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yeah their company is defunct, was cool while it lasted, am looking for alternatives... can quicksilver really answer phone calls and more???
Nice application: I love it !
Why do so few people ues this? Does it suck?
Quicksilver is free.
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Most Anticipated Movies of 2012: 'The Dark Knight Rises,' 'The Avengers,' 'Hunger Games,' 'Django Unchained,' 'Breaking Dawn, Pt. 2,' 'Skyfall'
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potty break (guest)Oliver Stone's "Savages" will rock. You've been warned.December 30, 2011 at 2:13AM ESTReply to Comment
Stephen Earnest (guest)What about Friedkin's upcoming KILLER JOE?December 30, 2011 at 2:17AM ESTReply to Comment
CinemaPsychoGlad to see your 2012 list actually features nothing but films that are coming out in 2012.December 30, 2011 at 3:30AM ESTReply to Comment
Shitegeist"Optomistic"? Come on fellas, spell check.December 30, 2011 at 5:03AM ESTReply to Comment
mmcb105The spelling nazi strikes again! How will these guys ever sleep again knowing the misspelled one out of thousands upon thousands of words thatthey have written.December 30, 2011 at 11:32PM EST
mmcb105Ha! I misspelled "they" as "the." Irony. And, no space between that and they? Oh, how I have egg on my face...
Ok, I'm done.December 30, 2011 at 11:36PM EST
Brendan (guest)A great list, though I'm surprised Pixar's Brave didn't make the top 30...it's in my top 5.December 30, 2011 at 5:28AM ESTReply to Comment
M (guest)I'd definitely put The Hobbit ahead of The Avengers. The marvel movies have been more miss than hit, and though The Avengers is no doubt ambitious, I don't know anyone who's all that excited about it. With The Hobbit, I expect people to go pretty crazy as we get close to the premiere date. Remember how it was when the LOTR movies came out? In fact, I'd even put The Hobbit above The Dark Knight Rises, but not by nearly as much.December 30, 2011 at 9:29AM ESTReply to Comment
MrSib (guest)Personally i'd have Aardman's Pirates! in the top 10. Looks like the most entertaning thing to hit cinema screens in years.December 30, 2011 at 10:24AM ESTReply to Comment
Chris138The Dark Knight Rises and The Hobbit are going to be the biggest monsters at the box office next year for sure.December 30, 2011 at 3:58PM ESTReply to Comment
Nicole (guest)Hmmm. Having just read all three Hungrer Games books over Christmas weekend, I wouldnt really describe them as "fun"December 30, 2011 at 7:17PM ESTReply to Comment
Ethan (guest)what about the Expendables 2December 30, 2011 at 9:57PM ESTReply to Comment
Conor Metz (guest)Is it just me or does it look like the fake movie Affleck's trying to make in Argo isn't Argo, but in fact Die Hard with himself playing none other than Hans Gruber?December 30, 2011 at 10:45PM ESTReply to Comment
OK OK (guest)no MIB 3?December 31, 2011 at 2:28PM ESTReply to Comment
pete (guest)um... THE HOBBIT!!!!December 31, 2011 at 8:46PM ESTReply to Comment
Gabriel (guest)I can't fathom wanting to see even one more film more than Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master" - let alone 30.December 31, 2011 at 9:59PM ESTReply to Comment
Sean (guest)Sorry you guys weren't feeling The Tree of Life. Hope Malick gets you with his next one. To me, it was the film of the year.
I wish it had come out later in the year, because it seems to have been forgotten in all the award show buzz (that and the fact that Malick probably wouldn't show up to receive the award).
I really think that films that challenge us should be rewarded. Malick made a film that questioned and tried to rationalize the idea of God within our lives. How many films or filmmakers have the balls and the talent to do that?
Only guys like Kubrick and Scorcese spring to mind. Actually it was interesting how Malick, Scorcese, and Spielberg, all old masters, really seemed to push themselves out of their comfort zones and make pictures that stretched their talents as filmmakers this year. The younger filmmakers can learn from their ambition.
Although The Tree of Life lost its ambiguity at the end (Malick seems to have made up his mind about the whole is there a God thing). I thought it contained the greatest depiction of childhood I'd ever seen put to film. A totally unromanticized version of childhood. Absolutely brilliant.
I can't say I'm stoked for The Hunger Games, but I'll always give Gary Ross the benefit of the doubt. Pleasantville is one of the greatest films to come out of the 90's.December 31, 2011 at 10:18PM ESTReply to Comment
coltaine777 (guest)The Hobbit behind the Avengers is crazy and trust it will blow away the Dark Knight at the boxoffice too...have you not seen the youtube view totals on the trailer...I`m excited to see the new Batman but it`s not close to my excitement for the Hobbit..January 1, 2012 at 2:05PM ESTReply to Comment
Jo (guest)Wait. Lust, Caution was a disapointment? I'd chalk that one up as a masterpiece too.January 2, 2012 at 8:12AM ESTReply to Comment
Knative (guest)I think Cloud Atlas, Django, and The Dark Knight Rises would be my picks.
What about Rust and Bone? It's a Jacques Audiard movie about amputees. Gangster Squad, On The Road, Stoker, Looper, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World? You should have made a list with 50 titles, because there is a lot of interesting-sounding movies coming out.January 2, 2012 at 10:36PM ESTReply to Comment
Star (guest)Calling Hunger Games "good solid pulp fun" makes me wonder whether Drew actually read the books. It's a ridiculous description.January 3, 2012 at 12:11PM ESTReply to Comment
danny_connanhopefully during THE BREAKING DAWN in THE HUNGER GAMES THE DARK KNIGHT will gight THE AVENGERS in an SKYFALLFebruary 29, 2012 at 11:52AM ESTReply to Comment
fallsohard (guest)Django, Great Gatsby, World War Z, Only God Forgives, and BatmanApril 16, 2012 at 3:11PM ESTReply to Comment
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That Wembley Stadium victory isn't a lock, or so the 49ers players and coaches have insisted all week despite Sunday's winless opponent, the Jacksonville Jaguars.
"It'll be a lot of fun, but this game will tell a lot about us as a team, because the Jaguars are coming in and they're not a bad team," 49ers tight end Vernon Davis said. "There's not a bad team in the NFL, and that's what I want everyone to know."
Sell it, Vernon. Sell it. Sell it. The NFL wants to put on a competitive-enough show to draw further global interest, especially in England.
The 49ers-Jaguars tilt marks the second game in a month here, following the Minnesota Vikings' 34-27 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers in a Sept. 29 meeting of winless teams. This is the first year the NFL has played two games in London. Three games will be exported next year, including a Raiders-Dolphins matchup and one involving the Jaguars, who've designated a home game for London each of the next four seasons.
If the Jaguars wanted to enhance their profile in England, the 49ers sure helped with hyperbolic praise of their opponent all week.
"We were just watching film and honestly one of my questions was, 'How are they still 0-7?' " linebacker Patrick Willis said. "I try not to pay attention to win/loss when we're facing a team. But the more I look at them on film, wow, they have some playmakers."
Although Bay Area product Maurice Jones-Drew remains the Jaguars' offensive centerpiece, Chad Henne -- who's unseated Blaine Gabbert as the starting quarterback -- will be trying to connect with second-year wideout Justin Blackmon.
