@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just saw someone refer to NIC as a "niq"
Wow, just.... WTF
and they did it 3 times in the email..
I was just baffled, and had guess they meant NIC, which thankfully, I was correct.
It's amazing how often people get the simple things wrong because they just know a "sound" and don't realize what the full names of things are.
Like people who say MAC when they mean a Macintosh computer. MAC is an short for Machine Access Code, just like NIC is short for Network Interface Card. Knowing that, you really can't get them wrong. And in reverse, lots of people don't realize that the Apple Mac is short for the Apple Macintosh (literally a type of apple) and so often think that it's an abbreviation for something that they don't know. So you get Apple people who don't know that Mac is short for Macintish, and networking people that don't know the meaning of MAC!
The simplest things that we take for granted.
I've been one of those that confused MAC with Mac... but I learned the difference.
also, great point.