Gold has longer standing as something of 'value'. For centuries it has been held as one of if not the most valuable substance to possess. Entire civilizations were decimated in order to steal their gold. The European Presence in the Americas was mainly due to gold.
Now, thousands of years ago, gold had very little intrisic value. It has plenty of applications in today's technology, but as a soft metal that would dent easily, gold had little value in military applications or for nearly anything else. The only thing it had was that it looked pretty and was hard to find.
When governments moved to a currency system, they used precious metals as the standard (gold, silver, and copper coins are the most well known). These were obviously valuable in and of themselves since you could just melt down the metal and create what you wanted from it, or simply re-use it as currency. Once the currency migrated to a paper system, the only way to get the populace to accept the new money as real was to tie them to the previous standard of value, ie gold. You could go to a bank and exchange your paper money for hard metal 'real' money. The paper was simply a check drawn off of the banks' reserves.
Now that paper money is established as having value, the gold standard is slowly going away. Since the entire world acknowledges the dollar as having value, it no longer needs to be tied to a gold backing. It has value in and of itself.
It's the same thing with the electronic migration. Those bits in your bank's computer have no value whatsoever. Just like those bits of mint paper with dead presidents in your wallet have no value whatsoever. The only thing that gives it value is that everyone agrees that it is valuable. Which is the same reason gold held its value. We all agree to assign value to it.
So, to answer your question, Gold has no more value than paper or even little bits of information in a bank's computer. It just has a longer history as a valuable commodity, and is held by many people to be harder to steal than bits from your bank account.
Although, if I had a closet full of gold bars, I would probably feel less safe than if I had my money at the bank.
Oh, they'll still be banned. School Administrators can't tell the difference. They'll ban them on the grounds that they COULD possibly in the future play pornographic material.
And it doesn't even have to take that much. Once the first parent gets wind of this, there will be such an outcry that they'll have to ban them. Doesn't matter that it's only in Japan, doesn't matter that the US kids have no such capability...someone will go overboard and force the school's hand. Say it with me:
"Oh, won't somebody please think of the children??!?!"
Although I fail to see why the school hasn't already banned the PSP...seriously any decent administration wouldn't allow this at their school. You'd have to disguise it as a TI-85 or some such.
See Heinlein "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress". Lunar crops/metals were exported using a large magnetic railgun that accelerated each metallic canister to escape velocity. Retros were used to land said canister at acceptable speeds.
This was perfectly fine until the Moon decided to start aiming the canisters at cities....
Inclusion in Portage doesn't have to be based on legal issues, as its not considered 'shipping' a program. Any ebuild in Portage is just the script telling you how to install the program, not the program itself. It's like providing you the hyperlink to mplayer's website, but not including it on your cd.
As far as I can tell, mplayer is not included in the GRP list, so it is NOT shipped with Gentoo. The ebuild is there for you to run if you want to install it later, but it isn't shipped with Gentoo.
Gentoo's not really about the compiling...most people point to that as its main difference. What sets gentoo apart is the USE flags and Portage. You can compile programs with the features you want, and say leave out GNOME or KDE support. I run a Flux desktop with minimal Gnome or Kde crap in there....I've got Kde-base installed so I can run the few kde apps I need. But I don't have anything in there I didnt specifically choose to install. If I want a certain package and it brings in too many dependencies, I change my USE flags and it compiles without those options.
Using funroll-loops.org to argue against Gentoo is like boycotting Honda because of all the 'ricers. It's silly to even judge a distro on the basis of some of its less intelligent users. Debian users have a rather bad rep in the Gentoo forums....doesn't mean we hate Debian..in fact, most of us support it or Ubuntu to bring along girlfriend/spouse to Linux...I'll be installing Ubuntu for my girlfriend sometime this month.
On newer systems you dont get much of a performance boost with different CFLAGS, but on his PII it might make a world of difference. I don't use customized CFLAGS so I can keep a more stable system....the boost it gives doesn't really compensate for some stability issues. Those ricers you see on funroll-loops usually break something then get upset when we laugh at them...there are some really great bugs in bugzilla.
Gentoo isn't about the compiling....its about the flexibility and customization to streamline each package.
Uninformed stereotype. Gentoo was perfect for my PII 400mhz...up and running with X and firefox under 24 hours. I get to choose what to install and what to leave out....instead of start with what the distro installs and cull the bloat.
Maybe you giggle because you assume a Linux newbie can't read a manual.....
Two scenarios:
A) After being bombarded with legions of script-kiddies, the CIA concludes that there is nobody capable of breaching their security....USA wins!
B) Since they secured their network to block most primitive attacks, they catch the few idiots who try their mad skillz against the big bad CIA...and are then shipped off to $BIG_BAD_CIA_PRISON and are never seen again. However, the few persons with skills enough to actually crack their network are just smart enough to avoid advertising the fact to the CIA....causing the CIA to conclude there is nobody capable of breaching their security....USA wins!
Or Super Sekrit Option C:
The CIA server is totally hacked by some ubergeek living in a hole somewhere. Unwilling to lose face, they black out all logs pertaining to this attack and deny it ever happened, claiming there is nobody capable of breaching their security.....USA wins!
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Gold has longer standing as something of 'value'. For centuries it has been held as one of if not the most valuable substance to possess. Entire civilizations were decimated in order to steal their gold. The European Presence in the Americas was mainly due to gold.
Now, thousands of years ago, gold had very little intrisic value. It has plenty of applications in today's technology, but as a soft metal that would dent easily, gold had little value in military applications or for nearly anything else. The only thing it had was that it looked pretty and was hard to find.
