Gaming Life In Iraq

Thanks to GameGirlAdvance for pointing to a Healing Iraq weblog entry about the state of gaming life in Iraq. The Baghdad-based author says: "Videogames are a huge part of our society. Almost everyone I know, regardless of their socioeconomic status, either owns a console or has regular access to one", and goes on to note that "The most popular console in Iraq is the Sony Playstation. Dreamcast and the PS2 also have their devoted fans. The Xbox and Gamecube aren't very popular here." The games industry may not be raking in much money from Iraq, though: "We have a special gamers district at Bab Al-Sharji at the heart of the city where you can find hundreds of videogame vendors. Of course all the games we get are copies and we rarely find originals."

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Re: MAC

[EggZact]

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I have found that you have capitalized all the letters in the word Mac. However, Mac is short for Macintosh, a model series of computers and operating systems designed by the Apple Computer, Inc. of Cupertino California. e.g. iMac, Power Mac and Mac OS X: http://www.apple.com/

It is a common misconception that MAC is an acronym that stands for something such as DOS (Disk Operating System) and ACL (Anterior Cruciate Ligament) those examples being an Acronym (see: http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=Acronym ) and an Initialism (see: http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=Initialism ) respectively.

However Mac is an abbreviation (see: http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=abbreviation ) of the full word Macintosh. If it is written as all capitals, MAC, is an acronym for the computer technology Media Access Control: http://webopedia.com/TERM/M/MAC.html which is a technology and standard used in the hardware devices used to connect to the internet or network computers together (modems, network interface cards, routers, switches and hubs.)

I hope that I have not offended or overwhelmed you. It was simply my intention to inform you as to the proper capitalization of the abbreviation for Macintosh.
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