If you worked with the idiot crybabies I worked with in the steelworker's union, you'd hate unions too.
I've never met a group of losers quite like that. The fact that they kept their jobs because of the union is enough to turn me against unions for life. I got singled out in the shop I was in because my starting wage in 1989 was higher than theirs was in 1960. It drove them CRAZY. It's all they ever talked about. Several of them tried to knock me into mills I was running and cause me to get maimed.
I didn't set the fucking wage, the damned union did. Yet they acted like I did something to fuck them over.
Unions need to go. Their time has come and gone. I was 19 at the time. That experience made me decide to go back to college. That's what unions are good for, so you join one and realize you need to do anything you can to not have to work in a union job.
Thank god there are no IT unions. I'd clean bathrooms before I worked in an IT union. Unions are nothing but worker communism put in place so people that suck can't get fired.
Amen. Republican, democrat, _whatever_, if they've been there more than one term, they need to get voted out.
There are people that have been senators for 30 years and it's bullshit. Look where it's taking us. The crotch-rot is destroying this country. They establish relationships with big business, get on the take and Washington is rotten to the core because of it. VOTE THEM OUT.
This isn't a problem with just the republicans or democrats, it's ALL of them, from Pelosi to McCain.
That's because in a few weeks, months, years (whenever the bubble bursts) the value of gold will fall through the floor and since US dollars are not on the gold standard, the value of the dollars you gave them will actually go up significantly compared to where the value was when you bought their overpriced gold, once the bubble bursts.
I will be ready to buy gold by the pound for next to nothing (compared to right now) when that happens.
The easiest way to know when not to buy gold, is when there are ads covering news channels, magazines, newspapers and every other media telling you to BUY GOLD NOW. If it was a great time to buy gold, people would be buying it themselves and not advertising the fact.
With a lot of media, it's kind of pointless to burn it. Most downloadable movies expire in 30-45 days from fee based services. Even games call home to see if the download is still valid.
I will never buy another PC game download. I bought NWN2 this way. 3 months later my machine died so I built a new one, and the download would no longer install. Apparently the game generates a signature of your machine and phones home with it.
I will never buy a movie download, outside of monthly fee based rentals like netflix.
Fuck that... Give me packaged DVD/BluRays or I don't want it. Crap happens and I don't like getting gyped out of $60 because I upgrade my computer or have a hard drive failure.
>then the iOS has roughly 47% of the mobile market, which is probably the biggest single slice of that pie. web traffic is not indicative of mobile market penetration. It's only indicative of mobile web traffic.
There are a lot of smartphone users that only use their phones for email. A lot of older folks and non technical people fit into this category.
For market penetration you need to look at sales of mobile devices, not web traffic. The numbers may or may not add up to be the same.
I can say that there are 3 blackberry users sitting within 20 feet of me here at the office. They only use their phones for SMS and email. They've told me as much. They don't even know how to open the web browser. I am a programmer that has an iPhone. I open web sites on it no less than 20 times a day.
No one gives a shit what steve jobs thinks except steve jobs and his legion of worshippers, aka 1.1% of the population.
To his credit, he is probably right about html5 video. as people's flash licenses expire, and browser support becomes ubiquitous, content providers may switch to html5 video to simply avoid paying adobe, and skip dealing with adobe's security flaws.
For now he needs to add flash to his operating systems. There's no way he'll force adoption by himself, though he may claim he's responsible in steve-o fantasy land after support becomes wide spread, like Algor did with the internet. His worshippers will cheer him.
Actually Windows 7 does run well on low-powered hardware (within reason), far better than Vista did/does. You can strip Windows 7 down pretty well by disabling the unnecessary crap, optimizing the page file and caching scheme, and turning off the desktop eye candy, killing services you don't use, etc.
It runs comparably well to XP if you do the same thing on XP.
Gaming on something like this with Crysis? I think not.
I agree that windows 7 doesn't suck. It's definitely better than Vista or XP ever was. I work on linux OS for a living, as a software developer, but I'm not an evangelist one way or the other. For gaming, I like the fact that you can just install games and not need fuss with it, tweak out WINE for hours etc to get things to work right.
