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luci
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Counting Cows
« on: Jan 24^th, 2005, 6:43pm »

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>> A cowboy was herding his herd in a remote pasture when suddenly a
> brand-new
>> BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in
>> a
>> Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses YSL tie, leans out the
>> window
>> and asks the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you
>> have in your herd, will you give me a calf?"
>>
>> The cowboy looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his
>> peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure. Why not?"
>>
>> The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects
> it
>> to his AT&T cell phone, surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he
>> calls up a GPS satellite navigation system to get an exact fix on his
>> location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the
>> area
>> in an ultra-high-resolution photo.
>>
>> The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports
>> it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany.
>>
>> Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has
>> been processed and the data stored. He then accesses a MS-SQL database
>> through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with hundreds of complex
>> formula. He uploads all of this data via an email on his Blackberry and,
>> after a few minutes, receives a response. Finally, he prints out a
>> full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet
>> printer and finally turns to the cowboy and says, "You have exactly 1586
>> cows and calves."
>>
>> "That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says the
>> cowboy.
>>
>> He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amused as
>> the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
>>
>> Then the cowboy says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly
> what
>> your business is, will you give me back my calf?"
>>
>> The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why
>> not?"
>>
>> "You're a democrat consultant" says the cowboy.
>>
>> "Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"
>>
>> "No guessing required." answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even
>> though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already
>> knew, to a question I never asked; and you don't know anything about my
>> business...!
>>
>> .......Now give me back my dog!

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« Reply #1 on: Jan 24^th, 2005, 9:12pm »

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« Reply #3 on: Jan 25^th, 2005, 6:41pm »

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that was very funny.. hehehehe....

but I guess being an IT person myself.. he sure did too much process to count the cows huh... hehehe.. and he sure is very techy!

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