Some Folk Just Don't (Want To) Understand

(rant mode on)

You know the feeling, right? You spend months trying to get across an obvious point (and a better technical solution) and people just don't get it, because the "added value" crap (or, more precisely, what they believe to be value) gets in the way of things actually working properly.

At the risk of mortally wounding my , I'll stop here and just note that sometimes you can pick all three from "better, faster and cheaper" - the only thing stopping you is not caring to listen to the whys and hows.

If you're a non-technical and non-English-speaking dweeb, the ancient joke is "better, faster, cheaper - pick any two".

I feel a new organizational rant coming on... Ah well. On with the news: