>>Well, as I've suggested before this seems to boil down to a 'glass half full' vs a 'glass half empty' kind of discussion.
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>Doug;
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>I find that I am quiet intolerant when my glass is half full, and on such occasions insist that only the upper half be full. Finding the lower half full is not acceptable to me as I have been known to become very agitated under this condition! Now, I am looking forward to a nice pint of Guinness – and may I never find the bottom of the glass!
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>Tom

Guinness!?! Sounds more you've been hitting the Metzcal. :-)

Anyway, it is bogus to delineate along half-full/empty lines about VFP. A more accurate analogy for the VFP market would be that of the slurping sound from a straw poking around the bottom of a nearly empty glass.