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IntelliStar 2 Discussion / Re: IntelliStar 2 Beta Launch

« on: October 18, 2011, 04:41:23 PM »

You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar, and if you start insulting those who are going to be helping you, I'll report your posts to the forum administration.  The Star team is here as a HUGE favor to us; they have no obligation to be here, and they have to requirement to stay.  Treating them badly is the ABSOLUTE LAST thing I want to see happen.

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IntelliStar 2 Discussion / Re: IntelliStar 2 Beta Launch

« on: October 18, 2011, 02:49:52 PM »

More bad news. A couple days ago, the Islip IS2 had problems and was displaying the national LF. Now, I am now receiving a IS2 feed all the way from NYC. I am really pissed at this . Time to take action , this time I'm serious.

Why are you getting upset?  Problems like this can be fixed.  They can't be fixed until they're reported, and a fix isn't going to be instantaneous.  Please be patient, and things will be working normally again as soon as the problem can be taken care of.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Blooper Thread

« on: October 15, 2011, 09:13:42 PM »

Maybe I'm missing something, but I see only one logo on the national-feed SD LDL.

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Weatherscan Discussion / Re: Alert scrolls

« on: October 15, 2011, 09:12:59 PM »

I know that, however what I am saying is that the 4000 vertical scrolls are still around. I took this photo in 2009..

I can't tell from the photo - is that a brown screen or a red screen?  As far as I know, the brown screen scrolls never got turned into crawls like the red screen bulletins.

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: October 15, 2011, 09:11:59 PM »

So remember that guy I was complaining about earlier in the year, Mr. I-Like-To-Pull-The-Fire-Alarm-At-Four-In-The-Morning? Well, victory has come. Was walking back to the dorm, and three cops were hauling some kid out of the dorm. The residence hall director told me THAT guy was responsible for all the fire alarms. Finally, we get to sleep easy.

Applause, applause! 

Please let us know if you ever find out how they caught the guy... and whether he'll be allowed to return.

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Weatherscan Discussion / Re: Alert scrolls

« on: October 15, 2011, 07:01:22 PM »

The 4000 also has the scrolls too, but not for every alert.

Beginning sometime in the 1990s, the red screen scrolls were replaced with crawls along the bottom of the screen, and the local forecast during a red crawl consisted of just the current conditions, latest observations, and then 2 minutes of local radar.  Heaven help you if the radar was unavailable - then you'd have a whole lot of nothing to look at, since the 4000 (at least the ones I've seen) didn't revert to a normal flavor if the radar was out.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Blooper Thread

« on: October 15, 2011, 04:26:14 PM »

starting around 4:20 pm EDT: problems animating some of the maps and microphone problems
4:24 pm EDT: emergency feed for a couple of seconds before the commercial came on

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Weatherscan Discussion / Re: Alert scrolls

« on: October 15, 2011, 04:17:27 PM »

I miss the full screen scrolls.  The messages scrolling across the bottom are too slow.  I would have a tornado warning and it took forever to get details on where it was at!  One turned out to be right over my town!  Lots of notice  .

I greatly prefer the bulletins crawling across the bottom of the screen rather than scrolling from bottom to top.  The full-screen scroll, obviously, blocked out all other programming, including local forecasts (a radar would be very important in such a situation), and was usually repeated only a couple of times before disappearing until it scrolled for another couple of times a few minutes later.  With the crawl, it's always shown on the screen.

If you really miss the scrolls, you can ask your cable company to downgrade to a WeatherStar Jr. 

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General Discussion / Re: What are you listening to?

« on: October 12, 2011, 12:15:53 AM »

Right now I'm listening to the news on BBC World Service via NPR.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Blooper Thread

« on: October 11, 2011, 07:12:53 PM »

Bwa-ha-ha-ha!!

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: October 10, 2011, 10:53:47 PM »

Yikes!  If you fail the exams, it, unfortunately, doesn't matter how well you do with everything else.

Obviously, if you're doing well with the material in class and at home, there's not really a problem with your absorption and understanding of it.  It seems like it really is your fear of exams is causing you this problem.

I would also recommend that you talk this over with your professors, but, in addition, your school probably has some counselling and/or mental health services that you should take advantage of.  If anyone can help you with your test anxiety, they can.

Most importantly, though - GET HELP ASAP!  Exams count for such a huge portion of your final grade that you won't want to go too long getting bad results on them before you just fail out of college altogether.

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: October 10, 2011, 10:50:49 PM »

The Weather Channel without local forecasts is just not The Weather Channel, period.  L-bars just don't cut it.  Even more so when a mere LDL replaces the local forecast segment.

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: October 10, 2011, 09:25:40 PM »

The number of free books (both classics and new ones) is huge!

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: October 10, 2011, 11:00:54 AM »

I suppose it's not displayed on the current conditions page because it's superfluous.

For one thing, it's a rather large icon that's displayed, so, for example, the slanted rain or snow is easy to tell from the vertical rain or snow.  In addition, the wind speed and gusts are displayed on the same screen, and the word "windy" is printed under the icon with the other weather conditions.

It makes sense to have the word "windy" added to the icon on regional maps, etc., but I really don't think it's necessary on the current conditions screen.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: October 09, 2011, 11:14:00 PM »

This is not a fun storm I'm living through.  The last time I experienced weather like this was during Hurricane Bob in Massachusetts in 1991.

My 30-minute walk home from work this evening was absolutely miserable!  Umbrellas don't work when the wind's blowing at 50 mph, so I got totally drenched as I was fighting against the wind.  There were times when I was trudging ahead leaning forward at quite an angle just to keep moving.

My apartment building lost power at around 6:00 pm when the transformer blew.  It came on a couple of hours later, even though the power company originally said it could take until tomorrow morning.  However, the worst of the storm is still to arrive in Daytona Beach, so I'm keeping my flashlight handy.