SPAM random annoying things

[eksdee]

After every issue of one of the magazines I work on goes to press I upload the files to DropBox as backup. Every single time that I copy the files over the operation breaks at some point with the error message that some of the files are unavailable. I don't change anything, just copy again and it works. WHY?! Makes no sense at all.

 

[Fweddy]

It's not people from other floors in your office. It's us.

 

[TdC]

After every issue of one of the magazines I work on goes to press I upload the files to DropBox as backup. Every single time that I copy the files over the operation breaks at some point with the error message that some of the files are unavailable. I don't change anything, just copy again and it works. WHY?! Makes no sense at all.

may be a timing issue. make 100% sure you're not using the files, having them open or another program/person is looking at them. if your dropbox location is a shared disk that may also cause problems.

 

[Lamp]

Not being able to understand why an act of observation changes quantum behaviour. Is wave function collapse due to the existence of other dimensions or universes?

 

[old.Tohtori]

Low level eye lasers ofcourse. We just can't turn them up to superman levels yet.

 

[Bigmac]

Advertisements on websites that slow or crash your internet browser. Fuckers.

 

[Lamp]

Eating too much for breakfast. Now I feel like a fat panda.

 

[Zarjazz]

Not being able to understand why an act of observation changes quantum behaviour. Is wave function collapse due to the existence of other dimensions or universes?

Think of it like this, completely wrong btw but it gives you an idea

To "look" at sometime at the quantum level you are just seeing photons bounce off the object into your eye. At our everyday scale it's like throwing tennis balls at a huge brick wall and catching it. The bounce of the ball is completely predictable given the balls starting angle and speed and the wall doesn't move so you can with 100% accuracy work out the shape and location of the wall just by catching the balls.

At the quantum scale it's like throwing the tennis balls at other tennis balls, they will all bounce off in random directions. The act of measuring has affected the observed object so you can no longer be certain which direction or how fast its moving. You can only take an educated guess (probability).

 

[Lamp]

You referring to the Copenhagen interpretation?

 

[Zarjazz]

I'm referring to the "try and explain it to your mates over several pints of beer down the pub" interpretation.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Wouldn't that be;

"Sh*t moves, you look at it, it moves differently."
"Why?"
"F*ck if i know...women?"

 

[Scouse]

I'm referring to the "try and explain it to your mates over several pints of beer down the pub" interpretation.

Good explanation that

You want to measure the speed and direction of Tennis Ball A

To do this, you have to throw Tennis Ball B at it - and then measure how tennis ball B rebounds to work out what A was doing.

Unfortunately, the action of Tennis Ball B hitting Tennis Ball A also moves Tennis Ball A off it's current trajectory.

So, by measuring A, you've changed it...

 

[old.Tohtori]

Still too difficult for pub explanations

 

[Scouse]

Only if this is the pub...

 

[old.Tohtori]

I am not surprised you think that.

 

[Lamp]

Pump splash-back

Was filling up the car with diesel about 20 mins ago, and a quantity of it shot out of the tank. Thank goodness I was standing to one side otherwise would have got drenched in the stuff.

 

[Lamp]

Ppl who refuse to tear the foil top off a tube of Pringles. Why?

They're not going to go stale. You eat them in 10 minutes anyway. And anyway there's a plastic lid for ppl with will-power.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Because people think that extra tinfoil keeps them fresh longer

 

[Gwadien]

Ppl who refuse to tear the foil top off a tube of Pringles. Why?

They're not going to go stale. You eat them in 10 minutes anyway. And anyway there's a plastic lid for ppl with will-power.

How do you eat them without taking the foil off? :S

 

[Lamp]

You peel it back three-quarters of the way and wiggle your hand inside the tube.

 

[Bahumat]

I eat the foil and throw the filler stuff away

 

[Deebs]

Audi drivers are worse. Clarkson definitely has a point.

Oi I am an Audi driver, oh wait.....

 

[Raven]

Dead wood.

Buck your ideas up or get the fuck out.

 

[Punishment]

People who put .... at the end of every sentence.

Thats not fucking punctuation it's just being a retard.

Does it imply some hidden meaning ? No so stop fucking doing it grrrrr.

 

[mooSe_]

I actually can't read that shit. As soon as I see a post littered with "..." in place of any kind of punctuation I stop reading.

 

[cHodAX]

... is a handy device when used properly in a paragraph but yes it is all too often overused and misused, have been guilty of it myself.

 

[Punishment]

Like i was buying something from a friend and asked

"Hi XXX is that part still for sale ?"

To which i get the reply

"Yea...."

Like wtf ?

 

[Raven]

...

...I disagree...it can mean a pause for thought...

...

 

[old.Tohtori]

Like i was buying something from a friend and asked

"Hi XXX is that part still for sale ?"

To which i get the reply

"Yea...."

Like wtf ?

Well in that case it meant "So? And? You want it or what?", or simply means he thinks you're a moron for not knowing if it's on sale or not

 

[Punishment]

Im a moron for not being psychic ?, from my view it looks like he can't be bothered to reply properly tbh