As to the advertiser question. The problem becomes one of WHEN I am going to watch the add. If I am watching it I am not watching ANOTHER ad at the same time. I may very well skip the ad, and never pay attention. I may watch the recording a thousand times and never go back to the channel. I may ONLY watch the DVR and skip it every time.

The problem is, that an advertiser pays for an event. And the event it paid for, is not what you are doing when it is dvr'd. It is definitely not the same when it is "on-demand".

This of course doesn't apply to Planters Peanuts during the World Series of Poker.

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When I save something on my DVR, that is for personal use. It is by me for me.

When I get something from the cable company, that is distribution. If that is not distributed in the manner as the owner of the copyright desires, that is a copyright violation on face. Copyright is ABOUT distribution.

There are grey areas, like hold and release, 5 second delay, in-between servers, but this use of a private fair-use technology as a distribution technology, is definitely worth suing over.

It changes the value that the audience aggregator is charging the advertiser. The audience aggregator is unable to charge for another ad, and is unable to control the distribution method. When Adult Swim is on, they want you to watch Adult Swim. GO SHAKE!

It's the cost of acquisition of information. With things like onstar, this cost can drop to zero, and can be utilized for simple information gathering, fishing expeditions, and post facto inquisition.

This will be utilized for intimidation, politics, blackmail, and even criminal prosecution just to keep the populous satisfied. But information is power, and information can be twisted, presented in strange ways, and even lied about and manufactured.

Yellow Cake anyone?

If they need to do anything, it would be a manufacturing fab. Or it would be a chip designer or manufacturer, or screen company. But none of these things are really necessary to lower the parts cost, increase revenue, or increase profit.

But they really don't need to buy a games company. They make plenty from the apps store, and the games company is making plenty from the game. They are both happy.

There are two possible solutions.

First is to change nothing. Why fix what isn't broke?

The second is to change your time frame entirely. 10-15 years is too long and too disruptive when the time comes, and you lose out on presumptive benefits in the middle.

Surely there are network aware applications that do what you want on standard systems today.

You want to be network aware. In todays world you do not want to be cut off from your customers, and more importantly you want to push of data integrity to others.

You should develop an annual budget for IT expenses that rolls over. You should be on a 3-5 year schedule rather than a 10-15 year schedule. If you do this, you will have more predictable costs. You won't have competitive disadvantage because of software. You will have advantages of providing more and more reliable services to your customers.

As in all businesses information and digital information can be used to extend and monetize your business in all sorts of ways. But only if you choose to keep on top of it, and you don't constrain your learning cycles to whatever is new now.

Since the list of names all start with CRS, the alphabetic list is thousands of reports all in the letter "C".

HA.

They do this off the Grand Coulee Dam. But they are hardly ever used, as they are only really needed when there is need for flood control, AND lack of Power Need.

There already exist these giant "batteries" and couldn't the power be utilized for things like this, rather than something new?

There seem to be a ton of places where one could use excess energy at night, that you wouldn't need a new "Battery" source.

Did anyone read the article???

Verizon provided a service to IT'S customers where they can read webmail of another provider on their web page. Fairpoint is saying that after x date that if you still want that kind of service you have to go through THEIR web page. You can still go to Yahoo, Gmail, AOL, and Hotmail, and read your mail from those pages directly.

This is NOT a net neutrality issue. It is an added feature provided by the provider.

I for instance have NEVER used any of my ISP features, as I have separate email provider. Nothing Changes.

Shenanigans!
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