When I get home from work I just want to kill shit, not need to figure out why my mouse cursor disappears in my favorite game client, patch WINE and recompile it to fix the problem, then make sure to use git properly when I'm getting the latest WINE sources, so I don't blow away my patches. I've been there, done it, got the T-Shirt. Gimme my Windows for gaming.
To be fair, during the xp years, gaming on xp could be a bitch. Then again the hardware was horrendous when multi core cpus first came out. The interrupt controllers were broken on multicore nVidia chipsets etc. I had just as many problems using WINE, since the kernel used to KP on bad chipsets before the kernel crew replaced the hardware interrupt timer with a software one.
Games run a lot better these days... The chipsets are far better now than they were in 2004.
Not really. MS won't support it on XP because they are trying to get gamers to buy Windows 7ista. I'm sure the Windows 7 support for DX11 will be on par with the linux support.
*note I'm not a windows fanboi, I just happen to have a firm grasp of reality. I do game on windows, but my development work is entirely FOSS based on linux systems.
I used to pay $5 (off peak) to $22.50(peak) an hour to use compuserve at 300baud (that's a little less than 1/3 of 1kbps for those that don't know what 300 baud means)
I think the prices have come down a bit. (no pun intended)
Granted that wasn't internet service, but the end result (communication and finding information using a computer) was comparable.
My mom was PISSED when she got that first bill. I was 13 and didn't realize what I was doing.
>so you're going to have to make allowances for electronic devices like dictionaries if you ban electronics from testing sites. No you don't.
Ever hear of a paper dictionary? That's what we used back in the stone age. You can still buy them. You allow electronic dictionaries, the students will find a way to hide ways to cheat in them. When I was in college there were no electronic dictionaries. You used a book.
IMHO if they can't be bothered to learn the language before spending the money to come to a US university, maybe they don't deserve to be there in the first place.
As an aside, you can still buy dictionaries on paper you know...
They'll learn the language, if for nothing else, because it's a PITA to find stuff in a real book. Electronic dictionaries breed laziness. I suggest making them buy paper dictionaries. Foreign students in US universities got along fine before there were laptops and ipods. I know because I was there.
There's way too much opportunity to cheat afforded by letting them bring computers into exams and you can't exactly let just foreign students bring them.
>But that doesn't mean that private actions can't limit freedom of speech. This private action decidedly does - it's a decision to limit expression based on its content. The fact that this ISP has both the legal right (assuming the contract is in order) and, to many, the moral right to do this does not mean that the decision does not limit free speech.
No it doesn't! He is still free to burn Qurans and free to exercise his right to free speech. However he may or may not be allowed to exercise his right in a privately owned venue, which is what rackspace is. I sure as hell don't want him doing it in my house either. I don't want him doing it in front of my house either, but I couldn't stop him if he got the permits.
He could burn the books and protest in front of rackspace's headquarters if he wanted to, and got the permits. They can't stop him from exercising his right to free speech.
I'll say it again and louder, SECURITY SECURITY SECURITY teach them about firewalls, anti-virus, no-script, dialers, drive bys, email links, phishing, trojans, malware, wireless security, passwords, chat rooms, pervs etc etc.
If their computer is useless because it's the computing equivalent of a contaminated petri dish, the rest of it doesn't matter.
An entire year should be devoted to security, and should be done first before anything else is done. It needs to be drilled into their heads that their financial, legal, physical, and technological well being is dependent on being secure, keeping the crap out of their environment, not disclosing personal info (like addresses and phone numbers), and otherwise treading carefully.
If they meet some perv in a chat room and become a statistic, or post their address online and disappear, the internet wasn't very good for them now was it?
Security is THE most important stuff they need to know about the internet.
For the sake of all that is holy, teach them this stuff first. Security is your biggest priority in technology education. It should come first before anything else, taught as it's own subject, and then reiterated and applied every time you teach them about another internet technology.
>>but with the advancement in tools to help us navigate more effectivily, who really wants to take an old school map with them.
If you rely on a GPS to do anything more risky than get you to your grandmothers house or a job interview, and don't have a compass and map (and know how to use them), you *are* one of the stupid people
What happens if you get mugged (by a bear or a person) and lose the toy? What if the GPS gets wet and really isn't waterproof? What if you slip, fall, and break the device on a pointy rock? What if the new batteries you put in it, and the spares you brought, were 90% dead because they sat on the floor in a corner of a store for 18 months before someone noticed them and hung them in the battery aisle?
