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Xfel, on 03 October 2012 - 07:34 AM, said:

And you are wrong, java integers take 4 byte. And a string takes for byte for the length integer and two byte for each character.

Well it would help if that were better documented.
But this just makes the point clearer, all that flying around, you could easily just treat the bits as booleans and you'd easily manage the data transfer with minimal extra network traffic compared to what's already involved.
And I must say, they are right about Java, it is incredibly verbose compared to other languages.
Also I'm assuming that's meant to say 'a string takes four bytes for the length integer' instead of 'a string takes for byte for the length integer'.

immibis, on 03 October 2012 - 02:22 AM, said:

You can't do very much in 8x8 pixels.

No, you can't, but it's better than nothing. You could probably go up to 32x32 and not notice any major traffic, maybe even more.

Unless of course you were stupid enough to make a massive grid of computers and have them all constantly changing pixels at once, but it's like creating a fort of tnt and lighting it, you know it's stupid and only do it in the case that you are trying to be stupid on purpose.