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[Bunk]

My first real exposure to Lady Gaga was seeing her on Saturday Night Live wearing a giant steel gyroscope, and then attempting to sit down at a piano while still wearing it.

As to the original post, I took it as an attemp to lure more folks in to the shared misery of some of the various Politics threads.

[Lakov_Sanite]

You know for the longest time I thought the phrase was "Throw kosh into the wind" I didn't know what people had against B5

[slog]

I just saw the Lady Gaga video and thought that would be an interesting avatar.

If I had the chance, I would roll a new toon in wow that had Cigarette Sunglasses.

[Viin]

she's a bit weird for me, though her music isn't awful.

Soda cans in her hair? /burning/ cigarettes for sunglasses? Making out with a super butch girl?

She did look pretty hot in the crime scene tape.

I suppose there could be a whole thread about Lady Ga Ga and her modern day Madonna schtick.

[Lantyssa]

They autotuned the shit out of that song.

Nowadays you only can tell whether or not someone actually can sing by watching them live. The studio magic is strong in all of the current billboard stars and you can do a lot of awesome shit with mediocre vocal tracks today.

I've seen a video of her performing when she was a regular looking teen.  She does have a great voice.

[01101010]

I've seen a video of her performing when she was a regular looking teen.  She does have a great voice.

Can't remember where or why the hell I read it, but she turned down Juilliard to pursue feigned insanity.

edit: adding sense to the post... jesus christ working two jobs is making me scatterbrained (more than normal).

[Morat20]

They autotuned the shit out of that song.

Nowadays you only can tell whether or not someone actually can sing by watching them live. The studio magic is strong in all of the current billboard stars and you can do a lot of awesome shit with mediocre vocal tracks today.

My brother (singer/songwriter working towards a teaching cert for special needs kids) rants about that a lot. He was born with an okay voice that got damaged from a lot of strep (or something) when he was young, so the best he can aspire to is -- as he puts it "Billy Corrigan On Key" because he's just got a gravelly aspect that just won't go away.

But he's worked hard to expand his range, train his voice, and sings the music that he writes. He loathes auto-tuning and studio tuning for music. Says it's great for stuff like, oh, TV actors or movie stars singing (although he always prefers they'd cast someone who sings professionally) but hates when professional musicians do it.

He especially hates it when it's someone like Lady Gaga, who actually can sing without it. Just...doesn't.

Of course, he's also one of those holier-than-thou music snobs who could make a living selling what he writes, but won't because he doesn't want anyone else singing his stuff. Although that's not what makes him a music snob. Having a conversation about music is. Everytime I see Jack Black in High Fidelity, I'm reminded of my brother a bit. He's toned it down over the years, thank god.

[Morfiend]

When this thread started, who knew we would be discussing the finer points of Lady Gaga using autotune. 

[01101010]

When this thread started, who knew we would be discussing the finer points of Lady Gaga using autotune. 

Lady Gaga and autotune exactly? no. Thread redirection off original topic? of course and expected!

[Jeff Kelly]

Studio time is expensive so why spend days actually rehearsing stuff and improving your vocal phrasings when you can take an OK 80% take and tune it? A lot of young talents suffer because of that.

Back in the olden days bands spent months in the studio which was good practice before going on tour especially when you are a young inexperienced musician and have the time (and the producers support) to improve.

[Righ]

In the interest of testing that hypothesis:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1159

Not available.

[Sheepherder]

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I C wut U did thar.

[Tarami]

The inefficiency of that loopscript makes baby Jesus cry.

[Lantyssa]

It didn't work for me anyways.

[Morat20]

The inefficiency of that loopscript makes baby Jesus cry.

Hee. I may end up teaching beginning programming at a local junior college, for fun and for vacation money. If I get the job, I'll have to post some of the better code snippets here.

I'm still really fond of this one:

char x = '1;
for(x=0;x<5;x++)
{

}


It took me twenty minutes to explain to him why that wouldn't work.

