This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them.
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When it gets down to it — talking trade balances here — once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here — once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel — once the Invisible Hand has taken away all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity — y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else:
music
movies
microcode (software)
high-speed pizza delivery
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And don't forget that maybe some Chinese dude has problem with typing English (although I think most keyboards all around the world do keep ASCII letters and base ASCII punctuation at least, so there's that at least today...)
Phonetic entry using pinyin is still the most common method, which has been greatly sped up with predictive text like on cell phones, so the most common characters can be entered with a few keystrokes. Google Pinyn in this regard is, as the kid's say, the shiznit.
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COTTONMOUTH: (see image at right) A family of modified USB and Ethernet connectors that can be used to install Trojan horse software and work as wireless bridges, providing covert remote access to the target machine.[18] COTTONMOUTH-I is a USB plug that uses TRINITY as digital core and HOWLERMONKEY as RF transceiver. Cost in 2008 was slightly above $1M for 50 units.
So AudioQuest has been working with the NSA this whole time?
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What ever you want is going to cost a little more than it is worth. -- The Second Law Of Thermodynamics
