Now that really worries me. Are these contraptions still at-sea? But of course military systems take around 20 years to deploy.
And just think: I could control a nuclear powerstation from my iMac rather better than from its actual control room! ...anyone got a URL? ;) Ian On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Oleg Kobchenko <[email protected]> wrote: > Nah! Really?! > > It is a known spoof, and as it says in the text below it, > it's a doctored image of a nuke sub control center. > > > Not dissimilar to this naval control bridge exhibited in > the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum on Washington Mall. > > http://www.nasm.si.edu/imagedetail.cfm?imageID=937 > > > >> From: Alex Rufon <[email protected]> >> >> Hi Ian, >> >> I followed your link. Then I click on Humorous HCI link under User Interface >> Developer Resources. It of course opened a new page and gives a list. Number >> one >> is: >> >> NB. ========================== >> 1.1954 Computer of the future >> 2006-12-28 Scientists from the RAND Cporation have created this model to >> illustrate how a "home computer" could look like in the year 2004. However >> the >> needed technology will not be economically feasible for the average home. >> Also >> the scientists readily admit that the computer will require not yet invented >> technology to actually work, but 50 years from now scientific progress is >> expected to solve these problems. With teletype interface and the Fortran >> language, the computer will be easy to use. >> NB. =========================== >> >> This just made my day! Did they really think that computers NOW would have >> that >> really big steering wheel to use? LOL. ROFLOL. >> >> Thanks. :) >> >> r/Alex >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf >> Of Ian Clark >> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 12:05 PM >> To: Chat forum >> Subject: [Jchat] Best Usability Quotations (re the redesign of on-line Voc) >> >> I was dead wrong to yawn when I saw this link in: http://www.hcibib.org/ >> >> It's so good, pertinent, brief, I'd like to commend it to everyone >> with 60 seconds to spare: http://www.linfo.org/q_usability.html >> >> Ian >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
