:MEGO: /me'goh/ or /mee'goh/ [`My Eyes Glaze Over', often `Mine
Eyes Glazeth (sic) Over', attributed to the futurologist Herman
Kahn] Also `MEGO factor'. 1. n. A {handwave} intended to
confuse the listener and hopefully induce agreement because the
listener does not want to admit to not understanding what is going
on. MEGO is usually directed at senior management by engineers and
contains a high proportion of {TLA}s. 2. excl. An appropriate
response to MEGO tactics. 3. Among non-hackers, often refers not
to behavior that causes the eyes to glaze, but to the eye-glazing
reaction itself, which may be triggered by the mere threat of
technical detail as effectively as by an actual excess of it.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Eyes Glazeth (sic) Over', attributed to the futurologist Herman
Kahn] Also `MEGO factor'. 1. n. A {handwave} intended to
confuse the listener and hopefully induce agreement because the
listener does not want to admit to not understanding what is going
on. MEGO is usually directed at senior management by engineers and
contains a high proportion of {TLA}s. 2. excl. An appropriate
response to MEGO tactics. 3. Among non-hackers, often refers not
to behavior that causes the eyes to glaze, but to the eye-glazing
reaction itself, which may be triggered by the mere threat of
technical detail as effectively as by an actual excess of it.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- MEGO /me'goh/ or /mee'goh/
[`My Eyes Glaze Over'
often `Mine Eyes Glazeth (sic) Over', attributed... - cybercrud: /si:'ber-kruhd/ n. 1. [coined by Ted Nelson]
Obfuscatory tech-talk
Verbiage with a high {MEGO} factor. The computer... - PDL: /P-D-L/, /pid'l/, /p*d'l/ or /puhd'l/ 1. n. `Program
Design Language'
Any of a large class of formal and profoundly useless... - cybercrud /si:'ber-kruhd/ n.
1. [coined by Ted Nelson]
Obfuscatory tech-talk
Verbiage with a high MEGO factor. The computer... - handwave
[poss. from gestures characteristic of stage
magicians] 1
v. To gloss over a complex point; to distract a ... - quantum bogodynamics: /kwon'tm boh`goh-di:-nam'iks/ n
A theory that characterizes the universe in terms... - tick: n. 1. A {jiffy} (sense 1). 2. In simulations
the discrete unit of time that passes between iterations... - GIGO: /gi:'goh/ [acronym] 1. `Garbage In, Garbage Out'
usually said in response to {luser}s who complain that... - wedged: adj. 1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding without
help
This is different from having crashed. If the system...
