A Microsoft joke

A helicopter was flying around above Seattle when an electrical malfunction disabled all of the aircraft's electronic navigation and communications equipment. Due to the clouds and haze, the pilot could not determine the helicopter's position. The pilot saw a tall building, flew toward it, circled, and held up a handwritten sign that said "WHERE AM I?" in large letters. People in the tall building quickly responded to the aircraft, drew a large sign, and held it in a building window. Their sign said "YOU ARE IN A HELICOPTER."

The pilot smiled, waved, looked at his map, determined the course to steer to SEATAC airport, and landed safely. After they were on the ground, the copilot asked the pilot how he had done it.

"I knew it had to be the Microsoft Building, because they gave me a technically correct but completely useless answer."

The Forums

I have been posting on multiple forums for over 5 years and you see a lot of different personalities. Some people will post long explanations while others just post the answer. Others point to places that point to places. Some people just post with things that have nothing to do with the topics. But the posters I can not stand are the people that post correct answers that are useless.

I know a couple of people do this on a daily basis. They do it to show off their vast and useless knowledge of the language. For people that do not program; it is like a person using a big word that is only in an unabridged dictionary. The big word means nothing more then a common word, but the person insists on using it. The thing that most readers do when they encounter this fancy word is to just skip it and act like they knew what it meant. This is what beginners to programming seem to do. They ignore it or ask tons of questions on it. It is a waste of beginner's time and the poster's time trying to explain it.

I would post examples but I do not want to point out people that annoy me. I wish that people would dumb themselves down enough so that the beginners can figure out what you mean. We do not need to know all of the special little features that do not work in all environments, only the main ones are important.