"Daniel Gibson" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > 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".
