Arthur Fuller
artful at rogers.com
Wed May 4 11:30:09 CDT 2005
You invite me to make a fool of myself, Shamil, but I have never yet shied away from such an opportunity. In my opinion you have placed your focus on the third tragedy, not the first and second. The first is that the power-vaccuum enabled the gangsters to have free reign, while at the same time the police in St. Petersburg didn't even have fax machines that worked correctly, let alone gasoline for their cars. The second tragedy is that somehow Mr. Putin is getting away with his suppression of free speech. Why are there not hundreds of thousands of people in the streets, as recently in Ukraine? That part I cannot explain. Perhaps you can shed some insight. To be fair, almost half the people in the USA still think that Saddam was connected to the World Trade Center tragedy, so no country is immune to the effects of media concentration and control. It's my guess that the Canadian media are even more concentrated than the American media, but even within one nation that is not the problem. The problem is the Rupert Murdochs, the Time-Life-Warners, the vertical integration of film studios, TV stations, newspapers and toy-manufacturers. The result is the same editorial in 30 countries (albeit in the local language), movies that gross $200M in the first two weeks then die because finally the word gets around that they stink, and toys tied to the aforementioned movies that are given away in fast-food restaurants whose apparent purpose is to fatten the population like pigs fattened for the market. The problem, the real problem, is that the MBAs have learned all their strategies from the mob. And this is a global problem. More effective here, less effective there, but it's the same problem in every country you examine. Arthur Shamil Salakhetdinov wrote: >Hi Gustav, > > > >>One classic though - which smells really bad - >>is the small "pilot project >> >> >So never ever participate in the "small pilot projects"? >What about Proof Of Concept(POC) kind of projects? - when it's not even >clear is that possible to implement what client wanted to be developed? > > > >>"the big job is canceled by the stupid superiors". >> >> >They are always stupid? :) >I mean have you seen/met with some smart high level and not that high level >managers? :) >That was my experience here in Soviet Union and then Russia that there are >very few good managers. >What a surprise was when I have found that there on the West there are also >a few good managers! (This is not I who thought most of them not good >enough - these were native people of these Western countries I worked with >who characterized them this way...) >I have seen two good managers so far and not the high level - what I have >heard/seen of rather high level managers - they were always "stupid >superiors" :) > >The (rhetoric) question is how this World is still running with all that >"stupid superiors" making the decisions influencing millions of peoples and >billions of dollars... > >...as far as I see here in Russia a capitalistic country is mainly a >chaotically developing "beast"(what a surprise!?) - the least state tries >to "touch" it, the best for its self-development... > >... the tragedy of the Soviet Union(if we will not take into account >genocide against its own people in 20ies-50ies of the last century) and of >nowadays Russia is that state is trying to have too much bureaucratic >control on capitalistic businesses and in the same time lets them to exploit >to the max their workers and employees. If the state here gave more freedom >to the businesses and in the same time didn't let them to exploit that heavy >their workers everything would have developed here much faster... > >...yes, I know it's easy to say "stupid superiors" - and it's not that >easy(?) to be these supermanagers... > >Best regards, >Shamil >-- >Web: http://smsconsulting.spb.ru/shamil_s >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Gustav Brock" <Gustav at cactus.dk> >To: <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> >Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 4:14 PM >Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] OT: >FridayHumor:Anewpetitiontosupportoutdated(?)technologies... > > > > >>Hi Shamil >> >>It sounds like you have met a lot of these bad guys. And unfortunately >>you mostly have to learn by experience. >> >>One classic though - which smells really bad - is the small "pilot >>project"; if carried out successfully the big project with the fat >>budget is waiting for you. However, all sorts of things must be changed >>or polished because "the pilot project must be perfect and approved >>before we launch the big job". You work like a mad only to find out that >>"the big job is canceled by the stupid superiors". >> >>/gustav >> >> >> >> >>>>>shamil at users.mns.ru 05/02 1:23 pm >>> >>>>> >>>>> >>Hello Gustav -- >> >> >> >>>Some of these companies promise you the World >>> >>> >>Yes, I have "been there seen that..." >> >><<< >>but the bad ones you just have to learn how >> >> >>>they smell so you can step back before real work is delivered. >>> >>> >>Do you have some special "detectors" for this their bad smelling? :) >>I mean the cliche words, behavioral patterns they use to postpone >>payment or >>even cancel any payments? >> >>They are usually in a hurry and don't have time for any, even very >>short >>specs - right? >>When the first (prototype) version is delivered they change their mind >>considerably and are trying to force you to redo a lot and again >>without any >>specs, formal docs, advance payments etc. They delay testing of the >>ready >>software saying their customer didn't pay them yet... They don't have >>acceptance test specs, do not want you to spend time to prepare such >>specs >>in advance and with every test cycle they find new and new "bugs" to >>fix, >>which are in fact change requests etc.etc. >> >>Thank you, >>Best regards, >>Shamil >>-- >>Web: http://smsconsulting.spb.ru/shamil_s >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Gustav Brock" <Gustav at cactus.dk> >>To: <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> >>Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 12:48 PM >>Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] OT: Friday Humor: >>Anewpetitiontosupportoutdated(?)technologies... >> >> >> >> >>>Hi Shamil >>> >>>Some of these companies promise you the World but when it comes to >>>paying your invoice they try to reduce it, delay the payment - even >>>cancel the payment - by whatever method and excuse they can find or >>> >>> >>by >> >> >>>claiming your delivery to not be as agreed. >>>The trick is that you are weak and need your money, thus sooner or >>>later you either give up or are ready to whatever compromise just to >>> >>> >>get >> >> >>>some money. I've seen it all. Of course, most companies employ >>> >>> >>decent >> >> >>>people and behave correctly, but the bad ones you just have to learn >>> >>> >>how >> >> >>>they smell so you can step back before real work is delivered. >>> >>>/gustav >>> >>> >>> >>>>>>shamil at users.mns.ru 05/02 3:12 am >>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>What "worst" should I be prepared for? >>> >>> >>_______________________________________________ >>dba-Tech mailing list >>dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >>http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >>Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >dba-Tech mailing list >dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > >