From: cpd@cat.pan.net   
      
   "RT"  wrote in message   
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   > Dillon Pyron wrote:   
   >>   
   >> [Default] Thus spake jack :   
   >> >On Mar 27, 6:50 pm, cloud dreamer    
   >> >> 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.   
   >   
   > Only military networks are gone. Civilian ones wouldn't be involved.   
      
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   owners plug their 360s into when they want to get their frag on?   
      
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