I preferred the thread title as it was in Part 5 over the shorter version in Part 6, and so I decided to copy the style of the former. May this THREAD Restoration usher in a new era of peace, prosperity, progress and posts about current thoughts for /dqn/!
I had the urge to write a random musical analysis, but I don't know anybody who would actually care to read it. I'll just post it here.
The song "You're No Good for Me" by Kelly Charles is unremarkable, but the intro is quite catchy. Numerous artists have sampled this 8-second acapella with great success. The hook is infectious but short; simple but elegant.
Consider the lyrics:
You're no good for me
I don't need nobody
Don't need no one
That's no good for me!Kelly arranges the words in a simple structure: ABB'A'. The chiastic symmetry contrasts A's personal "you" and "me" with B's more general "nobody" and "no one." Kelly accompanies her elegant lyrical structure with an equally elegant melody.
Unlike the elaborate fortspinnung melodies of the Baroque period, the Classical era popularized simpler melodic statements built up from shorter parts. Kelly's hook exemplifies the Classical melody: each individual line is combined to make a longer melodic statement.
Classical melodies often follow a specific harmonic contour: they first establish the key with alternation between dominant and tonic, then briefly visit the subdominant before going back to a satisfying dominant-tonic resolution. Kelly follows these harmonic guidelines perfectly.
In line 1, Kelly outlines a minor triad, firmly establishing the key and ending on the dominant. Line 2 mirrors line 1, falling back down to the mediant. This returns the harmony to the tonic without completely resolving. The third line rises to the submediant, implying a subdominant harmony. Much like the lyrical structure, line 4 is a variation on line 1. Instead of moving from tonic to dominant, the fourth line begins on the dominant and finally resolves on the high tonic.
The placement of the words within the scale is also quite clever. The two words that fall on the tonic are "you're" and "me". Kelly contrasts the two words by placing her rejected lover on the low tonic at the beginning and herself on the high tonic at the end. Kelly parallels this structure in the first line, where she places "me" on the ending dominant. In the second line, "I" falls on the dominant, while "nobody" ends on the less important supertonic. Similarly, "no one" ends on the submediant in the third line. Kelly thus cleverly empowers herself by placing "me" and "I" on the dominant and high tonic, relegating others to the less important degrees.
I doubt that Kelly Charles considered any of these factors when composing the hook. It is likely that the melody arose naturally from her soul. However, the most natural things often conceal great complexity in their deceptively simple beauty.
>>53
I just run linux and I don't even program and I get that shit constantly.
>>56
http://4-ch.net/love/kareha.pl/1338929970/l50 lol i dunno
VC: plounable
>>59
I'm going to drive a fucking nail through your eye, Tokiko!
>>61
It's obviously a MtF transexual. They're the only ones who lament gender issues.
>>55
If you use TeX or LaTeX, you can also use `` and '' to get proper quotation marks. But of course this is not an option on a BBS such as ours.
>>60
I'm sad to say that the faggotry in those initial posts was actually myself and not Tokiko. This time.
I don't give a fuck if you don't like it, it doesn't concern you anymore!
I love that these boards are slow. I hate boards that move really fast.
>>66
That's because we only have 6 people, and I'm not so sure we have even that many.
>>68
I have the administrative password. There are a few more but 6 posters are responsible for 60% of the posts.
It's actually just 2 people talking to each other.
When I was a newfag I thought ( ˃ ˂) was one person that was just talking to themselves
Focus on the spiral.
The spiral will liberate us. We're trapped in cubic prisons. Walls around walls, boxes within boxes. For freedom we must break through. Believe in the spiral within yourself. You can see it if you care.
Something deep within me is stirring... my shining true self WILL be purified through the Spiral! I can feel my mind evolving! THEY walk among us, in the same clothing and same skin, yet if WE were to kill them, WE would be the ones punished. Those saved by the grace of the Spiral will be Lifted when The Tear occurs... and in a Higher Plane of reality ,our selves will merge and Truth shall be accomplished. We must be brave for those we love!
>>63
Don't quote me on this, but I think ``This" might be LaTeX-specific. The TeXbook makes no mention of it. Maybe I'll check this later.
Regardless, it's wrong. Those quotes don't come from TeX, they come from ASCII.
I heard somebody say that "suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem".
Yes, that's right, isn't it.
But your problem was hardly temporary, was it?
It wasn't a problem at all.
>>77
It's stressed out since the early days of computing, Don't use double grave accents nor apostrophes to form a quotation mark outside of software where it's applicable, because some many fonts will mess them up and embarrass you.
And, yes, it doesn't makes you look cool or "retro" or whatever, it makes you look dumb. Like some kid who have found his dad's C64 and doesn't know what to do with it, but believes that he's magically 1337 now or something!
