Speed is useless if you are still wasting the time of every Web developer by not meeting Web standards. It costs everyone in time and money to build a Web site. Both Safari and Chrome pass the ACID test flawlessly. IE should stop being an exception.

I have to agree. I played Shadowbane and despite how buggy it was it was the best MMO experience I ever had. It encouraged active role-playing and political intrigue. The bugs could of been solved if they used an existing engine and not trying to write one themselves for the first time. As far as group/faction/alliance balance I believe if the mod were more active on the server with events, appearances of gods, etc. They could help equalize things. Sadly the game was closed down as Wolfpack Studios was bought out.

From experience I have learned even a great webhost can go downhill quickly. I was orignally with Globat for a number of years without issues then they started doing things like signing you up for addons that charged you more money if you did not opt out. Their customer support was worthless and barely could speak english. The worst was when I tried to cancel my subscription. They had a dedicated cancellation phone line only open for certain hours and when I called on three occations it was not staffed! After calling and letting it ring for half an hour someone finally picked up but by then my auto-renew charged me for another month. After two months of them saying I would get a refund I called my credit card and had them issue a charge back. For a few years now I have been with Hostgator but I have also heard good things about Bluehost as well.

http://coverage.t-mobile.com/default.aspx?MapType=Data If you are happy with 2-3 times the speed of dialup then go for it. T-Mobile only has 3G in a few select large cities. Cripples the phone in my opinion. Even AT&T has much much better 3G coverage. And Verizon throws Rev-A (3G) on all their towers which is why they have been winning the "map wars" recently.

Be careful when and where you give out such ideas. Some hiring practices and some colleges make you sign away your intellectual property rights if any portion of them required resources by said party making you sign on the dotted line.

Web Hosting is one area where they are going to have a field day with. I recently left a horrible webhost (double-billing, not staffing cancellation lines, technical support staff on shotty VOIP lines that hardly speak English) and know they only survive because of fake reviews and of the like.

Having run RAID quite a bit myself one must remember having all your drives in one box is always an invitation for trouble since hardware failures on a higher order will likely hit all the drives.

If you want to do online backup get DSL instead of cable internet for the faster upload bandwidth.

Get a backup service with versioning. That way if you or a virus delete something it just doesn't sync the deletion to your backup.

I personally use JungleDisk which uses Amazon S3 storage. You can set the versioning controls and you only pay for the storage/bandwidth you use. My bill averages about $2/mo for several gigs.

You are much better off finding something unique. I did, it uses two actual words, and it is not used by anybody except one guy as as a user name in a few places. Just Google things until it draws a blank.

While the number of applications available for Blackberry has been growing their success was not because of the number of applications but the quality of the core system, phone/email/web etc. Instead of going after Apple and their app store Palm might rather be wanting to specialize, like Blackberry did, to refine, and dominate the business user market with good core functionality.

It is nice to see a little social responsibility out there. More people should read up and adopt similar business models such as Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream which is proof one can be both successful and socially responsible in business.