I'm going to be labeled a flaming fanboy for this...
iMac's are really damn quiet machines, switching from a run-of-the-mill pc I was scared the damn thing would burn out because the fan wasn't making any noise. If they're pushed the fans do ramp up, but day to day use they are super silent. The one downside, your friend will have to run out of the room anytime they'll want to burn anything do cd/dvd - the damn burner is pretty loud.
It wouldn't be completely silent like the Extio, but pretty good, and save them a good bit of change.
For all the discussion about Teachers or other persons being able to carry arms to prevent more school shootings, what about the teachers, or each class being equipped with a tazer. (yes, I know in the odd case they are fatal too) It doesn't hold up to a gun in a one-on-one fight, but it would provide some means to fight back that would not lead to false deaths.
Yes I know having a tazer and a room full of high-school kids is asking for a tough time for the class nerd.
This is disappointing, I get my hands to passes for these preview screenings almost once a month. I have yet to see anyone with a camcorder though, I don't think they realized they can check for these things at the door. But then they wouldn't be able to whine and try to get DMCA North rammed through. Hopefully enough people make enough noise about how Warner is full of sh*t.
On another note, who actually downloads screeners, doesn't everybody at least wait for the leaked preview copies?
Sadly, I imagine that being the part-type sysadmin and the tech director of a district are one and the same position. IT will take a back-seat to new football uniforms 95% of the time.
Imagine all the time, energy and resources used up by millions of slackers all over the world reading/. when there are people suffocating economically in our society, makes me sick.
The power wasted on/. could probably power half of Africa.
The mental energy wasted on/. could have cured cancer by now.
For shame slashdot!
There are thousands of kids dying every day and you wasted your time and money complaining about a million dollar laptop on the internet. makes me sick./sarcasm
I could be wrong, but I believe that the polishing was done back in the day when the core was exposed (back in the Athlon days) so that the heatsink would make the best contact it could with the core. The core was such a small dense area that the best contact possible was needed. Now that everyone has a spreader on their core(s) the spreader itself does most of the immediate heat relieving and the contact between the spreader and cooler is much larger. With the larger area of contact using the super polished method it is much harder to get an even 'sandwich' across the entire area of the spreader, thus the move to the rougher finish.
All these 'but I've had XP for 5 years now' arguments are only happening because Vista was such a trainwreck in development!! Believe me, if Microsoft could have had Vista on the shelves in '03 or '04 they very happily would have, and charged you half a grand for it, but the dev cycle went to hell and here we are, 5 wonderful years of XP. Look at pre-XP releases, Win95, Win 98, Win ME, Win 2000, Win XP, sure they aren't annual releases, but they aren't that far off from the OS X refreshes.
Last time I tried this in Windows (xp), with Windows Media Player 9/10 it didn't work either, granted its been a while. I believe that not allowing screencaps is a requirement of the DVD decoder per MPAA's request.
if you can't figure out how to always show full menus in office how in the world did you even manage to install open office? you know that big search box that wastes all that space in all the office apps - if you are using 2k3 - is there just for you to type in your question so that the help system (one thing MS actually does a really good job at) can tell you where it is. And guess what, shock, surprise, it is under 'customize' (or possibly options, it's been a while since I've had to do a fresh install and turn the damn things off)
Office doesn't have a 'save as' shortcut, unless you mean doing an alt-f and then whatever the save as underlined letter is, but no ctrl-shift-s like every other god-dammed app under the sun.
True the cameras aren't in your home, but the government is instead tapping your phone, reading your emails, checking up on your credit card/debit purchases, so in effect filtering every conceivable way that you can interact with the outside world. They don't 'see' you masturbating, but they know that you have a subscription to 'play nerds', that you spend 9:30 to 9:45 every night looking at hot pr0n on the internet, and that you like the 3-ply extra smooth tissue. In effect they already have a much more malleable system in place for catching you doing 'something'.
1) You do realize that ( at least to my knowledge ) just about all Starbucks are franchises. That means that independent business types approach Starbucks to open shops wherever they open shops, sure Starbucks could be a good samaritan and turn people down, but the fact remains that people approach Starbucks to open stores. Yeah it sucks that some very good and unique coffee shops go under because Starbucks moves into the neighborhood, but it is the local people that vote with their wallets, don't like Starbucks don't buy their stuff, convince people to support the local shops, in essence you only have your neighbours to blame.
