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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>MEGO</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="megapenny.html" title="megapenny"/><link rel="next" href="meltdown--network.html" title="meltdown, network"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">MEGO</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="megapenny.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="meltdown--network.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="MEGO"/><dt xmlns="" id="MEGO"><b>MEGO</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/me<6D>goh/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/mee<65>goh/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [“<span class="quote">My Eyes Glaze Over</span>”, often “<span class="quote">Mine Eyes Glazeth
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(sic) Over</span>”, attributed to the futurologist Herman Kahn] Also
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<span class="firstterm">MEGO factor</span>.</p></dd><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">n.</span> A
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<a href="../H/handwave.html"><i class="glossterm">handwave</i></a> intended to confuse the listener and
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hopefully induce agreement because the listener does not want to admit to
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not understanding what is going on. MEGO is usually directed at senior
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management by engineers and contains a high proportion of
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<a href="../T/TLA.html"><i class="glossterm">TLA</i></a>s.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. excl. An appropriate response to MEGO tactics. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. Among non-hackers, often refers not to behavior that causes the
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eyes to glaze, but to the eye-glazing reaction itself, which may be
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triggered by the mere threat of excessive technical detail as effectively
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as by an actual excess of it.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="megapenny.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="meltdown--network.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">megapenny<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>meltdown, network</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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