Suspended the first four games, Blackmon is averaging 128 yards receiving over three games.
"They've made a lot of improvements here in the last few weeks," defensive coordinator Vic Fangio said. "The evidence is on the tape when you watch it. And then the evidence is on paper when you look at their stats."
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"We're trailing Seattle right now, so our mindset is we've got to get this one," defensive tackle Justin Smith said. "We're close, but we're behind. Motivation shouldn't be a factor."
Nor should it be for the winless Jaguars.
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peta supporting Burger King
so what's everyone think of Peta promoting veggie burgers at Burger King?
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a step back
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Pro, because it is nice to finally see fast food that i could eat.
But then again, they are supporting a company that promotes big beef pattys & crap... so then again... i don't know.
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well look at the promotional aspect... this could bring your cause to a greater amount of people
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I can't agree.
It's worth it to show positive encouragement of these products. They keep track of how many veggie burgers they buy. Then if they find that presenting a viable alternative is worth money, they'll pursue it. That's the goal, is it not? I mean...I definately see where you're coming from...I wouldn't stop doing what I've been doing lately:
Go through the drive through of your local McDonald's or Burger King and order some french fries and an obscure burger WITHOUT meat (I choose a big mac with extra pickels, add ketchup and mustard, extra lettuce and no onion - hold the meat). When you get home, call them and complain that they screwed up your order (they probably did anyway...). They have coupons that they mail unhappy drive-through customers for:
Any size free soda
Any size free burger
Any size free fries
Take this coupon to the next cloned building with the same insignia and cash it in for the most expensive items you can find - but don't buy anything extra giving them any extra money (yes, these coupons include tax).
Take the burger and DO NOT LOSE EYE CONTACT WITH THE MAN WHO GAVE IT TO YOU. STARE AT HIM AND FORCE HIS ATTENTION AS YOU SLOWLY WALK TOWARDS THE GARBAGE CAN. THROW THE MCCOLONCANCER MEAL AWAY AND LEAVE. Still staring, of course.
Whatever. I'm bored. That rarely happens.
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Fri Oct 25, 2002 6:38 pm
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shane- nice to see you support economic sabotage! seriously. but i think that them offering veggie burgers is a good option for their customers. i am not one of them though. but i can see people who go there trying them and that being a step in the right direction, exposing new people to meat alternatives everyday. but i don't agree with Peta supporting them. at least not them specifically. it's just kinda weird.
gotta go catch a movie, i'll add more later.
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have you tasted the veggie whopper......yech
all about Garden brand biyatch....
and Boca sucks the fat one too.
peta's crazy
Sat Oct 26, 2002 3:13 am
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I can't believe you people.
You are all self-rightous, spoiled assholes.
You order shit from a restaurant, then throw it out just to piss of the establishment? I'm glad you don't like meat, but maybe some people do, and maybe some people don't have a choice. Why not take your free burger and give it to a homeless person?
There are humans dying of hunger all over the world, and you're bent out of shape because some cows and sheep are getting killed for food? Personally, I wish more cows and sheep could get killed so we could provide free food to the poor.
Why are vegans and straight edgers such pushy assholes when it comes to their beliefs?
Sat Oct 26, 2002 10:39 am
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further evidence that vegetarianism, as typified by most of its american practicioners and liberal advocacy groups like peta, is mere feel-good lifestyle moralism offers little vision for a qualitative break from a generally exploitative [of all species] way of life.
peta is to animal liberation as the naacp is to black liberation. both kowtowing to big business so much that any
marginally positive
effects they had in the beginning are eclipsed by shallow feelgood politics. now vegetarians- target audience- can maintain a moral highground with the utmost convenience in a blissfully ignorant, monocultural, environmentally destructive, and [same as it ever was] animal exploitative fast food environment.
william hazlitt, as we know, wrote that "man is the only animal that laughs."* if the other creatures could, they'd laugh at peta for their utter irresponsibility and ineffectiveness.
oh yeah and peta could've atleast made them make their bread vegan before endorsing their sandwich. weak!
*several other animals laugh but the quote works.
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flogg - sit back, snarf a burger and chill out.
right on icarus.
Sat Oct 26, 2002 10:52 am
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you're a cunt. the lack of aminos and protein has clearly taken its toll on you.
i don't care if you're a vegetarian or vegan. that's perfectly fine-- your lifestyle is your choice. but why do you care so much about other people? why impose your ridiculous beliefs on others? who cares if not eating meat makes people happy, even if they are supporting a big evil corporation? do you honestly think that if you cry enough about it, these evil corporations will go away? at least these "feel good" groups are making people feel good about themselves, as superficial as they are. like, what more do you want than a lot of people feeling good? that's awesome, and i commend peta for making people a little bit happier about what they are eating, even though i completely disagree with vegetarianism.
get a life.
Sat Oct 26, 2002 10:57 am
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you are beneath comment.
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i'm perfectly cool with you being a vegan. how come vegans can't be cool about other people eating meat?
and why is this question so beneath your comment?
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I am Vegan and I have always thought Peta is more or less a self rightiouse hypocritical crock of shit.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. -- "It was, on its face, a victory for the administration, but what a lot of people aren't talking about, and what time will slowly reveal, is that the Supreme Court actually did what we asked them to do," said South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson.
Attorney General Wilson and former South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster don't see the Supreme Court's landmark decision as a defeat.
"The Supreme Court curbed the power that the Congress was seeking to reach for itself under the Commerce Clause," Wilson said.
In an exclusive interview, Wilson said the court actually slapped President Barack Obama on the wrist. The court ruled "Obamacare" would be unconstitutional under the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution. It's a clause regulating financial interaction between the states. Instead, the court said the mandate to require all Americans to have health insurance was constitutional as a tax.
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Yum! I love the veggie sandwiches at Subway.
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The Subway sandwich sound good.
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Love Panera bread.
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i cant believe mcdonalds was on the list with a big n tasty hmmmmmmmmmmm
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The Panera grilled chicken salad sounds tasty. I wouldn't suggest McDonald's or any other fast food place for that matter if you're looking for healthy options. Even the salads they make are loaded with sugar, which defeats the purpose. Plus, who can resist those fries? mmm.
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Bailey awaits word on New Mexico State job
Published: Friday, May 3, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, May 2, 2013 at 11:43 p.m.
The New Mexico State University regents will announce the school's choice for president at 4 p.m. Monday, according to the Las Cruces News-Journal's website.
Guy Bailey, a former University of Alabama president, is one of five finalists for the New Mexico State job.
The website says that the New Mexico State regents plan to make an offer to the selected candidate today, conduct negotiations over the weekend and announce the new president on Monday.
Bailey came to UA after serving as president of Texas Tech University in Lubbock. He started his job at UA on Sept. 4, 2012, but resigned 58 days later, citing his wife's poor health.
He interviewed at New Mexico on April 23-24 and told reporters there that his wife's health had improved enough for him to serve as president.
The Associated Press reported in November that UA granted Bailey, a linguistics expert, tenure as an English professor, agreed to continue paying his base salary of $535,000 and classified him as being on "developmental leave" through August.