[Samwise]

Seems like that should "work" perfectly well; the assignment in the for loop overrides the '1' assignment, and I don't think C will complain too much if you assign an int to a char.  

Now, if he'd been trying to count to 500 in that loop instead of 5...  

[Tarami]

Try this. Works in the latest Greasemonkey. A bit rough, but it does what it's supposed to.

Edit:
Added the @include directive.

Edit 2:
Added ugly solution for restricting the functionality to certain subboards (or even topics) Just add strings to the "selectivePaths" array and set "enableSelectivePaths" to true. It's kinda picky with whitespace and such. Delimiter should be space, pipe (|), space and nothing else.

Edit 3:
Added quote ignore. It simply hides the body of any quotations of an ignored user. Enabled by default.

[Righ]

Somewhat a shame about the way SMF organises topics. Makes it difficult to set it for threads in politics only. Will require some more mangling to look for the forum name link... 

[Tarami]

Added the functionality for you (and others I assume) Righ.

[Venkman]

But didn't you hear, Lady Gaga is a puppet of the Illuminati   

Wasn't Madanno Illuminati to? 

[Ironwood]

Oh.  Hi There.

[Morat20]

Seems like that should "work" perfectly well; the assignment in the for loop overrides the '1' assignment, and I don't think C will complain too much if you assign an int to a char.  

Now, if he'd been trying to count to 500 in that loop instead of 5...  

It was so long ago I have no idea what language it was. Only that he was treating a character like an int, and couldn't grasp that while the character might be a number, it wasn't an INTEGER and no, the computer didn't "know" it was a number.

[Rasix]

Java probably.

[Lantyssa]

Pascal?

I've tried to scrub everything about that language out of my brain though.

Edit:  Also a big to Tarami.

(And another to Righ for leading the way to Bliss.  )

[Tarami]

This GreaseMonkey-stuff was pretty fun

I added support for quotes. Ignored users' quotes no longer show up except for username/date. The updated code is in the spoiler above.

[Morat20]

Pascal?

I've tried to scrub everything about that language out of my brain though.

Edit:  Also a big to Tarami.

(And another to Righ for leading the way to Bliss.  )

I rather loathed Pascal, although nothing like my burning hatred of Ada. I get Ada -- it does exactly what it should, and it's designed for a specific purpose and it's really good at that purpose. It's still like jabbing a fork in your eye to code in it.

[Quinton]

I only learned enough Pascal to pass the Computer Science AB AP test... mostly skimming a book on it the day before.

[Morat20]

I only learned enough Pascal to pass the Computer Science AB AP test... mostly skimming a book on it the day before.

It's good at what it's designed for, or was. I haven't used it in a long time -- last time I used it it was just popping out an OO varient. For teaching new programmers or people without experience, it's rigid and hand-holding enough to force them to learn syntax and internalize basic algorithmic structure.

It's a decent learning tool, or was.

[Cyrrex]

This thread is taking all kinds of crazy turns.

[Righ]

Added the functionality for you (and others I assume) Righ.

Thanks, very cool. I probably won't use it, I'm just facilitating trouble. ;)

[Tale]

This is the pre-crazy Lady Gaga clip, singing and playing piano as Stefani Germanotta: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM51qOpwcIM

[dusematic]

I work with a guy who is a huge pussy.  He and his wife use parental locks on their television to screen out PG-13 rated content so they won't accidentally see it or be tempted to watch it.  I think trying to screen out people on a message board makes you an even bigger pussy though.

[01101010]

I work with a guy who is a huge pussy.  He and his wife use parental locks on their television to screen out PG-13 rated content so they won't accidentally see it or be tempted to watch it.  I think trying to screen out people on a message board makes you an even bigger pussy though.

That's the type of guy you tape hardcore tranny porn all over his front porch or tape it to the picture window.

[dusematic]

Yeah but only after I'm done beating off to it.

[Righ]

Yeah but only after I'm done beating off to it.

Quoting so that all the people ignoring you can see that the quote function works.