| From: | runnerpaul@*****.com runnerpaul@*****.com |
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| Subject: | BTL's - my take (was: Price info: Street value) |
| Date: | Wed, 1 Sep 1999 21:38:12 -0400 (EDT) |
At 12:03 AM 9/2/99 +1000, Manx wrote:
<<Snip>>
:1) The user will look to upgrade to DNI chips (Direct Neural
:Interface) and likely turn to petty crime to pay for the surgery.
All a person really needs to experience simsense directly is a
Datajack. That only costs 1000¥ for the 'ware, and it's only minor
invasive surgery to get one installed. A poor addict might have to
scrape together a bit of cash, but it's not too pricey (especially if
this is just the next step up for someone who's been supporting a
100¥-a-chip habit).
Depending on who the addict works for, they might already have a
datajack, or would be able to get their corporate health insurance to
foot the bill as a job-related elective surgery.
<<Snip>>
:Obviously I feel that contrary to the information
:presented in Shadowbeat DNI Chips are the 'harder'
:form of BTL. Anything that plugs directly into the
:brain is going to deliver a signal far greater than
:what a dreamdeck can muster.
And who says that a dreamdeck can't feed through a datajack directly
into the brain? Dreamdecks are _not_ limited to feeding simsense
through a 'trode net. Since they both _can_ feed directly into the
brain, which do you think would provide the more powerful experience:
a single chip that has to contain both the simsense content and the
means to play it back, or a dedicated simsense playback unit that can
have settings tuned to a particular user, regardless of what BTL chip
it's playing?
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