In linux, the zoom preferences are stored in the file ~/.config/chromium/Default/Preferences . Making the default directory non-writable by the user will prevent the zoom level (and whatever else) from being stored.
I am a physicist.
At 99.999998% the speed of light, the trip to Alpha Centauri would only take about 7 hours for those on the ship. For those on earth, it would still seem like 4.37 years. So it wouldn't help with interstellar commerce to go so fast, but for the purposes of colonization the extra speed makes a huge difference.
I owned one of the original Iliad models. Unfortunately, the screen broke after putting it in the flap on the back of an airplane seat. The one thing that was really nice about the Iliad was the ability to take notes with a stylus.
But I'm very happy with my Kindle DX now. The connectivity and the kindle store are just great. I wish it had a touchscreen, though. Also, although one transfer files to it over USB, the included web browser doesn't allow downloads of PDF files. It is annoying to have to use my laptop to download articles from arxiv and transfer them to the Kindle. Hopefully this can be changed now that there it a dev kit out.
The main reason is the E-ink display, which looks much crisper than lcd. I find my eyes don't get as tired reading the E-ink as when reading on an lcd. Also, the battery life is very long, as energy is only used when changing the page, and not when keeping a static image displayed. It is also very light and easy to carry around.
Part of the Acid3 failure comes from the inability to render SVG fonts and webfonts. Opera and Webkit browsers (Chrome, Safari, Arora) support font embedding. This is a nice feature that could make web pages look much better (especially for math formatting, but let your imagination fly). Unfortunately, the large market share of Firefox is holding webfonts back. (Yes I know IE is much worse).
-Robustness. For field work a display that is inherently bendable is potentially less likely to break.
This is useful not only for field work, but also for day to day work as well. My Iliad screen cracked just by putting it the pouch on the back of the seat in front of me on an airplane.
I thought that the E-reader from Plastic Logic (http://www.plasticlogic.com/) was supposed to be flexible, though.
Here at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven Lab, for large-scale data analysis at plotting we use the open-source C++ framework ROOT (root.cern.ch). ROOT is also used at the LHC.
For hardware related tasks the needs of experimental physicists are very specific to the task at hand, and we must hand-write most of the code we need. Only for very small-scale projects can software like LabView (yuck) be useful, and there just isn't any open-source equivalent of Labview that I'm aware of.
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In linux, the zoom preferences are stored in the file ~/.config/chromium/Default/Preferences . Making the default directory non-writable by the user will prevent the zoom level (and whatever else) from being stored.
I am a physicist.
At 99.999998% the speed of light, the trip to Alpha Centauri would only take about 7 hours for those on the ship. For those on earth, it would still seem like 4.37 years. So it wouldn't help with interstellar commerce to go so fast, but for the purposes of colonization the extra speed makes a huge difference.
I owned one of the original Iliad models. Unfortunately, the screen broke after putting it in the flap on the back of an airplane seat. The one thing that was really nice about the Iliad was the ability to take notes with a stylus. But I'm very happy with my Kindle DX now. The connectivity and the kindle store are just great. I wish it had a touchscreen, though. Also, although one transfer files to it over USB, the included web browser doesn't allow downloads of PDF files. It is annoying to have to use my laptop to download articles from arxiv and transfer them to the Kindle. Hopefully this can be changed now that there it a dev kit out.
The main reason is the E-ink display, which looks much crisper than lcd. I find my eyes don't get as tired reading the E-ink as when reading on an lcd. Also, the battery life is very long, as energy is only used when changing the page, and not when keeping a static image displayed. It is also very light and easy to carry around.
"Uh", I just tried 3.1 beta 2 running on linux with the webfonts test page: http://www.w3.org/International/tests/test-webfonts-1 Firefox does not render the text as in the reference graphic. Opera does.
Part of the Acid3 failure comes from the inability to render SVG fonts and webfonts. Opera and Webkit browsers (Chrome, Safari, Arora) support font embedding. This is a nice feature that could make web pages look much better (especially for math formatting, but let your imagination fly). Unfortunately, the large market share of Firefox is holding webfonts back. (Yes I know IE is much worse).
-Robustness. For field work a display that is inherently bendable is potentially less likely to break.
This is useful not only for field work, but also for day to day work as well. My Iliad screen cracked just by putting it the pouch on the back of the seat in front of me on an airplane. I thought that the E-reader from Plastic Logic (http://www.plasticlogic.com/) was supposed to be flexible, though.
Here at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven Lab, for large-scale data analysis at plotting we use the open-source C++ framework ROOT (root.cern.ch). ROOT is also used at the LHC. For hardware related tasks the needs of experimental physicists are very specific to the task at hand, and we must hand-write most of the code we need. Only for very small-scale projects can software like LabView (yuck) be useful, and there just isn't any open-source equivalent of Labview that I'm aware of.