Bailey is a native of Montgomery and a UA graduate.
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About the Vineyard...
Perched atop Sonoma Mountain at 1100 feet elevation, on the cool northwestern slope, Steiner Vineyard is a
mere 17 miles from the ocean. Dave Steiner planted his first grapes up here in 1973 - making him a pioneer
of the region. Seeing the unique qualities of grapes grown in this outstanding area, Dave (together with
Patrick Campell of Laurel Glen) was a driving force in creating the Sonoma Mountain Appellation. While it
remains sparsely planted in comparison to other well known appellations, the proven quality of the grapes
have created high demand among winemakers.
The soils vary through the vineyard changing from clay loamy stuff with fractured ryolite to an austere
rocky area that Dave theorizes was "probably an ancient rock slide" composed of alluvial soils intermixed
with rocks and gravel. All soils are very old and leached of nutrients giving them low fertility.
It is a truly spectacular vista point but a challenging place to grow grapes (as are most great Pinot noir
areas). As the vines wake up after their fall dormancy, they are greeted to the cold, harsh, maritime breezes
that sweep through the area unimpeded by the lower hills in the coastal range. This makes for sometimes
problematic fruit set resulting in low yields.
About the Wine...
The grapes were 100% destemmed into an open top fermenter and cold soaked for 4 days. We punched
down by hand 4 times per day at the beginning of fermentation. This was decreased to 2 times per day by
the end of fermentation. We innoculated with RC 212 yeast (a Burgundian isolate) and fermented warm,
peaking about 95�F. The wine given a post-fermentation maceration, with a total skin contact time of 14
days. The wine was aged entirely in French barrels from the Tonnellerie Remond cooperage, of which 60%
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SAN FRANCISCO -- PG&E pleaded not guilty Monday to 12 criminal felony counts that allege the utility intentionally violated federal pipeline safety laws in connection with the 2010 natural gas explosion in San Bruno that killed 8 people, injured 66 and destroyed 38 homes.
The utility, whose executives weren't present for the arraignment, entered the not guilty plea through its attorneys at a hearing at the U.S. District Court in San Francisco.
Were PG&E to be convicted on all 12 felony counts, the utility could face a fine of up to $6 million. But the penalties could exceed $6 million if the court finds that the company gained financially from its misconduct or if the victims' losses are taken into account, according to the U.S. attorney's office, which is prosecuting the case.
"I'm confident that this criminal proceeding will show a clear path from the decisions that PG&E made to profits for the company and bonuses for its employees," state Sen. Jerry Hill, a Democrat whose San Mateo County district includes San Bruno, said in an interview with this newspaper. "It's troubling that knowing all of the facts, PG&E still maintains that it is not guilty."
San Francisco-based PG&E, in a news release issued after the arraignment, said, "While we don't believe any employee intentionally violated federal pipeline safety regulations, the legal process will ensure that all of the facts related to this tragic event are fully reviewed."
It characterized the San Bruno blast as "a tragic accident," and added: "We're accountable for that and make no excuses. Most of all, we are deeply sorry."
PG&E noted that it has committed $2.7 billion to upgrade and improve its century-old natural gas system. In an earlier filing, it warned securities regulators and its investors that it could be forced to accept court-supervised control by an outside authority of some or all of the utility's natural gas operations.
In a separate proceeding before the state Public Utilities Commission, PG&E faces fines of up to $2 billion as its punishment for the San Bruno explosion.
After a pair of administrative law judges at the PUC review the facts related to the potential fines and issue a proposed ruling, the five-member PUC will make a final decision, which is expected before the end of the year.
"We want to be certain that these proceedings ensure that the natural gas system is safe and that what happened in San Bruno won't happen somewhere else," San Bruno City Manager Connie Jackson said in an interview with this newspaper.
Jackson attended the arraignment and said she was disappointed that no PG&E executives showed up for the formal presentation of the charges.
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Professor Lev Manovich (Computer Science) announced today a new study of over 13,000 photos taken during the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution and shared on Instagram. Read more
Convocation and Installation of President Chase F. Robinson
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The Graduate Center has been awarded a $175,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Cultures and Histories of Freedom: Ideology, Slavery, and Creolization, 1500-1900." Read more
Professor Janet Gornick (GC Political Science and Sociology), who serves as Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Center Director and Director of LIS in Luxembourg, delivered a keynote address to the United Nations General Assembly, on Tuesday, October 7. Read more
The Graduate Center has been awarded a U.S. Department of Education grant to establish a National Language Resource Center (LRC), a highly selective honor that will enhance research and development of language education. Read more
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Presidential Professor Richard G. Schwartz has been named a recipient of the Honors of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), the organization's highest award and the most prestigious in his field. Read more
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Distinguished Professor Dennis Sullivan, who holds the Albert Einstein Chair in Science (Mathematics), has been awarded the 2014 Balzan Prize. Read more
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Shailene Woodley has gone from impressive film newcomer to star at rocket-speed.
She earned rave reviews for her film debut as George Clooney's bad-tempered daughter in "The Descendants." She won an acting prize at Sundance for her turn as a touchingly vulnerable smart girl in the indie hit "The Spectacular Now." She took the reins of a high-profile Hollywood franchise in "Divergent," based on the hit series of dystopian young-adult books by Veronica Roth.
Her latest project, now in theaters, puts the full weight of a serious studio film on her shoulders. She stars as Hazel, a teen with cancer who experiences first love with a boy who is also a cancer patient in the adaptation of John Green's best-seller "The Fault in Our Stars."
Against all odds, the 22-year-old actress from Simi Valley seems to be keeping her head on straight. Her recent appearance on David Letterman's show became an extended teasing session as he grilled her about her high regard for organic living and herbalism, which includes eating clay.
"Haven't you heard of Metamucil?" he asked. Blogs have poked fun at her wearing Vibram FiveFinger shoes to the Golden Globes, and setting the mood every morning by screaming "Exciting day! Exciting day!" Miles Teller, her co-star in "The Spectacular Now" and "Divergent," has told interviewers he's "pretty sure she lives in a tree."
While she has acquired the image of being America's favorite moonbeam, Woodley has remained authentic and serenely good-humored through it all.
"I don't say the things I say for others; I say them because it's my truth," she tells me by phone from New York City. "I try to live by two things: A, it's none of my business what other people think about me. And B, you do you, I'm gonna do me, each and every day.
"I'm not going to position myself as being in any place to tell someone how to live their life," she adds. "But if someone asks me a question, I am completely open to speaking my truth, with what works for me."
That both her parents are psychologists, she says, probably helped ground her disposition and her acting. "Growing up, it was always, 'How does this make you feel? If this person hurt your feelings, why were your feelings hurt?' It helped me observe people, like to figure out what made them so sensitive to something that was said. What is the rhythm of their mind in getting offended by this or excited by this? Empathy and compassion were two things that were hard-core ingrained" in the household, she says.
That's one reason she's proud, amid all the summer movie blockbusters, to be in a film about recognizable humans. "Even though there's no superpowers and whatnot, the truth of what these people are going through is so relatable," she says.
Woodley's Hazel is a bright girl who dislikes being reduced to a cancer diagnosis but withholds herself emotionally for fear of the pain her eventual death will cause. "Not everyone can relate to the cancer, but we all know the feelings of being in love, being sad, grieving and being happy, celebrating life," she says.