2) What larger chain isn't pushing cards, don't like'em don't use'em, and tell your friends/relatives to not get them.
3) Sure only if you buy into the conformity - again don't go to Starbucks if you don't like them. Some people like to walk into a shop in Anytown USA and get a consistent brew of coffee and environment.
4) Again see 1 & 3, just go and support your own local shop with their 'art' or just go visit a local art gallery or artist run center.
5) Boo hoo cry me a river, don't like the price don't use the product, coffee isn't exactly an essential service you know.
6) Damn straight, and it's on the backs of you 'but they are an evil large chain and hurt the local shops and artists who I choose not to support' types.
They already exist - miniATX - or whatever they are called these days, there are some even smaller. Yeah, generally they lag a bit behind in tech trends, but they do exist. Even the big boxes can be attractive.
I know I'm asking for trouble bringing up Apple in a thread like this, but the PowerMa**** Mac Pro looks pretty damn sexy for being a regular expandable (not so) mini-tower. The Imac hides most of the computer behind the monitor, I believe they use laptop components for most of their stuff, not too customized. Sure Apple's minimal design might not be your cup of tea, but the point is that they are able to do some neat things with existing technology, surely Dell, HP, everyone else can make some good looking things too. There are lots of great Industrial Designers out there, get them don't just let your Engineers (no offense to Engineers meant) design everything.
Unfortunately, while I am no fan of child-porn, this doesn't stop the crime. It makes it a bit harder to track this stuff down, but don't think for one second that this will stop anything. It will stop access to child porn for the super lazy (or web-illiterate) pedo, but it does nothing to stop the actual abuse/exploitation.
Think along the lines of Napster (Yes I know it's awful to compare trading music and child porn). After it was shut down a whole bunch of alternatives came up that are faster, more secure, private etc. What I mean is that with Napster the *AA had a means to at least oversee the trading, check out what songs were popular, where they are coming from etc, now you can trade music completely anonymously. Unfortunately the same thing will happen with child porn. Right now, the police and quite a few watch groups know some of these sites and are able to track who visits them etc, if you force these people even further underground they will be much harder to keep tabs on.
Anyway, my main point is that the focus should be on catching the people that are abusing their/our kids not just putting up a wall around them and pretending that they don't exist. Yes by lessening the demand a percentage will stop the abuse/exploitation, but the majority I don't think are in the pedo field to make a quick buck, they are there because they have some major mental issues or are just plain monsters, blocking Joe Blow's access to their website will not stop them from doing the things they do.
I think you have the wrong thread. The kids and parents are being sued, not myspace.
Also I would like to point out that there is a large difference between a) kids blogging on their myspace page that so-and-so is a lesbian, and b) setting up a fake profile page - pretending to be so-and-so - and announcing to the world that you are a lesbian.
Just installed it and remember seeing somewhere - in the software update description i think - a bullet that mentioned that you can now 'easily' backup your itunes library (this I would take to be the entire library: music, video, podcasts et al) haven't tried it or looked for the function, but Apple generally isn't stupid enough to not let you back up your downloaded files in some way.
The huge problem with statistics and profiling is that it only works for repeat offenders. The main reason that the 9/11 attack worked is that no one expected that (not getting into the fbi middle management ignoring warnings of this thing) to happen. Can it happen again, not likely, but we are just reacting to a new possibility. Chances are that the next attack won't involve planes flying into buildings but something completely different, say blowing up the alaska oil pipeline, poisoning water supplies, blowing up flood levies, mining school playing grounds, melting polar ice caps, you name it humans are very weak and breakable, there is no end to the way that we can be killed. There are a few things that we can do to safeguard ourselves, but overall we are f**cked until we know what the threat is and how to put measures in to prevent it.
On a different note: I hope the next terrorist plane attack involves an elderly white woman bludgeoning someone to death with her carry on luggage bag while her 2 year old child is biting the leg of the air marshall. Then no one is safe, and hopefully people will see how silly some of the regulations are. Nail clippers are not a terrorist tool!
I find kids are really confined these days, both physically and mentally.