If you are in the middle of nowhere, and there's 359 degrees of nothing for 50 miles around you, you are dead and will end up on a milk carton, especially in a place like Yosemite or the Rocky Mountains.
It's not smart to allow an electronic device to be your lifeline, without non-electronic backup. They can and often do fail, for various reasons. A laminated map and an old school compass are basically indestructible and can't fail. They also aren't in high demand by thieves and together cost less than $30. This is usually what you pay for gas to get to a cool location for hiking. Don't go out on or off an unfamiliar trail without them.
A compass and a map are the cheapest insurance you can buy. They're also 100% reliable if you take a few hours to learn how to use them. They don't require batteries, don't have buggy software, will still work if you get them wet, and no one wants to steal them.
We're already required to have automobile insurance, whether we drive 10 miles a year, or 100000, **or enough money in a bank account to cover the minimum amount required by law.
Rather than require insurance, make it optional. However require them to pay for their rescue. If they aren't insured, they pay out of pocket, just like the way medical insurance used to work. If they don't pay they get their wages garnished.
That way only the idiots that should have never went hiking, did something stupid, and were unprepared need to pay. The people that know what they are doing don't pay anything. Everyone is happy but the idiots, that don't belong there in the first place.
Rescue from a genuine emergency, such as a landslide, should be free. "I'm lost", or "I forgot my water" is not an emergency.
MySQL folks adding a 128 bit numeric data type would be a start. BIGINT is only 64 bit.
I store IPv4 as INT(32) in the database so I can do bit shifting operations on the addresses for address calculations and searching subnets (or pulling addresses based on subnet and CIDR). PHP supports arbitrary length integers, though I've never tested the limits. They probably depend on the OS.
However, these limitations can be gotten around by storing the subnet and host address in different fields (each is 64 bit).
Net::IPv6 already supports splitting them into their requisite parts, sort of.
[subnet][address] as an example of field names.
As long as your LAMP systems are 64 bit, I don't see a reason why you couldn't deal with IPv6 effectively even using LAMP as it is right this minute (provided your patches are up to date). You just need to store the addresses in integer form and do the bit shifting in MySQL. It's quite fast.
A couple of years ago it was tough to deal with IPv4 addresses in php because php treated the 32nd bit as the -/+ when doing bitwise operations, so if you worked with a number that used the 32nd bit, and you were using bitwise operators, you got some strange results. I'm not sure if they've fixed the bitwise operators to deal with arbitrary length integers yet.
MySQL already supports 64-bit bit operations
I dealt with it in stored procedures and never looked back... Of course you need to be in the right half of the 10 types of people because if you don't understand binary you won't get far:-)
Isn't Itanium EOL'd or soon will be? Microsoft and some linux distros have already sunsetted it from a OS standpoint.
I agree though, x86 needs to die. We need to clean house and start over. It will suck but it needs to happen in order to move general purpose computing forward.
actually you can get around 15hp more with a cold air intake and tuning, 425HP out of a 3V 4.6 liter Ford engine safely with a supercharger.
It's not mine any more tho. I sold it due to divorce related attorney expenses and will be picking up a new 5.0 GT premium around this time next year when I don't have a lawyer sucking me dry any more, pay off my daily commuter (2010 focus, 9k left on loan), and finish rehabbing my house.
It's not the fastest car on the block but it's cheap and for the money, extremely hard to beat out of the box for that price.
The point I was trying to reiterate from the parent is that cars are more efficient now when compared to their 1970 counterpart, hp for hp.
I know mustangs and it wasn't 3/4 plate steel. More like 20 gauge sheet metal (.036");). Even the stamped frame members were 16 gauge. The only lead used in it was used to solder electrical connections and possibly body panel repairs.
I'd be surprised if newer cars were better than 24 gauge on the sheet metal. I agree the old cars were tanks. Never said they weren't.
I also know how much HP you can get out of a 458 polished, ported, bored, roller rockers, beefy main bearings, beefy connecting rods, and performance pistons, when supercharged. It's nuts. Never said it wasn't.
