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Re: Asus EEE unloading USB devices

    Mark> We could use Egyptian Hieroglyphs, except that few people
    Mark> understand them any more.  Icons are no more inherently
    Mark> meaningful than any other abstraction, so have to be learnt.

So, why not use Chinese  characters instead?  They're compact in terms
of  precious  screen  real-estate,  and  billions  of  people  already
understand them.  Only  5 out of 6 people in this  world would need to
learn them, and it's possible to find schools all over the world where
they're taught!


    Mark> Looking them up in manuals is easy, just have a picture in a
    Mark> manual!

Methods for indexing Chinese  characters have existed for thousands of
years.  So, that's not a problem.  :)


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