Name of 10th Defcon

[nulltone Retired Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close nulltone]

The Tenth Defcon is something a bit more important than the rest. Its the first double-digit defcon. What do you think about the name? If you have any other ideas, post below.

[bluknight Skytalks Enforcer Find all posts View Profile Close bluknight]

DefCon X: Nemesis...

... for that kitschy Star Trek feel. heh.

But, in all seriousness, changing to roman numerals at this point gives me (at least) a feeling of more style and class... And I like the idea.

[ßobÇat Magnetic Field Marshal Find all posts View Profile Close ßobÇat]

Yeah, I've had it with those damn Arabic numerals, coming here and trying to take over our American mathematics!
Let's go back to the Roman numerals, like we used to use back in MDCCLXXVI!

Roman numerals are pretentious. Stay the course.

[viper Member Find all posts View Profile Close viper]

DefCon 10
DC10
DCX
DEFCONX
DefConX

hrm? I really dont know. Although, there is the obvious analogy to our governments 'defcon' status, which is determined by numerals.
"Defcon 7, 8, 9, 10, 11...." might sound better than "Defcon X, XI, XII...." etc...although, verbally, could still be called the #....i dunno. Food for thought...

[Golden_Eternity Member Find all posts View Profile Close Golden_Eternity]

Personally, I really hope its not X... X is too much the in buzz number these days... They didn't call DC8 DC 2000, so we don't need to call it DCX.

Ban the Buzzwords!

[nulltone Retired Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close nulltone]

First person to say that. So, so far most people say X, but some people say 10.

Even if we have Defcon X, it should be pronouced 10. DCX just looks cooler than DC10. ; )

[Spuds Member Find all posts View Profile Close Spuds]

Originally posted by ßobÇat
Yeah, I've had it with those damn Arabic numerals, coming here and trying to take over our American mathematics!
Let's go back to the Roman numerals, like we used to use back in MDCCLXXVI!

Roman numerals are pretentious. Stay the course.

I thought you *were* pretentious, ßobÇat... I mean, after all, the only reason people keep coming to Defcon is to see you whoop up in Hacker Jeopardy.... or to hope that you get whooped upon.

:)

Spuds

[simon original forum sysop Find all posts View Profile Close simon]

Um... Who cares?

I don't care what or how defcon is called in the future b/c I will ways reffer to it as dc9 or dc10 etc... And that is that. Atleast in type that is. IRL it will be DefCon Nine or DefCon Ten...

[DisneyFreak96 Member Find all posts View Profile Close DisneyFreak96]

DCX looks a lot cooler. DC10 looks clunky. JMHO.

Still should be pronounced DC ten though.

[J3di DC831 POC Find all posts View Profile Close J3di]

DCX

Defcon X.... It'll look better on a shirt or hat...

[Grifter Goon * Evening Events Find all posts View Profile Close Grifter]

DCX; DC10; Defcon10

I have to say, While "DCX" looks nice. I don't think it realy matters what we say here, we're going to see every variant that can possibly be made out of the number ten.

Although a return to Roman Numerals seems fitting at this point, after all it was done with roman numerals up until Defcon 6.

[omega884 Member Find all posts View Profile Close omega884]

Definately the X

Use the X for the following reasons:

1) Looks muchos cooler
2) Much cooler for logo designs
3) If the old DefCons were labled by Roman Numerals and we want to go back to the old style of def con, than the X would be symbolic of that change.
4) Whether you like them or not, Apple is a great example of old school computer people (creative as hell and shunned by the business world) and since OS X starts a revolution in the OS world, def con X can revolutionize the Def Con world.

[Golden_Eternity Member Find all posts View Profile Close Golden_Eternity]

If you need a letter, Defcon A. Fight the buzz-letters!

[White Vampire Member Find all posts View Profile Close White Vampire]

People care too much about the little things. I personally think 'DCX' is pretty rad, "trendy" or not. That is what I have largely be referring to it as in text.

But in the long run, it really matters little. You guys will do as you feel appropriate.

Regards,

White Vampire\Rem

[converge No Values Voter Find all posts View Profile Close converge]

hmmm so that's taken...

I was just brainstorming an alternative.. as I was scrolling through the messages to post I notices Golden_Eternity already beat me to it.. (kudos!) Defcon A seems a little more appropriate than going the Roman route to me... although "X" does seem to carry the more popular connotation... could go binary for Defcon 1010, but that doesn't seem that quite fitting