"In extreme cases, when a knight was found guilty of treachery or treason, he could lose his honour by formal degradation - a public ceremony in which his accoutrements were taken off him. In 1468, Sir Ralph Grey was taken to Doncaster where, being guilty of treason, his 'gold spurs were hewn from his heels while his sword and all his armour were broken'. The last public degradation was in 1621 at Westminster Hall, when Sir Francis Mitchell was found guilty of 'grievous exactions' and had his spurs broken and thrown away, his belt cut and his sword broken over his head. Finally, he was pronounced to be 'no longer a Knight but Knave'."
We just have to wait for him to do something bad enough, and/or be convicted of it. We'll see what happens when the courts in the U.S. are through with him...
Personally I can't stand "internet shorthand". It usually takes off only 1 or 2 keystrokes (which if you have ANY respectably typing speed, should not be a problem), slows down reading, and is just generally a nuisance. Unless you are in a hurry because you have a cake burning in the oven, and you can't type more than 10 WPM, does it REALLY increase your WPM to shave off 2 or 3 characters from most words? Is it that much trouble to type "you" instead of "u"? Or even "no" instead of "n"?
Most of the people I associate with on IM use proper grammer and don't use "net shorthand". In fact, I'd consider the messages I exchange with others more of a form of "short e-mail" rather than random banter. Even though the shorter messages are simple and to-the-point, there's almost no reason for using internet shorthand.
The solution is simple: Learn English and don't be lazy. IM is a medium just like e-mail, and how you use it is what makes it different. Don't shoot the messenger.
The Jabber protocol is another one that can be used (and is being used) for IM, and logging can go to XML and other ways. A Jabber client just has to be developed to handle it like "normal e-mail", and it's done.
You are incorrect, sir.
For one thing, some of the most hardcore of gamers grew up in the early NES days. The original Metroid bombed in Japan, but boomed in the USA. And while we're on that topic, did anyone catch the clip of Samus at E3 when they were showing off the Gamecube? The audience was cheering rather loudly...
Anyone who did not have at least an SNES is either not old enough to have played many video games to make the call, or even care about the genre of Tomb Raider to have played it.
"Lara [Croft] has always been the number one video game heroine, and it's appropriate for her to be present at this year's Sugar Bowl where the national champion will be crowned"
I beg to differ: Samus (of the Metroid game series) has been around a lot longer than this goofball of a videogame heroine.
First things first: Ask them what, if any, conditions there are to their "gifts".
If they are providing the hosting or bandwidth, be sure to read the small print! Make sure that you aren't signing away any rights that you might care about. I'm not just talking about copyrights and trademarks, I mean things like the right to publish your work elsewhere, change hosting services or servers at any time, how and when access is provided to the server, if and when backups are done (started/completed), what you can expect in case of an unacceptably long downtime, etc.
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You surrendered your points when you posted a comment.
Security through obscurity.
... for him to lose Knighthood:
"In extreme cases, when a knight was found guilty of treachery or treason, he could lose his honour by formal degradation - a public ceremony in which his accoutrements were taken off him. In 1468, Sir Ralph Grey was taken to Doncaster where, being guilty of treason, his 'gold spurs were hewn from his heels while his sword and all his armour were broken'. The last public degradation was in 1621 at Westminster Hall, when Sir Francis Mitchell was found guilty of 'grievous exactions' and had his spurs broken and thrown away, his belt cut and his sword broken over his head. Finally, he was pronounced to be 'no longer a Knight but Knave'."
We just have to wait for him to do something bad enough, and/or be convicted of it. We'll see what happens when the courts in the U.S. are through with him...
Real life One Must Fall?
A modified version of this technoglogy would be great for use in elevators and pedestrian cross lights!
Personally I can't stand "internet shorthand". It usually takes off only 1 or 2 keystrokes (which if you have ANY respectably typing speed, should not be a problem), slows down reading, and is just generally a nuisance. Unless you are in a hurry because you have a cake burning in the oven, and you can't type more than 10 WPM, does it REALLY increase your WPM to shave off 2 or 3 characters from most words? Is it that much trouble to type "you" instead of "u"? Or even "no" instead of "n"?
Most of the people I associate with on IM use proper grammer and don't use "net shorthand". In fact, I'd consider the messages I exchange with others more of a form of "short e-mail" rather than random banter. Even though the shorter messages are simple and to-the-point, there's almost no reason for using internet shorthand.
The solution is simple: Learn English and don't be lazy. IM is a medium just like e-mail, and how you use it is what makes it different. Don't shoot the messenger.
The Jabber protocol is another one that can be used (and is being used) for IM, and logging can go to XML and other ways. A Jabber client just has to be developed to handle it like "normal e-mail", and it's done.
Read up on it on http://www.jabber.org.
You are incorrect, sir. For one thing, some of the most hardcore of gamers grew up in the early NES days. The original Metroid bombed in Japan, but boomed in the USA. And while we're on that topic, did anyone catch the clip of Samus at E3 when they were showing off the Gamecube? The audience was cheering rather loudly... Anyone who did not have at least an SNES is either not old enough to have played many video games to make the call, or even care about the genre of Tomb Raider to have played it.
I beg to differ: Samus (of the Metroid game series) has been around a lot longer than this goofball of a videogame heroine.
Maybe they could sell that in the Slashdot store. That'd actually be a good idea.
First things first: Ask them what, if any, conditions there are to their "gifts".
If they are providing the hosting or bandwidth, be sure to read the small print! Make sure that you aren't signing away any rights that you might care about. I'm not just talking about copyrights and trademarks, I mean things like the right to publish your work elsewhere, change hosting services or servers at any time, how and when access is provided to the server, if and when backups are done (started/completed), what you can expect in case of an unacceptably long downtime, etc.
Would mrsev mind sharing the brand and model of his Flash disk? I wouldn't knowing what to look for in the store if/when I need a Flash disk later.
82 million?! Google says there's only 3,430 things that microsoft actually ought to be blamed for!
... But for the true geek, you need a whole la-bor-a-tory.
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