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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: January 29, 2011, 07:08:03 PM »

Anyone see the turbo tax commercial with Jim Cantore? He should be a movie actor.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: What would you do to improve TWC?

« on: January 29, 2011, 04:58:07 PM »

I just thought of another one. Actually show the Wekkly Planner go beyond like two days (precip and temps) They are always rushing it. It's basically serving no purpose now when they do that.

Figure out a way to schedule phone interviews better where there's time to finish them start to end. They always cut people off halfway through their conversation because they ran out of time.

I agree with you about the Weekly Planner.  They always blow through it, and it is very annoying.  How about you go day by day like you used to, and NOT stop and show a package from an NBC News reporter.  That'd be great.

I hate how they also know that there is a big blob of green or white on the map, and they don't even mention it and speed through it. If I was a OCM, that is something I wouldn't do.

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TWC Fan Art / Re: wxgatlin's artwork

« on: January 28, 2011, 05:19:45 PM »

Graphic displaying a weekend forecast. The two maps show the precip and type.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: January 27, 2011, 12:38:38 AM »

I find it awkward that TWC's LDL has been up and down all day, Hirad outages, and now I haven't seen a Lower Third graphic in over an hour. I like the new HD radar though.

What new HD radar?

EDIT: I see it now... that seems to just be a radar source from Intellicast, parent company to TWC.

Well I like that radar so much better. haha

Do you mean when they show the radar on VIZ?

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Blooper Thread

« on: January 26, 2011, 04:24:50 PM »

Not really a blooper, but the ldl and lower thirds are missing during the 4:20PM Weekly Planner.

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General Weather Chat / Re: What's the weather in your area?

« on: January 26, 2011, 04:11:38 PM »

32°F Light Snow

I've seen drizzle, plain rain, rain mixed with sleet, plain sleet, sleet mixed with snow, and plain snow all in the last 6 hours.

Thats Crazy!:rofl:

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Local Forecast / Re: Local on the 8s split screen

« on: January 26, 2011, 04:10:29 PM »

Its a good idea, especially since they don't do live coverage during long form. I like t he graphics also, although they could be larger.

They do show live coverage at the top and bottom of the hour.

True, and every 30 min, but the time in between is 30 min and the weather does change frequently.

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Forecasting / Re: Ask The Weather Expert!

« on: January 26, 2011, 01:28:47 AM »

I think you have to take Advanced Math/Pre-Calculus in order to jump right into Calculus.

Some of our administrators at school said the new plan they were developing I guess was just to jump right into Calculus. They were supposedly cutting the funds of Pre-Cal and just combining the two into one.

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General Discussion / Re: The State of the Union

« on: January 26, 2011, 01:25:59 AM »

All i heard was High Speed Rail and Faster Planes, Wow in 2011? or more like the year 3000?

Faster High Speed Rail, with current tech is possible. Although the fastest any land vehicle can travel in North America is 150MPH(Amtrak Acela Runs at this speed-Philly to Boston). Cost is probably the concerns though.

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Forecasting / Re: Ask The Weather Expert!

« on: January 26, 2011, 01:04:08 AM »

You should try to form study groups with your classmates, find a tutor, or perhaps think of taking a couple math classes in college before going on to Calculus courses.  If you're able to just get everything through Trigonometry completed before college, then you're fine.

What should I do if my school doesn't have Trigonometry? I'm set up to take it like this: Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, then Calculus.  And thanks for the advice, my teacher this year is excellent at explaining things.(Got new classes last week).

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Local Forecast / Re: Local on the 8s split screen

« on: January 26, 2011, 12:25:30 AM »

Its a good idea, especially since they don't do live coverage during long form. I like t he graphics also, although they could be larger.

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The Game Room / Re: Which would you prefer?

« on: January 26, 2011, 12:22:53 AM »

Definitely Co-Ed.
Chocolate bar or Sour Patch Kids?

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General Discussion / Re: Needs help with Dell PC.

« on: January 26, 2011, 12:21:00 AM »

Its DDR3 at 1333MHz

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General Discussion / Re: Needs help with Dell PC.

« on: January 26, 2011, 12:11:27 AM »

Yea, I'm curious as to how a computer with a 4800 series Radeon can't run Railworks.....I have a 3800 series and a quadcore with 8 GB of RAM and I run Crysis at 1024x768 at 40 fps.....

Yeah, that was what was making me want to return it.(I got the 1GB Card so I wouldn't have any problems using dual or triple display). Now windows reinstalled and everything is working smoothly, just gotta add in some more RAM.

More RAM wont make that much of a difference. Certainly for what you are using anyway

Oh, well for having several applications open at once it will help there, but not really in overall performance. I have the Intel H57 chip, which is upgradeable to Core i5 and i7 I believe, so maybe in the future I'll do that. At this point It was kind a budget workstation system.

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General Discussion / Re: Your class schedule...

« on: January 25, 2011, 09:58:48 PM »

First Period: Biology 1
2nd Period: Advanced Business applications (computer course)
3rd Period: Law Education (street law/ basic law)
4th Period: Algebra 1