Determinism is orthogonal to rational decision making... But assuming rationality and determinism are linked, Conway's free will theorem sort of points to the same direction: free will (if it exists) would stem from free will in elementary particles!
you: hey boss let's adopt firefox instead of IE boss: fire.. what? you: firefox... IBM supports it. boss: says who? you: uuuh... there is this crappy CNET story... etc
Oh, and Microsoft......If you cant make Windows more stable, you might want to do something about those error messages that crop up on computers running things like displays at airports. Almost every time I fly these days, at the airport, I see a computer running an information display that has crashed. Either a bluescreen of death (soon to be redscreen AND bluescreen of death in Longhorn), or a fundamental error message. This never looks good to customers and is bad advertising in large traffic areas. One of these days, one of these systems is going to get hacked and something truly embarrassing is going to be displayed on all of those big displays.
Bad plublicity is still publicity. This could be considered a clever marketing trick...
When I see those my first thought is always to notice that they run windows.
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Determinism is orthogonal to rational decision making... But assuming rationality and determinism are linked, Conway's free will theorem sort of points to the same direction: free will (if it exists) would stem from free will in elementary particles!
you: hey boss let's adopt firefox instead of IE
boss: fire.. what?
you: firefox... IBM supports it.
boss: says who?
you: uuuh... there is this crappy CNET story...
etc
Oh, and Microsoft......If you cant make Windows more stable, you might want to do something about those error messages that crop up on computers running things like displays at airports. Almost every time I fly these days, at the airport, I see a computer running an information display that has crashed. Either a bluescreen of death (soon to be redscreen AND bluescreen of death in Longhorn), or a fundamental error message. This never looks good to customers and is bad advertising in large traffic areas. One of these days, one of these systems is going to get hacked and something truly embarrassing is going to be displayed on all of those big displays.
Bad plublicity is still publicity. This could be considered a clever marketing trick...
When I see those my first thought is always to notice that they run windows.
Usually the key to things is not the actual implementation used, but the algorithm behind it.
That's fine. Algorithms cannot/should not be copyrighted or patented.