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 Tuesday, February 19, 2002
Nevermind. Why do images show on my DWHP, but not in the cloud? 10:16:53 AM 
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images? Can anyone tell me how to make images show up in my posts? I've got the MyPictures bizness installed, but I still can't get images to show. I've dropped them in the WWW directory, the Images directory, and the MyPictures directory (all w/in the Radio Userland directory) and still nada. Anyone? Beuller? 8:56:44 AM
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This is just sick and wrong:
Wade F. Horn, the Bush administration official who oversees the welfare program, wants "the federal government to promote and encourage marriage more aggressively among low-income people, and the administration is proposing to spend $100 million a year to do just that."
Horn says he "can't imagine" why anyone would be against this. Ever heard of heteronormativity? (Yeah, your spell check says it's not a word, which tells us a lot about current social "values," don't you think?) In response to Horn's puritanical idiocy, "Others maintain that simply easing the economic distress on low- income, two-parent families would do more to strengthen marriages than any class on relationship skills." Amen. Of course, he's a politician, so "Dr. Horn said the government should do both." Whatever.
If the Bushies scare you (clamping down on freedom of information, keeping secrets from their country, engaging in reckless and arrogant foreign policy that could do more to harm "national security" than any administration since -- ever!, fighting abortion in countless insidious ways, and generally forcing their narrow, conservative, elitist worldview on us), please vote in the fall to get more demos in congress....
I'll get off the soapbox now. 8:54:05 AM
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Doc on Cringely -- just say no:
The secret to OS X's success is that, like Linux, it commodifies the base level of the OS, where Microsoft is weakest because Windows is opaque and secretive and costly. At the same level, Windows and Darwin (the BSD level of OS X) are transparent, disclosing and free. They also run all kinds of extant Unix software and development tools, and dovetail very well with existing Linux systems. Techies at big companies like that.
So, as a strategy, Darwin is a killer OS. As a Unix, it helps grease Mac hardware into a lot of Unix niches where Microsoft is trying to make inroads (leveraging Linux' successes as well), at the same time as it protects the consumer-level Apple corporate relationship with Microsoft. Very subversive and smart.
I couldn't agree w/you more, Doc. 8:28:14 AM
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what is Apple selling
Robert Cringely wants Apple to port OS X to Intel. That's not a new idea, but where it gets good is in Cringely's motivation: His goal is to make Micro$oft better! It's twisted logic, but there's a part of me that can agree with that. I mean, I hate Micro$oft, but what really bothers me is their monopoly position that allows them to dictate (to a really scary extent) the direction of global technology. So if something happened to force them to improve their software (and, preferably, to open it up for innovation), I'd be for that. That would probably be better for everyone than to simply wish they'd disappear. Still, I think Cringely's wrong that OS X on Intel would not kill Apple's hardware sales. He might be right that the bulk of dedicated Mac users would continue to buy Macs, but no one else would, which means that when those dedicated users disappeared, so would Apple's hardware sales. Would it be such a bad thing if Apple were just a software company?
As Cringely writes, Apple is already less a hardware or software company than it is an idea company. He writes:
 I would argue that Apple sells, "We are the computer company that cares about you. We try to build the best products we possible can." There's a level of trust and loyalty that people give Apple that is unmatched in the industry, and rarely matched outside it. Apple has that reputation because the company listens to customers. Yes, they make unpopular decisions, and a lot of people hate Apple. But Apple customers don't generally feel that way. They generally feel that Apple is doing the best that it can. Can Microsoft say the same? No.
star struck
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You will be a fierce competitor today. Your skill coupled with your desire to make things happen will lead to a better future. 3 stars 8:12:10 AM
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Jenny Levine is MY INFO MAVEN!!!! She has sent me an email answering my questions. Were it not so late here this evening, I'd be editing my brains out. [via Steve Pilgrim's Radio Weblog
So, um, Steve, are you going to share her answers? I'm just curious what she had to say... 8:10:45 AM
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quote what you say
now. 