He certainly was focused on his tool, that's for sure.
What are your controversial Star Trek opinions?
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Ok. But controversially I’ll say Okuda did a great job coming up with his own GUI in the 80s even if there was no way at the time to actually use LCARSSo we’ve gotten way off on a tangent here.
Let’s get back to Star Trek, shall we?
Uh....LCARS.So we’ve gotten way off on a tangent here.
Let’s get back to Star Trek, shall we?
My theory is that it is the color at a given point for LCARS that this is the real interrogation methodology. The numbers are a red herring. The image of the cursor control, is probably the only honest thing occurring on the display.
Canon violation!!11!1Uh....LCARS.
LCARS....liqueurs. Hey. Whaddya know. 
More nonsense.
I hate Wrath of Khan, it completely derailed everything about Star Trek and ''Space Seed'', with everything bad about Hollywood, turning Star Trek II into Superman II. The original Khan was a sovereign pioneer who boldly went where no man had gone before, when the United Federation of planets was still the United Nations of Earth. He was absolute ruler of one quarter of the Earth, and yet here were no massacres under his rule, no war until he was attacked... while the other 2Oth century rulers murdered 15O million, and he wanted to save humanity from failure by stagnation through offering the world ORDER! So he fled when Earth needed him most.
When dealing with multiple species and even more languages, what is the best way to handle the language barriers?
Sense of smell? In case you haven't noticed, the human Sense of Smell isn't that great. Hearing?? Questionable.
Sight??? Is the best compromise.
When you add in security concerns, you get the Library Computer Access System.
Simple.
As to those species that have poor sight, blobs of color can still work.
And as for those species that see in bands of light that see in infrared, or radically different bands, this too can be handled.
As for those that speak by other means, I am not too sure. Try reading the tax code some time...
Sense of smell? In case you haven't noticed, the human Sense of Smell isn't that great. Hearing?? Questionable.
Sight??? Is the best compromise.
When you add in security concerns, you get the Library Computer Access System.
Simple.
As to those species that have poor sight, blobs of color can still work.
And as for those species that see in bands of light that see in infrared, or radically different bands, this too can be handled.
As for those that speak by other means, I am not too sure. Try reading the tax code some time...
You are no TOS Spock. Movie-sequel perhaps, humpbacking whales.
Well, then, the two of you have common ground to work from.
Mike didn't come up with a GUI. He came up with a graphical style that suggested an interface. Really, it's just a bunch of buttons organized under some curved brackets. It does what it needs to do for the show, but it's not anything like an actual, usable interface.
Earbuds and translation-apps.
Dogs and cats do okay around humans.
Rule in Hell.
Language barriers? Don't you know, by an amazing coincidence everybody in the universe speaks Rigellian, which is exactly the same as English, even down to the lip movements.
DS9 revealed that everyone has a universal translator in their ear; which is linked to the local central computer, that learns languages by studying words relative to actions, and can take time to learn a completely unencountered language.
Meanwhile encountering an unknown species would normally involve ships traveling through decades of transmission-data, but a primitive planet would require study.
no but the design ethos that he came up with, where you have a sort of function between object and a flow of data in a graphical format does work. There have been attempts to make this work as a front-end on android devices (which CBS doesn't approve of, and yanks every time) and it does work.
In some ways it reminds me of the Subject-Verb system used on the Apollo AGC, albeit in graphical form.
And yes I know it was just some images with ze blinkenlights or spinning lights behind the plastic, but I honestly think he did put some real thought into the design. He got it right, and I think it really could make a decent front in GUI, one day, and would have if Paramount hadn't been assholes about it. (real life example.. Andrew Tanenbaum wrote a wonderfully simple operating system called Minix for a book he had published by Prentice Hall. But Minix needed more work, outside development. In the meantime one user took issues with some of the faults that could not be corrected in Minix (the newsgroup discussions are still out there), and a young guy named Linux Torvalds took his own project public, Gnu Linux became a huge success and Minix was left to die on the vine, though it's also still around.
sometimes people get it right, but never get to know they did.
I'll leave a light on for ya.
We do? I don't think so. I'm not whiteknighting for a warlord who says they offered the world order on their terms.
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