Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-07-09 Thread Lionello Lunesu
On 2010-06-02 1:59, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Due to a pretty odd mistake at the printer, the first 1000 copies of TDPL will not have the name of the author on their cover. (The name still appears on the back cover and the spine.) The history of printing is rife with rare printing mistakes that

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-07-08 Thread Bruno Medeiros
On 01/06/2010 18:59, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Due to a pretty odd mistake at the printer, the first 1000 copies of TDPL will not have the name of the author on their cover. (The name still appears on the back cover and the spine.) The history of printing is rife with rare printing mistakes tha

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-27 Thread Lars T. Kyllingstad
On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:59:32 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > Due to a pretty odd mistake at the printer, the first 1000 copies of > TDPL will not have the name of the author on their cover. (The name > still appears on the back cover and the spine.) > > The history of printing is rife with ra

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-23 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 06/23/2010 09:45 AM, Olivier Pisano wrote: Le 21/06/2010 21:23, Mike James a écrit : Got my "collectors item" delivered today from Amazon UK. Looks good. I like the bonus of being able to download a PDF version of TDPL. Thanks for all the hard work Andrei. -=mike= Hi, I've been lurking h

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-23 Thread Olivier Pisano
Le 21/06/2010 21:23, Mike James a écrit : Got my "collectors item" delivered today from Amazon UK. Looks good. I like the bonus of being able to download a PDF version of TDPL. Thanks for all the hard work Andrei. -=mike= Hi, I've been lurking here for a while and finally decided to joi

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-22 Thread BCS
Hello Tyro[a.c.edwards], good for you, sucks for me though, I didn't get a collector's edition and I ordered my copy back in over six months ago. We have a winner! The first person to report getting a NON-collector's edition! (for the time being, you have the less common version :) -- ...

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-22 Thread Mike James
"Jacob Carlborg" wrote in message news:hvr503$287...@digitalmars.com... > On 2010-06-22 14:51, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >> On 06/22/2010 07:45 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: >>> On 2010-06-21 21:23, Mike James wrote: Got my "collectors item" delivered today from Amazon UK. Looks good. I li

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-22 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2010-06-22 14:51, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 06/22/2010 07:45 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2010-06-21 21:23, Mike James wrote: Got my "collectors item" delivered today from Amazon UK. Looks good. I like the bonus of being able to download a PDF version of TDPL. Thanks for all the hard wo

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-22 Thread Danny Wilson
I got two collectors editions. I'll sell one for 1000$ :-D On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:10:00 +0200, Tyro[a.c.edwards] wrote: good for you, sucks for me though, I didn't get a collector's edition and I ordered my copy back in over six months ago.

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-22 Thread Lutger
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > Due to a pretty odd mistake at the printer, the first 1000 copies of > TDPL will not have the name of the author on their cover. (The name > still appears on the back cover and the spine.) > > The history of printing is rife with rare printing mistakes that have > bec

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-22 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 06/22/2010 07:45 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2010-06-21 21:23, Mike James wrote: Got my "collectors item" delivered today from Amazon UK. Looks good. I like the bonus of being able to download a PDF version of TDPL. Thanks for all the hard work Andrei. -=mike=- "Andrei Alexandrescu" wrote

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-22 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2010-06-21 21:23, Mike James wrote: Got my "collectors item" delivered today from Amazon UK. Looks good. I like the bonus of being able to download a PDF version of TDPL. Thanks for all the hard work Andrei. -=mike=- "Andrei Alexandrescu" wrote in message news:hu3hq6$2f0...@digitalmars.co

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-22 Thread Tyro[a.c.edwards]
good for you, sucks for me though, I didn't get a collector's edition and I ordered my copy back in over six months ago.

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-22 Thread Mike James
"Adrian Matoga" wrote in message news:hvorrg$j3...@digitalmars.com... Alix Pexton pisze: On 21/06/2010 20:23, Mike James wrote: Got my "collectors item" delivered today from Amazon UK. Looks good. I like the bonus of being able to download a PDF version of TDPL. Where to find this PDF vers

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-21 Thread Bill Baxter
I got my collectors edition from Amazon US a few days ago. I browsed it a bit and it looks like an interesting read even for someone who basically knows D already. Which is good, because anyone who knows C or Java basically does already know most of D. I liked that about Stroustrup's book on C++,

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-21 Thread Adrian Matoga
Alix Pexton pisze: On 21/06/2010 20:23, Mike James wrote: Got my "collectors item" delivered today from Amazon UK. Looks good. I like the bonus of being able to download a PDF version of TDPL. Where to find this PDF version? I can only see the contents, excerpt from first chapter, and the i

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-21 Thread Guillaume B.
Got mine today from Amazon Canada: collector's edition too. I'll start reading it soon! Guillaume Mike James wrote: > Got my "collectors item" delivered today from Amazon UK. Looks good. I > like the bonus of being able to download a PDF version of TDPL. > > Thanks for all the hard work An

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-21 Thread Mike James
I wondered that too - looking at the footer thats added to the PDF file it doesn't mention that it timeouts after 45 days. I guess only Andrei can tell us for sure ;-) -=mike=- "Alix Pexton" wrote in message news:hvoep9$2ld...@digitalmars.com... > On 21/06/2010 20:23, Mike James wrote: >> Go

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-21 Thread Alix Pexton
On 21/06/2010 20:23, Mike James wrote: Got my "collectors item" delivered today from Amazon UK. Looks good. I like the bonus of being able to download a PDF version of TDPL. Thanks for all the hard work Andrei. -=mike=- "Andrei Alexandrescu" wrote in message news:hu3hq6$2f0...@digitalmars.co

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-21 Thread Mike James
Got my "collectors item" delivered today from Amazon UK. Looks good. I like the bonus of being able to download a PDF version of TDPL. Thanks for all the hard work Andrei. -=mike=- "Andrei Alexandrescu" wrote in message news:hu3hq6$2f0...@digitalmars.com... > Due to a pretty odd mistake at t

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-03 Thread Justin Johansson
Walter Bright wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 06/01/2010 02:44 PM, Robert Clipsham wrote: On 01/06/10 19:47, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I forwarded your note to my editor. Andrei Excellent! :D I look forward to their response :) Addison-Wesley Longman decided to honor outstanding wor

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-03 Thread Bruno Medeiros
On 03/06/2010 02:24, Robert Clipsham wrote: On 02/06/10 20:28, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Addison-Wesley Longman decided to honor outstanding worldwide orders from the authorless stock. Andrei Horrah! This may very well be the first limited edition item I've owned in my life! Robert Lol, m

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-02 Thread Robert Clipsham
On 02/06/10 20:28, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Addison-Wesley Longman decided to honor outstanding worldwide orders from the authorless stock. Andrei Horrah! This may very well be the first limited edition item I've owned in my life! Robert

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-02 Thread Walter Bright
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 06/01/2010 02:44 PM, Robert Clipsham wrote: On 01/06/10 19:47, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I forwarded your note to my editor. Andrei Excellent! :D I look forward to their response :) Addison-Wesley Longman decided to honor outstanding worldwide orders from th

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 06/01/2010 02:44 PM, Robert Clipsham wrote: On 01/06/10 19:47, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I forwarded your note to my editor. Andrei Excellent! :D I look forward to their response :) Addison-Wesley Longman decided to honor outstanding worldwide orders from the authorless stock. Andrei

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-01 Thread Robert Clipsham
On 01/06/10 19:47, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I forwarded your note to my editor. Andrei Excellent! :D I look forward to their response :)

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-01 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 06/01/2010 01:44 PM, Robert Clipsham wrote: On 01/06/10 19:26, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Most assuredly, unless you're outside of the US. The publisher is trying to avoid sending any copy outside the States so as to not confuse foreign markets. I think I should try to actually convince my ed

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-01 Thread Robert Clipsham
On 01/06/10 19:26, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Most assuredly, unless you're outside of the US. The publisher is trying to avoid sending any copy outside the States so as to not confuse foreign markets. I think I should try to actually convince my editor to not do that. Andrei Awwh, I'm not in

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-01 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 06/01/2010 01:21 PM, Robert Clipsham wrote: On 01/06/10 18:59, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Due to a pretty odd mistake at the printer, the first 1000 copies of TDPL will not have the name of the author on their cover. (The name still appears on the back cover and the spine.) The history of pr

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-01 Thread Robert Clipsham
On 01/06/10 18:59, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Due to a pretty odd mistake at the printer, the first 1000 copies of TDPL will not have the name of the author on their cover. (The name still appears on the back cover and the spine.) The history of printing is rife with rare printing mistakes that

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-01 Thread Steven Schveighoffer
On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:11:04 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 06/01/2010 01:04 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:59:32 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Due to a pretty odd mistake at the printer, the first 1000 copies of TDPL will not have the name of the author

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-01 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 06/01/2010 01:04 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:59:32 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Due to a pretty odd mistake at the printer, the first 1000 copies of TDPL will not have the name of the author on their cover. (The name still appears on the back cover and the sp

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-01 Thread Steven Schveighoffer
On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:59:32 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Due to a pretty odd mistake at the printer, the first 1000 copies of TDPL will not have the name of the author on their cover. (The name still appears on the back cover and the spine.) The history of printing is rife with rar

This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-01 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Due to a pretty odd mistake at the printer, the first 1000 copies of TDPL will not have the name of the author on their cover. (The name still appears on the back cover and the spine.) The history of printing is rife with rare printing mistakes that have become collector's editions. Preorder n