You can not prove that some gods do not exists because they are logically self-contradictory.
A god may exist outside of certain logic systems or even created his own logic systems.

Otherwise the following would prove an almighty god can not exists:
- An almighty god can make a rock so heavy that he himself can not lift it.

Or modified in the form of eve online folklore:
- Chribba once made a veldspar astroid so big even he couldn't mine it, then he mined it in a single cycle.

Therefor you can not disprove God or any of the other gods, including the greek and the nordic gods, the invisible pink unicorn or the flying spaghetti monster.

one acronym: FPGA
A set of gates of which you can change the connections on the fly.

Current FPGAs are large enough to implement quite large systems with many algorithms. There are even FPGA like devices that work in the analogue domain.

And to be honest, having started designing for an FPGA, it not that more difficult than software. In fact the simulation software for FPGAs includes debugging tools that puts software debugging to shame.

There have been issues with actual media files like *.png that caused a buffer overload in the image decoder and would allow execution of code embedded in the image itself.

However it is better to actually fix the buffer overflow instead of scanning files. I guess the only real use for virus scanners, if you and manufacturers keep your system up to date, is to not allow said file to be transported to an other computer that has not been updated.

That is what most linux and os x virus scanners mostly do, to make sure viruses are found before you send it to a vulnerable computer.

How about an athlete, is he allowed to play video games?
If one does the standard weight/height ratio on an athlete. Seeing as many athletes are over 100 kg.
I guess he needs to sit on the cough for couple of weeks, so his muscles becomes smaller.

I am not sure about the original series. But in the next generation and henceforth:
- Cochrane used a fusion reactor to feed the warp coils with plasma.
- The enterprise uses an Antimatter/Matter reactor, annihilating deuterium and anti-deuterium. It is fueled at a starbase, although in a pinch they can use the Bussard ramscoop to harvest deuterium from space, and they have a small particle accelerator on board to create anti-deuterium.
- The enterprise uses fusion engines for when the antimatter matter reactor is offline and for its impulse engines (sub light speed).
- The Romulans use a micro singularity which presumably is fed with matter at high pressure, the matter is converted into energy through hawking radiation.
- The Cardasians use fusion reactors.

The year 2380?

The notation of a SI-prefix inside a number is used in electronics as a decimal separator. I guess it should also be a lower case letter 'k' as well.

I guess the notation was invented because dots tend to fade away on photocopies and a SI unit is less easy to overlook.

headache is mostly caused by the quality of production. Check the U23D movie before passing judgement. Here the film makers have done their best to make sure your depth focus does not change rapidly during cuts and cross fades. Also shallow depth of field is no problem in 3D as long as the primary subject(s) are in focus.

I've seen parts of U23D at the ibc theater a few years ago, it never strained my eyes or give me a headache. Even if Bono was uncomfortably close to me sometimes (you know what happens when ppl get physically really close to you, it felt like that, he was really a few decimeters away from me). It really did feel like you where walking there right on stage really close up and personal to the band members.

However I've seen a Hollywood animation where the depth changes so rapidly that it felt like they where ripping my eyes out of my sockets. The interest in 3D is so much right now, ibc was full of 3D production, post production, transmission and play-out equipment, that I hope that film makers will figure out how to use it properly. Because it is really able to add an emotional layer to a movie.

I was on ibc yesterday too. I think you can use the polarized screens as normal screens as well, with full resolution. The polarized screen only halves in resolution when viewing stereoscopic images.

In case anyone wonders the polarization changes with each line, combing the left and right images, which almost looks (if you view the stereo image without glasses) like a continues interlacing artifact. Both lines look the same brightness and color (and the display look just as bright and colorful as normal displays).

Wearing the glasses does not show noticeable difference in brightness or color.

Here is one of the videos from the lab experiment.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/401413/ball_lightning_created_in_a_laboratory_very_cool_stuff

This one seems to be inside a domestic oven.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgMnsdqHwew&feature=related

Both of these could be fake of course.

Except for the non red book compliant compact disks.

Seems they closed shop according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2D-plus-depth

philips' 3D televisions (I think they are called WOW tv or something), is probably compatible with the broadcast.

http://www.business-sites.philips.com/shared/assets/3dsolutions/downloads/42Inch3dDisplayUserManual.pdf

The broadcast is probably done (last time I was at the international broadcasting conference) by adding a depth field to the standard 2D HD broadcast.

From what I understand, their TV creates 9 different stereoscopic views from the 2D+depth frames. Then using the old technology of vertical strip lenses they make those 9 views available at different viewing angles.

You don't need to wear any glasses to watch the TV. but there are view angles where it becomes a mess to watch (but that was a few years ago, so maybe they fixed it). Also like in the theater you need to keep your head vertical.

Your money is only guaranteed by the government/central bank up to a certain amount (was 20,000 euro per bank recently upgraded to 100,000 euro), as people found out the hard way a couple of years ago (before the current crisis) when a small bank collapsed and people lost most of their live savings.

In the current crisis there was something with ppl who where saving in an Icelandic bank that collapsed.

Like in eve online you should scatter your money around multiple banks, especially if you have more money than your guaranty. Because you are at a lot of risk when saving a lot of money at a bank; people buy stocks and bonds, because the stocks and bonds are linked to you personally and when the bank dies those stocks are still yours. Of course companies and governments can go bankrupt and even default on the bond too, but one should diversify here too.

I think there is a saying, something with: eggs and one basket.

Because without pictures, it didn't happen:
http://www.intermediair.nl/artikel.jsp?id=1002053 (20,000 guarantee)
http://www.geldenrecht.nl/sparen/2501134/Bank_failliet_spaargeld_en_hypotheek_verrekend.html (40,000 guarantee)
http://www.dnb.nl/over-dnb/veelgestelde-vragen/vragen-over-banken/auto40295.jsp (now 100,000 guarantee)

The same can be said for meatspace banks.

You will need to calculate the risk that your money will be stolen and how often it will be stolen and how much, then calculate the interest you will receive back. Then you see which one is bigger.

You do know the officially "normal viewing distance" means 1.2 to 1.4 times the width of the screen, right?