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General Discussion / Re: 4 Day School Weeks- Good or bad idea?

« on: June 04, 2010, 07:53:26 PM »

It's kinda bad for me which makes sense since I supported the longer school day idea. Socially, where will kids hang out and such outside of school?

I don't think school is such a big deal in someones social life. One day certainly isn't going to affect it. If anything it will allow kids to interact with each other more. Most people don't just use school as their only source of social interaction. I don't believe in the "if kids aren't in school the need somewhere to go or they will get in trouble" approach either.

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Local Forecast / Re: Narrations on the HD STAR

« on: June 04, 2010, 07:43:07 PM »

I know, that's why I said "BETA"...

The Beta hasn't been released yet. Think of the NYC machine as a proof of concept

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: June 04, 2010, 12:22:43 PM »

Today is my last official day for school before exams. I'm a bit upset thhough because I've actually made friends for once unlike the shy person I was in middle school, and two are going off, one I've known siince 4th grade. Sad day.

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General Discussion / Re: This is NOT How You're Supposed to Fly Out of DFW International Airport

« on: June 03, 2010, 11:54:16 PM »

Hilarious!

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Local Forecast / Narrations on the HD STAR

« on: June 03, 2010, 08:17:23 PM »

Jim Cantore confirmed to me on his twitter account that he did the narrations for the soon to be released HD STAR. I am quite excited to hear what its going to sound like!

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Sunrise Weather/Weekend View OCM's

« on: June 03, 2010, 07:44:07 PM »

my appologies for not updating this thread in awhile. while i can fill this in, the scope of this thread was hoping to track Ray. unfortunately, It's been awhile since I have seen him on either of these programs, therefore I lack the interest to update this. if anyone wants me to update the missing weeks, i can update this thread.

Ray! Where are you?

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Hurricane Central / Re: Hurricane Central 2010

« on: June 03, 2010, 06:26:16 PM »

Record SSTs in the area off the African coast with not too much shear. Juicy area for development.

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General Discussion / Re: Meteorology schools in the Dallas/Ft Worth area.

« on: June 03, 2010, 03:00:21 PM »

Mississippi State has a great online program. Ive been eying them myself!
http://www.distance.msstate.edu/geosciences/OMP/index.html

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WeatherSTAR Tech Support / Re: TWC Feed Is Distorted!

« on: June 03, 2010, 11:26:05 AM »

TWC just told me that they that they rebooted my STAR. The skipping is much less often now. The rest of the skipping is on Comcast's end, I will have to give them a call if it is not fixed. I told them about Weatherscan and I guess they are gonna reboot that too. I'll try to record it.


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Thanks for your patience, Trevor...I will pass that additional information along to get this rectified for you!

Glad its better! How did they tell you out of curiosity?

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WeatherSTAR Tech Support / Re: TWC Feed Is Distorted!

« on: June 03, 2010, 10:19:31 AM »

If the Intellistar is distorted there is a problem with the connection at the headend. In the future please wait several hours. Usually cable companies catch these problems on their own and the assistance of the STAR team is not needed. Let us know when the signal is fully restored

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Hurricane Central / Re: Hurricane Central 2010

« on: June 03, 2010, 01:17:13 AM »

Small disturbance coming off Africa.

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: June 03, 2010, 12:41:00 AM »

So AT&T is making new data plans for the iPhone, and I'm saving $15/month!

How can they charge you 20 bucks for tethering (free if you jailbreak) and NOT increase the data cap. You aren't getting anymore data just paying for how you use it. I think thats outrageous

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: ATT U-Verse and STARs...

« on: June 02, 2010, 05:52:40 PM »

Anyone know if there is any possibility of a Star coming to U-Verse.

Did you not read this entire thread? Nothing's changed.

Actually I did and I mostly heard about how TWC's local forecast is mainly pointless except for us...and nothing about if there was any possibility of U-Verse getting a star.  Don't Dish and DirecTV have some form of localized forecasts now?  I didn't know if U-Verse could possibly get something like that. 

If you look on the link mentioned in the first post you will find most customers (Who posted anyway) didn't see it as a deciding factor to switch and Uverse feels its a accessory not a necessity. Doubt that will change for a long time

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Local Forecast / Pictures of the WeatherSTAR 3000

« on: June 02, 2010, 12:58:52 PM »

I am about to purchase these units pictured here and it looks like a 3000 and another possible older system.

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: June 02, 2010, 12:25:23 AM »

You can also try docs.com I love that site too. Microsoft did a decent job making web versions of Office