Re: HELMETS!!!

Tom Sherman <sunsetss0003@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:

> Bill Zaumen wrote:
> > Tom Sherman <sunsetss0003@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> >
> >>>>>>>>> http://www.thespincycle.com/files/2006LoriCommercial.pdf
> >
> >> Adobe® Clip Notes® as I posted above?
> > Oh, just to show what a fool Tom Sherman is, I used a program I have
> > that prints the HTTP response headers.  Here's what you get:
> > Status: 200 OK
> > ...
> > Content-Type: application/pdf
> > ...
> > Content-Length: 2090466
> > Note the Content-Type header - it claims the file is a PDF file. The
> > extension ".pdf" is the extension normally used by a PDF file. So,
> > do you think it is surprising that my browser would try to open it
> > as a PDF file?
> > Nothing about some special "Adobe® Clip Notes®" format was given.
> >
> Yo Zaumen,
> 
> My browser also opens the link as a PDF.
> 
> When I go to the link, it says "Adobe® Clip Notes®" right above the
> black box displayed on the page.

There is an RFC describing the PDF format.  Adobe is going around
modifying it for business reasons, and those changes are not in
the standard.   Is it any surprise that something doesn't work
when you aren't using Adobe products?


> Furthermore, the dialog box that appears says, "This PDF uses Adobe
> Clip Notes technology to allow you to review a movie and to add
> comments...."

..... nope - no such dialog box appears - not with my PDF viewer.
You showed your ignorance on that one - assuming your system behaves
like everyone else's.

> Then player controls and a box to allow review comments appears below
> the "black box" that allows one to play the video clip.

.... same thing ... new adobe product that "extends" a standard but
doesn't tell you.

> To bad computer expert Zaumen can not get his computer to work with
> the web page, so he would not look like a fool for calling me a fool,

No, you are are the fool.  I simply don't bother with Adobe's viewer
for a variety of reasons, including package management.  Read up on
it if you are not familiar with the concept.

Sherman, you really are an idiot.

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