Made me laugh....

[Clancy Moped]

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[dunedin]

That’s the old IT software designer / programmer one (at least the first one I saw).

 

[Stemar]

It's a wide application, and something well known to any project manager.

What's missing are the numerous points in any big project when you commit to a particular scope and method and someone very senior sees something nice to have but unimportant and deliberately omitted from the scope because of the difficulties involved, and insists on incorporating it. That person will then blame the project team because the project is now over time and over budget.

 

[mattonthesea]

There's a video out there somewhere about a design team being asked for a product with two parallel lines joining at right angles

 

[alan_d]

There's a video out there somewhere about a design team being asked for a product with two parallel lines joining at right angles

Meridians of longitude on a globe, 90 degrees apart?

 

[Tomahawk]

Many many tides ago I saw one of those that came via the office photocopy and internal mail.

What do you think of the new spec? said the local manager to the fitter
It's a crock of crap.... said the fitter

The final line was the Chairman of the company ..
For he knew the new spec was most fruitful and would make his company grow.

 

[greeny]

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I'm currently in the process of having a new swimming pool built. I'm going to send this to the architect, the engineer and the constructor. The architect wants to design the whole garden with expensive Italian tiles, palm trees and carvings from a local artist, to his design not mine, the engineer wants to place it where he has to do the minimum of structural calculations (its a fixed fee) but it's not where I want it, the constructor wants to sell me extra filtration, larger pumps and extra drainage. F*** me - its a 5 x 3 metre dip pool!

 

[mjcoon]

Meridians of longitude on a globe, 90 degrees apart?

OK, so long as the parallel lines don't have to join each other!

 

[mjcoon]

There's a video out there somewhere about a design team being asked for a product with two parallel lines joining at right angles

All parallel lines join at infinity. But who has been there to see if they join at right angles?

 

[alan_d]

OK, so long as the parallel lines don't have to join each other!

But they do - at the poles. Spherical geometry, not planar.

 

[mjcoon]

But they do - at the poles. Spherical geometry, not planar.

Which parallel lines are these? Do you mean the 90th parallel, which is just a point at the pole(s)? Lines of longitude are not parallel and not called parallels, only lines of latitude. See 90th parallel - Wikipedia

 

[TC Tuckton]

Aren't lines of longitude parallel when they cross the equator?

 

[mjcoon]

Aren't lines of longitude parallel when they cross the equator?

Infinitesimally, yes! Not convinced that is a sufficient condition, though...

 

[alan_d]

Which parallel lines are these? Do you mean the 90th parallel, which is just a point at the pole(s)? Lines of longitude are not parallel and not called parallels, only lines of latitude. See 90th parallel - Wikipedia

.... which is why I referred to them as meridians in my post #5, which was a light-hearted attempt to show the funny things that can happen when you try and apply concepts from Euclidian geometry to non-Euclidian surfaces.

 

[Boathook]

Here's a colour version

 

[Stemar]

Yep, that's the one I remember, particularly the documentation and support, both subjects close to my heart.

I'm sure there could be something about the user interface, probably involving barbed wire instead of rope, too. I've seen far too many systems with that sort of user experience...