The film is "not about cancer," Woodley says. "It's about first love and loss. It's about appreciating moments and not taking things too seriously, because nothing is guaranteed in life. When there's a finite timeline on your life, you're not worrying or stressing or feeling guilty about the small things ... that most people in the world are wasting their time on."
Woodley says she fell in love with Green's novel. "It changed the lives of millions and millions and millions of people." She corresponded with the author to thank him for writing it and to say "it would be an honor to audition" to play his heroine. She chopped off her chestnut mane for the casting process and committed herself to the book's principle that sentimentalizing people because of their illness also dehumanizes them.
To portray a character with a terminal illness honestly, she says, "you pretend to be a normal human. Cancer doesn't define a person. For Hazel, I didn't think 'I'm playing a girl with cancer.' I thought, 'Omigod, I'm playing a girl who's falling in love for the first time.' "
So does she live in a tree?
"Um, no, but the place that I used to live in had a tree growing through it," she says. "I don't know if that constitutes a yes. I guess that's a yes-and-a-half."


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Royce Chadwick enters his fourth season at the helm of the Islanders women's basketball program. He comes into the season following a 16-win 2014-15 and one win shy of reaching the exclusive 600 win-club, with a record of 599-353.
In three seasons at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Chadwick has produced a 38-51 record, 18-win season in 2013-14. The Islander head coach picked up his second Southland Conference Coach of the Years honors and set the record for longest duration between awards.
A 32-year veteran of the women's college basketball coaching ranks, Royce Chadwick, was named the fourth head women's basketball coach in Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi history on April 11, 2012. Chadwick, who spent the previous 11 years at the helm of the Marshall University program, has 561 wins on his collegiate coaching resume.
"I want to thank President Killebrew, Dr. [Trent] Hill and Scott Lazenby for selecting me to take over this program," Chadwick said. "I'm thrilled to return to the state of Texas, which has been and will always be home for me. Texas A&M–Corpus Christi is a sleeping giant in the world of women's college basketball and I believe that the ceiling for this program is nearly limitless. Today, we start down the road toward the top of the Southland Conference.
"Also," he added, "I would be remiss if I didn't thank all the wonderful people at Marshall for 11 wonderful years in Huntington. It was not an easy decision to leave a place that holds so many memories for me."
The Floydada, Texas, native has a career record of 561-302 (.650) in stops at Marshall, Stephen F. Austin, Sam Houston State, Oklahoma Panhandle State and Howard Junior College. In 20 years at the Division I level, he holds a 365-237 (.606) record and seven NCAA Tournament appearances.
Much of his success came at Southland foe Stephen F. Austin, where he led the Ladyjacks for seven seasons. In his tenure at SFA, the team went 173-44 (.797) and advanced to the NCAA Tournament each season. The 1996 team made it all the way to the Sweet Sixteen, and Chadwick was named the Southland Coach of the Year in 1997. He went 4-7 in NCAA Tournament games, with five of those losses coming to top-four seeds and all of them to teams seeded eighth or better. In his time in Nacogdoches he won the conference tournament six times and compiled a sparkling 128-14 (.901) mark in league play. His teams won five Southland regular-season championships.
Chadwick led Marshall to seven winning seasons in his time there, the most of any coach in program history. He won 161 games for the Thundering Herd, including a 19-win season in 2004-05 that saw the team go 12-4 in Mid-American Conference play and win the MAC East for the first time. From his third year at Marshall on, he won at least 14 games every season with the exception of one, when his team was decimated by injuries.
He also played a major role in the upswing of attendance at Marshall games. He saw a school-record 7,017 fans come through the turnstiles for a matchup with SEC foe Kentucky in 2004, marking the fourth consecutive season that the Herd had the highest-attended game in the conference. In his first season at Marshall, the team saw a 251 percent increase in attendance.
His first collegiate head coaching assignment was at Panhandle (Okla.) State, where he led his Aggie teams to 19 and 20 wins, respectively, in his two years there. At Sam Houston State, his next stop, he guided a school that had never posted a winning season to an 18-9 mark during the 1987-88 campaign, just one year removed from a 9-18 season.
In his five seasons at Howard, Chadwick posted a record of 148-21, won four Western Conference titles, advanced to the NJCAA Tournament twice and was named National Coach of the Year in 1992. A multifaceted talent, Chadwick also served as Howard's athletic director. In 1983, Chadwick broke into the coaching ranks at Olton High School in Texas, where he led the Mustangs to a record of 21-5 and their first district championship in nine years.
Chadwick earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from Southwestern Oklahoma State in 1980 and later earned a master's degree in business education from his alma mater in 1982.
Chadwick is the proud father of two daughters, Kasi, 24, and Kelsi, 21.
599 – Career wins for Chadwick
7 – NCAA Tournament bids
.606 – Division I winning percentage
.829 – Career winning percentage in Southland Conference games
7,017 – Fans in Marshall's school-record crowd for 2004 game against Kentucky
20 – Average wins per season in Chadwick's career
28 – Years that Chadwick has served as a head coach in women's college basketball
4 – Career wins in NCAA Tournament play
14 - Won 18 games winning four the year before for a win differential of 14, which was the best regular season turnaround in the country (2013-14).
2005 – Year of MAC East title for Marshall, the first in program history
1997, 2014 – Years that Chadwick was named Southland Coach of the Year
"Texas A&M - Corpus Christi has hired a man that knows the state of Texas like the back of his hand. It's time for him to come back home like it was time for me to come back home. He's a competitor and he replaced Joe Curl, who was the interim coach after me at Stephen F. Austin. He took them to the NCAA Tournament and did a great job. He's a relentless recruiter and he's a tactician of the game. South Texas just got a winner."
-Gary Blair, Head Coach, Texas A&M Aggies
"I've known Royce throughout his entire career. Texas A&M - Corpus Christi is getting one of the best in the business. He has a tremendous work ethic and is a relentless recruiter and he's going to do tremendous things for A&M-Corpus Christi."

-Brenda Frese, Head Coach, Maryland Terrapins
"I'm thrilled to have Royce back in Texas. I think he's one of the finest college coaches and an excellent mentor to student-athletes. I applaud Texas A&M – Corpus Christi for hiring a really outstanding basketball coach. I look forward to watching their program succeed."
-Dan Hughes, Head Coach, San Antonio Silver Stars
"What a great day for Texas A&M - Corpus Christi. You have outdone yourselves because if you're looking to build and maintain a program, you can't find a better individual. I've known Royce for many, many years dating back to when he was in the high school ranks. As the executive director of the Texas Girls Coaches Association, I'm also glad on a personal level to have him back home."
-Sam Tipton, Executive Director, Texas Girls Coaches Association


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With the bickering about what Dell will and won't do to provide Linux on their desktop machines, it seems to me there's a much easier way to introduce GNU/Linux into the world. Scrap it!
GNU/Linux is a great project, with fantastic underlying technology, but its name conjures up images of geek humor, stuffy Unix-like machines from a 1970s university, and—worst of all—servers. Not desktops. Therefore, I propose we set up a business that will fork the kernel into a new project, let's call it MegaOS, and install that onto a set of new machines, each branded with our corporate MegaOS logo.