I'm 41 and grew up in a motor-head family. I know all about 1950's-1970's hot rods, both British and American. I've owned a few myself, including a souped up 1963 Jaguar Mk II 3.8s (3 carb, DOHC, 4 wheel disk brakes, 6.6 second 0-60 stock, quite an achievement for 1963 for a 4 door luxury car or "saloon" as the Brits called them), a 1970 n 1/2 z 28, and several Chevelles. Dad liked the big Austin Healys (100-4, 100-6 and 3000) and Corvettes. Little bro liked the MG's and turbo corvairs.
I've rebuilt transmissions, engines, done body work and rewired cars. I've welded exhaust systems together and bent my own pipe for the jag (though I bought the header), and done the machinist work. I am a car hacker. I was a certified machinist at age 18.
Again I was talking about fuel economy "out of the box" comparing now to then.
court records have always been public. You can now search them. Just put anyone's name into the search and you can find their entire legal history, look up the property they own (hence their address).
There is no privacy. On the flipside, a potential spouse or employer should be able to find out what they are getting into before they engage someone by searching court records for criminal convictions.
I do believe that property records should require a good reason to be accessible (such as title search). It's too easy for any random sicko to find out where someone lives just because they own property. My GF was recently assaulted by someone that looked her up from her name on facebook and decided to assault and rape her at her house one night. Luckily she got a call off to 911 and the cops got there as he was tearing her clothes off after he beat the snot out of her.
He found her address through property records within the court system. That is pretty fucked up that any random sick bastard can get this kind of information with nothing more than a name and a picture and hunt you down through the court system when you don't even have a criminal record. She has disabled her facebook acct, but jesus christ.
Feel free to add this to your list of legitimate reasons why no gov record privacy is a bad thing.
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If you worked with the idiot crybabies I worked with in the steelworker's union, you'd hate unions too.
I've never met a group of losers quite like that. The fact that they kept their jobs because of the union is enough to turn me against unions for life. I got singled out in the shop I was in because my starting wage in 1989 was higher than theirs was in 1960. It drove them CRAZY. It's all they ever talked about. Several of them tried to knock me into mills I was running and cause me to get maimed.
I didn't set the fucking wage, the damned union did. Yet they acted like I did something to fuck them over.
Unions need to go. Their time has come and gone. I was 19 at the time. That experience made me decide to go back to college. That's what unions are good for, so you join one and realize you need to do anything you can to not have to work in a union job.
Thank god there are no IT unions. I'd clean bathrooms before I worked in an IT union. Unions are nothing but worker communism put in place so people that suck can't get fired.
Amen. Republican, democrat, _whatever_, if they've been there more than one term, they need to get voted out.
There are people that have been senators for 30 years and it's bullshit. Look where it's taking us. The crotch-rot is destroying this country. They establish relationships with big business, get on the take and Washington is rotten to the core because of it. VOTE THEM OUT.
This isn't a problem with just the republicans or democrats, it's ALL of them, from Pelosi to McCain.
That's because in a few weeks, months, years (whenever the bubble bursts) the value of gold will fall through the floor and since US dollars are not on the gold standard, the value of the dollars you gave them will actually go up significantly compared to where the value was when you bought their overpriced gold, once the bubble bursts.
I will be ready to buy gold by the pound for next to nothing (compared to right now) when that happens.
The easiest way to know when not to buy gold, is when there are ads covering news channels, magazines, newspapers and every other media telling you to BUY GOLD NOW. If it was a great time to buy gold, people would be buying it themselves and not advertising the fact.
He supressed them through years of practice and effort. Remember, he is half human...
With a lot of media, it's kind of pointless to burn it. Most downloadable movies expire in 30-45 days from fee based services. Even games call home to see if the download is still valid.
I will never buy another PC game download. I bought NWN2 this way. 3 months later my machine died so I built a new one, and the download would no longer install. Apparently the game generates a signature of your machine and phones home with it.
I will never buy a movie download, outside of monthly fee based rentals like netflix.
Fuck that... Give me packaged DVD/BluRays or I don't want it. Crap happens and I don't like getting gyped out of $60 because I upgrade my computer or have a hard drive failure.
>then the iOS has roughly 47% of the mobile market, which is probably the biggest single slice of that pie.
web traffic is not indicative of mobile market penetration. It's only indicative of mobile web traffic.
