June 11, 2003

People who bought this book also bought...

[Ok, call me narcissistic... but I was checking to see if Barnes and Noble is carrying my new book and noticed the following information when going to the pages for my past books -- Billy Collins, Homer and I share some fans!]

Angry Penguins
Brian Kim Stefans

Our Price: $9.00
Readers' Advantage Price: $8.55

People who bought this book also bought:
Nine Horses: Poems Billy Collins
The Rose That Grew from Concrete Tupac Shakur, Karolyn Ali (Editor), Foreword by Nikki Giovanni
The Odyssey Homer, George Herbert Palmer (Translator)
Inferno Dante Alighieri, Archibald T. MacAllister (Introduction)
Paradise Lost John Milton, John Leonard

Gulf
Brian Kim Stefans
Paperback, April 2000

Our Price: $7.00
Readers' Advantage Price: $6.65

People who bought this book also bought:
A Patriot's Handbook: Poems, Stories, and Speeches Celebrating the Land We Love Selected by Caroline Kennedy
Nine Horses: Poems Billy Collins
Prophet Kahlil Gibran
The Book of Counted Sorrows Dean Koontz
The Odyssey Homer, George Herbert Palmer (Translator)

[I then checked to see if a few of my friends were quite as lucky as I was, and discovered that Miles Champion, Christian Bök and I share some fans -- do you think there is one person out there buying our books and Billy Collins? Then why don't I appear on Miles' list, and vice versa? Or is it four separate people on different instances buying a Billy Collins book and one of ours? Hint: Billy Collins doesn't appear on lists of books bought for those poets who actually sold copies through B & N, such as the esteemed Jennifery Moxley!]

Three Bell Zero
Miles Champion
Paperback, May 2000

Our Price: $10.95
Readers' Advantage Price: $10.40

People who bought this book also bought:
A Patriot's Handbook: Poems, Stories, and Speeches Celebrating the Land We Love Selected by Caroline Kennedy
Nine Horses: Poems Billy Collins
Prophet Kahlil Gibran
The Book of Counted Sorrows Dean Koontz
The Odyssey Homer, George Herbert Palmer (Translator)

Eunoia
Christian Bok

Our Price: $16.95
Readers' Advantage Price: $16.10

People who bought this book also bought:
Dictee Theresa Hak Cha
Nine Horses: Poems Billy Collins
Foolish/Unfoolish: Reflections on Love Ashanti
Sailing Alone around the Room: New and Selected Poems Billy Collins
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman

The Sense RecordJennifer Moxley
Paperback, May 2002

Our Price: $12.50
Readers' Advantage Price: $11.88

People who bought this book also bought:
Tender Buttons Gertrude Stein
Touch of Topaz Pat A. Larson
S*Perm**K*T Harryette Mullen
The Haiku Anthology Cor Van Den Heuvel

Posted by Brian Stefans at June 11, 2003 10:07 AM
Comments

hey brian, this is how it works: when a marketer doesn't have enough "real" cross-sells to list with a given item, they plug in stock items from a generic pool. billy collins, homer, and gibran are all popular. looks like they fill all vacant cross-sell slots for books of poems.

Posted by: carol m at June 11, 2003 12:26 PM

I figured as much -- just trying to reveal the ghost in the machine. I'm sure it's not even a marketer, probably just a bot that takes the best selling titles in that field and distributes them among us poor suckers who can't sell a single copy of our pathetic scribblings.

Posted by: Mr. Arras at June 11, 2003 03:49 PM

not that this is particularly interesting, but the process is usu a little more manipulated than bot-spew. actual people tend to determine those cross-sells because they want to push items that (1) are overstocked and (2) yield the greatest profit. those are not necessarily bestsellers (or anything you might actually find useful). plus, i haven't seen content-management software that would handle a complex, automated rule set for cross- and up-selling.

Posted by: carol m at June 11, 2003 06:11 PM

Since the Heap has no definite rules as to where it will create space for you, there must be some way of figuring out where your new space is. And the answer is, simply enough, addressing. When you create new space in the heap to hold your data, you get back an address that tells you where your new space is, so your bits can move in. This address is called a Pointer, and it's really just a hexadecimal number that points to a location in the heap. Since it's really just a number, it can be stored quite nicely into a variable.

Posted by: Barnard at January 18, 2004 07:14 PM

This will allow us to use a few functions we didn't have access to before. These lines are still a mystery for now, but we'll explain them soon. Now we'll start working within the main function, where favoriteNumber is declared and used. The first thing we need to do is change how we declare the variable. Instead of

Posted by: Joseph at January 18, 2004 07:15 PM

Being able to understand that basic idea opens up a vast amount of power that can be used and abused, and we're going to look at a few of the better ways to deal with it in this article.

Posted by: Roman at January 18, 2004 07:15 PM

That gives us a pretty good starting point to understand a lot more about variables, and that's what we'll be examining next lesson. Those new variable types I promised last lesson will finally make an appearance, and we'll examine a few concepts that we'll use to organize our data into more meaningful structures, a sort of precursor to the objects that Cocoa works with. And we'll delve a little bit more into the fun things we can do by looking at those ever-present bits in a few new ways.

Posted by: Gilbert at January 18, 2004 07:15 PM

Each Stack Frame represents a function. The bottom frame is always the main function, and the frames above it are the other functions that main calls. At any given time, the stack can show you the path your code has taken to get to where it is. The top frame represents the function the code is currently executing, and the frame below it is the function that called the current function, and the frame below that represents the function that called the function that called the current function, and so on all the way down to main, which is the starting point of any C program.

Posted by: Robert at January 18, 2004 07:16 PM