It's a MAC

To those, especially in the ADSL24 > Coms thread; it's a 'MAC' and not a 'MAC code'. Similarly, it is a 'PIN' and not a 'PIN number'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautology_%28grammar%29
Mini rant over .

DrT

In reply to a post by DrTeeth:

To those, especially in the ADSL24 > Coms thread; it's a 'MAC' and not a 'MAC code'. Similarly, it is a 'PIN' and not a 'PIN number'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautology_%28grammar%29
Mini rant over .

DrT

So should we call it a MA code and PI Number?

When you go out in the rain, do you wear a Mac raincoat? ?

It's just a MAC .

And only a pedant (or a bear) wears Wellington boots.

Card machines ask you to enter your PIN .

it's a 'MAC' and not a 'MAC code'.

Maybe that's why they have failed to supply me with a code on each of three separate occasions on which I have requested it.
In fact I have two accounts, have requested MAC's for both and all Coms do is ignore me.

Disgusting service Coms. You should be ashamed of yourselves.

Whooooooooooooooooosh

Chill out dude its only a MA Code

In a way I agree, we have always referred to it as "MAC Key".

Tell that to this site....

http://i.imgur.com/Ta0Nhf5.jpg

EDIT: Cant even use img tags on here? Surely its time the forum was upgraded.

Edited by Cruncher (Mon 17-Feb-14 12:41:00)

In reply to a post by VWGolfman:

MAC's

Now you really only used that grocers' apostrophe to annoy me didn't you ?

In reply to a post by Cruncher:

Tell that to this site....
http://i.imgur.com/Ta0Nhf5.jpg

Look like they are too thick to notice or care.

In reply to a post by DrTeeth:

Similarly, it is a 'PIN' and not a 'PIN number'.

But if I was asked to enter a PI number, I could be there for sometime.....

"-1" is a pi number .

http://www.exploratorium.edu/pi/pi_archive/Pi10-6.html

A million digits of PI

I've always remembered it to 5 decimal places since my schooldays. That probably puts me in a group of less than 1% of the population .

I realised straight after posting the -1 that card machines don't have a minus sign. So in the thread context -1 isn't a pi number. Out of context, as you will know, it is.

Edited by RobertoS (Thu 20-Feb-14 16:13:26)

I find that reminiscent of the nine billion names of God.

I always wondered what the first utterance of a newborn baby meant.

In reply to a post by tonytiger07:

But if I was asked to enter a PI number, I could be there for sometime.....

Because you'd be a silly-billy for making things up .