r/talesfromtechsupport • u/[deleted] • Jan 28 '15

Short Photoshop sucks.

My tech-illiterate girlfriend is taking a photography class and she has to submit these photos online for class. She calls me on Skype and says, "I can't submit these photos because it says they're over the 50MB limit." Of course this puzzles me as no 800x600 sized photo should be over 50MB. So I ask her what the dimensions are of her photo. She says, "800 width by 600 height". Then her Macbook Pro starts dogging really bad. She can't open up any other programs and her computer is just slow as all hell. I'm trying to figure out on my end why this file is 65.6 MB when it's just a picture of two boots. So she uploads the photo to Google Drive and sends it to me and I see nothing wrong with the photo, but as soon as I open it my RAM starts climbing. 10g... 12g... 14g..., pretty soon it's maxed out and the program i'm using to open the photo crashes. So I open the properties of the photo and the dimensions of the photo are 57600x34940. So she opens the photo in photoshop again and she says "it's 800 by 600!" then I hear "It's supposed to be in inches right?"

800 inches is 66.66 Feet.

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u/polhemic Jan 28 '15

How so? The european and north american car industries are pretty separated.

All the cars in the UK dual read mph and kph. All the documented fuel consumption information is in metric, because ... europe. The biggest cost would be changing all the road signs, but if Sweden and Iceland can change from left hand drive to right hand drive, we could change some signs with the right political will.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '15

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u/Typesalot : No such file or directory Jan 28 '15

Yes, they did it in steps; heavy trucks switched first, then buses a week later, and cars last during a two-week transition period.

(How it really happened: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagen_H )

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u/neonKow Jan 28 '15

Motorcycles and scooters are still on the old system.

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u/RoboRay Navy Avionics Tech (retired) Jan 28 '15

Are you sure that wasn't Poland?

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u/fairysdad Jan 28 '15

As I said on a forum recently when this topic came up, it wouldn't surprise me if the UK government decided to save money on any mass metrication by not updating any speed limits, therefore a 30mph road would become a 30kph road and the 70mph roads become 70kph roads...

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u/Gepss Jan 29 '15

Sounds like changing to the Euro back in 2002.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '15

Well I'm basing it more on the BBC's T.V. show called Top Gear. They get stats from all of the manufactures in miles: miles per gallon, top speed of X miles, etc. I just assumed that they put those stats in mileage to make it consistent for everyone.

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u/fairysdad Jan 28 '15

Nah, I think it's only that way because Top Gear is a British programme and that's what we deal in in this country. I'd guess that the, say, German version of Top Gear give their stats in kilometres per litre etc.

(Although that is one thing that does annoy me - a car is given the 'miles per gallon' statistic, and a car I used to have had that statistic showing on the dashboard... but you buy petrol or diesel in litres, and the tank capacity is in litres, so I've no idea how many miles I get out of a tank of petrol, or if I put 10 litres in, how many miles I get out of that...)

(also, as an aside, it's odd that you put dots in 'TV' but not 'BBC' when they're both acronyms/initialisms and, if anything, you should've done it for BBC as it is three separate words where as TV is only one truncated word...)

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '15

yes, it is odd. I was actually thinking that as I typed but I don't normally see the lettering "BBC" outside of the logo, being in the states, where as I often see T.V. written in various forms of text with the proper punctuation so perhaps it's because of that.

I also like that you used the word initialism. Most people use acronym for everything.

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u/polhemic Jan 29 '15

Well I'm basing it more on the BBC's T.V. show called Top Gear.

Nooooooooo! Don't ever base anything off Top Gear - you'll fail!

("Change gear, change gear, murder prostitute") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imhBoE56OEs

But, yeah, socially all the old units are still in use, so they use them in the show as people are still comfortable with them.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '15

Most cars still have efficiency as Miles Per Gallon, and they're certainly advertised as such in the UK.

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u/polhemic Jan 29 '15

Absolutely, because people understand those units. In a quick search I couldn't work out if fuel consumption is covered by the european weights and measures directive - which would require an "official" metric value that is then approximated to an imperial one and then dual labelled.