Can I pile in here? Thankyewverymuch.
It’s Perl, not PERL! Damnit! :mad: IT ISN’T AN ACRONYM! THE NAME WAS THOUGHT UP FIRST, AND THE ‘EXPANSIONS’ ARE JOKES! Every book on the language calls it Perl. Every. Single. One. No mouth-breathing, ear-bleeding, pus-dripping exceptions. Yet over half of all newbies (note that I have nothing against newbies, just morons) insist it is PERL. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK, and a FSCK for good measure!
:mad:
(Hell, I feel better. :))
Mac=Heaven
The loveliest, loveliest thing I own
Mithril, I love you, you have made my life complete…
My guess is it’s capitalized since PC is capitalized, i.e. the sentence “PC and MAC compatible”, which shows up frequently in tech reviews. I suspect misuse became more prevalent after OS X was released, with brain-dead writers and editors capitalizing the whole phrase, in a pathetic attempt to look informed.
Naw, I’ve seen ‘MAC’ for a while now, not just since OS X.
‘MAC’ shows up in tech reviews? Jeezus. That’s… sad. It doesn’t take much effort to look up ‘MAC’ and see that it’s not ‘MAC’ but ‘Mac’, and you kinda hope a tech review would check that kind of thing.
I guess that’s also what bugs me: you don’t need to read Mac magazines or be a Mac fanatic :rolleyes: in order to notice that it’s not capitalized-- on PC/Mac hybrid game boxes they list both PC and Mac system requirements. And there are Apple stores and billboards and news articles about Apple and displays in stores and print ads and television ads… It takes just a little bit of observation. But noooooo.
Doesn’t it occur to people when they write ‘MAC’ that it doesn’t look quite right?! :mad:
:sigh:
I’d switch to decaf, except I don’t drink coffee.
Actually, my Linksys Cable/DSL router MAC address changed on setup to copy the MAC of the original Ethernet card that connected to the cable modem.
Relevant precedent: Platform hijacks - the last resort of the pathetic loser
Well, maybe when some people talk in real life, they really do break their normal conversational tone and shout “MAC!” whenever they mention the term.
Perhaps they just REALLY like Apple’s products?
Dragonblink beat you to the punch, SPOOFE.
And thanks for the link, Cervaise. I was lookin’ for that thread.
I beat SPOOFE?! Hot damn!
[sub] … can I be in the Clique now?[/sub]
:thinks of dirty joke involving SPOOFE and ‘beating’:
:bites tongue:
It’s not Clique, Dragonblink, it’s CLIQUE.
Damn, guess I failed the entry test, eh? Now I gotta wait another 600 posts.
– Dragonblink the half-n3wb, half-regular, one-quarter half-orc, two thirds barista, 100% corporate whore
Now, now, I didn’t say that. To be in the Clique, you must first dance like a monkey, and then you have to send me $50, cash.
How about if I dance like $50 cash and send you a monkey?
Only if the monkey is fully trained to be my butler.
And his name is Mojo. And he was one of those Mr. Talk thingies to use.
Has, not was.
I have it bookmarked for just such occasions as this. Comes in handy.
Hmmm… “comes in handy”… Anybody know if handy’s ever been in prison?
Oooo. I want one!
Ummm, actually, “fsck” should be lower-case.
:d&r:
