The other great thing is that you make a disk image of your VPS and store it remotely as a backup. Then if you decide to move, you just find another company running the same VM software and restore the entire image. BAM! It doesn't get any easier.

I've been doing this for years and it works great. Plus you can always start up the VM software at home (since most places use free software anyway) and do remote development with your *compete* live environment. It's great.

Almost 60 VPSes currently running under my name and wouldn't recommend anything less to anyone as tech savvy as the Slashdot crowd!

I should have clarified. My sites are all now built for HTML5 and every attempt is made to stay standards-compliant.

While users with older browsers are redirected, the entire site (short of the few pages with directions) use those standards and are still visible selects the ``I know my browser was made in the 1800s but I still want to see your site'' link.

It's code and pages that I wrote one and just copy into new sites. *That's* what I wish more people would do. We could all gently urge those who either don't know or don't care and perhaps make the web a better place, one user at a time.

All of my sites now use browser detection for Firefox 2.* and IE versions prior to 8 and sends the user to a page giving them download options. It'd be nice if more people did the same.

Not everyone. Tons of sites list both critic and player reviews and there's often a fairly large difference between both which tells a rather fascinating story. At the same time, those can't be trusted 100% of the time as a lot of people will get together and review bomb (look at Modern Warfare 2 on the PC for a good example, review bombed with 0s and 1s on a few sites due to its lack of PC LAN server support).

That being said, I don't know how the folks from the quoted article missed myself and my friends. I believe all of us look at scores, especially on new, non-franchise titles and sometimes even those too.

But in the end, it's price that always ends up being my final deciding factor. $60 per game is a tough pill to swallow for a new title. Long live Game Stop and Walmart with their used sales!

And yet IE8 is beta, and that is what the original reply was in regards to.

The point is that this ``speed comparison'' is complete bunk designed to pump FUD and get the product out there.

This is basically Microsoft's version of timing a top fuel dragster on a 4.4 second run with an analog watch by counting every time the hand moves, and it's a brand new 8,500 HP machine in one lane and a 6,500 HP rig from a few years ago in the other.

The Sprint Simply Everything line of plans are absolutely fantastic and well priced. All Sprint has needed was a phone to match (ala a Instinct with a real web browser). Maybe this is it?