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I've never been successful with the home row method, I'll admit; it has always caused severe pain in my wrists. That said, I can type at least 90 wpm without looking at the keys, and that suits me just fine.

Great article! It's a damn shame it's going to be another decade before we can actually use any of these properties and expect them to work...

Wow, this takes me back... I remember reading this ten years ago or so. Still basically holds true for modern MMOs, I think, and they often do a better job of accommodating the different types of players than the old MUDs did as a result.

It should probably be noted, however, that the original article's suggestion to "avoid doing SQL queries within a loop" is still a good one. Granted, this isn't PHP-specific, so perhaps this wasn't the right place for it. Furthermore, on small traffic websites (which, as other commenters mentioned, are probably the target of an article like this) likely wouldn't see a significant speed up, given the low query volume. Nevertheless, minimizing trips to the database is a good idea.

Arguably, there's an element of discrimination here too. Large American and European corporations and governments have plenty of IP addresses. (For a start, have a look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IP_address_... ) Whereas countries like India and China are lacking IP addresses. Until the address shortage starts to affect the aforementioned governments and corporations, I doubt we'll see any significant movement.