Comment Han shot first (Score 1) 409
And I can watch it in glorious digital on my original laserdiscs.
The Deceptive Perfection of Auto-Tune 437
theodp writes "For a medium in which mediocre singing has never been a bar to entry, a lot of pop vocals suddenly sound better than great — they're note- and pitch-perfect. It's all thanks to Auto-Tune, the brainchild of Andy Hildebrand, who realized that the wonders of autocorrelation — which he once used to map drilling sites for the oil industry — could also be used to bestow perfect pitch upon the Britney Spears of the world. While Auto-Tune was intended to be used unnoticed, musicians are growing fond of adjusting the program's retune speed to eliminate the natural transition between notes, which yield jumpy and automated-sounding vocals. 'I never figured anyone in their right mind would want to do that,' says Hildebrand."
As these techniques improve and become more popular, it makes me wonder what music produced twenty or fifty years from now will sound like, and how much authenticity will be left.
Comment Guess it's time for a new hard drive. (Score 1) 525
Or it will be when this monstrosity comes out. Being kinder than need be, one can expect this to be a whole number multiple in size of IE6 or 7. 3 different incompatible engines!?!? Wow!
Buy your HDD stock now while it's cheap. ;/
Buy your HDD stock now while it's cheap.
Password Vulnerability In Firefox 2.0.0.5 176
Paris The Pirate writes "According to a message posted over the weekend on the Full-Disclosure mailing list, the latest version of Firefox, 2.0.0.5, contains a password management vulnerability that can allow malicious Web sites to steal user passwords. If you have JavaScript enabled and allow Firefox to remember your passwords, you are at risk from this flaw."
