For the benefit of aimisdirty.

[theweaselking]

Note: He doesn't need this information. He wishes more people would HAVE this information.

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That's nawt uh magazine!

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

Magazines have pi'chures in 'em, don'cha'know!?

[zenten.livejournal.com]

That picture helped me put everything into place, thanks.

And to be fair, I very much doubt Hal knows the difference between a bubble sort and a binary sort.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. But he doesn't misuse the term "bubble sort" in a regular discussion that comes up almost every time anyone talks about using computers to make spreadsheets, either.

It's a case of commonly incorrect terminology that irks him. I'm the same way with "ATM Machine" or "PIN Number". Those drive me nuts.

[zenten.livejournal.com]

I think the ATM in the grocery store near me actualy says "ATM Machine" on it.

[ed-dirt.livejournal.com]

YAY! That's one of my pet peeves too (the clip v magazine one), and fuck me if the "PIN Number" term doesn't drive me up a wall. The supermarkets here are all on chip and PIN, so everytime I make a purchase usiong a card the fucking checker, almost without fail will ask me to put in my "PIN number".

Most of the time I can let it go, but every now and then...like the other day (and you probably thought i was only an online know-it-all)...

Checker: "Put in your PIN number please."
Me : (while I tap the humbers on the keypad) "Hey, uh do you know what 'PIN' stands for?"
Checker: (bored and stupid) "No. Huh, I never thought of it. What does it stand for?"
Me: "Personal Identification Number. So when you say 'PIN Number' you're really saying 'Personal Identification Number Number'. Get it?"
Checker: (gives me a blank stare and hands me back my card with the receipt) "Have a nice day."

and then fuck me if I don't hear them ask the guy behind me for his PIN Number.

[lurkerwithout.livejournal.com]

"PIN Number" would bug me more if I didn't live somewhere where people could fly past Table Table before landing at the Airport Airport...

[jackoutofthebox.livejournal.com]

see the problem is that your teaching Philosphy to Ducks. She probably wasn't in that position because she's got a phd in computer science.

[aimisdirty.livejournal.com]

Thank you, kind sir.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

Thank you, too.

Learning is good.

[aimisdirty.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

So.. we should all make sure that if we're ever in a situation where we're redistributing AK ammo in a live-fire zone under combat conditions that we say "hand me another magazine" as opposed to "hand me another clip".

Check.

[aimisdirty.livejournal.com]

If you told me 'hand me another clip', I'd take out ten rounds on a stripper clip, under the assumption that you wanted some of my loose ammo to reload a magazine. If you told me 'hand me another mag' (I'd probably say no, in the first place), I'd hand you a magazine for the type of weapon you're using.

They are two different things, and very few firearms are reloaded /directly/ using clips. Professionals (or people who know the difference) do not tend to mix the terms, as a result.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

Very few may be, but one of my favorites IS a clip loaded rifle. Chinese made SKSs are cheap and plentiful, and they're a decent multipurpose rifle you can get again thanks to the 'Ban Scary Looking Guns' legislation having rode off in to the sunset.

[aimisdirty.livejournal.com]

You can get Nork (Norinco) SKS rifles for 150 bucks a pop in Canada. I used to own one, though if I got a new one, it would be a mag-fed SKS-D. Better yet, drop 300 bucks and you can have a brand new Zastava Arsenal M-59/66AB1 (The Yugo SKS), that won't blow up in your hands, break, or go full auto on you due to a loose firing pin.

Yes, that was a shot at Nork SKS rifles.

[ryusen.livejournal.com]

i confess... i help to propigate this falicy due to sheer lazyness...