It may seem like renting to you, but unfortunately those licensing terms you agree to when you open a package of new hardware or install a piece of software, are legal.
It is a shame, but if you don't agree to it, don't buy and use the product.
Sony, in this case, has strong reasons for wanting to protect their console. Namely because of the contracts they hold with certain chip makers, and because they are expecting profits from playstation games to offset production costs of the console, of which there are none if people are buying loads of them to run their clusters.
There are a few nice places around Chicago. Have you been to Ten Ren?
Edit: Most of the places in the child comments are great too. I'd personally try to avoid Teavana, though. From my experience, they take low grade teas and sell them for a much higher price for the masses. I've also seen paint come off of some teaware there with little effort.
Perhaps 92% is poor in a lot of scenarios, but for this type of approach it's a good accuracy (within some 1-delta confidence). The unfortunate part is that it really was just a simple naive bayes bag-of-words, and it's not surprising that it did so well on one test case (apple). Extending that to help general NLP in any way would be much more difficult.
And if you can actually input data using the protocol, you can take some standard packets and tweak a byte/short/long at a time and see what changes.
Reversing USB is the same as any protocol on top of TCP is the same as any other protocol, just with different tools.
I wish there were an open source hex editor like Hex Workshop for Windows - one of the features I loved was tagging a section of bytes with comments, and being able to use those same tags across multiple data dumps.
Definitely. .NET is .NET and especially being imperative, VB is mostly just syntactic differences over C#. But neither of those languages are tested on the AP exam ;)
Python is an awesome language, but in a HS class you probably won't get past simple scripting paradigms. If you guys were already CS students with solid programming experience as well as the theory behind it, or if you were just science students wanting to hack around, then python would be a great choice.
However, I think it would be more beneficial if you guys were to learn (sorry) Java and OO knowledge so that you could take the AP test and perhaps save time and money if you decide to move on to college.
Either way, VB.NET would be at the bottom of my list. C# would be great, but the professor might find the C-style coding too overwhelming for the students. And F#, being functional, is probably out of the question for a number of reasons.