meaning of megapenny
1. megapenny /meg*-pen"ee/ $10,000 1 cent * 10^6. Used semi-humorously as a unit in comparing computer cost and performance figures. [Jargon File] MEGO /me"goh/ or /meegoh/ ["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 TLAs. 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. Mei
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