Jun 30

Dish Networks “Showtime Unlimited” upgrade consists of 10 additional channels for only $11..99 a month. Showtime has more Daytime Emmy Nominations than any other network in existence. With Show Time you can expect big movies, breakthrough original series programs, live concerts and even great comedy specials. You can also expect at least one big boxing fight every month.

In order to provide something for everyone, Showtime has diversified its Satellite TV programming. These channels are; FLIX, The Movie Channel, Showtime, The Sundance Channel, Showtime Beyond, The Movie Channel, Extra, Showtime (East / West) and Showtime HDTV.

The Movie Channel is all about the newest big Hollywood hits. You also get access to The Movie Channel Extra, which also shows big Hollywood hits and other extra interesting features like trivia and film facts. On the other hand you also get FLIX which carries the best classic movies from the 70-90’s. Showtime Beyond is focused on providing the bread and butter programming for the sci-fi, horror and fantasy fans while Showtime Extreme is nothing but pure action all the time! This can include action-adventure, horror, gangster programming or martial arts. With Dish Networks Showtime Unlimited you will also have access to the Sundance Channel. This channel focuses on the films and filmmakers themselves. This channel is always commercial free and can help you see things like behind the scenes interviews of your favorite actors and directors, just as if you were at an actual film festival. Showtime’s Showcase channel is also a great addition to this package. This channel is great all around with the main purpose of giving you even more choice. You will get more movies, more family programming and more championship boxing.

If you love movies and need more choice take a hard look at Showtime. Showtime is a great addition to any satellite service and is even included in the high end programming packages.

In order to provide something for everyone, Showtime has diversified its Satellite TV programming. These channels are; FLIX, The Movie Channel, Showtime, The Sundance Channel, Showtime Beyond, The Movie Channel, Extra, Showtime (East / West) and Showtime HDTV.

The Movie Channel is all about the newest big Hollywood hits. You also get access to The Movie Channel Extra, which also shows big Hollywood hits and other extra interesting features like trivia and film facts. On the other hand you also get FLIX which carries the best classic movies from the 70-90’s. Showtime Beyond is focused on providing the bread and butter programming for the sci-fi, horror and fantasy fans while Showtime Extreme is nothing but pure action all the time! This can include action-adventure, horror, gangster programming or martial arts. With Dish Networks Showtime Unlimited you will also have access to the Sundance Channel. This channel focuses on the films and filmmakers themselves. This channel is always commercial free and can help you see things like behind the scenes interviews of your favorite actors and directors, just as if you were at an actual film festival. Showtime’s Showcase channel is also a great addition to this package. This channel is great all around with the main purpose of giving you even more choice. You will get more movies, more family programming and more championship boxing.

If you love movies and need more choice take a hard look at Showtime. Showtime is a great addition to any satellite service and is even included in the high end programming packages.

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Jun 27

part I - characters, attributes and experience explained

For the ones of you that don’t know RPG stands for Role Playing Game, and is one of the most played type of game nowadays.

You are the main hero, and you interact with other characters also called NPC-s ( or Non Playable Characters if you’re playing single player). They will give you quests to do, and you have to do them, in order to get experience and advance to higher levels.

The story has the main quest, that will end the game when finished, and usually a lot of side quests, that will help you develop your character. The side quests are not necessary, but will get you deeper into the story and sometimes that is really worth it!

Most RPG games allow you to choose your type of character at the beginning. Usually there are several types of characters, all with different attributes, but there are three main categories to choose from: wizard, fighter and archer. These will take different names and attributes and will be further more differentiated into subcategories, depending on the game. For example, the wizard can become specialized on different categories of spells, like earth, water, dark magic, white magic, fire, lightning, nature.

How do you grow your character? Well this depends from game to game, but basically you have :
-life, called life points in many games representing your health
-mana, or mana points representing the wizardry point you have left( these point allow you to do spells, if you don’t have them you won’t be able to cast spells)
-stamina, also found by other names, depending on the game, this represents how much time you can run, of do special moves.

Besides these three there are a few other primary attributes like:
-strength - representing the strength of your character, you’ll have to put points here if your character is a fighter.
-dexterity -representing the dexterity of your character, usually important for archers.
- intelligence - representing the intelligence of your character, usually important for wizards.
There may appear some more primary attributes depending on the game but don’t worry they are usually explained!

Experience - this is heart of the game, and this (along with the story) will keep you in front of the computer for days! Basically, when you kill monsters you get experience, you also get experience when you do the quests. This experience is used to grow in level, making you stronger and able to battle with more and more monsters. Take care how you spend your experience, because in the later part of the game it’s important to be strong so you can finish the game. Usually it’s best to choose a line of evolution at the beginning and keep it until the end of the game !

Ok, we’ve reached the end of part one, hope I was able to enlighten you a little concerning the mysteries of RPG games. See you in part two!

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Jun 24

This article is the first of series of three articles in which I’ll explain some basic principles and concepts of GPS. I in this article I’ll explain how exactly GPS works so it won’t be a mystery anymore. I’ll also mention some recent enhancements to the GPS system. In the second article I’ll explain about some of the GPS core technologies, so when you hear the magic words “Sirf III” you’ll know what people are talking about. And finally, in the third paragraph I’ll make a short review of the leading GPS manufacturers on the market today.

First of all GPS stands for Global Positioning System and usually refers to the GPS receiver. The receiver basically receives the signals incoming from constellation of 27 satellites which are orbiting the Earth (actually there are only 24 satellites that are operational and 3 additional for backup in case one of the 24 fails) and from those signals can calculate it’s absolute position on Earth. This satellite system was developed by the U.S. military and after a while U.S. government opened it up for public. Those satellites are circling the Earth making two complete rotations every day. Their orbits are planned the way that at any time and anywhere on Earth there are at least four satellites “visible” in the sky. A GPS receiver locates four or more satellites from the signals those satellites send constantly towards the Earth, calculates the distance to each of the satellites and from this information calculates its’ absolute location on Earth. This process of pinpointing the location of the GPS receiver is based on mathematical principle called trilateration.

Let me explain a little about this principle regarding the GPS. It is a little tricky so if you don’t want to bother yourself with details - just skip this chapter. Like I said, GPS receiver locates the satellites and calculates the distance to them. Lets say for example receiver knows that Satellite_1 is located 20 miles from it. In the whole space Satellite_1 can be anywhere on a huge Sphere with radius of 20 miles around the receiver. If receiver also knows that Satellite_2 is located 30 miles from it, it can overlap the sphere of satellite_1 with the sphere of satellite_2. The spheres intersect in a perfect circle (think in 3 dimensions). The distance to the third satellites gives us a third sphere which intersects with the circle in two points. One of those points is located in space and the other located on Earth. This second point is actually the location of the GPS receiver. Using the Earth as fourth sphere, receiver is able to choose that second point and this way it knows its’ exact location on earth.

Basically GPS receiver needs to locate only three satellites but it always tries to locate as many satellites as possible because it improves the accuracy of the result.

The signals that satellites are constantly transmitting are high-frequency, low power radio waves which contain information about the satellite and its’ location. GPS receiver can calculate the distance to the satellite by counting the time it takes to the signal to get from the satellite to the receiver.

The whole process described above works well but it has inaccuracies due to several reasons like signal interference,weather and more. Differential GPS (DGPS) helps correct those inaccuracies. This enhancement is base on stations located on Earth. The hardware at those stations knows exactly the location of the station and constantly sends information to GPS receivers (but only to those in which this technology is implemented) how to correct their results so the will be more accurate.

Once the GPS receiver made the calculation, it can tell the latitude, the longitude and the altitude of its’ current position. This doesn’t tell much to the average user. So in order to make the use of the GPS receiver more user-friendly many receivers send this data to a program which displays a map and can show the position on it.

Well that’s it for this article and check for updates, because like I said at the top of this article there are two more articles on the way!

About The Author
Zvi Braverman is a student of electronic Engineering at the Tel-Aviv university. He is co-founder of 4Winds company which imports GPS equipment and designs GPS and Hi-tech solutions for personal users and organizations. More information about GPS products can be found here: http://www.rikaline.co.il.

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