Transporting energy has losses , you know , electrical resistance and all that jazz.

If cars never "took off" we wouldn't have _proper_ roads everywhere.

Actually IRC was massively popular in Romania in the 90's. Everybody would hop on dial-up after 8:00 pm when the phone tariffs where lower. It was not just for the technical. Radio stations used to read comments and play tracks requested on IRC.
Undernet was _the_ network of servers to hang on , huge wars took place for control of popular channels. Meanwhile everybody was looking for a "non-free" email account (non yahoo/msn , etc ) so they could register with Undernet and have their ip hidden.
Later on everything moved on to msn and yahoo messenger , the victor being yahoo in the end. Currently facebook seems to rule the masses after everybody migrated off of hi5 or myspace.

Most antibiotics are to be taken just after a meal , when your blood sugar levels are peaking.
However , maybe a little more sugar wouldn't be a bad idea.

Out of my hands , haven't worked there in a while. Anyway , we had them set on top of an UPS just to avoid this kind of crap.

Yep , dead serious.

HP bought 3com ?
We're screwed , 3com switches - never had a problem
Hp procurve switches ? Locking up like it's crazy on the slightest electrical fluctuation , pos hardware.

Not like anybody would've expected that ...no way ...

Bourbon is 40% ABV.
Anything under 50% doesn't really burn directly , I'm curious what he did to make it run.
Perhaps using excess engine heat to separate alcohol evaporating it first from the content.

It's unlikely he'd have 100Mbit on dsl/cable/dialup/wireless and so was probably implying a fttb or ftth connection , therefore low latency

Pardon ?
It's basically games and everything else you could do with the box. If anything some people bought it considering that the gaming abilities aren't "a major function".
A ps3 is what ? 300 euros. If you split that evenly between processing power , games and a blueray player , that's 100 euros per "major function".
Seems right to me.

Neural Network / perceptrons.

access points can't handle more than a few clients. you need a lot of access points for 500 users , and by that time you're getting a lot of interference too.

One high-res digital camera and
A4 papers printed with a large QR code (2d barcode) - unique id and answer number printed in human readable form as well.
Just pass out as many papers as there are answer options (2 , 3 ? ) to the students.
Use a canon 5d mark III or something that can record video as well and ask them to wave the cards around for 5 seconds or something , so you get everyone (in case one card is behind someone else's head).

Of course it's going to be a low budget movie , no exec would ever approve busting open tens of millions of dollars on a movie so they can release it for free and "hope for some buys" without a serious dosage of crack in their coffee.