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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Balaam Xumucane: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [qb]-- I disagree with Balaam about the not-networking-computers bit. [/qb][/QUOTE]Perhaps I should have explained more fully. My objection was to the idea that Adama shuns networked computers entirely and absolutely. Which maybe he's referring to Net[i]Work[/i]� brand computers, but it's kind of unclear and I found it highly discordant in a program which has obviously explored the technical aspects of their show. Because without lowercase, conceptual networks Adama wouldn't really have a bridge anymore would he? I can understand the cylons hacking the Baltar-designed network defense protocol, maybe some incredibly advanced and ubiquitous 802.11x/UltraVioletTooth wireless or something. But then hard-wired networks isolated and ignorant of that protocol ought ought to be mostly alright. I just have a problem with the idea that you could realistically run a vessel of that size without using any networked systems. Because that would be more or less impossible, you see? Given the writer's attention to detail with regards to so many other aspects of the show, I'm guessing this was more an imposed dumbing-down from some other quarter that thought the public would find all this too confusing. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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