FTA: "AAC was developed with the cooperation and contributions of companies including Dolby, Fraunhofer IIS, AT&T, Sony and Nokia, and was officially declared an international standard by the Moving Pictures Experts Group in April 1997."
There's even a section titled "AAC's improvements over MP3", but the last part is the best part: "Overall, the AAC format allows developers more flexibility to design codecs than MP3 does. This increased flexibility often leads to more concurrent encoding strategies and, as a result, to more efficient compression. However in terms of whether AAC is better than MP3, the advantages of AAC are not entirely conclusive, and the MP3 specification, while outdated, has proven surprisingly robust. AAC and HE-AAC are better than MP3 at low bitrates (typically less than 192 kbit/s)."
"The white sticker on the top edge is removed by unhinging the front case by prying the bottom tab up, and then rotating the front case overt the top. This allows peeling the whole white sticker away at once."
I learned that trick a few years back when Blockbuster Music was still around. They used that method to open new CD's for customers to listen to before buying. I've been using that trick ever since.:)
On the MySpace page, you can also click on the word Download underneath the song name and download it directly to your PC.
Not sure if you need your own MySpace login for that or not, but it worked for me.
Kaya was proportedly created [...] as to appear non-threatening.
Which is interesting, because of all the pictures on that site, I think Kaya looks the best. Her teeth aren't perfect, she's got freckles (reminds me of Kate on Lost), she's looking away from the camera (not straight on it like 3 of the others) and she's got hair. I say that last comment because 'Sophie Winters' looks creepy with the bald head. Maybe if she had long, dark, shoulder length hair, she'd be a decent contender, but who knows.
I can totally see these kind of CG models used in animated billboards like the ones in Minority Report, in the mall stores when Tom Cruise went in to get the new clothes and all the girls were trying to get him to buy stuff.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding
FTA: "AAC was developed with the cooperation and contributions of companies including Dolby, Fraunhofer IIS, AT&T, Sony and Nokia, and was officially declared an international standard by the Moving Pictures Experts Group in April 1997."
There's even a section titled "AAC's improvements over MP3", but the last part is the best part: "Overall, the AAC format allows developers more flexibility to design codecs than MP3 does. This increased flexibility often leads to more concurrent encoding strategies and, as a result, to more efficient compression. However in terms of whether AAC is better than MP3, the advantages of AAC are not entirely conclusive, and the MP3 specification, while outdated, has proven surprisingly robust. AAC and HE-AAC are better than MP3 at low bitrates (typically less than 192 kbit/s)."
"The white sticker on the top edge is removed by unhinging the front case by prying the bottom tab up, and then rotating the front case overt the top. This allows peeling the whole white sticker away at once."
:)
I learned that trick a few years back when Blockbuster Music was still around. They used that method to open new CD's for customers to listen to before buying. I've been using that trick ever since.
On the MySpace page, you can also click on the word Download underneath the song name and download it directly to your PC. Not sure if you need your own MySpace login for that or not, but it worked for me.
"Just think of all the sex toy MP3 players you could make. Imagine a dildo playing NIN "Closer"." This is just screaming to be a sig. :)
Kaya was proportedly created [...] as to appear non-threatening.
Which is interesting, because of all the pictures on that site, I think Kaya looks the best. Her teeth aren't perfect, she's got freckles (reminds me of Kate on Lost), she's looking away from the camera (not straight on it like 3 of the others) and she's got hair. I say that last comment because 'Sophie Winters' looks creepy with the bald head. Maybe if she had long, dark, shoulder length hair, she'd be a decent contender, but who knows.
I can totally see these kind of CG models used in animated billboards like the ones in Minority Report, in the mall stores when Tom Cruise went in to get the new clothes and all the girls were trying to get him to buy stuff.