Stop this shit, dude, and learn about modern typography and specifically this two characters if you insist on being different: U+201C and U+201D.
>>77
I found it on page 21 of Wynter Snow's TeX for the Beginner, published in 1992. The book also contains a few LaTeX-specific tips, but those tend to be labelled as such.
>>79
I agree with your first line, just wanted to point out that computer users had ways of displaying opening and closing quotation marks at their disposal (albeit within the context of specialised software) even in 1993.
>>79
How right you are! Better go email these people:
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/cacm.html
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/robotandbaby/robotandbaby.html
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/faq.html
Well, 2 of them are dead, but I'm sure they're rolling in their graves.
'Doing this' is retarded. It's like using brackets )like this) instead of (like this). It's not a case of being retro or whatever, it's a case of following the standard. Even if that standard is semi-obsolete thanks to Unicode, it's easier to type `` and '' than g and h. In fact, those characters may not even show thanks to SJIS dickery.
Go complain at the people using - for a minus symbol or ... instead of the dedicated ellipsis symbol. They're committing the same dreadful sin.
>>81
I was under the impression that - was a minus symbol, but kept getting misused as various forms of dash.
> it's easier to type `` and '' than g and h.
When you are habitually used to typing g and h on any virtual keyboard that doesnft make it incredibly difficult, not really.
> So when people ask, `Why are you beginning this quotation with two grave accents?'' I can just as easily ask why they're hyphenating two numbers in 9-3=6'.When it comes to Unicode-friendly environments, I have my horizontal lines straight, thank you. I only hyphen to subtract when I code. Save it for someone else.
> In fact, those characters may not even show thanks to SJIS dickery.
On these boards, SJIS dickeryc isnft. Most Unicode Ifve ever seen here (bar perhaps the astral planes) gets entityfd.
>http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/faq.html
>page uses " quotes and ' apostrophes
So yeah.
> If you're good at sightreading four-hands piano music, I have hundreds of pieces I'd like to try playing with you; please drop me a note and we can hopefully get together for a jam session.
Dammit. I'm only kind of good at sightreading. But while I would love the once-in-my-lifetime opportunity to jam out with the Knuth, travel to California is prohibitively expensive from where I am and I'd not want to delay TAOCP or give him a terminal illness from an alien cesspool
>>88
The best solution to seeing lots of shitty posts is to make a lot of good posts.
Your favorite anime is shit, and I fucked you're waifu.
Runescape is a terribly low quality game but I love it so much.
>>92
And suddenly, the purpose of that thread is revealed: linking to it sardonically.
I hate the shitposting thread. I wish it would go away
Why is manga such an embarrassing hobby to have...
>>81
Try using "". This is why they are designed to look straight, not angled like . Also, imagine how much space you save in the modern UTF-16 environment by using "" instead of double ''. If you want to link to CS guys then you should probably care about every single byte.
There is also a slight problem with your hyperlinks: none of them leads to some obsolete manual of style or typing guidelines.
> In fact, those characters may not even show thanks to SJIS dickery.
You are, probably, lagging behind for about a decade. Even Windows supports majority of unicode characters by default.
>page uses " quotes and ' apostrophes
Yeah, and you aren't The Knuth. And you aren't posting to your own web-page. You are just a stuck-up wannabe on the internet.
>>97
WHOA WHOA WHOA! The computer ate my grave accents.
See? This is terrible. You are terrible.
On the second thought, if punching unicode number in is too tiring for you, you could use a specialized software which would replace double grave accents and apostrophes with proper quotation marks. Set it up to work with your browser. Or you can edit your layout and add proper quotation marks on (for example) "<", ">" keys with Alt+Shift key sequence.
>>98
But then what will I press when I'm doing hardcore programming in HTML?
>>99
Wait, are you coding in your browser? Like, on some web-site instead of FrontPage or notepad?
But anyway, the last sentence meant that you have to press Alt+Shift+< (+>) to input left/right quotation marks. So, typing tags would be fine. And you'd use special entities of quotation marks in your html, right? ttp://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/entities/special.html
http://i.imgur.com/roTz3.jpg
Somebody made the whole Geeks vs. Nerds issue even worse.
I'm downloading a rom for a 101 Dalmations game for the Gameboy Color. I've lost control of my life
>>101
I strongly disagree with many parts of the image, mostly though the claim that true geeks use a mac while nerds use PCs. I also noted the lack of any label describing nerd fashion choices, to contrast the geeks' "ironic t-shirts". Instead the nerd is merely depicted in the same exaggerated costume that has been a part of American pop culture since the mid-20th century. The idea that only nerds are interested in sci-fi also clashes with my beliefs.
I guess my strong feelings about the issue confirm Munroe's assertion that I must be one or the other, if not both.
I wonder whether getting pandas to breed is more or less of a challenge than trying the same with D&D players.
