{"id":25163,"date":"2007-09-12T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/09\/12\/making-some-statements-and-asking-for-advice-isnt-a-question\/"},"modified":"2007-09-12T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-12T10:00:00","slug":"making-some-statements-and-asking-for-advice-isnt-a-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20070912-00\/?p=25163","title":{"rendered":"Making some statements and asking for advice isn&#039;t a question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a corollary to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2007\/03\/15\/1883515.aspx\"> <i>Don&#8217;t forget to ask your question<\/i><\/a>: Making some statements and asking for advice isn&#8217;t a question.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"m\"><p> When we do&nbsp;X, and then select&nbsp;Y, and then click the Q button, we get an error message saying that Q can&#8217;t be performed because &#8220;The computer&nbsp;Z that Y&nbsp;refers to cannot be contacted.&#8221; Can you provide advice? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Now, this person did remember to ask a question, but the question doesn&#8217;t really specify what sort of advice was desired. In this case, the question might be &#8220;Can you please provide advice on how we can avoid that error message?&#8221; But even that isn&#8217;t a good question.<\/p>\n<p> The error message already told you how to fix the problem: Re-establish the connection to the computer&nbsp;Z. Is the problem that you think the connection is working and you&#8217;re still getting the error? Is the problem that you don&#8217;t want to or can&#8217;t establish a connection to computer&nbsp;Z, but you still want to perform operation&nbsp;Q? Why do you think it should be possible to perform the operation even though there is no&nbsp;Z? Do you simply want to suppress the error message? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a corollary to Don&#8217;t forget to ask your question: Making some statements and asking for advice isn&#8217;t a question. When we do&nbsp;X, and then select&nbsp;Y, and then click the Q button, we get an error message saying that Q can&#8217;t be performed because &#8220;The computer&nbsp;Z that Y&nbsp;refers to cannot be contacted.&#8221; Can you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[130,103],"class_list":["post-25163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-email","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>This is a corollary to Don&#8217;t forget to ask your question: Making some statements and asking for advice isn&#8217;t a question. When we do&nbsp;X, and then select&nbsp;Y, and then click the Q button, we get an error message saying that Q can&#8217;t be performed because &#8220;The computer&nbsp;Z that Y&nbsp;refers to cannot be contacted.&#8221; Can you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}