...rates the hardware, the data and the instructions for the manipulation of the data (software). It is, therefore, by definition, a virtual reality. I... ... He has the same hardware as we do (notably, a brain) and, by implication, the same software as we do (an all-pervasive, omnipresent self-identity) ... ...r brain "acquired"? It is clear that we do not acquire the hardware (neurones) and software (electrical and chemical pathways) we are born with. Bu... ...t is composed on a word processor. I do not own full rights to the word processing software (merely a licence), nor is the laptop I use my property... ... Admittedly, it is a partial parallel, at best: the computer and word processing software are passive elements. It is my brain that does the auth... ... have numerous examples of life forms with no leadership or hierarchy and in which decision-making is decentralized in a kind of parallel processin...

...tial mosaic of related concepts in utility theory as applied to financial decision-making. It reviews some of the classical notions of Benthamite ut... ...ion is subjectively processed by psycho-cognitive factors governing human decision-making actually contributes to the creation of heightened risk app... ...s subjectively interpret information and use the processed information in decision-making is what we term as irresolvable risk. With T, I, F... ...ome: The relative reward resulting from making a particular choice Decision-making is nothing but goal-oriented behavior. According to the cel... ...87-288. 131 Kahaner, D., C. Moler, and S. Nash. Numerical Methods and Software. Prentice-Hall Series in Computational Mathematics, New Jersey:... ...tial mosaic of related concepts in utility theory as applied to financial decision-making. The main body of the work is divided into four relevan...

...This work covers a substantial mosaic of related concepts in utility theory as applied to financial decision-making. It reviews some of the classical notions of Benthamite utility and the normative utility paradigm offered by the von Neumann-Morgenstern expected utility theory; exploring its major pitfalls before moving int...

...rt II After the Stall—63 4 The Generative Pattern—67 5 T ethered Appliances, Software as Service, and Perfect Enforcement—101 6 The Lessons of Wikipe... ... to program the machines themselves, but true beginners simply could load up software written and then shared or sold by their more skilled or inspire... ...inker with it. Hobbyists wrote programs. Businesses began to plan on selling software. Jobs (and Apple) had no clue how the machine would be used. The... ...vate for the Apple II, only Apple would innovate for the iPhone. (A promised software development kit may allow others to program the iPhone with Appl... ...t’s Windows operating system for PCs, it does not allow just anyone to write software that can run on it. Bill Gates sees the Xbox as at the center of... ...onsistently behave irrationally un- der particular circumstances, 18 and how decision-making within groups can fall prey to error and bias, 19 so too ... ...003) (discussing how recent advances in visual technologies will affect legal decision-making, with reference to many cases that have al- tered the way...

...eoretical and empirical studies have helped me to understand everything from software patents to synthetic biology. Jerry Reichman has supplied energy... ... many of these issues. The work of Richard Stallman, the creator of the free software movement, remains an inspiration even though he pro- foundly dis... ...hem obsolete with word processors, or develop functional voice recog- nition software, or just concentrate on making solar-powered backscratchers? Who... ...some aspects of the innovation may truly be nonrival, other aspects may not. Software is nonrival and hard to exclude people from, but it Why Intellec... ...f culture will be able to assemble vast teams of animators and musicians and software gurus and meld their labors into a videotape that will successfu... ...h areas, we seem to have the same recipe for failure in the structure of the decision-making pro- cess. Democratic decisions are made badly when they ...

...om, and utilize information to maximize your potential. T is helps in the decision-making process. When making an important decision, you have to sp... ... and body to work is vital to the life you live. It is the working mental software that tells your mind and body how you want them to work for you—k... ...take place now, in order to manifest my goals. When creating a new mental software conditioning program, you must make sure the words you use are po... ...onditioning program you give to your subconscious mind becomes the mental software program that works through the motherboard called the brain. It i... ...eful thought and consideration has to go into the creation of your mental software program because you will be the recipient of it. Situations, circ... ...sponsible citizen of the universe, you will have to determine the type of software that will be needed to Liz McGrath 32 eat, breathe, walk, and ta...

...le marketplace, the hardware (e-book readers) was clunky and awkward, the software unwieldy, the e-books badly written or already in the public domai... ...onsider the now defunct BookTailor. It used to sell its book customization software mainly to travel agents - but such software is likely to conquer ... ...er Scindex and its Academic Resource Channel. Established by academics and software experts from Bulgaria, it epitomizes the tearing down of geograph... ...rongly attribute it to oneself. It is a close kin of piracy. But while the software or content pirate does not bother to hide or alter the identity o... ...s not bother to hide or alter the identity of the content's creator or the software's author - the plagiarist does. Plagiarism is, therefore, more pe...

