__/ [ [H]omer ] on Thursday 24 August 2006 16:33 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> __/ [ [H]omer ] on Wednesday 23 August 2006 22:15 \__
>
>>> Hmmm, I wonder what the "Desktop evolution" equivalent of Blueray
>>> would be?
>
>> HD-DVD. Your Hard-Drive (HD) turns into a digital versatile
>> filesystem. Maybe something like this research piece where the
>> desktop is a 3-D environment with objects (files) that can be
>> bounced and thrown around. I failed to find the popular video which
>> illustrates this.
>
> Maybe something like a cross between this:
>
> 3D Desktop! TouchScreen and XGL on Linux!
> - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx9FgLr9oTk
Aha! That's the (supposedly) Yorkshireman who yells fffock.
> And this:
>
> BumpTop 3D Desktop Prototype
> - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0ODskdEPnQ
That's just the one I had in mind, but I couldn't recall the name of the
project. It looks very silly to me. Just some eye candy... a big-budget
movie with a story that goes nowhere.
> But without the naked Geordie whistling Dixie.
>
> Perhaps ultimately leading to something like this:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/zu6g5 (gadgets.qj.net)
>
> I'd want a comfy chair though ... and probably a bio-neural interface.
Okay. Let's be realistic. A compromise:
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/top-10-strangest-computer-setups
Choose one from the available 10.
> Ah screw it ... just build me a holodeck, and gimmie 7 of 9 to play
> with.
>
> Talking of Star Trek, but kinda still on topic; did you ever wonder
> why the computer interface panels in ST were so ... er ... *basic*
> looking? I mean someone would completely reprogram the holo-emitter
> using a panel that only had three buttons??? Christ, that'd be like
> using a VCR interface to bugfix a driver in C++!!!
It's hard to foresee HCI innovation. If you find potential in it, you
implement it. Who would have thought about a 'computer' on a USB stick? Or
RFID?
By the way, Google reconstructed the Star Trek Bridge some days ago. A
geek-collecting-type conference. They needed geek-magnets, so the bridge was
the attraction, I suppose. I believe they recruited.
> And did you ever wonder about, when they were in the holodeck, why
> they always went to a panel on the wall to check the system, even when
> the emitters were still working? Why didn't they just pull up a 3D
> visual interface on the holo-grid?
>
> Bah ... my brain hurts. I'm going back to my bash shell.
I wonder if Mr. Data was using vim. Plain ASCII. No possibility of smiley
faces, so he could not express or be sensitive to emotion.
Best wishes,
Roy
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