Thursday, March 20, 2008

Another great day in hell^WMegaCorp. The dim-watchers are still asking questions although this time, they're not asking the dims, rather they're speaking to us, the non-dims.
The latest request for information has come from a dimwatcher who appears to have no technical knowledge over and above some handy TLA's. Ordinarily this isn't a problem as the dims aren't too technically minded either, however, when this dimwatcher is wielding the "pass/fail" stick, I'd hope that he has even the slightest clue about what he's examining.
I'll paraphrase some of this dimwatchers questions. Let's imagine that we are people that make cars. The questions...
1. How do we get the car to travel along the road? Is it by slingshot? Or is it pushed by slaves? Is it an on-demand process?
2. How do we drive to other peoples places? Do they have cars too?
3. How do we know that other people aren't looking at our car?
4. How do we lock the doors of the car?
5, How many roads do we have?
6. How do we drive the car?
.. and so on.

If we extend this idea a little further, it's rather like having a guy who's played Doom deciding exactly whether the UK & US governments have done a good job in Iraq.

So now us non-dims are going to have to waste yet more time explaining basic & simple concepts to the dimwatcher. This further wastes our time and productivity takes yet another nosedive.

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