From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
Subject: Re: Have you ever had a bug caused by...
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:08:07 -0400
Date: 2001-10-23T17:08:08+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9r485o$j5m$1@nh.pace.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: oggB7.39668$ev2.46706@www.newsranger.com
This is sometimes a problem as well. All too often some (pointy haired)
bosses have been busy reading industry journals and pick up on buzzwords and
think "this is the direction to go in" because everybody is writing about
it. Trade journals can suffer from the same GIGO phenomenon as computers:
Garbage In, Gospel Out.
We used to have an "insider" expression taken from a Dilbert commic: "Mauve
has more RAM..." to indicate when a manager was speaking techno-babel. It
had to do with Dilbert testing to see if the PHB knew what he was talking
about when he wanted to have Dilbert acquire a new relational database.
Dilbert asks what color it should be. The answer was mauve because "Mauve
has more RAM".
The sad thing about Dilbert is that Scott Adams is *not* making this stuff
up.
MDC
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Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com
Enabling the digital revolution
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"Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
news:oggB7.39668$ev2.46706@www.newsranger.com...
>
> Actually, I've seen more cases where the grunts like it, but management
doesn't
> for whatever reason (I quit trying to analyze their reasoning process when
I
> discovered it has little to do with reasoning).
>
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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-20 1:14 Have you ever had a bug caused by Mike Silva
2001-10-20 1:44 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-20 2:12 ` James Rogers
2001-10-20 9:15 ` Robert*
2001-10-20 11:20 ` Bertrand Augereau
2001-10-20 11:30 ` Matthew Woodcraft
2001-10-20 12:39 ` Robert*
2001-10-20 13:09 ` Bertrand Augereau
2001-10-20 21:21 ` Robert Dewar
2001-10-22 15:58 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-20 19:07 ` Dr Adrian Wrigley
2001-10-21 1:09 ` Mike Silva
2001-10-21 12:05 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-22 14:48 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-22 17:03 ` Martin Dowie
2001-10-22 17:22 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-23 6:13 ` Mike Silva
2001-10-22 21:49 ` David Bolen
2001-10-22 22:14 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-23 0:52 ` Robert*
2001-10-23 13:30 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-25 9:45 ` John English
2001-10-25 15:23 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-25 18:17 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-25 15:36 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-25 16:09 ` Simon Wright
2001-10-25 2:16 ` David Bolen
2001-10-23 6:26 ` Mike Silva
2001-10-23 9:40 ` mike
2001-10-23 10:09 ` Preben Randhol
2001-10-23 13:48 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-23 15:45 ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-23 17:08 ` Marin David Condic [this message]
2001-12-04 11:09 ` Harri J Haataja
2001-10-24 12:44 ` Marc A. Criley
2001-10-24 18:55 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-10-24 19:34 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-26 4:18 ` (Off topic:) Quality Anders Wirzenius
2001-10-25 9:36 ` Have you ever had a bug caused by John English
2001-10-25 15:41 ` Wes Groleau
2001-10-25 17:57 ` Have you ever had a bug OOPS Wes Groleau
2001-11-13 2:07 ` David Thompson
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