Muslims More Numerous Than Catholics

2008-03-31 Thread William T Goodall
Muslims More Numerous Than Catholics By ALESSANDRA RIZZO Associated Press Writer VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Islam has surpassed Roman Catholicism as the world's largest religion, the Vatican newspaper said Sunday. For the first time in history, we are no longer at the top: Muslims have overtaken

Re: Brin: Singularities, Nightmares, and Japanese Sci-Fi

2008-03-31 Thread Wayne Eddy
Hi, KZK, everyone, Just because animation is so labour intensive now, doesn't mean that it will be in 5 or 10 or 15 years time. In fact it almost certainly won't be. To say that a dedicated professional studio will always be necessary to produce a quality animated features fails to take into

Re: The Troubled Homecoming Of The Marlboro Marine

2008-03-31 Thread Dave Land
On Mar 30, 2008, at 7:04 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On this point, you and I are in complete agreement. To be honest, I don't even know that I can walk a mile in my own shoes from a different time in my life: I try to think

Re: Brin: Singularities, Nightmares, and Japanese Sci-Fi

2008-03-31 Thread Julia Thompson
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Wayne Eddy wrote: Hi, KZK, everyone, Just because animation is so labour intensive now, doesn't mean that it will be in 5 or 10 or 15 years time. In fact it almost certainly won't be. To say that a dedicated professional studio will always be necessary to produce

Re: Brin: Singularities, Nightmares, and Japanese Sci-Fi

2008-03-31 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Julia Thompson wrote: Eventually expert systems will enable a single person to do the work of a team, and not long after that AI's will be capable of reading a script and then generating a feature film without any human input. Just seeing what the time decrease has been in 3 years for

Re: Muslims More Numerous Than Catholics

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Re: Mail help needed . . .

2008-03-31 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Mar 30, 2008, at 4:04 AM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: Since after 10+ years of my using them both Netscape and Eudora are going away, I am at the point where I have to change both browser and mail programs. I spent past several hours yesterday installing Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird and

Re: Muslims More Numerous Than Catholics

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Re: Muslims More Numerous Than Catholics

2008-03-31 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 06:58 PM Monday 3/31/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l I think that's one of the best responses anyone has ever made to one of WTG's posts on religion. Well worth repeating, also . . . . . .