There are a lot of smartphone users that only use their phones for email. A lot of older folks and non technical people fit into this category.
For market penetration you need to look at sales of mobile devices, not web traffic. The numbers may or may not add up to be the same.
I can say that there are 3 blackberry users sitting within 20 feet of me here at the office. They only use their phones for SMS and email. They've told me as much. They don't even know how to open the web browser. I am a programmer that has an iPhone. I open web sites on it no less than 20 times a day.
No one gives a shit what steve jobs thinks except steve jobs and his legion of worshippers, aka 1.1% of the population.
To his credit, he is probably right about html5 video. as people's flash licenses expire, and browser support becomes ubiquitous, content providers may switch to html5 video to simply avoid paying adobe, and skip dealing with adobe's security flaws.
For now he needs to add flash to his operating systems. There's no way he'll force adoption by himself, though he may claim he's responsible in steve-o fantasy land after support becomes wide spread, like Algor did with the internet. His worshippers will cheer him.
Actually Windows 7 does run well on low-powered hardware (within reason), far better than Vista did/does. You can strip Windows 7 down pretty well by disabling the unnecessary crap, optimizing the page file and caching scheme, and turning off the desktop eye candy, killing services you don't use, etc.
It runs comparably well to XP if you do the same thing on XP.
Windows 7 starter edition will run on a 400Mhz pentium III(?). Not as well as linux will, but you can do it:
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=3236969&pn=1
Gaming on something like this with Crysis? I think not.
I agree that windows 7 doesn't suck. It's definitely better than Vista or XP ever was. I work on linux OS for a living, as a software developer, but I'm not an evangelist one way or the other. For gaming, I like the fact that you can just install games and not need fuss with it, tweak out WINE for hours etc to get things to work right.
When I get home from work I just want to kill shit, not need to figure out why my mouse cursor disappears in my favorite game client, patch WINE and recompile it to fix the problem, then make sure to use git properly when I'm getting the latest WINE sources, so I don't blow away my patches. I've been there, done it, got the T-Shirt. Gimme my Windows for gaming.
To be fair, during the xp years, gaming on xp could be a bitch. Then again the hardware was horrendous when multi core cpus first came out. The interrupt controllers were broken on multicore nVidia chipsets etc. I had just as many problems using WINE, since the kernel used to KP on bad chipsets before the kernel crew replaced the hardware interrupt timer with a software one.
Games run a lot better these days... The chipsets are far better now than they were in 2004.
Not really. MS won't support it on XP because they are trying to get gamers to buy Windows 7ista. I'm sure the Windows 7 support for DX11 will be on par with the linux support.
*note I'm not a windows fanboi, I just happen to have a firm grasp of reality. I do game on windows, but my development work is entirely FOSS based on linux systems.
Yea! Fuck them!
Gimmah HTML5!
(3 months later)
WTF! My bank account is drained and I can't send email any more! I want my mommy!
... they could simply ask Ceiling Cat to create a new galaxy and record it on IMAX.
I used to pay $5 (off peak) to $22.50(peak) an hour to use compuserve at 300baud (that's a little less than 1/3 of 1kbps for those that don't know what 300 baud means)
I think the prices have come down a bit. (no pun intended)
Granted that wasn't internet service, but the end result (communication and finding information using a computer) was comparable.
My mom was PISSED when she got that first bill. I was 13 and didn't realize what I was doing.
It's called payola. Pay off some politicians and you can do whatever you like.
>so you're going to have to make allowances for electronic devices like dictionaries if you ban electronics from testing sites.
No you don't.
Ever hear of a paper dictionary? That's what we used back in the stone age. You can still buy them. You allow electronic dictionaries, the students will find a way to hide ways to cheat in them. When I was in college there were no electronic dictionaries. You used a book.
http://www.amazon.com/Berlitz-Korean-Dictionary-Korean-English-English-Korean/dp/9812680217/ref=pd_cp_b_1
IMHO if they can't be bothered to learn the language before spending the money to come to a US university, maybe they don't deserve to be there in the first place.
As an aside, you can still buy dictionaries on paper you know...
They'll learn the language, if for nothing else, because it's a PITA to find stuff in a real book. Electronic dictionaries breed laziness. I suggest making them buy paper dictionaries. Foreign students in US universities got along fine before there were laptops and ipods. I know because I was there.
