A guy drives up to a shepherd tending a flock of sheep, leans out of the window and says:
- If I tell you how many sheep you have in your flock, will you give me one?
The slightly surprised shepherd answers:
- Of course, why not.
Then this guy takes out a laptop, connects it to his cell phone, connects to the Internet, goes to the NASA website, selects a GPS satellite connection, finds out the exact coordinates of the place where he is, and sends them to another NASA satellite, which scans the area and produces ultra-high resolution photos. This guy then transmits the image to one of the laboratories in Hamburg, which after a few seconds sends him a confirmation message that the image has been processed and the resulting data has been stored in the database. Via ODBC, it connects to the MS-SQL database, copies the data into an EXCEL table and begins to perform calculations. Within minutes, he receives the result and prints 150 pages in color on his miniature printer. Finally he says to the shepherd:
— You have 1586 sheep in your flock.
- Exactly! That's how many sheep I have in my flock. Well, take your pick.
The man selects one and loads it into the trunk. And then the shepherd says to him:
- Listen, if I guess who you work for, will you give it back to me?
After thinking a little, the man says:
- Well, come on.
“You work as a consultant,” the shepherd suddenly says.
- It's true, damn it! And how did you guess?
“It was easy to do,” says the shepherd, “you showed up when no one called you, you want to get paid for an answer that I already know to a question that no one asked you, and besides, you don’t know a damn thing about my work.” SO GIVE MY DOG BACK.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru