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* Do not, I repeat, DO NOT admit to using Internet Explorer to anyone in any IT department, you will get flamed. You're honestly better off not even mentioning it except in pure jest, and even then only if the jest is at Internet Explorer's expense.
** If you admit to using a Mac, you will get flamed ([[Critical Research Failure|probably about the lack of mouse buttons]]). If you admit to using Microsoft Windows, you will get flamed ([[Critical Research Failure|probably about the constant crashes]]). If you admit to using Linux, you will get flamed (as a pre-emptive measure to stop you evangelising). If you admit to dual- or multi-booting, you will get flamed by everyone at once.
** An exception: if the IT department installed Internet Explorer on your workstation before issuing it to you, and they don't make Firefox or Chrome available, do not admit to using anything other than IE.
* Among programmers, making a Perl/PERL/PEARL/Pearl/perl mistake can [[Critical Research Failure|lead to someone losing all credibility.]] In general, the capitalization thing for computer language names can get sticky. Especially for older languages, which had a tendency to start life as all caps abbreviations and then become mixed case in later standardization efforts. LISP ("LISt Processing") and FORTRAN ("FORmula TRANslating System") are now just Lisp and Fortran.
* The editor of one early (late 1970s) British computer magazine persistently claimed that the difference between compilers and interpreters was "academic", even in the face of corrections from knowledgeable readers, until one month he learned the hard way just how wrong he was, by wasting three pages of the mag on a worthless hex-dump of the workspace of a BASIC interpreter. The mag didn't last very much longer after that issue.
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* Call Microcomputers such as the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and the Amiga "PCs" in front of Microcomputer fans.
* It's the [[Xbox]]. It's just one word, normally capitalized. Not XBox, XBOX, X-box, X-Box, or xBox. The name comes from [[Direct X]]; When Microsoft was creating it, it was codenamed the [[Direct X]] Box, or [[Direct Xbox]], and when they were trying to come up with a cool name for it, someone realized "Why don't we just use it as it is?".
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