There's way too much opportunity to cheat afforded by letting them bring computers into exams and you can't exactly let just foreign students bring them.
... that the US was technologically inferior to Europe and Asia. That we were behind in technology.
Now all of a sudden the world needs our chips? Our technologically inferior chips?
Who knew?
>But that doesn't mean that private actions can't limit freedom of speech. This private action decidedly does - it's a decision to limit expression based on its content. The fact that this ISP has both the legal right (assuming the contract is in order) and, to many, the moral right to do this does not mean that the decision does not limit free speech.
No it doesn't! He is still free to burn Qurans and free to exercise his right to free speech. However he may or may not be allowed to exercise his right in a privately owned venue, which is what rackspace is. I sure as hell don't want him doing it in my house either. I don't want him doing it in front of my house either, but I couldn't stop him if he got the permits.
He could burn the books and protest in front of rackspace's headquarters if he wanted to, and got the permits. They can't stop him from exercising his right to free speech.
I'll say it again and louder, SECURITY SECURITY SECURITY
teach them about firewalls, anti-virus, no-script, dialers, drive bys, email links, phishing, trojans, malware, wireless security, passwords, chat rooms, pervs etc etc.
If their computer is useless because it's the computing equivalent of a contaminated petri dish, the rest of it doesn't matter.
An entire year should be devoted to security, and should be done first before anything else is done. It needs to be drilled into their heads that their financial, legal, physical, and technological well being is dependent on being secure, keeping the crap out of their environment, not disclosing personal info (like addresses and phone numbers), and otherwise treading carefully.
If they meet some perv in a chat room and become a statistic, or post their address online and disappear, the internet wasn't very good for them now was it?
Security is THE most important stuff they need to know about the internet.
For the sake of all that is holy, teach them this stuff first. Security is your biggest priority in technology education. It should come first before anything else, taught as it's own subject, and then reiterated and applied every time you teach them about another internet technology.
>>but with the advancement in tools to help us navigate more effectivily, who really wants to take an old school map with them.
If you rely on a GPS to do anything more risky than get you to your grandmothers house or a job interview, and don't have a compass and map (and know how to use them), you *are* one of the stupid people
What happens if you get mugged (by a bear or a person) and lose the toy? What if the GPS gets wet and really isn't waterproof? What if you slip, fall, and break the device on a pointy rock? What if the new batteries you put in it, and the spares you brought, were 90% dead because they sat on the floor in a corner of a store for 18 months before someone noticed them and hung them in the battery aisle?
If you are in the middle of nowhere, and there's 359 degrees of nothing for 50 miles around you, you are dead and will end up on a milk carton, especially in a place like Yosemite or the Rocky Mountains.
It's not smart to allow an electronic device to be your lifeline, without non-electronic backup. They can and often do fail, for various reasons. A laminated map and an old school compass are basically indestructible and can't fail. They also aren't in high demand by thieves and together cost less than $30. This is usually what you pay for gas to get to a cool location for hiking. Don't go out on or off an unfamiliar trail without them.
A compass and a map are the cheapest insurance you can buy. They're also 100% reliable if you take a few hours to learn how to use them. They don't require batteries, don't have buggy software, will still work if you get them wet, and no one wants to steal them.
We're already required to have automobile insurance, whether we drive 10 miles a year, or 100000, **or enough money in a bank account to cover the minimum amount required by law.
Rather than require insurance, make it optional. However require them to pay for their rescue. If they aren't insured, they pay out of pocket, just like the way medical insurance used to work. If they don't pay they get their wages garnished.
That way only the idiots that should have never went hiking, did something stupid, and were unprepared need to pay. The people that know what they are doing don't pay anything. Everyone is happy but the idiots, that don't belong there in the first place.
Rescue from a genuine emergency, such as a landslide, should be free. "I'm lost", or "I forgot my water" is not an emergency.
MySQL folks adding a 128 bit numeric data type would be a start. BIGINT is only 64 bit.
I store IPv4 as INT(32) in the database so I can do bit shifting operations on the addresses for address calculations and searching subnets (or pulling addresses based on subnet and CIDR). PHP supports arbitrary length integers, though I've never tested the limits. They probably depend on the OS.