When governments moved to a currency system, they used precious metals as the standard (gold, silver, and copper coins are the most well known). These were obviously valuable in and of themselves since you could just melt down the metal and create what you wanted from it, or simply re-use it as currency. Once the currency migrated to a paper system, the only way to get the populace to accept the new money as real was to tie them to the previous standard of value, ie gold. You could go to a bank and exchange your paper money for hard metal 'real' money. The paper was simply a check drawn off of the banks' reserves.
Now that paper money is established as having value, the gold standard is slowly going away. Since the entire world acknowledges the dollar as having value, it no longer needs to be tied to a gold backing. It has value in and of itself.
It's the same thing with the electronic migration. Those bits in your bank's computer have no value whatsoever. Just like those bits of mint paper with dead presidents in your wallet have no value whatsoever. The only thing that gives it value is that everyone agrees that it is valuable. Which is the same reason gold held its value. We all agree to assign value to it.
So, to answer your question, Gold has no more value than paper or even little bits of information in a bank's computer. It just has a longer history as a valuable commodity, and is held by many people to be harder to steal than bits from your bank account.
Although, if I had a closet full of gold bars, I would probably feel less safe than if I had my money at the bank.
yeah but once you get double- and triple-tonguing down.....
You should see how many tuba groupies I get.
Ok, there's just the one, but still....
Oh, they'll still be banned. School Administrators can't tell the difference. They'll ban them on the grounds that they COULD possibly in the future play pornographic material.
And it doesn't even have to take that much. Once the first parent gets wind of this, there will be such an outcry that they'll have to ban them. Doesn't matter that it's only in Japan, doesn't matter that the US kids have no such capability...someone will go overboard and force the school's hand. Say it with me:
"Oh, won't somebody please think of the children??!?!"
Although I fail to see why the school hasn't already banned the PSP...seriously any decent administration wouldn't allow this at their school. You'd have to disguise it as a TI-85 or some such.
See Heinlein "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress". Lunar crops/metals were exported using a large magnetic railgun that accelerated each metallic canister to escape velocity. Retros were used to land said canister at acceptable speeds.
This was perfectly fine until the Moon decided to start aiming the canisters at cities....
Shouldn't that be WHEN did I park that Delorean?
Inclusion in Portage doesn't have to be based on legal issues, as its not considered 'shipping' a program. Any ebuild in Portage is just the script telling you how to install the program, not the program itself. It's like providing you the hyperlink to mplayer's website, but not including it on your cd.
As far as I can tell, mplayer is not included in the GRP list, so it is NOT shipped with Gentoo. The ebuild is there for you to run if you want to install it later, but it isn't shipped with Gentoo.
No, you dolt...we need to rotate the shield harmonics while simultaneously emitting a modified tachyon pulse through the forward deflector array.
It's first year physics, people!
Brahma wrote the source code. Ganesh isn't claiming anything....he just happened to be the first to logon that cycle.
Not on Ganesh's system. Top expresses TIME in Kalpas. You're still using the year? How provincial.
Gentoo's not really about the compiling...most people point to that as its main difference. What sets gentoo apart is the USE flags and Portage. You can compile programs with the features you want, and say leave out GNOME or KDE support. I run a Flux desktop with minimal Gnome or Kde crap in there....I've got Kde-base installed so I can run the few kde apps I need. But I don't have anything in there I didnt specifically choose to install. If I want a certain package and it brings in too many dependencies, I change my USE flags and it compiles without those options.
Using funroll-loops.org to argue against Gentoo is like boycotting Honda because of all the 'ricers. It's silly to even judge a distro on the basis of some of its less intelligent users. Debian users have a rather bad rep in the Gentoo forums....doesn't mean we hate Debian..in fact, most of us support it or Ubuntu to bring along girlfriend/spouse to Linux...I'll be installing Ubuntu for my girlfriend sometime this month.
On newer systems you dont get much of a performance boost with different CFLAGS, but on his PII it might make a world of difference. I don't use customized CFLAGS so I can keep a more stable system....the boost it gives doesn't really compensate for some stability issues. Those ricers you see on funroll-loops usually break something then get upset when we laugh at them...there are some really great bugs in bugzilla.
Gentoo isn't about the compiling....its about the flexibility and customization to streamline each package.
Uninformed stereotype. Gentoo was perfect for my PII 400mhz...up and running with X and firefox under 24 hours. I get to choose what to install and what to leave out....instead of start with what the distro installs and cull the bloat.
Maybe you giggle because you assume a Linux newbie can't read a manual.....
Two scenarios: A) After being bombarded with legions of script-kiddies, the CIA concludes that there is nobody capable of breaching their security....USA wins! B) Since they secured their network to block most primitive attacks, they catch the few idiots who try their mad skillz against the big bad CIA...and are then shipped off to $BIG_BAD_CIA_PRISON and are never seen again. However, the few persons with skills enough to actually crack their network are just smart enough to avoid advertising the fact to the CIA....causing the CIA to conclude there is nobody capable of breaching their security....USA wins! Or Super Sekrit Option C: The CIA server is totally hacked by some ubergeek living in a hole somewhere. Unwilling to lose face, they black out all logs pertaining to this attack and deny it ever happened, claiming there is nobody capable of breaching their security.....USA wins!
It's wonderful that the CIA has such trustworthy people that wouldn't think of disclosing details of such a secure operation..... Oh, wait.