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 :-) To solve this, somebody invented FIFO (first in, first out), and FILO (first in, last out), to solve storage problems. -- Jordi Sayol
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