Hello All: Amazon is now at this very moment selling "S Programming" at $59.95 with 2-3 days delivery. Some one among us ought to exploit R to develop a forecasting model to predict when next Amazon markets Venable and Ripley''s book again at $17.95. ANDREW Andrew Criswell Professor of finance Graduate School, Bangkok University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/attachments/20010121/a4ceefe4/attachment.html
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Andrew Criswell wrote:>Hello All: > >Amazon is now at this very moment selling "S Programming" at $59.95 with >2-3 days delivery. Some one among us ought to exploit R to develop a >forecasting model to predict when next Amazon markets Venable and >Ripley''s book again at $17.95.LOL! Amazon have been experimenting with changing prices up and down so as to see what impact prices have on people''s willingness to buy. Slashdot has had a couple of stories on it <URL:http://slashdot.org/articles/00/09/06/1418246.shtml> <URL:http://slashdot.org/articles/00/09/13/1237216.shtml> The latter story says that they are refunding what you paid in excess when testing is over. So perhaps it doesn''t matter... :-) But then, I''m boycotting Amazon because of spamming, their lack of respect for customer''s privacy and for their one-click-patent. Best, Kjetil -- Kjetil Kjernsmo Graduate astronomy-student Problems worthy of attack University of Oslo, Norway Prove their worth by hitting back E-mail: kjetikj at astro.uio.no - Piet Hein Homepage <URL:http://www.astro.uio.no/~kjetikj/> Webmaster at skepsis.no -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Dear Kjetil: Thank you for the info on Slashdot. I find quite a great deal of price discrimination in the global academic book market. Many scientific textbooks are available in Thailand at prices that are often 10% of those found on Amazon or on American bookshelves. Sadly, S-Programming is not amongst them. But, then again, international pharmaceuticals try to sell third world countries HIV antiroviral drugs at first world prices. See how the world turns? Were you to go to the Chulalongkorn University Bookstore website at http://www.chula.ac.th/ you would discover what prices international publishers sell their publications to third world nations. Unfortunately, much of the text on this website is in Thai and may be incomprehensible. Best wishes, ANDREW Andrew Criswell Professor of finance Graduate School, Bangkok University -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
| -----Original Message----- | From: Andrew Criswell [mailto:andy at arcriswell.com] | Sent: Sunday, 21 January 2001 4:21 | To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch | Subject: [R] Spot price "S Programming" | | | Hello All: Hello Andrew, | Amazon is now at this very moment selling "S Programming" at | $59.95 with 2-3 days delivery. Some one among us ought to | exploit R to develop a forecasting model to predict when next | Amazon markets Venable and Ripley''s book again at $17.95. Fascinating. However, my name is spelt with an "S" at the end. The name ''Venables'' has an interesting history, with which I am about to bore you. It is an old name that came to England with the conquest. There is, in fact, still a little town called ''Venables'' just outside Rouen in France where it all started. It is connected to other names such as "Venning" and "Ventner" which share with "venison" a derivation from an older word meaning "hunter" or "hunted game". In fact one branch of the family did change the name to "Hunter" when they stopped using French and started using English, but we never did. Now I know the American branch of the family does occasionally shave off that critical final "S", (probably an Ellis Island thing), but (and this is the point) we don''t. It''s "Venables", OK? Say it: "Ven-a-bleS". Thank you. It''s alright, I feel OK again now. Hurrumph. | | ANDREW | | Andrew Criswell | Professor of finance | Graduate School, Bangkok University | -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._