Re: Web vs. Desktop based systems

From: CBFalconer <cbfalco...@xxxxxxxxx>
... snip roughly 100 immaterial lines ...
(this next part quoted from earlier poster:)
You can do some primitive stuff with AJAX, but basically that's
true-- I wouldn't call it the main disadvantage, but that's
really a question of taste.
Anybody up for a religious war on whether hyacinth is a better
color than aquamarine?
From: CBFalconer <cbfalco...@xxxxxxxxx>
Did you ever hear of snipping?

Hey, remember that thread a couple days ago where the OP was asking
for advice about how to write an automaton that posted complaints
whenever it caught somebody top-posting? He ought to also (or
instead) write an automaton to detect grossly non-snipped posts,
to save you (CBF) from needing to perform that task.

Hey, what's all this fuss I keep hearing about "Cosmic Background Fornication"?
No, wait, that's "Radiation". Nevermind.

Riddle: What do you call somebody who pretends to be contented with
the flows of energy in the Universe, but deep in the back
of his subconscious he's terrified of Everything?
Answer: Cosmic Background Fraidycat

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