TDPL Amazon rank at 4-months high

Nick Sabalausky a at a.a
Tue Mar 1 17:55:06 PST 2011


"Daniel Gibson" <metalcaedes at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:ikk423$2e9r$5 at digitalmars.com...
> Am 02.03.2011 01:26, schrieb Jordi Sayol:
>> Al 01/03/11 21:57, En/na Walter Bright ha escrit:
>>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> Yah, there are many variables. Add to those many handling details that 
>>>> influence the process. TDPL has certainly sold more than 1830 copies by 
>>>> now (= the collector's edition count) but booksellers have no 
>>>> obligation to send older prints first, so it all depends on which batch 
>>>> they have handy when shipping. Also I'm sure some smaller booksellers 
>>>> have gotten a batch from the collector's edition that hasn't been sold 
>>>> yet.
>>>
>>> It could be like milk. You buy a new carton of milk, and shove it in the 
>>> refrigerator. When you need some, you grab the carton in front, which is 
>>> the new one.
>>>
>>> So the old milk remains "in stock" for months, years, ...
>>>
>>
>> milk + years = poison :-)
>>

milk + years = cheese :)

>> To solve this, somebody invented FIFO (first in, first out), and FILO 
>> (first in, last out), to solve storage problems.
>>
>
> You'd need a fridge with two doors: one in the front, one in the back. 
> Insert
> new food in the front, get food to eat from the back (or the other way 
> round).
> But reinsert opened food in the back (or, in the alternative case, in the 
> front).
>
> ;-)

I think grocery stores sometimes have fridge cases that.

Alton Brown has a fridge on the Good Eats set that his crew hacked up that 
way for "fridge POV" shots and for "The Lady of The Refrigerator".





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