Depending on the sophistication of the autotuning algorithm, sure it is.
If the vocal is being corrected using naive pitch-shifting or phase synthesis or something like that(i think gsnap and Antares Autotune both fall in this category), then the vocal formants will be shifted up and down right along with it. Since formant frequency is usually constant (or close to), a signal processor could pick up on the modulation of the formant, and apply the reverse pitch-shifting in order to make the formant constant - in the process recovering the original pitch modulation.
On the other hand, if the autotune was done in Melodyne, which allows you to flatten the formant modulation independently of pitch, all bets are off.
Since the original assertion was "99% of people end up installing Flash", the fresh Windows installs don't really count here, unless they're going to remain fresh forever.
And since the assertion also applied specifically to people using web browsers with a plugin architecture (of which Chrome is one), the iPhone and other embedded apps don't really belong in this percentage either.
So that leaves FOSS zealots and a small subset of corporate workstations. I think we're getting close to 1%.
By a parallel argument, I could point at the vast litany of failed dot-com enterprises and conclude that "Internet entrepreneurial ventures can't survive, much less grow and create successful websites."
The point is We're not really concerned with the average outcome here. If the bottom 99% of FOSS projects are failures and the top 1% are unmitigated successes, we can't really characterize FOSS as 99% fail.
Oh, don't be so cynical. All it would take is for everyone in power to radically rearrange their priorities, stop caring about keeping/accumulating more power, and to begin putting the welfare of humankind ahead of their own. Easy peasy.
It's definitely made-up, but I am not at all convinced it's an exaggeration. Flash is damn-near ubiquitous for any web user who isn't an engineer. Just how many MySpace users do you think exist for each slashdot user?
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If they want to go to the trouble of checking your banking activity, they probably have enough evidence to get a search warrant from a judge.
This is the important bit, and we don't want it to change. if SSL wiretapping is practicable for the cops, there is now a possibility that it could change.
That's my point. There's no "other side" at all. There's an "other population", of which some are very dangerous, some are sorta dangerous, and a vast majority are not at all. And as far as the American discourse on the matter is concerned, the uniform is Arabness.
Unfortunately we're not in a 2-teams game. We're in a free-for-all game with 2 different uniforms, but where people in the same uniform may or may not be allies or enemies. So if you're gonna start cheating on Team Brown because one of their guys also cheated, well, the entire rest of the team can complain quite consistently about that.
Why is this being done as a federal law which regulates network users?
It seems to me that this is a policy that ought to be enforced by federal government sysadmins on their own networks, rather than by the government legislaors on the users of the network. To use Lessig's parlance, this is a job for architecture, not law.
Actually, Yes, except it's not so dark as they had at first suspected. is perfectly right.
"Dark matter" was just a shorthand name for "mass we haven't identified yet". When we find the rest of it and it turns out to be, i dunno, antineutrinos or something, then we'll have to rename that too.
Consider how long it takes for light to traverse the sort of distance you are talking about.
Now, consider whether the distance you're talking about is constant. Is the diameter of the universe staying the same? Think about redshifts. Think about an ant crawling along a rubber band as you continuously stretch it.
Now, consider whether the light from the back of your head, which has a clear trajectory straight around the circumference of the universe and into your eyes, will ever actually arrive there.
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Agreed. Best first post I've seen in a while.
Depending on the sophistication of the autotuning algorithm, sure it is.
If the vocal is being corrected using naive pitch-shifting or phase synthesis or something like that(i think gsnap and Antares Autotune both fall in this category), then the vocal formants will be shifted up and down right along with it. Since formant frequency is usually constant (or close to), a signal processor could pick up on the modulation of the formant, and apply the reverse pitch-shifting in order to make the formant constant - in the process recovering the original pitch modulation.
On the other hand, if the autotune was done in Melodyne, which allows you to flatten the formant modulation independently of pitch, all bets are off.
Have you been having trouble finding pirated content on TPB yet? 'Cause I sure haven't.
No, that's the zeroth. A point has no dimension.
Well, the 'simplicity' of a thing is measured relative to the size of the mind evaluating it.
But never mind, I will defer to your obviously superior universe-designing expertise.
sincerely,
God
Thanks, Slashdot's mandatory comment waiting period! I'm sure glad I was late to this party.
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About eight. Don't get your hopes up though, Tila's already allocated to me.
Since the original assertion was "99% of people end up installing Flash", the fresh Windows installs don't really count here, unless they're going to remain fresh forever.
And since the assertion also applied specifically to people using web browsers with a plugin architecture (of which Chrome is one), the iPhone and other embedded apps don't really belong in this percentage either.
So that leaves FOSS zealots and a small subset of corporate workstations. I think we're getting close to 1%.
By a parallel argument, I could point at the vast litany of failed dot-com enterprises and conclude that "Internet entrepreneurial ventures can't survive, much less grow and create successful websites."
The point is We're not really concerned with the average outcome here. If the bottom 99% of FOSS projects are failures and the top 1% are unmitigated successes, we can't really characterize FOSS as 99% fail.
Oh, don't be so cynical. All it would take is for everyone in power to radically rearrange their priorities, stop caring about keeping/accumulating more power, and to begin putting the welfare of humankind ahead of their own. Easy peasy.
Quite often is it claimed that pure open source projects can't survive, much less grow and create robust code
Who, exactly, claims this?
It's definitely made-up, but I am not at all convinced it's an exaggeration. Flash is damn-near ubiquitous for any web user who isn't an engineer. Just how many MySpace users do you think exist for each slashdot user?
it's FR05TY. learn to troll.
This thing here's got 430 comments and counting.
If they want to go to the trouble of checking your banking activity, they probably have enough evidence to get a search warrant from a judge.
This is the important bit, and we don't want it to change. if SSL wiretapping is practicable for the cops, there is now a possibility that it could change.
Which would suck.
That's my point. There's no "other side" at all. There's an "other population", of which some are very dangerous, some are sorta dangerous, and a vast majority are not at all. And as far as the American discourse on the matter is concerned, the uniform is Arabness.
I don't see how either side could complain.
Unfortunately we're not in a 2-teams game. We're in a free-for-all game with 2 different uniforms, but where people in the same uniform may or may not be allies or enemies. So if you're gonna start cheating on Team Brown because one of their guys also cheated, well, the entire rest of the team can complain quite consistently about that.
What amazing insights you have into the environmentalist mind!
Please, tell me more about why I believe things!
Why is this being done as a federal law which regulates network users?
It seems to me that this is a policy that ought to be enforced by federal government sysadmins on their own networks, rather than by the government legislaors on the users of the network.
To use Lessig's parlance, this is a job for architecture, not law.
We need something new. A distributed certificate authority.
I'm envisioning something like a Massively Multiplayer Online Diffie-Hellman exchange. Math wonks, is something like this in principle achievable?
Actually, Yes, except it's not so dark as they had at first suspected. is perfectly right.
"Dark matter" was just a shorthand name for "mass we haven't identified yet". When we find the rest of it and it turns out to be, i dunno, antineutrinos or something, then we'll have to rename that too.
Consider how long it takes for light to traverse the sort of distance you are talking about.
Now, consider whether the distance you're talking about is constant. Is the diameter of the universe staying the same? Think about redshifts. Think about an ant crawling along a rubber band as you continuously stretch it.
Now, consider whether the light from the back of your head, which has a clear trajectory straight around the circumference of the universe and into your eyes, will ever actually arrive there.
How would you like to get your simm card's contents RIPPED IN 4 WEEKS?
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