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  • (Score: 2) by canopic jug on Wednesday February 07 2018, @05:23PM (2 children)

    by canopic jug (3949) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday February 07 2018, @05:23PM (#634440) Journal

    Heck, I don't even know how to count. [...] Then there's the question of "used".

    I used to ask people what the most widely used file system was, to get them to think a little. Mostly they'd try to foist some bullshit answer like VFAT or NTFS. However, I'd respond with either Google File System or ISO-9660. Back then all computers came with several CDs or DVDs, same for most commercial packages. The world was then full of computer CDs and DVDs, so that would be a case for ISO-9660. However, most people connected to the net use Google at least a few times per day, and that's a lot of people, so that was a case for GFS.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 09 2018, @09:08AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 09 2018, @09:08AM (#635454)

    But if you connect to Google, you don't use Google's file system. Google does, to provide you the service, but you don't.

    It's like saying I'm using the telephone if I go personally to an office, and then the officer makes a phone call in order to serve my request.

    • (Score: 2) by requerdanos on Saturday February 17 2018, @03:04PM

      by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Saturday February 17 2018, @03:04PM (#639347) Journal

      But if you connect to Google, you don't use Google's file system. Google does

      Further, just because the world gets mailed an AOL CD which is using ISO 9660, does not mean that everyone in that world is using the CDs as intended. Maybe they use them for coasters (the original ones, under drinks on furniture), or make art out of them...