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General Discussion / Happy Birthday, Krishnan (LFMusicRocks)!

« on: May 24, 2010, 07:27:36 PM »

Happy 17th Birthday!

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Great Article in the NY Times

« on: May 24, 2010, 01:15:00 PM »

Gee, Jesse. If people's negative comments bother you that much, why don't you just ignore them?

you do have a point there, but I have ignored them so long that it just pushed me to a breaking point to make the necessary rant after about six or seven months or so for the reasons and points I have made.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Great Article in the NY Times

« on: May 24, 2010, 10:11:31 AM »

Wherever TWC is getting their ratings from is unreliable. Look at all the comments on TWC's facebook page! We're not the only people who are against movie night.

Cable networks need to stop worrying about ratings and $$$$ and focus more on what they are intended for. It's only 10,000 more viewers than how it was in 2008.

"we're not the only ones" meaning three to four separate people spamming the crap out of TWC's Facebook page to the point where normal people's legitimate questions get buried and unanswered. Face it... a lot of people are going WAY overboard with the whole 'omg movies suck. omg nbc sucks. RAWR' thing to the point where it's just annoying at this point. Redundant, I know, and I'm aware of free speech and the right to express our opinions, but a lot of people are going about it the wrong way to where it's not clear and concise... It's just spam. I am one who may not like their decision, and let's be honest, it's not all NBC's decision, if they even had an input. But, I don't go flooding/spamming TWC's Facebook page, spamming Mr. Darby's twitter about it. If you want your opinions heard, write an INTELLIGENT, clear ,concise, well written letter to TWC and mail it to them. I guarantee you ,they might actually read it. But don't go spamming across the internet thinking your point will get across, hurting legitimate questions from getting answered. Ratings or not, it's not YOUR network to run and make decisions about, it's theirs. If you don't like it, and don't wish to heed my advice above, then don't watch The Weather Channel. It's clear and simple.

There's my rant for the morning, and I hope it makes sense, as the constant whining gets old after a while. You may hate me, and that's fine, but it needed to be said.

Getting back on topic, I applaud TWC for trying to increase their user base ,to try and increase people's interest in weather. Not a lot of people are planning their weather days at night on the weekend, and the viewer base diminishes significantly ar night, so they want to try to broaden people's interest. In my honest opinion, it's a smart move. HOWEVER, I do have to agree. Severe weather should always come first ,and I have a feeling, TWC is aware.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: May 23, 2010, 04:51:40 AM »

As I said, they're going to slowly start using the new music for shows... I know they all have it at this point...

Any rate, here's the new Weather Center teasers... Nice to see the W circle again, but it's a shame we won't see the wooshes and the whip crack sound effects anymore They have phased out the shorter openers for Weather Center at this point, and have been using the longer opener exclusively from what I've seen over the past few weeks. I apologize for the audio/video desync

New Weather Center Teasers

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General Discussion / Re: Oil Slick In The Gulf

« on: May 22, 2010, 08:30:48 AM »

True

We tend to steer away from one word posts such as these around these parts. Please keep this in mind for the future 

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: Weather Data

« on: May 22, 2010, 12:12:05 AM »

These icons are beautiful!!! Unfortunately, however, I converted one to a GIF, and the quality is wretched. However, do you happen to have the full set of these icons and mind if I use them, Jesse?

Since it looks like we are stuck with what we have, I think what we have now will do...I'm fine with it.

that is the full set afaik, it was extracted from the apk file itself. I am unsure if there are more icons in the set. Yes you may use them.

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: Weather Data

« on: May 21, 2010, 08:12:55 PM »

Here's something you can play with and test, if you feel... These are the icons from the Beautiful Widgets app for Android... I'm unsure how they would convert in to gif, but why not, lol.... Some are actual forecast icons, some are current condition icons...

Chance of Snow:


Chance of Snow (night):


Chance of Storm:


Chance of Storm (night)


Cloudy:


Cloudy/Rain:


Cloudy/Rain (night):


Flurries:


Fog:


Haze:


Icy/Rain:


Light Rain:


Mostly Cloudy:


Mostly Cloudy (night):


Mostly Sunny:


Mostly Sunny (night):


Rain:


Snow:


Storm:


Sunny:


Sunny (night):

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WeatherSTAR Tech Support / Re: 26820 - No Ls

« on: May 21, 2010, 07:22:57 PM »

Right now on IStar 26820 , Severe T'Storm Watch 199 is scrolling on the yellow LDL with all the Ls replaced by what appears to be underscores.

i.e. THE WEATHER CHANNEL reads THE WEATHER CHANNE_.

(Well, it stopped scrolling just now, but still.)

It seems to be a glitch all STARs have now and again... I think a simple reboot fixes this, IIRC.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: May 21, 2010, 06:49:34 AM »

Weather Center has new teasers.

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General Discussion / Re: I finally got a job!

« on: May 20, 2010, 07:30:27 PM »

Congrats!

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WeatherSTAR Tech Support / Re: IntelliStar down over 24 hours (21873)

« on: May 20, 2010, 07:19:27 PM »

This is quite odd. Both Josh and twcmatthew from YT had their STARs down this past week, and the audio was only coming out on the right-side channel. Is that the case for you too?

I don't know about the right side channel, but the star was down since Sunday. It has since returned when I woke up. Thank you STAR team!! :-)

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Everything Else TWC / Re: VORTEX 2

« on: May 20, 2010, 09:19:28 AM »

Welcome to the forums! Just to let you know, VORTEX 2 discussion is located in this thread...

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WeatherSTAR Tech Support / Re: IntelliStar down over 24 hours (21873)

« on: May 20, 2010, 06:55:44 AM »

Good Morning, STAR Team. I just wanted to give you guys an update, that the STAR is still down or non-existent. I hope you guys can look in to this soon. Thanks again :-)

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WeatherSTAR Tech Support / IntelliStar down over 24 hours (21873)

« on: May 18, 2010, 10:31:11 AM »

Good morning, STAR team. My STAR went down yesterday morning around 9-10ish am. I figured it would be temporary, but the STAR is still down. I am currently only getting the satellite forecast and such. Could you please look in to this issue for me? Thank you in advance! :-)

STAR ID: 21873 - Comcast of Garden State

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TWC Fan Art / Re: Tyler's HD Concepts

« on: May 18, 2010, 09:35:42 AM »

Nice Thurdsday forecast in your week ahead forecast