...e. Returns increase - rather than decrease - with each additional copy. An original software retains its quality even if copied numerous times. The ... ...free abundance. Demand always initially exceeds supply. Internet backbone capacity, software programmers, servers are all scarce to start with - in ... ...ld returns skyrocket and revenues contribute directly to the bottom line. Consider software applications. The first units sold cover the enormous f... ...ons. The first units sold cover the enormous fixed and sunk costs of authoring the software and the machine tools used in the manufacturing process... ... spreading to scholarly publishing and other form of intellectual property such as software, films, music, and e-books. Consumers are divided on t... ...t motivates them, what do they do and buy (and how, where and when), what are their decision-making processes and priorities, who influences these a...

...cost to the provider) are the commonest of contracts. We open a business. We sell a software application, we publish a book – we engage in helping ... ...utation as untrustworthy and treacherous. Hence the Jewish propensity to infiltrate decision-making centers, such as politics and the media. Their a... ...onclusively, Israelis are pragmatists. The influence of Messianic groups on Israeli decision-making is blown out of proportion. They are an increasi... ...The computer metaphor is now in vogue. Computer hardware metaphors were replaced by software metaphors and, lately, by (neuronal) network metaphors.... ...dren", the results of "brain-storming", conceived by "minds". What is a computer, a software application, a communications network if not a (materia... ...etaphors develop, they trace the developmental phases of the origin. Consider the software-mind metaphor. The computer is a "thinking machine" (ho... ... enhanced should organic or quantum computers transpire. At the dawn of computing, software applications were authored serially, in machine languag... ...ominant, though. Emotions play the role of gatekeepers and circuit breakers in the decision-making processes involved in the selection of a leader....

...cost to the provider) are the commonest of contracts. We open a business. We sell a software application, we publish a book – we engage in helping ... ...utation as untrustworthy and treacherous. Hence the Jewish propensity to infiltrate decision-making centers, such as politics and the media. Their a... ...onclusively, Israelis are pragmatists. The influence of Messianic groups on Israeli decision-making is blown out of proportion. They are an increasi... ...The computer metaphor is now in vogue. Computer hardware metaphors were replaced by software metaphors and, lately, by (neuronal) network metaphors.... ...dren", the results of "brain-storming", conceived by "minds". What is a computer, a software application, a communications network if not a (materia... ...etaphors develop, they trace the developmental phases of the origin. Consider the software-mind metaphor. The computer is a "thinking machine" (ho... ... enhanced should organic or quantum computers transpire. At the dawn of computing, software applications were authored serially, in machine languag... ...ominant, though. Emotions play the role of gatekeepers and circuit breakers in the decision-making processes involved in the selection of a leader....

...oods, remote processing of backroom operation using computers and modems, software authoring and many other sectors where Macedonia has comparative ... ...gainst another). But these will never be the determining factors in their decision-making. They are much more likely to be swayed by the level of pr... ... policy during the early postwar period; it was some time before those in decision-making positions realized that inflation, rather than stagnation ... ...ods, remote processing of backroom operation using computers and modems, software authoring and many other sectors where Macedonia has comparative ... ...r care, and many other business-support services are farmed out to India. Software development takes place in Israel and Ireland. Society and commu... ...ally supplanted by artificial intelligence, expert systems, smart agents, software authoring applications, remotely manipulated devices, and the lik... ... crash due to lack of maintenance, absent-mindedness, and pure ignorance. Software support personnel, aided and abetted by Customer Relationship Man...

...es, balances. Technical Plan • Description of manufacturing processes (hardware, software, communications, other); • Need for know-how, technolo... ...now-how, technological transfer and licensing required; • Suppliers of equipment, software, services (including offers); • Manpower (skilled and... ...vestments. 9. To fully computerize all the above activities in a combined hardware-software and communications system which will integrate into the... ...uter network connections, protocols, solving issues of compatibility (hardware and software, etc.); 7. Project planning, implementation and superv... ...s off the shelf marketing plans and drawer sales promotion campaigns. It developed software and personnel capable of analysing any market into effe...

