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mego

mego


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Jargon  File  (4.2.3,  23  NOV  2000)  [jargon]: 
 
  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 
 
 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  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.  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  behaviour  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