Agree completely, Merle. Except, now that you mention it: 14 was an extraordinarily good year. On Feb 6, 2013 9:33 PM, "Merle Lefkoff" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey, Nick. I wasn't being frivolous, I was very serious. We struggle > with re-languaging tired old concepts along with the arcane jargon of > complexity that you guys are masters at. Because what we're selling is so > out of the box (WHAT? We're going to sit down at the negotiating table > without an agenda?!), I take a special delight in discovering old words > that can be used in new and captivating ways. And you already know I > appreciate you. > > And Friam dear, or Douglas dear--you should be ashamed of yourselves if > you're older than 14. > > On Feb 6, 2013, at 8:48 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: > > > HEY! > > This my thread and the price of admission is actually being helpful with > the problem. Please don’t jam this channel. > > > > After you have said something helpful, THEN you can be ribald. > > > > n > > > > From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Douglas > Roberts > > Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 8:39 PM > > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Windows Resource Monitor > > > > How about Trojan cracks? Sounds like rich earth, ripe for tilling. > > > > Merle, what are your thoughts? > > > > On Feb 6, 2013 8:34 PM, "Nicholas Thompson" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > My Dell Studio (yeah, yeah, save the Mac cracks) has been cranky of > late, particularly when streaming stuff, and since I am reluctant to put > out a couple of hundred dollars to have it “tuned up”, I have been trying > to see what I can do on my own. This has led me to the resource monitor, a > truly fascinating little gizmo, a couple of levels down in the Task > Manager. The help files that are attached to it are pretty lean, and I > was wondering if someone knew of a “Resource Monitor for Idiots” source. > > > > One thing that I immediately learned which was STUNNING was that mac > I-tunes has a chum that it loads called AppleRemoteDevicesManager.exe which > grabs 25 percent of your resources off the top and doesn’t let go unless > you whack it over the head with a brick. It’s purpose is to manage your > relationship with your mobile devices, but relentlessly demands resources > even though you don’t have any mobile devices. I think of it as > essentially an Apple Trojan. (Ok, now, you can make Mac-cracks). > > > > Thanks, > > > > Nick > > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > > Clark University > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > http://www.cusf.org > > > > > > > > ============================================================ > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > ============================================================ > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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