park cartoons were made?

If the company does stop-motion (定格動畫) kind of recordings themselves (and not rip stoff from the internet), I might be interested in letting them do some work. If they do it properly (read: good quality) then they might make enough to pass their course.

Outing, contact me (by PM) if you are interested in doing this work for me to discuss my work and a price.

Not every person can do everything. If they would try it would be very inefficient and it would only cost the company money. It is far better to decide a direction that the company follows (a core business stated in the business plan) and hires qualified people needed to do the work properly. Second, in most markets people look for companies that can fill their wishes and needs. If a company says they do everything, I would not trust them being able to fill the needs. I expect a bakery to have more knowledge about bread than the local bike shop.

To bad, I'm on a conference myself that day.

I think that the goal of the course is to learn the students to interact with "western" people, not to do something with Bitcoin (although they should be able to find out for themselves that there are possibilities for that also and they would be better able to judge what is possible in China and what is not).

@Nefario, some feedback for next time:
Have them make a business plan in advance, so that they know what they will be selling/doing to make money. Now, they are mostly asking the market to come up with ideas of  what their business should be. In the big "western" world this would look stupid and they would fail. Second, because the market/people are different in their mind set, let them do some background research about "western" people. Even people from the US, Canada and Europe have differences in the way how they do business. Part of their business plan would be to make a website and have it hosted (and let them know that they could use some of their initial capital to rent web space).
Having ~18 people per company (which imho is a lot for a starting company) they should be able to do a lot more than what I see now happening (even having each student spending 1 hour a week, should generate 18 man hours of work).

Ah, missed that (never look in off-topic).

Nefario,

Would have been nice  if you'd warn us before.

How many students did you send to here btw? Are they all Chinese medicine students, or are some that have other qualities (coding, art)?

MyBitcoin seems to be getting worse at doing their service... I guess we're going to need a new/better merchant/payment service.

Yay nog iemand !!!

With all the posts from Chinese students... this one is actually GOOD!

I don't know that much info about traditional Chinese medicine, nor am I ill that often (well, got a bad cough at the moment).
I am however sometimes interested in health promoting properties of plants (I think that's also part of Chinese medicine, right).
Do you have something to offer in that respect? (I'm doing a PhD in plant hormones).

He might be restricted online due to the power quotas.