"So, should Google be worried? Not just yet. But it's good to see that there are companies out there trying to carve out a segment of the market. Competition means that search tools will continually improve, and that's good news for all of us.
Damn, but ffmpeg takes a long time to compile on a 450MHz PIII.
"Incidently, if you are a Mac owner, and you've paid for every major release of OS X, you've paid about $500 over the last 5 years for your operating system. Compare this with $120 (assuming 2k upgrade) for the last 5 years for an XP owner."
"Allowing programmers to name serious 'flagship' Linux applications is right in line with letting marketing write them." --Kjella
"Information wants a fueled airplane waiting at the hanger and no one gets hurt." --andrewman327
The idea of positive moderation is to make it possible to float the cream to the top for people who choose to filter for a specific category. Being nice to every non-troll post you find is well intentioned, but dilutes this.
There's an actual difference between Insightful, Informative and Interesting, and metamoderation leads me to think a number of slashdotters with mod points find these terms vague enough to be interchangeable, since they're all positive moderations.
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