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Local Forecast / Re: Pictures of the WeatherSTAR 3000

« on: June 10, 2010, 10:31:04 PM »

The Jr was one rack mount this is 2

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The Game Room / Re: A game, put the wrong emoticon at the end of the sentence

« on: June 10, 2010, 02:02:24 AM »

Losing privileges (use computer, play Video Games) make me very sad.

Sorry mate

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General Discussion / Re: Happy birthday, Aaron!

« on: June 10, 2010, 02:02:02 AM »

Happy Birthday

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The Game Room / Re: Your feelings in single words

« on: June 10, 2010, 02:01:52 AM »

Thrilled!

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: June 10, 2010, 01:54:15 AM »

Funny to see them still using my iWitness stuff in their promos.

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: June 09, 2010, 10:17:39 PM »

IMO, AT&T has a lot of work to do period. Their advertisements are really not that good, and the company seems to have become a hollow shell of what it was when it actually provided cable service (way back when, in the early XL daze).

I beg to differ. I think some of their ads are pretty creative, especially the one where there are orange carpets being rolled out across landmarks all across the country. And while they have work to do to improve their wireless capabilities (i.e. less dropped calls), they certainly aren't a hollow shell. If they were a hollow shell they wouldn't be the number one land line provider and the second largest cellular provider in the United States. And you really can't compare AT&T to how it was during the digital cable days. Besides the fact that they aren't a digital cable company anymore, he company, technology, and consumer needs have drastically changed since then.

They truly are a giant company

I find this video explains it very well

http://www.phonenews.com/images/2007/1/colbert-report-roasts-att-cingular.mp4

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New HD LDL?

« on: June 09, 2010, 10:02:11 PM »

Overscan 101
http://hd.engadget.com/2010/05/27/hd-101-overscan-and-why-all-tvs-do-it/

Thankfully my TV isnt too bad with it

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General Discussion / Re: Commercials You Loathe

« on: June 09, 2010, 09:59:09 PM »

The Dockers "I Wear No Pants" commercials are the absolute worst. 

Oh gosh yes!

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Has TWC lost its way?

« on: June 09, 2010, 09:58:31 PM »

All it is is money money money.

Thats every TV channel or business. Its about making as much money as possible. If reducing the quality of programming reduces costs and keeps viewership the same or higher its a win for them

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: June 09, 2010, 09:56:15 PM »

You Tube down right now.

Seems ok to me. Must have been a temporary thing. Twitter has been glitchy the past day or so

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Everything Else TWC / Re: New Pillarboxes?

« on: June 09, 2010, 09:53:06 PM »

Well this is odd. For some reason, they're not broadcasting Weather Center in 16:9, so they're adding pillarboxes to the screen. Thing is, is the "blurred background" really an idea for a new pillarbox of sorts?

A lot of HD stations do that when the source is in SD.

Yea. Was the entire show like that? Perhaps they are still adjusting things in getting rid of the sidebar

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: Finally!

« on: June 09, 2010, 01:13:11 AM »

No Weatherscan on Comcast? That's really surprising. The majority of Comcast headends east of the Mississippi carry Weatherscan. Maybe there's just no need for it in your market.

It can always be argued that there's a "need."   My guess is that Comcast just doesn't want to shell out the money for a Star at that headend, use bandwidth space for Weatherscan, etc.

Does Comcast have any alternate weather feeds, like from a local news station or something?

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General Discussion / Re: Office Web Apps

« on: June 08, 2010, 10:44:18 PM »

Loving Microsoft Office Web Apps. Definitely something people should check out! Its real cool

http://office.live.com

Ugh, I hate sites that make you register before you can see anything.

  Register? I thought you just needed a Live/Windows ID account? Sorta like Google Docs

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General Discussion / Office Web Apps

« on: June 08, 2010, 09:31:22 PM »

Loving Microsoft Office Web Apps. Definitely something people should check out! Its real cool

http://office.live.com

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: June 08, 2010, 06:55:47 PM »

What matters most is what you want your cell phone to do and what features are offered.  It's going to vary for everyone, so we're all stating our own opinions here based on what we like.  It just stuns me what cell phones these days can do.  All I want is one that can make a call!

A phone call? What on earth is that?