However, these limitations can be gotten around by storing the subnet and host address in different fields (each is 64 bit).
Net::IPv6 already supports splitting them into their requisite parts, sort of.
[subnet][address] as an example of field names.
As long as your LAMP systems are 64 bit, I don't see a reason why you couldn't deal with IPv6 effectively even using LAMP as it is right this minute (provided your patches are up to date). You just need to store the addresses in integer form and do the bit shifting in MySQL. It's quite fast.
A couple of years ago it was tough to deal with IPv4 addresses in php because php treated the 32nd bit as the -/+ when doing bitwise operations, so if you worked with a number that used the 32nd bit, and you were using bitwise operators, you got some strange results. I'm not sure if they've fixed the bitwise operators to deal with arbitrary length integers yet.
MySQL already supports 64-bit bit operations
I dealt with it in stored procedures and never looked back... Of course you need to be in the right half of the 10 types of people because if you don't understand binary you won't get far :-)
Isn't Itanium EOL'd or soon will be? Microsoft and some linux distros have already sunsetted it from a OS standpoint.
I agree though, x86 needs to die. We need to clean house and start over. It will suck but it needs to happen in order to move general purpose computing forward.
actually you can get around 15hp more with a cold air intake and tuning, 425HP out of a 3V 4.6 liter Ford engine safely with a supercharger.
It's not mine any more tho. I sold it due to divorce related attorney expenses and will be picking up a new 5.0 GT premium around this time next year when I don't have a lawyer sucking me dry any more, pay off my daily commuter (2010 focus, 9k left on loan), and finish rehabbing my house.
It's not the fastest car on the block but it's cheap and for the money, extremely hard to beat out of the box for that price.
The point I was trying to reiterate from the parent is that cars are more efficient now when compared to their 1970 counterpart, hp for hp.
I know mustangs and it wasn't 3/4 plate steel. More like 20 gauge sheet metal (.036") ;). Even the stamped frame members were 16 gauge. The only lead used in it was used to solder electrical connections and possibly body panel repairs.
I'd be surprised if newer cars were better than 24 gauge on the sheet metal. I agree the old cars were tanks. Never said they weren't.
I also know how much HP you can get out of a 458 polished, ported, bored, roller rockers, beefy main bearings, beefy connecting rods, and performance pistons, when supercharged. It's nuts. Never said it wasn't.
I'm 41 and grew up in a motor-head family. I know all about 1950's-1970's hot rods, both British and American. I've owned a few myself, including a souped up 1963 Jaguar Mk II 3.8s (3 carb, DOHC, 4 wheel disk brakes, 6.6 second 0-60 stock, quite an achievement for 1963 for a 4 door luxury car or "saloon" as the Brits called them), a 1970 n 1/2 z 28, and several Chevelles. Dad liked the big Austin Healys (100-4, 100-6 and 3000) and Corvettes. Little bro liked the MG's and turbo corvairs.
I've rebuilt transmissions, engines, done body work and rewired cars. I've welded exhaust systems together and bent my own pipe for the jag (though I bought the header), and done the machinist work. I am a car hacker. I was a certified machinist at age 18.
Again I was talking about fuel economy "out of the box" comparing now to then.
I don't need the history lesson, but thanks.
My 2007 mustang GT got 31mpg on the highway and has 300hp. Back in 1970 a 300hp mustang required 458 cubic inches and got 12mpg.
court records have always been public.
You can now search them. Just put anyone's name into the search and you can find their entire legal history, look up the property they own (hence their address).
There is no privacy. On the flipside, a potential spouse or employer should be able to find out what they are getting into before they engage someone by searching court records for criminal convictions.
I do believe that property records should require a good reason to be accessible (such as title search). It's too easy for any random sicko to find out where someone lives just because they own property. My GF was recently assaulted by someone that looked her up from her name on facebook and decided to assault and rape her at her house one night. Luckily she got a call off to 911 and the cops got there as he was tearing her clothes off after he beat the snot out of her.
He found her address through property records within the court system. That is pretty fucked up that any random sick bastard can get this kind of information with nothing more than a name and a picture and hunt you down through the court system when you don't even have a criminal record. She has disabled her facebook acct, but jesus christ.
Feel free to add this to your list of legitimate reasons why no gov record privacy is a bad thing.