Quote from SJVN’s blog: “When people use services like Google, Facebook and Twitter, they don’t realize that they’re using Linux.”
I’ve seen this lame argument on many places around the web, the related trademarks are here to help.
Freetards love to tell that everybody uses linux, because when you go to some website running apache on linux, you are in fact using linux.
Let’s apply this logic. Did you know that everybody uses the Cisco IOS? I mean, it powers a lot of routers all over the world, so every time you send an IP packet, you use the Cisco IOS.
It also means that more people use the IOS than Linux. I’m going to install it on my desktop computer then!
Oh, and if you use Google, I hope you like LG, because you use their air conditioners every time you make a google search. You also use APC’s UPSs.
Does one have to be that smart to notice that this kind of arguments is worthless ?
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LinuxPowersTheElectricChair™.
I mean, without Thomas Edison, where would Linux be?
They’re using the web browser, not Linux.
i love this trademark. even linus admitted that the reason linux is so successful or servers and embedded markets is because they are closed down products. whereas desktops need a level of interoperability that linux cannot deliver.
An oldy but goody.
Not that you’ll care this late in the game, but the ol’ 'lectic chair owes as much to Nikola Tesla as it does to the good ol’ workers at Edison. After all, they DID choose to use AC current instead of Tommy’s favorite: DC. All hail Tesla and Westinghouse! Frita la revolucion!
As regards everyone using “Linux”: I’ve said it before and I will say it again. Linus is the servant OS of the PC world. Just like a waiter, you place an order and it goes and fetches your order. The cooks MAY be using Linux but are more likely using Windows or Mac.
Yes I do care, as a matter of fact.
As I understand the history of the electric chair, it was basically a connivance by Edison to “prove” that AC is more dangerous than DC. (I forget his reasoning; something to do with wavy things, no doubt.)
Of course, this is true at lowish “fatal” voltages, but if you turn the dial all the way up to eleven, AC is potentially safer since the current won’t necessarily pass through the body, but just across the surface.
Therefore, not only has Edison ensured that the lucky victim is killed by a Croatian invention, but he has also ensured that the victim will be partially cooked to death, since the voltage has to be low enough to ensure that the current passes directly through the body.
Then again, both my history and my electrical engineering is probably wrong here.
When it comes to the war between Tesla and Edison, nothing surprises me. However, sometimes things get a bit twisted. The New York state was looking for a more humane way to execute inmates. After hearing about a man electrocuted to death, someone got the bright idea that electrocution would be a good way to send people out.
A couple of Edison’s employees, Brown and Kenelly designed it and decided to use AC after hearing Edison say it could potentially be more lethal than his own DC. They set up staged shows and electrocuted animals to show how the device would work.
Mind you, being quick at PR Edison ran with the whole idea about AC being more deadly than DC, even though at the voltage used (plus that pesky 10 Amperes) either would have done the job just as well… you gonna die with either one. Just that the power bill would be lower for AC.
Always remember kids: it isn’t the voltage that kills you, it is the amperes. This is the reason why you can shock someone with 100,000 volts and only stun them… low amperage. Turn up the amps high enough? Dead, dead, dead.
Ohm’s Law FTW!
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