they only know their mother tongue and normally aren't tought any second language
I'm not that sure it's all about the language. There are other countries using english as their offical language, like england, canada and australia. But I never meet that many people from these countries who would even think about being superior in one way or another to others parts of the world in a way many north (some? most? )american natives seem to do.
It should be as easist for americans as for nobody else to keep themselves well informed about the rest of the world simply *because* 90% of the relevant worldwide information is created and broadcasted in english. Why is it then that it always occurs to me that non-americans seem to put alot more energy in respecting other people's cultural contexts?
Ok, enough said. I'm not intending a flame war nor do I believe all US folk are like this, so please forgive me;) Let's get back to work.
Unbelievable ! The post shows exactly why so much people outside of the US blame americans for this "couldn't care less about everything else" attitude. Do you really believe everybody is so ignorant to the rest of the world ? My native tongue is german and yeah, I'm definitly reading non-german websites on a daily basis. I'm browsing slashdot, most result of google are english websites, I'm skimming through japanese websites for ruby stuff, I'm posting to chinese and tibetian webforums about human rights issues...
I normally don't believe the fuss about all (north) americans being narrow-minded patriotic morons, but posts like this always makes me wondering if there's at least some truth about it.
I tried that option before, it results in an ugly font with characters looking like badly scaled:( Why isn't there any possibility to turn off libxft completly ? I'd like to have my fonts the same way xterm displayes them (just as an example...)
Does anybody know how to REALLY turn off font antialiasing in FC3 ? With RH9 a GDK_USE_XFT=0 did the trick for GTK, but I never managed to turn off libxft in QT. And with FC3, even the GDK_USE_XFT=0 doesn't work any longer...
Antialising just plain sucks if used on modern LC displays, but apparently nobody except myself seems to care (an extensive googling didn't get me a solution:(
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they only know their mother tongue and normally aren't tought any second language
;) Let's get back to work.
I'm not that sure it's all about the language. There are other countries using english as
their offical language, like england, canada and australia. But I never meet that many
people from these countries who would even think about being superior in one way or another
to others parts of the world in a way many north (some? most? )american natives seem to do.
It should be as easist for americans as for nobody else to keep themselves well informed
about the rest of the world simply *because* 90% of the relevant worldwide information
is created and broadcasted in english. Why is it then that it always occurs to me that
non-americans seem to put alot more energy in respecting other people's cultural contexts?
Ok, enough said. I'm not intending a flame war nor do I believe all US folk are like
this, so please forgive me
Unbelievable ! The post shows exactly why so much people
outside of the US blame americans for this "couldn't care
less about everything else" attitude. Do you really believe
everybody is so ignorant to the rest of the world ? My native
tongue is german and yeah, I'm definitly reading non-german
websites on a daily basis. I'm browsing slashdot, most result
of google are english websites, I'm skimming through japanese
websites for ruby stuff, I'm posting to chinese and tibetian
webforums about human rights issues...
I normally don't believe the fuss about all (north) americans
being narrow-minded patriotic morons, but posts like this
always makes me wondering if there's at least some truth about
it.
Go to Preferences -> Fonts
:( Why isn't there any possibility to
Pick "Monochrome" for Font Rendering.
I tried that option before, it results in an
ugly font with characters looking like badly
scaled
turn off libxft completly ? I'd like to have my
fonts the same way xterm displayes them (just as an
example...)
Does anybody know how to REALLY turn off font antialiasing in FC3 ? With RH9
:(
a GDK_USE_XFT=0 did the trick for GTK, but I never managed to turn off libxft in QT.
And with FC3, even the GDK_USE_XFT=0 doesn't work any longer...
Antialising just plain sucks if used on modern LC displays, but apparently nobody
except myself seems to care (an extensive googling didn't get me a solution