Syngress Publishing is having a hurt book sale. Per Syngress
Publishing’s email: “slightly dinged” copies of the Ruby Developer’s
Guide can be purchased for $10 ($5 plus $5 shipping and handling).
See http://www.syngress.com/catalog/sg_main.cfm?pid=1833 for details.
Plus $5 plus $20 for shipping outside of the USA.
Which happens to be only 5c more than buying the PDF version!
Cheers,
Euan
xlucid@users(.remove this).sf.(antispam.)net
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On 24 Jun 2003, at 22:28, Dennis Sutch wrote:
Syngress Publishing is having a hurt book sale. Per Syngress
Publishing’s email: “slightly dinged” copies of the Ruby Developer’s
Guide can be purchased for $10 ($5 plus $5 shipping and handling).
See http://www.syngress.com/catalog/sg_main.cfm?pid=1833 for details.
Will this edition cover Ruby 1.8(alpha/beta)?
“Dennis Sutch” dennis@sutch.com wrote in message
news:f2d46235.0306240512.13e30fa2@posting.google.com…
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Syngress Publishing is having a hurt book sale. Per Syngress
Publishing’s email: “slightly dinged” copies of the Ruby Developer’s
Guide can be purchased for $10 ($5 plus $5 shipping and handling).
See http://www.syngress.com/catalog/sg_main.cfm?pid=1833 for details.
Useko Netsumi wrote:
Will this edition cover Ruby 1.8(alpha/beta)?
No, this book was published in January 2002.
I never understood why shipping from the USA is so extrem expensive.
Compare this with the price you get from Canadien companies and you
see that it has nothing to do with transport costs.
Probably part of our (Americans) “free market” collective psyche;
they charge as much as people are willing to pay.
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— Lothar Scholz mailinglists@scriptolutions.com wrote:
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Lothar Scholz wrote:
I never understood why shipping from the USA is so extrem expensive.
Compare this with the price you get from Canadien companies and you
see that it has nothing to do with transport costs.
When my sister lived in NY for a year we joked that it was because
of the storage costs associated with the mandatory 4 week delay 
Saluton!
- Michael Campbell; 2003-06-24, 17:56 UTC:
Probably part of our (Americans) “free market” collective psyche;
they charge as much as people are willing to pay.
In my opinion the problem lies in the interpretation of ‘free
market’. Precisely taken, a free market is a market with optimal
competition. Optimal competition means that if product A has
advantages over product B it has the chance of replacing the latter
or at least of achieving a reasonable market share (is that the
correct term?).
What are dangers for free competition?
-
De facto monopoles. Monopoles by themselves are no problem but once
a company uses it’s market power to get rid of competitors it
becomes a severe problem - there should be a mechanism that avoids
this. -
Cross-financing. If a company earns lots of money as member of one
market and does use that money to finance their efforts as a
competitor in another market there is little to no chance for
competitors to survive - even if their products are better. -
Bundling. Suppose the leader of the keyboard market bundles their
keyboards with a mouse. That would be a severe problem for the
mouse market.
In other words: Not only an over-regulated market is an enemy of
optimal competition but also an unregulated one.
The problem becomes obvious when one takes a look at ‘Microsoft vs.
Free Software’
Contrary to what proponents say even Open Source Software is not in
accord with the goal of a free competition - many Open Source
Software programmers make their life with something else than writing
Open Source Software. This is Cross-financing.
In my opinion capitalism does face a similar problem as communism:
Most people do not understand what they really mean. I do not see a
difference between a company that gives stocks to the people who work
for them so that they have a vivid interest that the company has
success and the communist idea of having the people own the means
they use for production so that they have a vivid interest that they
achieve better results.
Gis,
Josef ‘Jupp’ Schugt
If I choose to fly kites at the weekend, I cross-finance that activity from
my working week. Is that not in accord with the goal of free competition?
When lawyers do law work without charging they call it “pro-bono”. It’s a
way of contributing back to society. The point is that there is more to life
than a marketplace, even for lawyers.
Regards,
Brian.
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On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 07:45:09PM +0900, Josef ‘Jupp’ Schugt wrote:
Contrary to what proponents say even Open Source Software is not in
accord with the goal of a free competition - many Open Source
Software programmers make their life with something else than writing
Open Source Software. This is Cross-financing.
I have just recived my book , and it just have a little
imperfection(almost invisible).
for just 30 dll (20 ship) , I think I did a good buy…
-r.
Josef ‘Jupp’ Schugt wrote:
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Saluton!
- Michael Campbell; 2003-06-24, 17:56 UTC:
Probably part of our (Americans) “free market” collective psyche;
they charge as much as people are willing to pay.In my opinion the problem lies in the interpretation of ‘free
market’. Precisely taken, a free market is a market with optimal
competition. Optimal competition means that if product A has
advantages over product B it has the chance of replacing the latter
or at least of achieving a reasonable market share (is that the
correct term?).What are dangers for free competition?
De facto monopoles. Monopoles by themselves are no problem but once
a company uses it’s market power to get rid of competitors it
becomes a severe problem - there should be a mechanism that avoids
this.Cross-financing. If a company earns lots of money as member of one
market and does use that money to finance their efforts as a
competitor in another market there is little to no chance for
competitors to survive - even if their products are better.Bundling. Suppose the leader of the keyboard market bundles their
keyboards with a mouse. That would be a severe problem for the
mouse market.In other words: Not only an over-regulated market is an enemy of
optimal competition but also an unregulated one.The problem becomes obvious when one takes a look at ‘Microsoft vs.
Free Software’Contrary to what proponents say even Open Source Software is not in
accord with the goal of a free competition - many Open Source
Software programmers make their life with something else than writing
Open Source Software. This is Cross-financing.In my opinion capitalism does face a similar problem as communism:
Most people do not understand what they really mean. I do not see a
difference between a company that gives stocks to the people who work
for them so that they have a vivid interest that the company has
success and the communist idea of having the people own the means
they use for production so that they have a vivid interest that they
achieve better results.Gis,
Josef ‘Jupp’ Schugt
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mailto:rodrigo.bermejo@ps.ge.com
I got mine on Friday. I can’t see anything wrong with it, which means it’s
not much of a “slightly damanged” book. Good content, though.
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On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 01:41:57 +0900, “Bermejo, Rodrigo” rodrigo.bermejo@ps.ge.com wrote:
I have just recived my book , and it just have a little
imperfection(almost invisible).for just 30 dll (20 ship) , I think I did a good buy…
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