Which RIA Are You Dying to Use?

[NeedSomeAnswers]

I'm surprised Silverlight's actually that high up.

I heard version 2.0 is a lot better, i wouldn't even touch version 1.0.

Although i have never used it myself, the one worrying thing i have heard is the it can be very gpu intensive. Most places i have worked all the machines have a fairly crappy graphics card spec.

Flex is great to program with, so i am interested to see if Silverlight is any good.

[FunkyDexter]

I haven't decided so I'm going to use a Provisional RIA... I want to gain some tangible benefit, though, so it will have to be a Real RIA... Also, I don't want it to have a short shelf life so I'll make sure it's a Continuity RIA... Too soon?

Being a little more serious, isn't the whole web 2.0 thing moving us back towards a dumb terminal model? Don't get me wrong, I get that making web pages etc more user freindly is a good thing but I'm coming across an increasing number of essentially desktop targetted apps that are written in browsers for little or no benefit that I can see.

And conversly, isn't all this extra stuff moving us away from a thin client model anyway. What we're moving towards is a fat, though consistent, client.

I'm not a web programmer so I'm probably missing the point here.