The Difference A . Makes

你好？
好。很好。你呢？
我是德国人。
这是我的中文。。。汉语？
Wow. This is something I accidentally found on my newly-installed Linux... SCIM makes entering those hanzi above sooo easy!(Let's see... 汉字。） Well, it's useless if you have no idea which ones should be the right ones in the right place, but still, it's cool it works.

But the topic should rather be... the difference a "." makes.
Suddenly my PiMP2™ became incredibly slow... so slow that I couldn't get a decent sample rate from my Polaris™ camera. And guess what, the reason was... the Evil Dots™. I kept sending "."s in order to be able to detect when communications are lost, but those Evil Dots™ make it impossible to work. They completely - and for reasons unclear to me - clog up the TCP/IP queue, the Qt™ event queue, or anything.

Therefore, I think my thesis is saved, since I can just get rid of them and speed everything up. So, no more "Sorry sir, I couldn't finish my thesis on time because the compiler is too slow"™ and no more "Sorry sir, I couldn't finish my thesis on time because I had the Evil Dots™"™... hooray.