A
West
Texas 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
and 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, and 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 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 consultant for the National Democratic Party." 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.
You tried to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you
don't know a damn thing about cows........ Now give me back
my dog."
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