Next, we ensure that MegaOS will remain stable for many years by releasing only security fixes. After all, we're looking at the desktop world where users neither know or care about how the memory manager works, or if one version is better or more "structured" than another. Windows has many years between each major iteration and this has served them well. I counted six versions in the last 12 years (Win95, Win98, ME, Win2K, XP, Vista) which limits the number of times users have to go through "driver deprecation hell" as companies struggle to produce updated drivers for the new operating system. Also, because MegaOS would not change the driver mechanisms as often as Linux, the amount of driver recompilation is reduced. This eliminates the hardware obsolescence that can occur when minor drivers aren't updated and recompiled for the latest kernel. This is an end-user machine, remember, and they are not expected to understand
automake, let alone
gcc compile options.
And, speaking of drivers, this leads me to the next part of my solution. Sell MegaOS only on known hardware. Not necessarily custom, but known. It can (and probably will) have a PC architecture underneath. But if the BIOS looks visually different from what PC users expect, it will appear like a completely new machine. So, find a set of decent, home-user-ready, hardware for the various components (such as audio, video, and networking) and get those free software drivers working perfectly together. Then, enter into a business partnership with those manufacturers so that chipset XYZ123 is always chipset XYZ123 make sure they will be available for two years, and will be fully compatible with the drivers. Dell, in the past at least, have been lacking in this regard, and shipped components with identical part numbers but significantly different internals, causing drivers to break. Remember, of course, that if we control the hardware, the number of drivers and driver combinations in the wild will be comparatively small compared to the GNU/Linux of today.
Naturally, with only custom hardware in the original box, we would like to restrict those who can produce third party hardware, which would break our MegaOS system and becoming nothing more than a poor Windows copy. In reality, we don't. We just need to make the end user aware of the value of buying approved hardware with a "Designed for MegaOS" label on the box. By using a trademark (yes they can be evil, quiet at the back!) there is legal recourse for abuse. However, the rule for gaining the right to use this label would be very simple: any third party hardware manufacturer must create free software drivers and make them available. This, by implication, ensures these drivers will be available for back-porting into GNU/Linux proper, and the rest of the community.
Part of the MegaOS budget will be spent on aesthetics. As a technical person, I've always consider this an easy job, but looking at the beige boxes cluttering my studio I guess not! Therefore, we'll hire someone to design a nice shiny looking box, stylishly coloured, and feature it at the end of adverts where sexy 20-somethings dance in silhouette to popular music... for example.
But hardware aside, what does the average user want? Basically, they want applications, and they want them to work. Preferably together. This is already available with either of the two major desktop solutions. Which? I don't care! MegaOS will simply pick one, choose a suitable window manager, create some clever new icons and graphics to give it a unique feel, and release that. Face it, most non-technical users won't change the defaults anyway. Except for, perhaps, the background/wallpaper image.
From here, the software can be chosen according to the whims of the MegaOS company. A media player, an office suite, internet tools and CD burner software is enough for version 1. Since we're working on known hardware, compatibility testing will be easier, and would focus the development of Windows-compatibility tools (WINE, CrossOver Office, et al) ensuring a migration path exists for Windows users.
Games might still be a sticking point, but much of the industry is moving towards console and mobile so that's half the market covered. The other half of the budget can be spent wooing developers and porting WoW and SecondLife to MegaOS. Because we control the OS, we can ensure closed source companies can remain closed source until they're ready to switch. By which time, the users will have experienced enough free software to force their hand.
At no point are we abusing any of the free software ethics, as we will be adhering to all license agreements by supplying the source from our web site. Nor are we taking control away from the user. We are limiting their initial choices certainly, but not removing them. After all, the traditional end-user consumer won't change the defaults because they don't need to, or they have a fear of breaking things and will work within whatever limits the system has.
So there you have it, a modest business proposal. In short: fork GNU/Linux, ship it on known hardware with working drivers, put it in a pretty box, pick a friendly UI, bundle principle lifestyle and productivity software, provide a migration path, and give it a snazzy name.
Remember, it worked for Apple...
it worked for Apple - lol
This is great. As I started reading through I was thinking that they have to be referring to "something", just never guessed what. But "it worked for Apple" is awesome. This is a great read.
A warning would have been nice.
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Damnit, I was reading the comments before I read the article, a Spoiler warning would have been nice. Thats as bad as when Evo told us "Wash Dies".
Have a look at this intersting analysis:
[Opinion] Switch to Linux? No. Get a Mac Clone
"It worked for Apple" is a great oversimplification. When they made the switch to OSX, they were already existing as a computer company, with a wide customer base. The role of OSX (and in particular using BSD as a base) was the next step, the necessary move for the company in the new millennium. UNIX offers things that were not imaginable with the old classic Apple OS.
Now, back to Linux. Proposing to "fork the kernel" and packing it up in a nice package, is not going to bring you anywhere. Who exactly is going to do this? Which company? A new startup? In principle you may be right, however competing out of nowhere with giants such as MS, Apple, Dell, HP... is going to kill you right away if you are not one of those companies. That was why people demanded Dell to preinstall Linux in first place.
By the way, you can get Linux preinstalled in a nice package with everything working: "System 76" sells laptop with Ubuntu. Nice package. Market share: 0.
People like you are the reason good ideas get squashed. Remember google.
"In theory your right but competing with giants out there like Yahoo and MSN will kill you right away"
Keep it positive Apple fanboy!
BTW Linux Runs Adobe Apps Too it just "wines" about it.
Don't be superficial
First of all I am not an Apple fan boy. In fact I am a Linux user since 1998. Second of all, if you took the time to actually read AND understand my post, you would probably be less sarcastic. Google sell a service. It's a matter of fact that you don't spend one cent to use their products. Google is not an hardware company. Google invented a completely new way to make money, out of ads. Now, since you seem to be pretty smart, how can you actually make money using standard hardware with small numbers and small visibility in a market with thin profits and heavy discounts to big player. That was my point. Bringing out the Google example is misleading.
You are contradicting yourself when you suggest the use of wine. You'd like to have Linux preinstalled, and then you run proprietary apps on it. Honestly, the goal of FOSS is not to have proprietary apps to be compatible with wine, but to have free alternatives which are as good. TO me when that is going to happen it would be a real success.
Anyway I can easily stand corrected if the proposed model works. Mine is just skepticism.
I wonder if this could work on a small scale....
I've thought that this would be a great answer for a long time...not necessarily fork Linux and all but acutally have it pre-installed on hardware that WORKS out of the box. But feranick is 100% right...you just can't make it and expect people to choose it. There would have to be a HUGE marketing campaign to convince people that MegaOS IS better then Windows and Apple. I'm not sure that is really ever going to happen...not in 'businesses making money' terms. If it was that simple we'd have seen one of the big boys do it by now. Don't get me wrong, your idea has a lot of merit to it...but whoever did it would basically have to run everything like apple (control hardware specs and lock in software companies). At that point, what differentiates you from Apple? Besides the fact they can run Adobe software and MegaOS couldn't?