Yes, there are more crazy people out and all that so the space that our kids can run around in is a lot smaller. Who doesn't remember playing street-hockey (you got me, i'm a canuck) with the neighbours, running in the undeveloped parts of the neighborhood, can't do that so much now, understandably, but you can still do things if the parents came out and kept an eye on the kids. Lots of kids play soccer, you can do the same thing with your neighbours for just about any type of activity - say street hockey - the kids pay and the adults can sit and relax on the sidelines chatting. Don't see much of that though. In a similar vein, I remember knowing everyone on my street block, not best buddies but knew who they were, and if they seemed like decent people. How many people/kids can say that now.
Now my big problem with replacing leisure activity with video games etc is that they are all very confining. Some are fairly open-ended but are still limited in the way that the game designer lets a user interact with the virtual world. When you compare games like GTA and Oblivion with the real world, they are extremely shallow. Yeah you can go everywhere and see the sights but actual interaction is very limited. You go crazy in GTA and start shooting everyone the only thing that starts happening is that progressively more powerful force tries to subdue you (police, swat, fbi, army) but you don't ever see a child running to the mother you just shot with an rpg, you don't see and hear the dying dog wailing on the side of the street, you don't vigilante stalkers or not-plaing-by-the-rules-cops coming after you etc. Yes those are extreme examples, and I don't ever want to see the first two examples in GTA ever, but things like this on a smaller scale can be seen in the real life all the time, and it lets children extrapolate things to much larger events. This is limiting the scope of interaction that a child experiences, the world is billions shades of gray, video games are at best 4-bit colour, tv generally much worse. There are lots of positives in video games too, but as always everything in moderation.
Even Lego is getting very limited. I remember Lego just being only the square bricks, none of this put 5 pieces together and you have a star wars racer. I remember building lots of stuff that looked like nothing what it was supposed to, and didn't make any real sense, but it was fun and let me experiment (kept build a uss enterprise on an 8 wheel off road independent suspension system for the longest time, so I could drive it all over my room without getting stuck on other Lego bricks etc) Whatever happened to their Technics (maybe with an x) line, I loved the little air pump pneumatics ones.
Hmm... have you considered that maybe the movie downloads may be decent resolution, perhaps even matching DVD? Same thing happened with music, mediocre quality, and more expensive than a CD, yet look at iTunes go. People want instant satisfaction, and are lazy to boot, so iTunes worked, whether people will have the patience to wait for movies to download remains to be seen, though I think people will choose to wait overnight for a movie rather then walk to the nearest store.
It's because the 17 inch is an eMac replacement, meant fo the educational market, where frontrow isn't high on the list of things students should be doing with their computers, nevermind that someone would make off with the remote on the first day the iMac is put in the classroom/lab.
A few years ago I had a Maxtor drive that went up in flames too. First it started making the usual clicking noises, then after opening the case and backing up just about everything the clicking eerily stopped and a few seconds the hard-drive was on fire! After shutting everything down and waiting for the smoke to clear I found it was the LED on the drive's logic board that was on fire.
Funnily the tech support guy that I got when I was RMA'ing the drive kept insisting that I start the computer, visit their website, and download a diagnostic utility to test the drive out. I had to tell him a dozen times that the drive was on fire and that there is not a chance in hell that I am booting my computer with it still inside.
I must take issue with you picking on MySpace. MySpace does not have any content, so it is false to state that the visuals interfere with said content as it does not exist. It is merely a contest to see how many images/videos (of your 18 year old girl alter ego) you can randomly include in your page and how flashy you can make the whole thing seem.
hmm... you know this thing called Firefox, perhaps you've heard of it, or Opera. Just be glad that the Flock guys/gals are doing all this integration stuff so that Firefox can stay lean and mean.
you want lean - firefox/opera. you are a teen that blogs about shooting everyone at school/uploads drunken party photos/shares their pr0n library on del.ico.us - try flock.
How many people are on myspace? last I head it's in the neighborhood of 60 million users (vague memory, please correct me) that is a pretty good market to go after wouldn't you say. Same for things like blogger/flickr/etc, there is a huge market there for the browser, it just may not include the majority of people here on slashdot.
Everyone here has to realize, the web is changing, for better or for worse this web 2.0 'lets make the user do all the work' stuff is here to stay. Flock just makes it easier to do your daily web 2.0-ish chores in a pretty nice package. If you are into that, great, if not no one is forcing you to use it.
Perhaps it's not a publicly traded company? I don't actually know, maybe they are. But not being on the stock market doean't really mean anything, especially about how large a company is.