.... […] "This Article seeks to provide more functional models of judicial decision-making. Normally, formalists and antiformalists alike resort to “... ...acted from RNA microarray data. This work is part of the development of a software tool, FCModeler, which models and visualizes metabolic networks. ... ...ed FCM (Figure 1.4.13). This implementation more accurately models my own decision-making process. "At this point, I had planned to show plots of ... ...Brubaker illustrates very candidly the application of FCMs in intelligent decision-making processes. Further, the simplicity of the tool enables any... ...roblem of all kind, for transportation problems are basically problems of decision-making. In our opinion, NCM can also be used to arrive at better r... ...mpare it with legal statements/ judgments. 47. Construct a NCModeler (a software tool analogous to FCModeler) in creating metabolic and regulatory... ...ulate the Information Systems Strategic Planning Process, Information and Software Technology, 41 (1999) 197-210. 48. Kardaras, D., and G. Mentzas. ...

...The country’s current account deficit is widening despite steady growth in software services exports and a rise in workers’ remittances from overseas ... ...s on such key issues such as inflation targeting and capital controls. The decision-making processes at the IMF are nowhere de-linked from ideological... ...credibility given the poor representation of developing countries in their decision-making structures and processes. In comparison, regional cooperati... ...developing countries should have greater voice and representation in IMF’s decision-making structures and processes. In October 2009, the G20 asked th... ...of information but, more importantly, it implies active involvement in the decision-making processes. As pointed out by Tony Porter, “Civil society ac...

...llengaged.com/engaged/cio.cgi?c=connection&f=0&t=255. [27] Le, Charles T. Le, Software for neutrosophic logical operators, Networking by Industry, ... ...a la classification multi capteurs de cibles”, AGARD Avionics Panel Symposium on Software Engineering and Its Applications, Turkey, April 25 29, 1988. ... ...ed to build our NeuroFuzzy system. We have run 10000 iteration using Fuzzytech software and as a result the parameters of our system has been chosen... ...icts or something with flexibility. Our multiagent system has become a sort of software engineering or system engineering of fresh forms, failing to ...

...with death. The organism is akin to a computer which processes data using elaborate software and then turns itself off after 15-80 years, erasing al... ...This often leads to infinite regressions. That the soul is an epiphenomenon, the software result of a hardware complexity (much the same way as ... ... scans a two-dimensional tape inscribed with ones and zeroes, etc.) it is really a software application, in today's terminology. It carries out ins... ...r is, for example, the intentions of the programmer as enshrined and expressed in a software application. An intent of the first order would be the ... ...e intentions of the same programmer which directly lead to the composition of said software. Consider, for instance, house pets. They engage in a ...

...Stimulate the Information Systems Strategic Planning Process, Information and Software Technology, 41, 197-210, 1999. 64. Kardaras, D., and G. Ment...

...ording to the UN. A thriving black market facilitates the smuggling of cigarettes, software, home appliances, video films, weaponry, food, carpets ... ...d. Kosovo is one of the global centers of piracy of intellectual property, notably software and movies. The Central Fiscal Authority of Kosovo esti...

...gaged.com/engaged/cio.cgi?c=connection&f=0&t=255. [91] Le, Charles T. Le, Software for neutrosophic logical operators, Networking by Industry, Inc. ...

...inner “self- programming.” Thus, reality is only a projection of our interior software; it does not exist outside our internal vessels. Reality is a...

...- Role of the present day government N 7 - Laws of Manu N 8 - No power or decision-making vests in the hands of Dalits and Sudras N 9 - Lack ... ...Stimulate the Information Systems Strategic Planning Process, Information and Software Technology, 41 197-210, (1999). 24. Kardaras, D., and G. Men...

...ration will ever have the resources to make a competing model of their idiotic software. That way; it keeps a lock on the business of selling softwa... ...ies; from chocolate, bananas, wood, chemicals, hardware stores, video stores, software companies, and oil… to running shoes, pants, coffee houses, mo... ...e they are coming out with newer and newer, and more complicated programs and software… that need more and more complex computers with bigger memory ... ...st an improvement that smacks of good sense: they are hounded, cut out of the decision-making process, blackballed and never promoted. Any group of... ... anything. That does not mean you should not judge, or measure, or use your decision-making abilities at all. It only means that you should only ... ...d’s sake, how obvious can you get? Why do you think Microsoft’s computer software is called ‘windows’? Because it offers these undead scum hun...

...dianapolis Center. 142 The reasons are technical, arising from the way the software processed radar information, as well as from poor primary radar co... ...he air at the same time in different parts of the world.They used the game software to increase their familiarity with aircraft models and functions, ... ...ommand Center located on the 22nd floor of the North T ower. Damage to the software controlling the system, resulting from the impact of the plane, pr... ...s leading to the roof were kept locked for security reasons, and damage to software in the security command station prevented a lock release order fro... ...ystem, the “supplemental” radar had poor primary coverage, and the FAA ATC software did not allow the display of primary radar data from the “tertiary...