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The Frontal Cortex - http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/
1.8-rc1 has already been tagged in svn and I'm sure the final version will be ready in time :)
The article is from 1998 and the benchmarks were done on Win95. The CPU was a 200MHz Pentium MMX.
"8. Keeping track of current releases
Important new releases, programs, and ports are usually announced in comp.os.linux.announce. finger torvalds@klaava.helsinki.fi or finger @linux.cs.helsinki.fi to get some information about the current kernel."
Lousy article behind a sensationalist title.
"Each weekend morning, my process is this: I wake up, walk upstairs, sit down at the computer, and figure out what is happening on the planet. Once I'm comfortable that the sky is not falling, I walk to the kitchen, grind my coffee beans, and begin to boil water. While the water is heating up, I return to my computer and follow up on whatever tidbits tickled my fancy from my first pass. This morning, it was some font research, followed by looking into options for wireless headphones. Turns out, Sony sucks. Go figure. Water's boiling! Back to the kitchen, where I pour hot water into my French press and dig up my favorite ceramic cup. The coffee needs to sit for three minutes, which means back to the computer! OK, so why do Sony headphones suck? Poor sound quality? Bad design? Bit of both, really. Coffee's ready, so one more trip to the kitchen, where I pour the steaming brew into my favorite cup and travel, once more, back to my cave.
It looks like a lot of work, but I do it instinctively. It's a routine designed to do one thing — get me into the zone."
Quote taken from http://my.safaribooksonline.com/9781590598443/the_zone
Edit: I tried it with Firefox and it does indeed use the default font until the new one is downloaded. The transition is not nice but better than nothing.
That is not true. It won't be possible to access the website.
Edit: ... by just clicking the warning away.
I still don't understand why this is wrong. It's their os, let them do whatever they want with it. There are other operating systems around. They don't need to use Windows.
I've heard designers getting angry about this. Is there really such a big difference?
You can grab the latest nighly build for OS X here: http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/sub-rel-mac/
It works pretty well and the UI is great. However, there are still some features missing, like the ability to delete bookmarks.