deejStuff Is Here!! (Part Four!)

[TravTech]

It all works out the same in the long run. Instead of getting a 30ml for free, you can say get 2 30ml's for half price. Though it does require an "in the black" purchase, you're still giving away 30ml of juice.

Consider that they're out there and going to be used sooner or later. The same amount of free stuff will be given, just interspersed with purchases.

If it's causing financial issues, a different possible solution (hate to be the one to say it) would be to be less generous with reward points overall.

 

[Poeia]

I like using my points to offset upgrading my postage. The post office never seems to screw up Priority Mail packages.

My balance got big enough for a time that I also used quite a bit for my juice, but I have it back down again.

 

[TravTech]

I have no idea how many I have. But I like when it makes the difference of a purchase being affordable or not.

I really don't like ordering anything less than a 6 pack, usually 15 or 30ml. But if things are really tight or I want to try a bunch of new flavors, I've gone as low as a 10ml 6 pack.

Now that I get one check a month and unexpected expenses are keeping things really tight, it's a relief when I can put a 6 pack together and add enough points to have the total come in under the wire.

Reducing points or their usage though won't really have that much of an effect on me, as I'm sure Deej can attest, I really don't order nearly as often as I used to when working. I've still got a ton of backlog and am still vaping some juices that were mixed in Dec 2013.
I do mix into my rotation some of the fresher juices, just a matter of what I'm craving at the time.

 

[FranC]

 

[CES]

Good morning

 

[FranC]

Good morning,CES

 

[CES]

Good morning, Fran

 

[Digimon2k]

Hey!!

Anybody remember using 3.5" Floppy Drives? Too old-school? Check this out!!

 

[TravTech]

Heck I still remember 5.25" floppy disks & larger. They were much more "floppy" than the 3.5's.

 

[FranC]

 

[sonicdsl]

Hey!!

Anybody remember using 3.5" Floppy Drives? Too old-school? Check this out!!

OMG it's like a thing! I had no idea this was being done. How crazy. And there were several others, and...and.... now I'm late for bed!

Heck I still remember 5.25" floppy disks & larger. They were much more "floppy" than the 3.5's.

Yup... and PUNCH CARDS!!

 

[Poeia]

I graduated from college in 1975. Several years earlier my school had decided that computers would be important in the future so they purchased one. They build a small building to house it. You could take classes in programming. I know COBOL was available, another language might have been as well.

I wonder what they're using that building for now. My cell phone has more power than that computer did.

 

[FranC]

 

[CES]

Good morning y'all

I remember people learning to program with punch cards when i was in college too. I did not envy them when they had to de-bug their programs.

 

[TravTech]

Howdy CLowder!

I wonder what they're using that building for now. My cell phone has more power than that computer did.

Our cell phones have more power than the Apollo space missions.

I used to program equipment that would automatically build electronic circuit boards. The finished programs were saved to and loaded from paper tape. Basically the same concept as punch cards except it was all one piece.

For each "step" I'd have to manually position the board into the proper spot, select the bin to pick the part from, select the proper function as far as bending and or cutting off the excess leads, and probably a few more things I can't remember.

Whenever the slightest revisions were made to the circuit boards being built, the entire process would have to be redone from scratch. Because unlike punch cards, with the tape paper tape being continuous, you couldn't just pull and replace a few cards from the middle of the deck.

The revisions occurred far more often than I would have liked, but the finished tape could be use to build hundreds or thousands of identical circuit boards.

 

[Poeia]

Howdy CLowder!



Our cell phones have more power than the Apollo space missions.

I used to program equipment that would automatically build electronic circuit boards. The finished programs were saved to and loaded from paper tape. Basically the same concept as punch cards except it was all one piece.

For each "step" I'd have to manually position the board into the proper spot, select the bin to pick the part from, select the proper function as far as bending and or cutting off the excess leads, and probably a few more things I can't remember.

Whenever the slightest revisions were made to the circuit boards being built, the entire process would have to be redone from scratch. Because unlike punch cards, with the tape paper tape being continuous, you couldn't just pull and replace a few cards from the middle of the deck.

The revisions occurred far more often than I would have liked, but the finished tape could be use to build hundreds or thousands of identical circuit boards.

Proofing the tape when you finished updating it must have been a nightmare.

 

[liblue1]

Morning everyone....

 

[FranC]

 

[TravTech]

Proofing the tape when you finished updating it must have been a nightmare.

There wasn't really any proofing or debugging per se. It was a routine set of instructions for the machine to follow more so than a program involving any sort of variables or subroutines.

It was either right or it was wrong.

Positioning or depth of cut could be slightly off for a particular step. Something like that would show up when it went to build a circuit board. But you also had the option of running and re-running the routine making adjustments if needed before committing the final routine to tape.

 

[FranC]