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   From: invaliddmpyron@austin.rr.com   
      
   [Default] Thus spake jack :   
      
   >On Mar 27, 6:50 pm, cloud dreamer    
   >wrote:   
   >> On 3/27/2010 11:36 AM, jack wrote:   
   >>   
   >> > They are obviously not around in the BSG diaspora and you would think   
   >> > in that desperate situation they would at least be reinvented.   
   >>   
   >> We don't see enough of colonial life before the fall to see if there   
   >> were holobands and they wouldn't have been any good in the fleet as the   
   >> Galactica avoided using a networked system. The v-world wouldn't have   
   >> been possible.   
   >>   
   >>   ..   
   >   
   >I can see that if each holoband was a PC so to speak but It appeared   
   >the bands were more like terminals that brought people into the   
   >mainframe.   
      
   If you are old enough to remember Sun's advertising from the mid 90's   
   (or you're old enough to remember Sun) "The network IS the system"   
      
   With networks gone, so is the basis for the holoband, for all intents   
   and purposes.   
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   - dillon  I am not invalid   
      
   The more I drink, the less I think.  The less I think,   
   the better I feel.  The better I feel, the more I drink.   
   And so goes the circle of life.   
      
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