But i've wondered for a long time if a local 'white box' shop could actually make money selling Linux boxes and support for them. Instead of competing against the 'big boys' you would be competing against other small 'white box' companies. Linux is GREAT for computers that are only going to be doing word processing, email, and other basic tasks (not that they couldn't do other things) and mom and pop business servers of course. Your marketing budget alone would be a lot smaller and you could sell it just off the free (as in beer) software and lack of adware/viruses alone. If "White Box Linux" wanted to take it a step further they could even keep their own repository with software precomplied to work with "White Box Linux" boxes. "White Box Linux shops would just have to make sure that they could get a steady supply of high grade parts that work with Linux.
And if the idea actually worked, there would be no reason it couldn't be franchised out. Once franchised you could then get the ball rolling for your ideas to pressure manufacturers to support linux.
E uma tendência no Brasil
Na verdade cada dia mais as pessoas estao se adequando ao Linux, e no Brasil as distro mais usadas no desktop pc sao:
1º Kurumin ( ja esta na versao 7)
2º Ubuntu ( ja esta na versao 6.10)
3º openSuSe ( ja esta na versao 10.1)
4º Conectiva ( ultima versao estavel foi a 9, agora com a junção da Mandrake e conectiva surgiu para nos o Mandriva que não esta tendo uma boa aceitação no mercado, e mais pessado que o proprio Windows Vista)
5º Slakware ( com poucos adptos pos ser uma distro que exige muito do seu usuario)
foi isto ate a proxima.
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its already been done
it's called a Mac.
small differences
With the "small" difference that Apple was pre-existing the advent of OSX. Strong customer base, known name, etc. Oh and another one... S. Jobs's leadesrship, which may be overestimated and which may be found disturbing to many people (including me...), but nevertheless proves that strong leadership is needed for a marketing success.
Macs are proprietary. Full
Macs are proprietary. Full stop.
It's an update of what I proposed a couple of years ago
I did a similar proposal a couple of years ago with this OSNews article. Good to know that support for the hypothesis of selling Linux through Mac-like machines is growing. I don't like the idea of forking (if a stable driver API is truly needed, perhaps *BSD machines would be better suited, but if only known, Linux-supported hardware is on the boxes, then there's no need for a fork: just use hardware whose drivers are in the kernel) but for the rest I agree.
Driver deprecation hell
If all our drivers were open, they would not be deprecated. My Linux box (Ubuntu) finds more hardware on my machines than Windows ever has. New and old hardware alike. That is the power of open source. I can't imagine that a future version of Linux could lose support for some of this hardware. /shrug
M$ user
Actualy fought this is a very good plan.
If you read Mark Shuttleworth blog you will see what they face having linux pre installed
Haha, Great article Steve!
Haha, Great article Steve!
We are already out on a *similar* project
The OpenOEM Project
We are not really making a different OS, but a different hardware arquitecture that should run many different OSes as you can throw at it. We will also make a particular free sosftware OS that we will bundle with it, but the machine will accept almost anything.
This already exists without the fork - its call Ubuntu!
hahaha very good
Cow, R.D.
A not so modest proposal
Another route to the desktop for Linux - hide it!
Take each device you'd have in a typical PC, stick each in its own box along with a processor, ram and some storage, and have each device talk to the others over a well specified, high-speed/low-latency network (something like PCI Express or Infiniband, possibly even SpaceWire). One or more 'Kernel' boxes (with cpu, ram and storage) do the 'operating system' job of co-ordinating access to the devices and user administration. Linux in this context becomes the device driver model, internal to each 'device' and not encountered (much) by the end user. In short, turn every expansion card into a consumer device and get them talking to each other. Even shorter, a truly modular PC. I've compiled some notes on such a system below, apologies for any duplication, they're cut and pasted from old notes along with some new typing. Also apologies to anyone who finds this boring, obvious or ludicrous. Wrote most of this down around a year ago, got about 5000 unordered droning words on the subject if anyone's actually interested.
Disadvantages of this approach include:
Cost - turning each device into a standalone computer will obviously add overhead to the cost of each device. Sufficient (significant) units would need to be shifted to lower this margin to an acceptable level. Looking at the vast numbers of cheap embedded devices in existence today it should be possible to acheive this, though even in the best case a 'boxed' device will always cost more than a naked expansion card. The greatest cost will likely be in the interconnect between the boxes, switches for Infiniband are helluva expensive, again with sufficient bulk this could be reduced (hopefully).
Latency - the 'bus' of the computer is (needs to be) effectively replaced by a high bandwidth, low-latency network. The best (most expensive) network technologies today have sufficiently low latency and massive amounts of bandwidth so really this particular disadvantage is part of the cost problem detailed above.
Prettiness - interconnecting all these devices will involve a non-trivial amount of cabling. Hiding this, and making the boxes look pretty individually as well as when 'combined' will be a major design challenge.
Starting from scratch - though most of this system can be derived from existing hardware and software there would be a large degree of starting from scratch. Inter-device messaging, a new programming model and interoperability with existing systems. This isn't entitled a not so modest proposal for nothing :) In fairness, a lot of hardware seems to be moving in this direction anyway, and a lot of the current compsci research in distributed/parallel computing is directly relevant to such a system. Interoperability could be achieved directly with lots of code hacking, or through installing an 'OS Box', basically another device that internally runs the operating system needed for a particular application and interfaces with the rest of the system in the same way as other devices.
Advantages of this approach include:
Device isolation - each deviced is isolated from all the others in the system, they can only interact over a well-established network interface. Each device advertises its services (via the kernel box). Other devices can access these services, again authenticated and managed by the kernel box. Device manufacturers ship their goodies as a single standalone box, and they of course have full control over the internals of said box, there are no other devices in the box (apart from the networking hardware and storage) to cause conflicts. Each device can be optimised by its manufacturer, and there's the upside that the 'drivers' for the device are actually part of the device. Testing a device is simpler, no need to worry about possible hardware or software conflicts, as long as the device can talk over the interconnect, things should be cool. Note that another consequence of this is that internally the device can use any 'operating system' and software the manufacturers (or the tinkering user) needs to do the job, as well as whatever internal hardware they need (though of course all devices would need to implement the networking protocol). Consequently integrating new hardware ideas become somewhat less painful too. I think I'm right in saying most problems in PCs today come down to problematic hardware or software interactions, the majority of which can be removed by isolating the hardware like this. Additional benefits of isolation include individual cooling solutions on a per device basis and better per device power management.
No driver deprecation - as long as the network protocol connecting the boxes does not change the drivers for the device will never become obsolete due to OS changes. If the network protocol does change, more than likely only the networking portion of the device 'driver' will need an update. Worst case scenario is if the network 'interface' (ie connector) changes. This would necessitate a new device with the appropriate connection or modification to the current device.
