Caltrops - Links 2003





	[quote name="Lufteufel"][quote name="Entropy Stew"][quote]The free scripting and database technology that drives weblogs (e.g., PHP+MySQL+web interface) wasn't really accessible to non-programmers until recently. Uploading pictures of our cats to static HTML pages was all that most of us could do with widely available technology.[/quote] THIS IS THE EXACT POINT HE WAS MAKING. Nobody wrote it, so it wasn't available. Why did nobody write it? Because they didn't think of it.[/quote] Nobody wrote it because it wasn't practical. Processor cycles and storage space used to be a whole lot more expensive. Most of today's bloggers probably couldn't have afforded the hosting resources necessary to run a blog site back in 1995, even if the software had existed. [quote name="Entropy Stew"][quote]To be honest, I gave up on the article entirely after this clunky gem of flatulent pseudo-profundity: [quote]Geoff Cohen has a great observation about this. He said "The likelihood that any unmoderated group will eventually get into a flame-war about whether or not to have a moderator approaches one as time increases."[/quote] You know what? The liklihood that <b>anything</b> will happen <b>anywhere</b> approaches one as time increases, you fatuous fucking gasbag.[/quote] You're mincing words while ignoring the point. Substitute "somewhat rapidly approaches" in there, then shut the fuck up. -/ES/-[/quote] Either way, it's still a lame attempt to make a blatantly obvious observation sound more interesting and authoritative, and it hasn't been funny since Godwin did it, way back in the dark, blog-unenlightened days of Usenet.[/quote]