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I'm going to be labeled a flaming fanboy for this...
iMac's are really damn quiet machines, switching from a run-of-the-mill pc I was scared the damn thing would burn out because the fan wasn't making any noise. If they're pushed the fans do ramp up, but day to day use they are super silent. The one downside, your friend will have to run out of the room anytime they'll want to burn anything do cd/dvd - the damn burner is pretty loud.
It wouldn't be completely silent like the Extio, but pretty good, and save them a good bit of change.
For all the discussion about Teachers or other persons being able to carry arms to prevent more school shootings, what about the teachers, or each class being equipped with a tazer. (yes, I know in the odd case they are fatal too) It doesn't hold up to a gun in a one-on-one fight, but it would provide some means to fight back that would not lead to false deaths.
Yes I know having a tazer and a room full of high-school kids is asking for a tough time for the class nerd.
This is disappointing, I get my hands to passes for these preview screenings almost once a month. I have yet to see anyone with a camcorder though, I don't think they realized they can check for these things at the door. But then they wouldn't be able to whine and try to get DMCA North rammed through. Hopefully enough people make enough noise about how Warner is full of sh*t.
On another note, who actually downloads screeners, doesn't everybody at least wait for the leaked preview copies?
Sadly, I imagine that being the part-type sysadmin and the tech director of a district are one and the same position. IT will take a back-seat to new football uniforms 95% of the time.
Imagine all the time, energy and resources used up by millions of slackers all over the world reading /. when there are people suffocating economically in our society, makes me sick.
/. could probably power half of Africa.
/. could have cured cancer by now.
/sarcasm
The power wasted on
The mental energy wasted on
For shame slashdot!
There are thousands of kids dying every day and you wasted your time and money complaining about a million dollar laptop on the internet. makes me sick.
I could be wrong, but I believe that the polishing was done back in the day when the core was exposed (back in the Athlon days) so that the heatsink would make the best contact it could with the core. The core was such a small dense area that the best contact possible was needed. Now that everyone has a spreader on their core(s) the spreader itself does most of the immediate heat relieving and the contact between the spreader and cooler is much larger. With the larger area of contact using the super polished method it is much harder to get an even 'sandwich' across the entire area of the spreader, thus the move to the rougher finish.
All these 'but I've had XP for 5 years now' arguments are only happening because Vista was such a trainwreck in development!! Believe me, if Microsoft could have had Vista on the shelves in '03 or '04 they very happily would have, and charged you half a grand for it, but the dev cycle went to hell and here we are, 5 wonderful years of XP. Look at pre-XP releases, Win95, Win 98, Win ME, Win 2000, Win XP, sure they aren't annual releases, but they aren't that far off from the OS X refreshes.
Last time I tried this in Windows (xp), with Windows Media Player 9/10 it didn't work either, granted its been a while. I believe that not allowing screencaps is a requirement of the DVD decoder per MPAA's request.
if you can't figure out how to always show full menus in office how in the world did you even manage to install open office? you know that big search box that wastes all that space in all the office apps - if you are using 2k3 - is there just for you to type in your question so that the help system (one thing MS actually does a really good job at) can tell you where it is. And guess what, shock, surprise, it is under 'customize' (or possibly options, it's been a while since I've had to do a fresh install and turn the damn things off)
Office doesn't have a 'save as' shortcut, unless you mean doing an alt-f and then whatever the save as underlined letter is, but no ctrl-shift-s like every other god-dammed app under the sun.
True the cameras aren't in your home, but the government is instead tapping your phone, reading your emails, checking up on your credit card/debit purchases, so in effect filtering every conceivable way that you can interact with the outside world. They don't 'see' you masturbating, but they know that you have a subscription to 'play nerds', that you spend 9:30 to 9:45 every night looking at hot pr0n on the internet, and that you like the 3-ply extra smooth tissue. In effect they already have a much more malleable system in place for catching you doing 'something'.
1) You do realize that ( at least to my knowledge ) just about all Starbucks are franchises. That means that independent business types approach Starbucks to open shops wherever they open shops, sure Starbucks could be a good samaritan and turn people down, but the fact remains that people approach Starbucks to open stores. Yeah it sucks that some very good and unique coffee shops go under because Starbucks moves into the neighborhood, but it is the local people that vote with their wallets, don't like Starbucks don't buy their stuff, convince people to support the local shops, in essence you only have your neighbours to blame.
2) What larger chain isn't pushing cards, don't like'em don't use'em, and tell your friends/relatives to not get them.
