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The fight for freedom is not the battle against terrorists. It never was.

The fight for freedom is about the fight for your rights. It should by consequence also be about the fight against government corruption which leads to the tyranny that tramples those rights. Want an example of what that means? Check out this report:

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/299695/underground_v ideo_of_tyranny_in_china/

We have lost of sight of what freedom is and need to be reminded of what the loss of it means.

What do AOL, Yahoo, MSN, and the like snap up to compete?

FileRatings ( http://www.fileratings.com/Video ) lists these as the top sites:

http://www.metacafe.com/
http://www.castpost.com/
http://www.clipshack.com/
http://www.blinkx.com/
http://dailymotion.com/
http://blip.tv/
http://vidoegg.com/
http://www.vimeo.com/
http://www.phanfare.com/
http://vobbo.com/
http://ourmedia.org/

Business / Internet video

The trouble with YouTube
Aug 31st 2006 | SAN FRANCISCO
From The Economist print edition

It attracts a lot of viewers, but can “user-generated” video make money?

“STARBUCKS has comfy chairs, but they don’t charge people for sitting in them,” says Tom McInerney, the boss and co-founder of Guba, an internet-video company. Instead, he explains, Starbucks provides a comfortable environment, at considerable expense, so that people will buy overpriced coffee. That, in essence, is the business model being pursued by websites that host “user-generated content” such as personal blogs, photographs and today’s craze, amateur videos, which can be uploaded and watched on sites such as YouTube, Google Video, MySpace, Guba, Veoh and Metacafe. By offering a setting for free interaction, such sites provide the online equivalent of comfy chairs. The trouble is that, so far, there is no equivalent of the overpriced coffee that brings in the money and pays the bills.

IMAGE: Head and shoulders above the rest, for now (AP)

That is why people like Chad Hurley and Steven Chen (pictured), the co-founders of YouTube, the clear leader of the pack by audience size, are casting around for a business model. Aware that inserting advertisements at the beginning of video clips, as some sites do, is annoying and risks driving away YouTube’s users, Mr Hurley and Mr Chen have announced two experiments with advertising, with the promise of more to come. One idea is for “brand channels” in which corporate customers create pages for their own promotional clips. Warner Brothers Records, a music label, led the way, setting up a page to promote a new album by Paris Hilton. The second experiment is “participatory video ads”, whereby advertisements can be uploaded and then rated, shared and tagged just like amateur clips. This “encourages engagement and participation,” the company declares.

Even as advertisers evaluate these new ideas, however, YouTube and the other video-sharing sites face other difficulties. For one thing, they are in a no-man’s land of copyright law: they promise to pull pirated content from their sites when asked to do so, but it is only a matter of time before one of them is hit with a big lawsuit. Then there are the costs of running such a site—video requires a lot of bandwidth and storage. A rival estimates that YouTube is losing more than $500,000 a month.

Putting paid-for advertisements alongside amateur video clips, perhaps based on keywords or tags, poses another problem. “How do you know the guy in a video doesn’t make a racial slur?” asks Mr McInerney. Many firms will be cautious about letting an automatic system—such as, say, Google’s AdSense—place their ads next to user-generated clips of unknown provenance and with potentially embarrassing contents. (Even so, Guba is testing AdSense for Video, which has not yet been officially launched.)

For its part, Guba is betting on a combination of advertising plus the sale and rental of commercial video material. Its site offers both free amateur videos and paid-for content, including films from Sony and Warner Brothers. When Guba cut its prices last week, allowing new films to be downloaded for $9.99 and older ones for $4.99, its sales jumped tenfold. Google Video also allows content owners to charge for video. This suggests that internet-video sites are on a collision course with DVD-rental outfits, such as Netflix, which are moving towards the delivery of films via the

I'm surprised it wasn't on here yet...

Sure it's insensitive* (you know it has to be if it's on Family Guy) but I think it really explains what's going on here!

quote:
SPEAKER: Archeological evidence indicates that Ireland was a much different place before the discovery of alcohol.
Speaker Most experts believe it was something like this.

