From: cpd@cat.pan.net
"Dillon Pyron" wrote in message
news:4isbs593geocv8ou76rn20fmtacpuk8h2o@4ax.com...
> [Default] Thus spake "catpandaddy" :
>
>>
>>"RT" wrote in message
>>news:4BBFF40E.41F37EE7@hotmMOVEail.com...
>>> 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.
>>
>>If the cylons destroy Redmond, Washington,
>
> And this is bad because???
>
>> then where will all the XBox
>>owners plug their 360s into when they want to get their frag on?
Neither good nor bad, just an analogy to explain the premise to Friend RT.
Why do you people do this to me? Now I have to think of an equivalent
comparison that won't be misunderstood because of M$-hate.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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