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TWC Fan Art / Re: TWCZach's Emulations and Drawings

« on: July 28, 2010, 02:59:26 AM »

Marine forecast on the Intellistar as seen before the 10/23/07 update.



See real thing in this video at 0:37

Drools

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: July 28, 2010, 01:41:49 AM »

I thought it was 14 years and 9 months in MI.

Ohh wait, you are correct for drivers ed

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: Time Warner Cable vs. Disney

« on: July 27, 2010, 11:59:52 PM »

I swear, Time Warner has gone to crap...

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: July 27, 2010, 11:53:31 PM »

My school district offers a wide variety of languages. I am taking Spanish

And as for drivers training, the State of Michigan states that you need to be at the age of 15 years and 8 months to start. I am questioning the 8 months... why not just at 15 or 16

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IntelliStar 2 Discussion / Re: IntelliStar 2 Videos!

« on: July 26, 2010, 11:50:52 PM »

From a programmer's viewpoint, I can appreciate the amount of work it likely took to do this. Looking at it that way, it is quite impressive.

From a viewer viewpoint, however, I don't like it (shocking, I know). First of all, there is too much information on the screen at one time. So I often don't know what to look at.

The screens go by way too fast. Their programmers and testers must be really fast readers!

My biggest complaint, though, is the needless "flair." When I say "flair," I mean things like the animated picture of what weather will be like in the 36 hour forecast and the glowing line that goes across the tops of the yellow bars on the hourly forecast. And then there's that REALLY bright sun that "rises" on the left in the Almanac. Wow! I half expected puppies and kittens to come out and start licking the screen. Seriously, keep it simple. Less is more.

I agree 99.99%. I like the 36 hour weather graphics. Thats what is making me (partly) excited about seeing this STAR. I do agree that there is way to much information on the screen at one time... thats something that I really don't like. I'd rather watch SD over the I2 so I can get all of the weather info for my area. The almanac animations are ok. I don't dislike them nor do I like them.

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Local Forecast / Re: Weatherstar 4000 Locations that remain

« on: July 22, 2010, 06:04:58 PM »

I work for Bledsoe Telephone in Pikeville TN we still use a 4000. sometimes I have to powercycle it because it will get stuck on the locals.

Wow! if I may ask, what does "powercycling" mean?

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: July 20, 2010, 08:15:50 PM »

More special ed teachers are needed as the population with special needs is increasing.

I strongly disagree. There are no more special needs students today than there were ten years ago... it's just now we consider so many things "special needs" its ridiculous.

That I also agree to....

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Wake Up With Al

« on: July 20, 2010, 06:38:01 PM »

I thought Forecast Earth has been around since 2005

If I can recall, 2004 or 2005

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: July 20, 2010, 06:34:54 PM »

More special ed teachers are needed as the population with special needs is increasing.

This has been a growing problem in my area and part of it is under investigation. State seems to be finding fraud and people abusing the money. While its important to maintain as many positions as possible, including special ed,  special ed deserves to have cuts just as much as regular positions. It should be equal.

It's funny how here, they aren't cutting teachers or anything, but they are moving them all around and closing schools. Two elementary schools have been closed, one middle school is for 5-6th grade, and the other one is 7-8th grade. Thank god I don't need to move schools And, they seem to have also been hiring more special ed teachers in my district. Two new people were added to the staff team last year just for that, and I think another was added this summer. They don't have too many people to maintain at my school with special needs... so I think it's unnecessary to be adding the extra special ed staff to our schools. And I do agree with you, they need to have just as regular positions do...

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IntelliStar 2 Discussion / Re: IntelliStar 2 Beta Launch

« on: July 20, 2010, 01:57:56 AM »

Ugh I know!Text Messages Cost $1310 per Megabyte. Its crazy We have gone way off topic but I like it

In the U.S., I have Net10, so I pay 5¢ to send/receive a text message.  In Russia, I had Tele2, and paid 45 kopeks (2¢) to send a text message and nothing to receive.  For calls: 10¢ a minute in the U.S. to send/receive and 95 kopeks (4¢) a minute to send.  So, the difference isn't huge - both Net10 and Tele2 are budget carriers, but I do miss not having to pay for incoming calls/messages.

Yeah, we're off topic, but so long as forum management doesn't yell at us , I don't think we're hurting anyone. 

I think Martin mistyped, it costs me $2199.99 per megabyte

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Emulator Videos / Re: Curt's Emulations!

« on: July 20, 2010, 01:48:31 AM »

Here's something that isn't a STAR, but an Emergency Alert System emulation. This looks identical to the one in East Lansing (Comcast). I faked the data you see and hear

My EAS Recreation

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: July 19, 2010, 02:49:38 PM »

I think all of you have brain damage or something Summer has been FLYING BY!

It definitely has. While I do want it going by so I can see my friends again, I'm enjoying it while it lasts.

Wow... I just noticed I have about 7 more weeks of my summer left... it did go by quicklly But, I am going to enjoy these last few weeks of summer. I'm going to LA and Philly

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General Discussion / Re: Songs You Love To Hate

« on: July 19, 2010, 12:15:18 AM »

There are so many other bands I can't stand, including Brokencyde and The Insane Clown Posse. The folks at Hot Topic seem to love it.

Of course they love it... since no one else does (at least, that's whats in my book)

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: July 19, 2010, 12:13:29 AM »

Summer has been going by slooow for me.  That's good a bad..good, because it's SUMMER.  Bad, because I am taking online classes and have 12 loooooooong days of it to go

Yeah, I'll agree. This summer has gone slow. But once August comes around, before you know it... school will finally be in session. (Oh noez!  )

Just what I don't want

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Local Forecast / Re: The Weather Channel / The Weather Network UK STAR

« on: July 18, 2010, 12:51:04 PM »

As far as I'm aware, the UK channel didn't use any WeatherStar technology.

Actually, I believe they did. I think they may have used the 4000 in the past. I can be wrong (Since I am not even in the UK), but I saw somewhere talking about it. Google it... maybe you'd find something

I do know they did the same thing as "The Weather Channel - Latin America". TWC headquarters closed the UK TWC because it lacked viewers. They ran the 4000... if I am correct, unlike the Latin America TWC that used the modified XL unit. If I can recall, TWC UK ran form 1996-1998, and Latin America ran until 2002/2003. (Please excuse my bad organization in that...)