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Flock, the New Browser on the Block
^tamago^ writes to tell us BusinessWeek Online is reporting that a new browser is stepping into the arena. This new competitor, Flock, hopes to change the face of web browsing by turning their's into the swiss army knife of browsers. From the article: "Flock's browser is built specifically for a new, emerging generation of Web users, one that isn't satisfied passively browsing media online. Flock hopes to turn the browser into a dashboard for collaborating, blogging, sharing photos, reveling in a raft of other group activities that have recently caught fire online"
Because the text on that page is GIGANTIC.
VOTE!
Instead of telling someone to visit a website, I can tell them to "Flock This!"
I ran so far away.
A browser that embraces bloat!
I what proactive MBA envisioned the synergies that would allow flock to become a knowledge portal center of excellence for podcasting core competencies of leveraging mindshare and paradigm shifts to achieve superlinear ROI.
Expect Flock to crash and, from time to time, lose all your data.
OK, so apparently it's at least as stable as IE.
I've seen this feature before, but I can't recall where...
they can't develop a web page worth a crud...
:)
They probably spent all of their website design budget on this slashvertisement.
"You're older than you've ever been, and now you're even older."
Oh and hey, wanna join the flock? We're hiring! So guess what? Send us your resume! ...Meet the Flockers?
Guy asked me for a quarter for a cup of coffee. So I bit him.
SPOILER: flock.com kills eyes!
The Farewell Tour II
Uh oh...
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.apple .com/macosx/features/safari/
Apparently there is no attribute "HEGIHT".
Why not fork?
FLOCK(2) Linux Programmer's Manual FLOCK(2)
NAME
flock - apply or remove an advisory lock on an open file
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/file.h>
int flock(int fd, int operation)
DESCRIPTION
Apply or remove an advisory lock on an open file. The
file is specified by fd. Valid operations are given
below:
LOCK_SH Shared lock. More than one process may
hold a shared lock for a given file at a
given time.
LOCK_EX Exclusive lock. Only one process may
hold an exclusive lock for a given file
at a given time.
LOCK_UN Unlock.
LOCK_NB Don't block when locking. May be speci­
fied (by or'ing) along with one of the
other operations.
A single file may not simultaneously have both shared and
exclusive locks.
A file is locked (i.e., the inode), not the file descrip­
tor. So, dup(2) and fork(2) do not create multiple
instances of a lock.
RETURN VALUE
On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned,
and errno is set appropriately.
ERRORS
EWOULDBLOCK
The file is locked and the LOCK_NB flag was
selected.
CONFORMING TO
4.4BSD (the flock(2) call first appeared in 4.2BSD).
NOTES
flock(2) does not lock files over NFS. Use fcntl(2)
instead: that does work over NFS, given a sufficiently
recent version of Linux and a server which supports lock­
ing.
flock(2) and fcntl(2) locks have different semantics with
respect to forked processes and dup(2).
SEE ALSO
open(2), close(2), dup(2), execve(2), fcntl(2), fork(2),
lockf(3)
There are also locks.txt and mandatory.txt in
/usr/src/linux/Documentation.
Linux 1998-12-11 FLOCK(2)
Impressive, that one's quite rare.
Media that can be recorded and distributed can be recorded and distributed.
-kfg
They're actually pirating FireFox.
In all seriousness, though, it's a bunch of FireFox developers who're whacking FireFox into a new form.
- "I'll probably get modded down for this."
And I suppose everyone using it... Will be sheep?
Flock ewe!
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
They ARE FireFox extensions.
Because Flock is FireFox forked by a Firefox developer with some sort of hidden marketing agenda.
He took FireFox, turned it into a squid, dressed it up in spangles and glued tits to it.
Careful boys, you just might get your fingers burned if you try to fondle these puppies.
KFG
..."We started Flock to build tools that empower people."
I don't want my browser to "empower" me, I want it to quickly and efficiently let me waste time between classes while reading about computers and things that explode. The thought of an "empowered" browser (and my experiences at a local women's college) brings up some very disturbing mental images.
Flock: You seem to be searching for pornography, which subjugates women and furthers the phallusocracy that keeps undeserving white men in power. Instead, I've directed your search towards some Andrea Dworkin you might want to peruse.
Flock: Your search for 'Black Norwegian Metal' returned 217,000 hits. But might I suggest some Natalie Merchant, Bikini Kill, Ani DiFranco, or other womyn-friendly artists?
Flock: I notice that your Slashdot history shows a disturbing number of posts that suggest discrimination towards homosexuals, people of African descent, and extraplanetary immigrants. Until you show a pattern of clicking and browsing of sites that further the cause of disenfranchised peoples of color or alternate sexuality, I will encrypt your "special" folder that you think I don't know about.
And I bet it smells like patchouli, too.
For example, we can envision a world where you can watch people writing blog posts as they write them.
... "he's started a new paragraph..." ... "woot, is he talking about Microsoft yet?" ... "nah, it's something about his kid." ... "screw this, I'm gonna see what Dvorak's up to."
And for real thrills, you can watch paint dry.
That's why I only install stuff like this at school.
That was the first time a website actually startled me.
No joke. What the flock were they thinking when they made that flocking website. Maybe you have to use their flocking browser just to see their site correctly, with the flocking "hegiht" attributes and all.
flock.com till it kills ya, or blinds you anyways...
http://mehtuus.googlepages.com