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Offline iago

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What's AAC again?
« on: May 22, 2007, 01:25:24 pm »
Check out the entry here for AAC.

I had no idea! I could have sworn it was a type of media encoding. :)

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Re: What's AAC again?
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2007, 05:17:46 pm »
Did you get that from worsethanfailure.com (formerly thedailywtf.com)?  I saw it there this morning.  Love the site.

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Re: What's AAC again?
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2007, 05:58:49 pm »
Yep, sure did. I read/post there all the time. When I post, my account is rbowes.

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Re: What's AAC again?
« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2007, 07:58:04 pm »
It's Apple Lossless Encoding. They should call it ALE instead. It'd be more popular.
I'd personally do as Joe suggests

You might be right about that, Joe.


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Re: What's AAC again?
« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2007, 09:47:59 pm »
No, it'd be LESS popular.

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Re: What's AAC again?
« Reply #5 on: May 22, 2007, 09:53:19 pm »
For those of you who didn't read the link, this is the definition given on a tech site:

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AAC: Annual allowable cut. The volume of timber that may be harvested from a particular area of forest in any one year. From the industrial forestry perspective, the AAC should be set at a level that provides the maximum harvest volume while ensuring that the prospects for future harvests do not deteriorate. When the impact of timber harvest on NWFP is considered, the AAC will be reduced in most cases, in comparison with a situation in which timber production is the sole consideration

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Re: What's AAC again?
« Reply #6 on: May 23, 2007, 01:17:34 am »
It's Apple Lossless Encoding. They should call it ALE instead. It'd be more popular.

APE is their lossless encoding. AAC is just their lossy encoding.

Whoops. APE is not Apple's. APE is some other separate lossless one. ALE is what Apple's lossless encoding is called.
« Last Edit: May 23, 2007, 01:19:39 am by Newby »
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[17:32:54] * xar sets mode: +o newby
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[17:33:02] <xar> me and newby rule all

I'd bet that you're currently bloated like a water ballon on a hot summer's day.

That analogy doesn't even make sense.  Why would a water balloon be especially bloated on a hot summer's day? For your sake, I hope there wasn't too much logic testing on your LSAT.