So, you proposing surrender to Paul's ways and for the rest of your
life keep making things which is then turn into a pile of paper, and
didn't thrown away,  just because it costs too much money to produce?
:)

On 07/02/2008, Ron Teitelbaum <Ron at usmedrec.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I can't resist a story.  The company I worked for a long time ago, before
> they hired me, hired a consulting company and spent over 1/4 million on a
> system design.  When I started working I asked what that big ball of paper
> was on the shelf.  They said it was a $250,000 basket ball.  (It was just
> about the size of a basket ball).  It turned out that after months of work
> the company delivered a huge stack of completely useless paper that very
> clearly showed they hadn't understood the requirements.  I said so why did
> you mash it up into a ball and put it on the shelf.  They said well at least
> that was fun, and it cost so much it was a shame to throw it away!
>
> Ron Teitelbaum
>
> > From: David T. Lewis
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 02:32:56AM +0200, Igor Stasenko wrote:
> > > It's okay , for me, for being paid $1000 for an application which
> > > putting 'Hello word' on screen, after half-year of study of new
> > > platform. But i don't think that there is many people in the world who
> > > will pay me such sum for that :)
> >
> > Ha! Large companies routinely spend thousands of times that amount on
> > projects that never get as far as putting 'Hello word' on the screen.
> > I think that you would be offering them a great bargain ;)
> >
> > Dave
> >
>
>
>
>


-- 
Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.