• Anelli nell'io

    “Sospesi a metà tra l’inconcepibile immensità cosmica dello spazio-tempo relativistico e il guizzare elusivo e indistinto di cariche quantiche, noi esseri umani, più simili ad arcobaleni e miraggi che ad architravi o macigni, siamo imprevedibili poemi che scrivono se stessi – vaghi, metaforici, ambigui, e a volte straordinariamente belli.”
    Douglas Hofstadter
  • Caos

    La relatività eliminò l'illusione newtoniana dello spazio e tempo assoluti;
    la teoria quantistica eliminò il sogno newtoniano di un processo di misurazione controllabile;
    il caos elimina la fantasia laplaciana della prevedibilità deterministica.

    Joseph Ford - "What is Chaos, that we should be mindful of it?"
  • Developer

    Il programmatore di computer è un creatore di universi per i quali è il solo legislatore. Non c'è commediografo, regista o imperatore, per quanto potente, che abbia mai esercitato una autorità così assoluta da disporre un palcoscenico o un campo di battaglia e da comandare attori o truppe altrettanto incorruttibilmente obbedienti.
    Joseph Weizenbaum
  • Patience

    Patience is a virtue, Savannah.
    To tolerate delay.
    It implies self-control and forbearance, as opposed to wanting what we want when we want it.
    Something to think about.

    Catherine Weaver - The Sarah Connor Chronicles
  • Computer Science

    La Computer Science riguarda i computer non più di quanto l'astronomia riguarda i telescopi.

    E.W. Dijkstra
 WootLogo

Directly from their What Is Woot Page:

What is Woot and who's behind it? Woot.com is an online store and community that focuses on selling cool stuff cheap. It started as an employee-store slash market-testing type of place for an electronics distributor, but it's taken on a life of its own. We anticipate profitability by 2043 – by then we should be retired; someone smarter might take over and jack up the prices. Until then, we're still the lovable scamps we've always been. But don't take our word for it: see what the online community has to say at this Wikipedia article.

I see only one item, do you sell anything else? No. We sell one item per day until it is sold out or until 11:59pm central time when it is replaced (see next entry for details). However, each item we sell is in stock and typically ships within 2-3 business days.

What is the schedule for new items? The short answer: we offer a new item every single day. The details: a new product is released every morning at 12am central time, seven days a week. (If you're not a morning person, this can be described as every night at midnight. Better?) If a product sells out during its run, a new item will not appear until the next release time. You will know if a product is sold out, because the main page says "SOLD OUT" instead of "I want one". (Clever, eh?)

I missed yesterday's item, can I still get one? No. Each woot.com product is discontinued at 11:59pm central time. That's that. Period. We may get more at a later date if we're lucky, but we offer no guarantees, we allow no backorders, and we have no waiting/notification lists. Too bad.

 

… they just sold to Amazon for $110 million


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