I don't know, as I've never used either (I don't own a Mac). However, they're both free to download, so you can try both if you want. (although you may have to dig a little to find Yellow Dog downloads)
You can set up a GNOME desktop under Darwin, but it'll be a pain and probably won't work as well as under Linux. Darwin is mostly a development platform and isn't really meant to be user-friendly. Try installing a pre-configured Linux distribution, such as Mandrake or Yellow Dog. It should be much, much easier to set up.
Apple grosses 35 cents per song. After bandwidth, server, and development costs, they may not make a profit, but they do recieve a substantial portion of your music dollar.
The RIAA distributes the music in exchange for a cut of the revenue. The artists agree to this. Therefore, for distribution purposes, the music is effectively the RIAA's.
You didn't legitmately buy your DVD "on Linux" either. You bought it in a store, or on the web. That doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to play it in Linux.
As for my second clause - people wanting to download free music can already get CD-rips in MP3 format of just about anything. I don't they're going to seek out the rare decrypted AAC files when they can get better quality downloading MP3s the same way they always have been.
What Linux distribution are you using? Red Hat, Fedora, and Debian should all give you a functioning GNOME desktop by default. The rest of them generally have it as an option during installation. If you're downloading 78 files to install GNOME, you're doing it the wrong way.
Only 65 cents go to the RIAA, the rest goes to Apple. And whether or not you like the RIAA, it is their music, and they have the right to be paid for it.
How about to play legitimately purchased songs on linux. Short of Wine, there's no other way to do that. Also, it is impossible to steal music here: you have to buy it before you can crack it.
Key word: transcodes. IIRC, Compresser decodes the AAC and the reencodes it, losing quality. This program captures the original decrypted stream and writes it to disk, without losing any quality.
There is no way to losslessly convert AAC to MP3. Whether you capture digital data directly while it's played, or burn and rerip digital data from CD, you're going to get the same lower-quality results.
It does pick new data to discard. A perfect codec wouldn't, but no codec is perfect. Try running mpg123 | lame or ogg123 | oggenc in a loop sometime and see how quality degrades.
No browser currently supports SVG at any level. There have been various Mozilla development builds with basic, buggy support, but it's never been in a release build. Currently, the only way to display SVG in a browser is to require the Adobe viewer plugin, which doesn't work under Linux.
With 8GB of RAM you could load your root partition as a ramdisk. It'd take a while to start up, but afterward you'd have your entire OS, major applications, and documents preloaded into memory. That'd be pretty fucking sweet.
That would kill battery life, as well as being somewhat impractical to implement. Bluetooth doesn't have the bandwidth for CD-quality audio, so the iPod would have to either limit you to low-bitrate MP3 files or be able to compress AIFFs and high-quality MP3s in realtime.
Maybe I'm writing. Maybe I'm talking on the phone, scratching my leg, or holding a CD. Maybe my hand is resting in my lap because I don't see the need to keep it constantly hovering over the keyboard. Maybe I actually am browsing porn. It doesn't matter. There are a lot of occasions where it's faster for me to use the hand that's already on the mouse than for me to move my other hand to the keyboard.
No one I know uses more than four or five different gestures. Seeing as there are 16 possible two-movement gestures, I don't think that's going to be a problem.
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It's not like you can't do something just because someone else has already done it. There's no patent on the concept of a y-adapter.
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I don't know, as I've never used either (I don't own a Mac). However, they're both free to download, so you can try both if you want. (although you may have to dig a little to find Yellow Dog downloads)
You can set up a GNOME desktop under Darwin, but it'll be a pain and probably won't work as well as under Linux. Darwin is mostly a development platform and isn't really meant to be user-friendly. Try installing a pre-configured Linux distribution, such as Mandrake or Yellow Dog. It should be much, much easier to set up.
Apple grosses 35 cents per song. After bandwidth, server, and development costs, they may not make a profit, but they do recieve a substantial portion of your music dollar.
The RIAA distributes the music in exchange for a cut of the revenue. The artists agree to this. Therefore, for distribution purposes, the music is effectively the RIAA's.
As for my second clause - people wanting to download free music can already get CD-rips in MP3 format of just about anything. I don't they're going to seek out the rare decrypted AAC files when they can get better quality downloading MP3s the same way they always have been.
What Linux distribution are you using? Red Hat, Fedora, and Debian should all give you a functioning GNOME desktop by default. The rest of them generally have it as an option during installation. If you're downloading 78 files to install GNOME, you're doing it the wrong way.
Novell, I believe.
Only 65 cents go to the RIAA, the rest goes to Apple. And whether or not you like the RIAA, it is their music, and they have the right to be paid for it.
How about to play legitimately purchased songs on linux. Short of Wine, there's no other way to do that. Also, it is impossible to steal music here: you have to buy it before you can crack it.
Key word: transcodes. IIRC, Compresser decodes the AAC and the reencodes it, losing quality. This program captures the original decrypted stream and writes it to disk, without losing any quality.
There is no way to losslessly convert AAC to MP3. Whether you capture digital data directly while it's played, or burn and rerip digital data from CD, you're going to get the same lower-quality results.
That would require transcoding the AACs to MP3, which still loses quality.
It does pick new data to discard. A perfect codec wouldn't, but no codec is perfect. Try running mpg123 | lame or ogg123 | oggenc in a loop sometime and see how quality degrades.
No browser currently supports SVG at any level. There have been various Mozilla development builds with basic, buggy support, but it's never been in a release build. Currently, the only way to display SVG in a browser is to require the Adobe viewer plugin, which doesn't work under Linux.
Show me a PNG image larger than the comparable GIF and I'll believe you.
As opposed to US systems, where the results weren't known for weeks in 2000, and some results (on electronic machines), are never truly known.
With 8GB of RAM you could load your root partition as a ramdisk. It'd take a while to start up, but afterward you'd have your entire OS, major applications, and documents preloaded into memory. That'd be pretty fucking sweet.
They're developing a standalone program (and a set of Eclipse plugins), but they're not ready for release yet.
If it works with one set of arguments and not with another.
It's a cool idea, though (although you're not the first to think of it).
Maybe I'm writing. Maybe I'm talking on the phone, scratching my leg, or holding a CD. Maybe my hand is resting in my lap because I don't see the need to keep it constantly hovering over the keyboard. Maybe I actually am browsing porn. It doesn't matter. There are a lot of occasions where it's faster for me to use the hand that's already on the mouse than for me to move my other hand to the keyboard.
No one I know uses more than four or five different gestures. Seeing as there are 16 possible two-movement gestures, I don't think that's going to be a problem.
It's not like you can't do something just because someone else has already done it. There's no patent on the concept of a y-adapter.
What quad-proc board can you get with CPUs for a few hundred bucks?
You could just add a few PCI cards with parallel ports on them.