        [Flying cars whizzing]

Irishman Today we, Ireland's top scientists, have found a way to convert our entire population to pure energy!
Irishman 2 It's a glorious day.
Irishman 3 Michael McCloud's just invented a new kind of beverage in his basement.
Irishman 3 Whiskey.

        [Rowdy drunken yelling]

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/128718/family_guy/

* yeah... I'm irish and scottish too, so it only hurts when I laugh...

One person just can't accomplish that kind of violence with any kind of weapon short of a gun. Did the fact that the police officers were armed and returning fire in any way dissuade this individual as one of the parent poster's suggested? See for yourself if you like.
Warning, not work safe and contains an extreme amount of violence:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/158562/cops_vs_ak_47 /

My point is that I don't think that any safety afforded by citizens being able to arm themselves is not worth it if tragedies like this are going to occur.

Actually, you missed the point of my post entirely. (Which was probably due to its brevity, so it's my fault.) The parent said "A lot of OS X was already in Windows 2000 but it was turned off because people didn;t necessarily want or need drop shadows and genie effects." I was pointing out that the cool technologies in OS X go much further than eye-candy effects, and that most of the features in Vista that MS is making a big deal about have been in OS X since Tiger was first demoed in mid-2004. These features have already been in Tiger users' hands for over a year and it looks like it'll be almost another year before any member of the general public gets to play with them in Windows. This video says it best. (There are longer versions available elsewhere.)

You sound like a troll, but I'll bite. We're talking about a lot more than drop shadows.* Things like instant search, live thumbnails, windows as textures drawn by the GPU, etc.

http://www.google.com/search?&q=vista+tiger+featur es

Here's one of my favorites.

* btw, the only drop shadow in W2K was on the mouse pointer.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/37523/speed_camera_t est/

The guys at Top Gear went to an airstrip to test the speed camera 'myth'.

Long story short: In their very unscientific test, the British version of the Speed Camera did not go off when you're going ~170MPH. No Flash, no picture, nothing.

I imagine a 1980's speed camera wasn't designed to capture very high speed objects.

and to make it more interesting you could use toot-tone. :) http://www.metacafe.com/watch/98090/toot_tone/

Robots and beer don't mix. Here's the proof: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/32399/fosters_robot/

I never said "Intel CPUs don't run hot". Intel CPUs however don't melt when they overheat. I'm sure AMD has resolved this problem by now, but it was a serious problem. Take a look at this video for exactly what was occuring. And this CPU meltdown happened to a few of my friends due to incorrect heatsink mounting. It should be noted that the heatsink mounting mechanism on the Pentium 4 is way easier to secure and isn't likely to come loose as can happen with the clips on AMDs.
Then you go on a rant about Intel the company. I'm talking strictly about one thing - stability. Long life of components. I have a Pentium 200 that is what 10 years old? Works fine. I've never had an Intel CPU fail. I've chucked out several AMDs CPUs.
The best thing for the market is to have competition and you are starting to see the results of AMD's strong performance in Intel's next generation chipsets. The Core processor is a better laptop chip than AMD's Turion. The next gen Intel desktop chips will also make it an interesting fight. The sooner the Pentium 4 is left behind, the better for Intel.
But all of this is academic and completely beside my point which is simply that speed is not the only factor in making a decision between what hardware to use in your PC.
There are other reasons not to buy a Dell gaming computer (proprietary parts, cost versus a custom rig).

Are you serious? Windows Vista is clearly a revolutionary operating system from a company that really knows how to innovate.

> For example, they know that some percentage (surprisingly large) will walk out the door, either in customer's or employee's hands (i call it shrinkage).

I hate to be the one to break it to you, but "shrinkage" has to do with something totally different. Think turning your iPod video into an iPod flea...

Hell YODA is already getting down, why not the entire cast.

The IPod Flea

http://www.metacafe.com/item22030/do_it_yourself_- _video_projector/GMSMA amazing

GPL violations seem to be getting more and more common. Take for instance eMule, where an eMule+ developer is knowingly breaking the GPL while working for a proprietary company called MetaCafe:
http://forum.emule-project.net/index.php?showtopic =72668 (login probably required)
http://forums.metacafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=139

The worst part is probably that the eMule+ folks, who forked the eMule codebase and should be well aware of how the GPL works, are directly contributing to this violation.