{"id":25803,"date":"2007-07-30T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/07\/30\/theres-a-whole-internet-out-there-folks-you-might-want-to-check-it-out\/"},"modified":"2007-07-30T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T10:00:00","slug":"theres-a-whole-internet-out-there-folks-you-might-want-to-check-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20070730-00\/?p=25803","title":{"rendered":"There&#039;s a whole Internet out there, folks, you might want to check it out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re going to add a topic to the Suggestion Box,&sup1; at least do the courtesy of researching the question before asking it. It takes me an hour to answer each question; it&#8217;s only fair that you spend ten minutes making it a good question.\n For example, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/pages\/407234.aspx#437026\"> one entry in the Suggestion Box asked for the story behind the <code>MANUALLY_INITIATED_CRASH<\/code> hotkey<\/a>. But even the most cursory search on the Internet for the phrase <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=manually+initiated+crash\"> manually initiated crash<\/a> reveals as the #1 hit <a href=\"http:\/\/searchwinit.techtarget.com\/tip\/0,289483,sid1_gci965142,00.html\"> an explanation of the circumstances under which you would want to enable this feature in the first place<\/a>.\n As another example, one commenter asked <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2006\/11\/15\/1081320.aspx#1081632\"> where I got the grayscale conversion formula from<\/a>, but a few minutes of tinkering with a search engine will reveal all sorts of articles on grayscale conversion. (Heck, that&#8217;s how I found the formula in the first place!)\n Generally speaking, I just ignore questions that are poorly-researched, but I felt the need to call out the issue in the first place so you can understand why I ignored your question.\n <b>Footnote<\/b><\/p>\n<p> &sup1;Yes, the Suggestion Box is closed for now, since it&#8217;s got enough suggestions to last me for years. If your suggestion is that totally awesome, then you will surely remember it when the Suggestion Box reopens in early 2010. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re going to add a topic to the Suggestion Box,&sup1; at least do the courtesy of researching the question before asking it. It takes me an hour to answer each question; it&#8217;s only fair that you spend ten minutes making it a good question. For example, one entry in the Suggestion Box asked for [&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":[26],"class_list":["post-25803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>If you&#8217;re going to add a topic to the Suggestion Box,&sup1; at least do the courtesy of researching the question before asking it. It takes me an hour to answer each question; it&#8217;s only fair that you spend ten minutes making it a good question. For example, one entry in the Suggestion Box asked for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25803","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=25803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25803\/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=25803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}