[Carl]

in one of the cutscenes it has Bosch typing out on a keyboard. why? it's been almost 300 years! you'd thing they'd have thought command or something but no, Bosch has to learn keystroke on his 300 year old laptop! and why a 2D screen? why not a 3D holoscreen like the vasudans use? (see vasudan main hall campaign room animation) [V] may be gods, but their thinking seems quite 20th century.

[Pegasus V]

I see where you're coming from.

They should have LCARS - j/k


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[jonskowitz]

And our thinking also happens to be awful 20th century as well.

I loved that scene, it makes us identify (even a little bit) with Aken Bosch, even with that one simple detail.  Sometimes you have to incorporate details of your target audience's life in with whatever you're doing, you want to connect with the humanity in the story and draw your audience in with even a small and stupidly familiar detail, such as the sound of a man typing at a keyboard...

I think it's a poor trend within the SF genre to focus too much on the toys and technology, and too little on the story you were trying to tell and the life you were trying to convey.

Although I gotta admit, voice recognition would sure be a hell of a lot easier on my carpal-tunnel syndrome  

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[Killfrenzy]

 

Originally posted by Pegasus V:
They should have LCARS - j/k

 



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[wEvil]

i have to say that id be very disspointed if we wind up using an operating system as ulgy as star treks.

but then again it was designed on a mac in the 80s sometime so...

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[Setekh]

Heh! I'd like to be able to talk to Avatars to input my information. Talking to people would be good.  

[Nico]

really? I may sound weird, but when it's 2 am, I really don't want to talk loud. Plus imagine the scene: "ok dudes, leave the bridge, I have some important omega classed informations to tell to the computer". hem yeah...
I think keyboard is the best interface, and I'm sure in 50 years you'll still have a keyboard (and in 300 years too, maybe). Cars have 100 years know, and they still use steering wheels.

[Anduril]

Why COULDN'T Bosch use a laptop if he wanted to? People today use all sorts of antiques, just because they're there, or they like to feel like they're in a different time. It's very possible that our beloved Admiral had somehow gotten ahold of a genuine 20th century computer, and liked using it.  

[Martinus]

Hmmm, I see problems with the avatar idea:

Little Jimmy: Avatar, get me some pr0n!!
Avatar: Yes oh great overlord of all things binary, I shall make it my single most important crusade in your service to search out pr0n of the highest quality for your viewing pleasure.
Little Jimmy's mum: What the hell did your little creature just say?!?
Little Jimmy: *whispering* Shut it avatar.
Avatar: Indeed!! I shall speak of my pr0n crusade no longer!!
Little Jimmy's mum: I wondered why you were on that internet thing so late into the night.

*sounds of pr0n crazed youth being repeatedly beaten with footwear whilst his trusty avatar is killed by an unrecoverable error*

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[Vertigo1]

 

Originally posted by Anduril:
Why COULDN'T Bosch use a laptop if he wanted to? People today use all sorts of antiques, just because they're there, or they like to feel like they're in a different time. It's very possible that our beloved Admiral had somehow gotten ahold of a genuine 20th century computer, and liked using it.  

Yeah, he probably uses it for sentimental reasons.

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[Martinus]

 

Originally posted by Anduril:
Why COULDN'T Bosch use a laptop if he wanted to? People today use all sorts of antiques, just because they're there, or they like to feel like they're in a different time. It's very possible that our beloved Admiral had somehow gotten ahold of a genuine 20th century computer, and liked using it.  

*sounds of 20th century keyboard*
...I feel only joy...

*screen flashes blue*
Windows has caused a fatal exception in module 'really advanced wordprocessing suite'

*sound of damned expensive piece of junk being thrown across ready room*



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[Vertigo1]

 

Originally posted by Maeglamor:
*sounds of 20th century keyboard*
...I feel only joy...

*screen flashes blue*
Windows has caused a fatal exception in module 'really advanced wordprocessing suite'

*sound of damned expensive piece of junk being thrown across ready room*

LOL

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[Sandwich]

 

Originally posted by Carl:
...and why a 2D screen? why not a 3D holoscreen like the vasudans use?

I really like the interface that is shown to good effect in the Final Fantasy movie... holo-keyboard AND holo-screen.  


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[The Claw]

 I personally prefer a more solid keyboard, something I can easilly head butt  

[Nico]

  look at my sig :lol

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[The Claw]

Oi! I never gave permission for you to photograph me!  

[Ace]

Pfeh! I like Avatars  

Still, I could see a lot of combinations done, but a holo display is the most flexible with interface (universal keyboard displays and such) as programming options.

Even then, the little kiddies with an Avatar would be cute, and avoids any pr0n crusades me mastah!

[Eishtmo]

It probably has to do with privacy more than anything else.  It was a personal log entry after all.

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[Mad Bomber]

The keyboard Bosch was using was massively different. It clearly had less buttons than our QWERTY type keyboards, or the Dvorak ones. So it was probably not an antique.

[Carl]

 

Originally posted by venom2506:
really? I may sound weird, but when it's 2 am, I really don't want to talk loud. Plus imagine the scene: "ok dudes, leave the bridge, I have some important omega classed informations to tell to the computer". hem yeah...

which is why i said Neural Interface instead of voice interface...plus it's more high tech.

 

Originally posted by venom2506:

I think keyboard is the best interface, and I'm sure in 50 years you'll still have a keyboard (and in 300 years too, maybe). Cars have 100 years know, and they still use steering wheels.

they are already redisigning keyboards all the time, and they are already developing interfaces better than keyboards, so in 50 years they will be obsolete let alone 300. you don't seem to realize how fast tech is improving. look at the first keyboards for type writers, now look at the new ones. then take into account that technology is advancing on a curve. now extrapalate 300 years. yeah, like i said, no keyboards for bosch.