I read a scary story and now I feel frozen...
I want to poop. But I do't want to get away from my desktop.
>>101 hehe except for the will ferrel part, and I wear more band t-shirts than ironic t-shirts, all the geek stereotypes fit me. I'm a little miffed at "techno music" when they probably don't actually mean techno and just mean anything bleepy.
I hope my cat is all right.
>>106
Less, as male pandas do not outnumber female pandas by several hundred to one.
I CAN DO ANYTHING!
>>117
Your problem is that accessible ASCII substitute is a typewriter quotation mark (" \ http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0022/index.htm). And no one, I repeat, no one prevents you from using proper unicode quotation marks if you want to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Typing_quotation_marks_on_a_computer_keyboard look, this is easy as hell. And these quotation marks look beautiful unlike double grave accents and apostrophes which look shit followed by a simple ".
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@ Π*L°MΠ@@I am >>111's cat, nya~ Everything's cool, nya~
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>>120
Learn LaTeX and all will be well. even my captcha for this post is tex, so you can tell the board agrees with me.
Let's just go with the duck.
>>120
LaTeX makes people go all wonky and stuff! Just look at this guy who clings to his apostrophes, even though it's only in TeX they look pretty. And this website is hardly TeX!
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html
I mean, there is time and place for everything. But, please, stick to the common or proper typography in places where other people can see your text.
I don't believe I've ever carried out mathematical induction with more than one value to the power of n. This is considerably frustrating.
>>125
Yeah, original ASCII, 20 years prior to X. When was that? Why do you still use it? You are missing the point anyway. ` and ' look terrible as quotation marks.
And, nope, he uses gh. So you're kinda wrong on both points.
My boyfriend is quitting LoL because of me and I feel really bad about it
> The original ASCII.
Did not define . That came in the 60s (so did lowercase letters). as left quotation mark in ASCII was a short-lived, single-nation mistake, coming in standards that are now way the hell superceded.
>>131
A convenient feature I had not yet heard about. So that's how you get monospace text inside a paragraph! And here I was afraid I'd have to resort to |@
for that sort of thing.
Geordies and mackems and why they all hate each other so much.
Thumb tastes like milk.
I'm thinking about thinking. So deep!
>>133
I'm a Mackem and I don't hate Geordies.
But maybe that's because I don't follow football.
What have they done to deserve such a sight? NOTHING.
I went to a beach. http://i.imgur.com/0cfGO.jpg
>>140
That is some pretty damned mediocre handwriting, if you don't mind me saying so.
>>141
Although my handwriting isn't much better when I try, this sample seems really half assed. You're talking to your only true friends here, grey. Put at least an hour into it. Nice beach though.
The cat I'm taking care of for someone hates me. I put her food and water out and clean her litter box, she hides under the bed for whatever fucking reason she does that for, and we generally try to avoid each other. Any time I get near her she hisses at me, and I tell her to go fuck herself (too bad she can't understand what I'm saying.)
It really seems like this is a trial run for married life.
D: Maybe she's just high-strung and afraid of strangers. My cat is like that. With me she's very affectionate, but she has never really accepted anyone else. When I've gone on vacation and asked friends to board her, they tell me afterwards that she hid in the closet the whole time, miaouing mournfully, and I have to go into that closet, detach her claws from the carpet, and stuff her in the pet carrier to get her home.
>>144
That's probably it.
I'm just sick of dealing with an animal that either is afraid of or hates me all the time. I like animals fine, but my idea is that they can do their own thing and I don't need to know about it. In any case her owner will be back soon, which should make things less stressful for both of us.
My Twitter icon is a picture of a Slowpoke now
Why do people talk down on marriage like it is literally hell? You do realize marriage is a choice right? And that it is okay to wait many years before realizing that you really want to live with someone?
>>147 I'm always hoping for the best and preparing for the worst.
Also, marriage isn't a choice for me. I'm an only child from a traditional family. If I take too long some of my relatives will try to find someone for me and force me into it.
>>143-144
In general, cats do not like being left in another place with (what are to them) strangers; it's like a nightmare where their home and loving family have been taken from them--one of them is bad enough, both is just-fucking-kill-me-already territory. You can get such cats to accept their new (temporary) reality with some psychological bullshit, but it takes time.
You know what the internet needs more of these days? Drama.
>>151
I think so, too. Drama is the most entertaining thing web communities can have. I love stirring the pot.
>>152
You bitch! How dare you address that guy as Honey! I thought I was special! (exit stage left, sobbing and running like a girl)
So I ordered this Japanese book published in 1939 the other daym but when it arrived, the pages and cover looked so yellowed that I thought they must have sent me a book from 1912 by mistake. It seems to be the correct book, though, and the publisher information states Shōwa 14 as the year it came out. Think I could still get a partial refund out of this?