3) Sure only if you buy into the conformity - again don't go to Starbucks if you don't like them. Some people like to walk into a shop in Anytown USA and get a consistent brew of coffee and environment.
4) Again see 1 & 3, just go and support your own local shop with their 'art' or just go visit a local art gallery or artist run center.
5) Boo hoo cry me a river, don't like the price don't use the product, coffee isn't exactly an essential service you know.
6) Damn straight, and it's on the backs of you 'but they are an evil large chain and hurt the local shops and artists who I choose not to support' types.
Does anyone else find it really disturbing that Total Recall might have had it right all along ?!?!?!!?
Now we just need to Rovers to find the alien control room and start melting the ice.
They already exist - miniATX - or whatever they are called these days, there are some even smaller. Yeah, generally they lag a bit behind in tech trends, but they do exist. Even the big boxes can be attractive.
I know I'm asking for trouble bringing up Apple in a thread like this, but the PowerMa**** Mac Pro looks pretty damn sexy for being a regular expandable (not so) mini-tower. The Imac hides most of the computer behind the monitor, I believe they use laptop components for most of their stuff, not too customized. Sure Apple's minimal design might not be your cup of tea, but the point is that they are able to do some neat things with existing technology, surely Dell, HP, everyone else can make some good looking things too. There are lots of great Industrial Designers out there, get them don't just let your Engineers (no offense to Engineers meant) design everything.
Unfortunately, while I am no fan of child-porn, this doesn't stop the crime. It makes it a bit harder to track this stuff down, but don't think for one second that this will stop anything. It will stop access to child porn for the super lazy (or web-illiterate) pedo, but it does nothing to stop the actual abuse/exploitation.
Think along the lines of Napster (Yes I know it's awful to compare trading music and child porn). After it was shut down a whole bunch of alternatives came up that are faster, more secure, private etc. What I mean is that with Napster the *AA had a means to at least oversee the trading, check out what songs were popular, where they are coming from etc, now you can trade music completely anonymously. Unfortunately the same thing will happen with child porn. Right now, the police and quite a few watch groups know some of these sites and are able to track who visits them etc, if you force these people even further underground they will be much harder to keep tabs on.
Anyway, my main point is that the focus should be on catching the people that are abusing their/our kids not just putting up a wall around them and pretending that they don't exist. Yes by lessening the demand a percentage will stop the abuse/exploitation, but the majority I don't think are in the pedo field to make a quick buck, they are there because they have some major mental issues or are just plain monsters, blocking Joe Blow's access to their website will not stop them from doing the things they do.
I think you have the wrong thread. The kids and parents are being sued, not myspace.
Also I would like to point out that there is a large difference between a) kids blogging on their myspace page that so-and-so is a lesbian, and b) setting up a fake profile page - pretending to be so-and-so - and announcing to the world that you are a lesbian.
I think.
Just installed it and remember seeing somewhere - in the software update description i think - a bullet that mentioned that you can now 'easily' backup your itunes library (this I would take to be the entire library: music, video, podcasts et al) haven't tried it or looked for the function, but Apple generally isn't stupid enough to not let you back up your downloaded files in some way.
Can someone else confirm?
The huge problem with statistics and profiling is that it only works for repeat offenders. The main reason that the 9/11 attack worked is that no one expected that (not getting into the fbi middle management ignoring warnings of this thing) to happen. Can it happen again, not likely, but we are just reacting to a new possibility. Chances are that the next attack won't involve planes flying into buildings but something completely different, say blowing up the alaska oil pipeline, poisoning water supplies, blowing up flood levies, mining school playing grounds, melting polar ice caps, you name it humans are very weak and breakable, there is no end to the way that we can be killed. There are a few things that we can do to safeguard ourselves, but overall we are f**cked until we know what the threat is and how to put measures in to prevent it.
On a different note: I hope the next terrorist plane attack involves an elderly white woman bludgeoning someone to death with her carry on luggage bag while her 2 year old child is biting the leg of the air marshall. Then no one is safe, and hopefully people will see how silly some of the regulations are. Nail clippers are not a terrorist tool!
I find kids are really confined these days, both physically and mentally.