No device deprecation - devices generally fall out of use for two reasons - a) lack of driver support in the latest version of the operating system, and b) no physical connector for the device in the latest boxes. This problem would not exist because as mentioned in 'No driver deprecation' above the driver is always 'with' the device and can always be connected through the standard inter-device protocol. Old devices can be kept on the system to share workload with newer devices, or the box can be unplugged and given to someone who needs it, the new user can just plug the box into their system and start using the device, much better than the 'current' system of farting around trying to find drivers and carrying naked expansion cards around and stuffing them into already overcrowded cases. As users upgrade their machines it is often the case that some of their hardware is not compatible with the upgrades. For example, upgrading the CPU in a machine often means a new motherboard. If a new standard for magnetic storage surfaces, very often this requires different connectors to those present on a user's motherboard, thus necessitating a chain of upgrades to use the new device. When a device is no longer used in a PC it is generally the case that it is sold, discarded or just left to rot somewhere. Obtaining device drivers for such devices becomes impossible as they are phased out at the operating system and hardware level, and naked expansion cards are so very easily damaged. In this system there would be no need to remove an old device, even if you have obtained another device that does the same job. The old device could remain in the system and continue to do its job for any applications that need it, and taking some load from the new device where it can. As long as there is versioning on the device APIs there is no chance of interference due to each device having self-contained device drivers. Devices can be traded easily, they come with their own device drivers so can just be slotted into a new base unit and are less likely to be damaged in transit.
Security - security is a big issue and one which all operating systems struggle to fulfil for various reasons. While most OSs are now reasonably secure keeping intruders out and user data safe is a constant battle. This system would potentially have several advantages in the area of security; the fact that the Kernel is a self-contained solution, probably running in firmware means overwriting the operating system code would be very difficult if not impossible, and would likely require physical access to the machine. For the various devices, vendors are free to build in whatever security measures they see fit without worrying about the effect on the rest of the system. They could be password protected, keyed to a particular domain or whatever to prevent their use in an unauthorised system. Additional measures such as tamper proofing on the container could ensure that it would be extremely difficult to steal data without direct access to the machine and user account information. Of course there are several areas of security (DoS attacks for example) where this system would be no better off than conventional systems, though it may suffer less as the network device under attack could be more easily isolated from the rest of the system.. It is also likely that a new range of attacks specific to this systems would appear, so security for will be as much a concern as it is on other systems and should be incorporated tightly from the start.
Device installation – even with the advent of easily opened cases, jumperless configuration and matching plug shapes/colours, installing hardware remains a headache on most systems. With for example a new graphics card, the system must be powered down and the case opened, the old card removed and the new one seated. Then follows a reboot and detection phase followed by the installation (if necessary) of the device driver. Most systems have made headway in this process, but things still do go wrong on a regular basis, and often the system must still be powered down while new hardware is installed, and if things go wrong it can be very difficult to work out what the exact problem is. By turning each device into a consumer device, this system would allow for hot swapping of any device. Once power and networking are plugged into the device (this could happen mechanically when the device is slid into the base unit), the device would automatically boot and be discovered/integrated into the 'kernel'. No device driver installation would be necessary as all the logic for driving the device is internal to the device. If the Kernel is unable to speak to the device over the network this would generally signify a connectivity problem, a power problem or a fault with the device itself. Because devices are wrappers for 'actual' devices there is no need to touch the device's circuitry, so removing risk of damage as can happen with typical expansion cards and also removing the danger of electric shocks to the user.
Storage Clutter – One thing which I personally hate about operating systems in general is the ridiculous number of files visible to the user. Windows and Linux are particularly bad for this, with most or all of the operating system visible to the user whether or not the user can interact with those files. They slow down searches, make it difficult to pinpoint what one is looking for and just look generally messy. In this system all the operating system files are hid from the user inside device boxes, there will rarely if ever be a need to touch those files except during upgrades or if the user specifically wants to hack a device. The only 'files' a user should see are their own data files on storage devices and a list of Applications/APIs that the user can access. This would make for a cleaner, more usable system with less chance that the user's actions could bring the OS down, and without the need for file protection daemons consuming resources in the background.
Would love to write a lot more but this may be abusively long for posting on the comments page.
Different Name
I was thinking something similar just yesterday. But I think the name should be something more appealing to the average user. A company name followed by something uplifting, like "Novell Inspiration." Average users give me funny looks when I mention Ubuntu or openSUSE.
Different Name
You could just call it... OSY
I don't know, having switched from OS X to Ubuntu 6 months ago I'm pretty sold on the portability of Linux. What I see on my powerbook I can take to nearly any other machine. Hardware is just the stuff that provides for the software in which the real work is done, marrying the hardware and software can limit your freedom to spread out into what you already have without having to shell out for a whole new horse.
Looking back the tie-in between my PB and OS X became more of a bane than a boon especially given that OS upgrades always seemed to slow the machine down more than speed it up (with the exeception of the early days of OS X). You realise just how much this occurs when you benchmark OS X vs Ubuntu on the same hardware, especially doing something intensive like video encoding or 3D rendering. Somewhere in Cupertino there lies some evil math.
IMHO I think System 76 has already got this covered, no forking around . Anyway, kudos for the push - Linux is where all the action is these days..
Ok Evo Jr. Why did you have to go and spoil Serenity for me? Now I can't watch it. Maybe there will be a sequel. We'll see Wash's twin brother, with a goatee. He can be ultra serious with a chip on his shoulder. He will never want to take risks because he's "not Wash!".
Back to the plan of attack. Here's the marketing plan. Put the distro into an miniITX case with a really quiet motherboard and power supply. Add a gig of ram and a dvd burner. Sell it at $399 and promise that a percentage will go to a global warming charity. You can even paint the case green to show that is has a small carbon footprint.
Market this to tree-huggers and sensitive people everywhere. The commercial would have grandma with her teenage grandaughter using the system in a cabin style house with wireless internet. The slogan:
"Small... Quiet... powerfully green... GreenPC... the only choice for an enlightened PC user."
Not a lot of thought gone into this article.
Forking the kernel tree would be a fine way to ensure your business stagnates fast. Short of having gazillions of dollars, how would you maintain this forked code? Who would work on it? The Linux kernel has thousands of active patch submitters - the high quality of the Linux kernel is precisely because so many brains group around the thing at the same time.
Next is the operating system itself. Where would all the packages come from? Who would support packages for this fork? What's the benefit for community maintained software if they need a special computer to run it on? Or do you suggest it go the tired way of OS X, where you have to go to websites to find and install software instead of something sane like a single up to date and audited database of software like Linux distributions enjoy now? Yuk. Been there done that.
To propose forking Linux is silliness. There are already companies doing just fine selling machines with a popular distribition of Linux pre-installed. Forking is a completely unneccessary (see http://system76.com as an example of the right idea).
Moreso, it'd be simply stupid to go the direction of Apple. Apple have a very particular market and through their marriage of hardware and software are not in a position to grow with any where near the rapidity of Linux. We're really seeing this now - a massive uptake of Linux on the desktop in the past year in the educational and governmental sectors. Closer to home I often meet Windows or OS X users that have switched - or are in the process of trying out - Linux (admittedly Ubuntu in nearly every case).
People increasingly want to work with what they have, not follow the pattern of organised obsolescence that proprietary OS's like OS X and Vista shovel onto users. This is where the portability of Linux finally proves to be paying off and this portability is soley due to the fact Linux is not in the game of selling hardware. Linux (as though it was singlular thing) doesn't have to 'compete' with these hungry American corporations at all; Linux is a public resource - like a public library or park. Arguably Linux doesn't even need a 'market' to grow - Linux grows with every user that get's sick of the relationship of 'renting' their operating system, sick of the banality of using an OS that doubles as a shop front.
