{"id":172,"date":"2007-06-10T21:05:25","date_gmt":"2007-06-10T15:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveandyvonne.com\/davintosh\/?p=172"},"modified":"2007-06-10T21:05:25","modified_gmt":"2007-06-10T15:35:25","slug":"its-a-mac-not-a-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/2007\/06\/10\/its-a-mac-not-a-mac\/computers\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s A Mac, not a MAC!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my pet peeves is when people refer to Macintosh computers, or Mac OS computers, or anything else Apple- or Macintosh-related as &#8220;MAC&#8221;. It happens way, way too often, most often with people who ought to know better.A good example is found on Sioux Falls&#8217; own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keloland.com\/\">KELO.com<\/a> website, where they make use of an inline video player that uses .wmv video files. Out-of-the-box, the Mac OS doesn&#8217;t play .wmv files; since .wmv is a Microsoft format, that&#8217;s really no surprise. To acknowledge that, most KELO pages you pull up on a Mac OS computer show a disclaimer like this;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/kelo_mac.jpg\" alt=\"kelo_mac.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The in-line video player is currently disabled for MAC users.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Why do they capitalize MAC? Typically, in computer jargon, MAC is the acronym for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MAC_address\">Media Access Control<\/a>, the quasi-unique identifier for network interface cards. A Mac has a MAC address, but most PC&#8217;s also have a MAC address. Then again, a Mac is also a PC (Personal Computer), but that&#8217;s another discussion for another time.They do have a reference there to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flip4mac.com\/\">Flip4Mac<\/a>, so I must give them credit for that, but I just think it&#8217;s screwy for people to use all caps when referring to a Mac. Especially for the people who maintain the KELO website. A geek ought to know better!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my pet peeves is when people refer to Macintosh computers, or Mac OS computers, or anything else Apple- or Macintosh-related as &#8220;MAC&#8221;. It happens way, way too often, most often with people who ought to know better.A good example is found on Sioux Falls&#8217; own KELO.com website, where they make use of an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}