Yes, there are more crazy people out and all that so the space that our kids can run around in is a lot smaller. Who doesn't remember playing street-hockey (you got me, i'm a canuck) with the neighbours, running in the undeveloped parts of the neighborhood, can't do that so much now, understandably, but you can still do things if the parents came out and kept an eye on the kids. Lots of kids play soccer, you can do the same thing with your neighbours for just about any type of activity - say street hockey - the kids pay and the adults can sit and relax on the sidelines chatting. Don't see much of that though. In a similar vein, I remember knowing everyone on my street block, not best buddies but knew who they were, and if they seemed like decent people. How many people/kids can say that now.
Now my big problem with replacing leisure activity with video games etc is that they are all very confining. Some are fairly open-ended but are still limited in the way that the game designer lets a user interact with the virtual world. When you compare games like GTA and Oblivion with the real world, they are extremely shallow. Yeah you can go everywhere and see the sights but actual interaction is very limited. You go crazy in GTA and start shooting everyone the only thing that starts happening is that progressively more powerful force tries to subdue you (police, swat, fbi, army) but you don't ever see a child running to the mother you just shot with an rpg, you don't see and hear the dying dog wailing on the side of the street, you don't vigilante stalkers or not-plaing-by-the-rules-cops coming after you etc. Yes those are extreme examples, and I don't ever want to see the first two examples in GTA ever, but things like this on a smaller scale can be seen in the real life all the time, and it lets children extrapolate things to much larger events. This is limiting the scope of interaction that a child experiences, the world is billions shades of gray, video games are at best 4-bit colour, tv generally much worse. There are lots of positives in video games too, but as always everything in moderation.
Even Lego is getting very limited. I remember Lego just being only the square bricks, none of this put 5 pieces together and you have a star wars racer. I remember building lots of stuff that looked like nothing what it was supposed to, and didn't make any real sense, but it was fun and let me experiment (kept build a uss enterprise on an 8 wheel off road independent suspension system for the longest time, so I could drive it all over my room without getting stuck on other Lego bricks etc) Whatever happened to their Technics (maybe with an x) line, I loved the little air pump pneumatics ones.
What happened? I'm only 27.
Hmm... have you considered that maybe the movie downloads may be decent resolution, perhaps even matching DVD? Same thing happened with music, mediocre quality, and more expensive than a CD, yet look at iTunes go. People want instant satisfaction, and are lazy to boot, so iTunes worked, whether people will have the patience to wait for movies to download remains to be seen, though I think people will choose to wait overnight for a movie rather then walk to the nearest store.
It's because the 17 inch is an eMac replacement, meant fo the educational market, where frontrow isn't high on the list of things students should be doing with their computers, nevermind that someone would make off with the remote on the first day the iMac is put in the classroom/lab.
A few years ago I had a Maxtor drive that went up in flames too. First it started making the usual clicking noises, then after opening the case and backing up just about everything the clicking eerily stopped and a few seconds the hard-drive was on fire! After shutting everything down and waiting for the smoke to clear I found it was the LED on the drive's logic board that was on fire.
Funnily the tech support guy that I got when I was RMA'ing the drive kept insisting that I start the computer, visit their website, and download a diagnostic utility to test the drive out. I had to tell him a dozen times that the drive was on fire and that there is not a chance in hell that I am booting my computer with it still inside.
I must take issue with you picking on MySpace. MySpace does not have any content, so it is false to state that the visuals interfere with said content as it does not exist. It is merely a contest to see how many images/videos (of your 18 year old girl alter ego) you can randomly include in your page and how flashy you can make the whole thing seem.
hmm... you know this thing called Firefox, perhaps you've heard of it, or Opera. Just be glad that the Flock guys/gals are doing all this integration stuff so that Firefox can stay lean and mean.
you want lean - firefox/opera.
you are a teen that blogs about shooting everyone at school/uploads drunken party photos/shares their pr0n library on del.ico.us - try flock.
How many people are on myspace? last I head it's in the neighborhood of 60 million users (vague memory, please correct me) that is a pretty good market to go after wouldn't you say. Same for things like blogger/flickr/etc, there is a huge market there for the browser, it just may not include the majority of people here on slashdot.
Everyone here has to realize, the web is changing, for better or for worse this web 2.0 'lets make the user do all the work' stuff is here to stay. Flock just makes it easier to do your daily web 2.0-ish chores in a pretty nice package. If you are into that, great, if not no one is forcing you to use it.
Im.
Perhaps it's not a publicly traded company? I don't actually know, maybe they are. But not being on the stock market doean't really mean anything, especially about how large a company is.