For such a young OS, Linux is doing just fine. Look at Ubuntu - 8 million new and active users in a few years and growing exponentially. The French government is switching to Ubuntu FFS, schools across continental Europe madly installing the thing. What more could you want?
To 'fork Linux' is to misunderstand both the value of Linux, how it improves and why it is adopted. Aside from that a fork sounds like a boring and expensive waste of time. Best of luck.
Great post!
Seriously, sometimes people need to be more realistic in their wishes...
More M$ than MS
This proposal smacks too much of an attempt at beating M$ at their own game.
Why are we here, in open source land, rather than being obedient little M$ droids, eagerly waiting to 'update' to the next 'approved' offering from these corporate gods?
We are here because of personal, rational CHOICE.
None of us are here because we've been brainwashed by massive campaigns of TV advertising hype; there hasn't been any.
None of us are here because the machines we bought came with FS already pre-loaded; these don't really exist.
We don't have any money to conduct giant advertising blitzes. You have to SELL your software, for lots of money, to afford such campaigns, and we are legally prevented from doing that, even if anyone wanted to.
M$ has threatened to spend a BILLION a year, developing the next version of Office. How much is 'that' going to cost the loyal M$ consumer, for a product that will, at most, be no better than the free Open Office?
The US financial collapse, now under way, will soon assure that people don't have enough spare money to spend on expensive operating systems, that don't work properly, and require expensive hardware updates to implement. Suddenly, the prospect of FREE software, that can be automatically updated everyday, with the next, promised, FREE full version update, only six months away, and while using their current hardware, will become a very attractive proposition to a newly impoverished populace.
The difference between M$ 'inventing' a bit of software, and the open source community 'releasing' their free software, is like, between two different planets.
I wouldn't have it any other way.
I know its a bad word these days
But isn't Novells driver development project designed for this approach from the driver side of it. Afterall, I see linux making great inroe=ads over the next couple of yearss on desktops but appliances as well.
I like Linux, but there are too many problems.
For all the M$ Bashing that happens, you need to realize that it works.
And it's drivers work flawlessly on any system that it is introduced to.
It works on any basic platform, linux does to a degreeas well, but M$ always works.
We need more driver support I've used serveral distros and none support my wireless card and the ndiswrapper doesn't help.
The real problem is that the developers want everyone to learn the commandline, but we have gui's and they are understood by every computer user, users walked away from the commandline interface along time ago, and the linux developers are still stuck in 3.1.
I'm not a code monkey and have no interest, what so ever, in the commandline interface, fix the drivers, the way you install packages, and the wireless problems and we'll all be happy.
3.1 What?
Quote: "The real problem is that the developers want everyone to learn the commandline, but we have gui's and they are understood by every computer user, users walked away from the commandline interface along time ago, and the linux developers are still stuck in 3.1."
3.1 what? And don't be so sure about GUIs being understood by everyone. It's not uncommon for me to be trying to figure out what a particular GUI does. And when I click "help," more often than not I am confronted with a dialog that states the obvious but does not explain things to me.
"We need more driver support I've used serveral distros and none support my wireless card and the ndiswrapper doesn't help."
And whose fault is that? Unless the company making your wireless chipset actively and legally allows for Linux driver developers to read their specification, how the hell are they supposed to write a driver?
If your wireless card isn't supported by Linux, then you have four choices:
1. Don't use Linux.
2. Contact the wireless card manufacturer and tell them that you'd like to use it with Linux using another means of connectivity in the meantime.
3. Buy a machine with one of the many chipsets supported well by Linux (like most of the Intel wireless cards). Check on this page first: http://leenooks.com.
4. Spend EUR20.00 and get an alternative wireless card, say one that fits into your PCMCIA port.
Kernel developers aren't telepathic. They can only develop with what they know, the rest is guesswork - which only works some of the time.
Have you check
Have you check the madwifi drivers and or another knetworkmanager has a few versions that will help. I have set up with no problems all this cards with no problems * Belking mspci, Dlink mspci, Dlink pci, Linksys V1 and V2 usb. I have try them on UBUNTU, SUSE, MANDRIVA, KUBUNTU, KNOPPIX, SIMPLY MEPIS, PCLINUXOS, OPEN SUSE AND GENTOO. I realy don't recomend any of the RED HAT or FEDORA they don't support at least 98% of the wireless cards that are on the market.
so do it
I'm sure this would work. But you don't need to convince us Linux geeks, you need to convince some venture capitalists and rise some capital and then just go ahead and do it. Make a presentation in OpenOffice, get a nice suit and phone them up.
Way dream ?
I really don't know where this guy has been for the last 2 years or so. First of all if it was as easy as putting a hardware together with a few drivers inside a nice box I think linux would have done that a long time ago, one thing to remember is that companies will not give up there codes just because your a pretty boy and you want the best for the enduser, this is the last thing they are tinking about, all they want is money and if you plan to setup a PC with everything for the ondemand of todays users and a with a "beautifull box" I really don't think that for less than 4 or 5 hundred dollars your going to find it. Now if you really know about linux history, most linux distros where ment to be run on old hardware, therefor, not making you spend any money at all to have a good system. It's been like a year and a half that linux has been on the top of the game when it comes to home use and a hole bunch of years more for the business use. I'll give you an advice UBUNTU for the Gnome and SUSE for KDE or Gnome I thing your be surprised of a lots of things and a nother thing is that the walwreens perfect world is only a tv comercial this stuff don't happen in real life...
Ubuntu LTS
This is very similar (particularly the re-branding) to the goal of Ubuntu, especially LTS. If Canonical did sell tested desktops with Ubuntu LTS pre-installed, they could conceivably make a big impact.
Packages on demand
One more thing - if the OS is meant to work somehow after one year from purchasing without being a bottleneck of the whole system it should be considered to provide "packages on demand" service. The assumption is that new user will not be able to recompile the kernel each time he buys a new HW. Instead of providing him a kernel that works with everything (even if it's possible) he should be able to send his equipment configuration to the service and receive the "installation form" of a module that he can use within a minute. This is what has made Windows successful - ability to be extensible with the external devices. Once there is an option to easily modify the kernel, or any old tool, or an application then the MegaOS can really make a difference.
This has wrong focus...
It is wrong, you SHOULDN'T fork the kernel. Just plain stupid, if you ask me.
What you SHOULD do is to certify hardware and have a distribution that is certified for that hardware. Have a sticker to put on computer that is certified. You should base it on some distribution with auto-update. Ubuntu/Debian have a small applet that you just klick on when it see that there is new updates. You should prob. only have a subset of Ubuntu/Debian packages that is tested to work.
If customers want more, they should either install it themself, or change distribution.
Linux networking cafes
Great article, however I'm taking a different approach. I'm starting up a small internet cafe/organic juice bar/third workspace. I'm focussing on small businesses and entrepreneurs - mainly those who work from home and need to get out of the house once in a while. Then when they come down I'm going to show them the light.
The trouble with Linux is it's not seen by the general population, the ones who've been brought up to see with only two eyes. So to change that, we need to make sure they see it with their two eyes, that's all.
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