Flying SquidSo that's why he says it like that!
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Makes sense to me 🤷‍♂️
I would think a computer that can make a living person on the holodeck just by telling it to beat Data can handle “tea, Earl Grey, hot” or “Earl Grey tea, hot” or “hot Earl Grey tea.”
Edit: Really, it should just know what Picard means when he says “tea” after he’s done it multiple times.
ricecakeIt’s also a show from the early 90s, when talking to the computer was a fantasy. Remember how they walk around delivering tablets to people for the mail?
Little details about how technology would actually develop stand out super bad when they get close but just miss how things actually went.
early 90s
Aliasing has been available in UNIX since the C Shell in 1978.
Alright? And how often do you talk to talk to bash?
The point is it’s a TV show from the 90s. They had a few misses regarding how technology would end up looking.
My point was the technology existed for over a decade already, but that’s not the reason they didn’t imitate what you’d do in reality (yes, even 90s reality with computers).
Your point is a tad nonsensical with respect to the tea command though. The “tea, Earl Gray, hot” routine is more important to the character than the already existing technology anyway. Not to mention you’d have to explain the technology is actually translating the alias to this other command. But why is that important to the plot, it’s not hence why it isn’t done.
I know why media portrays technology the way it does and the true point is plot and character development is more important than technological “correctness”.
How often do I talk to bash? Excusing your loaded question, if by talking to you mean inputting a command, like in our given example of requesting tea, then countless times every day.
Aliases are not the same as natural language processing, so saying that it already existed for a decade is kinda missing the point, because what they were describing didn’t.
They were very clearly imitating how people would find the beverage via a menu driven interface, but using voice. It’s similar to how real world initial attempts at touch driven computer interfaces had an otherwise unmodified interference mounted on a wall with a touchscreen, and immediately ran into issues with arm fatigue. They didn’t show the arm fatigue in Star Trek either because it’s a TV show and they didn’t predict the future perfectly.
It wasn’t a loaded question. I meant literally how often do you speak to the bash prompt via a voice interface.
The tools and technologies that are used for a textual medium don’t port to voice interfaces, so it makes about as much sense to invoke shell scripting in this context as it does to invoke algebraic variable substitution from the 1500s.
SpaceCowboyYeah but a problem with having too many things aliased is that you eventually forget the underlying commands and when you’re on a terminal that doesn’t have your alias you can’t do anything anymore.
Picard is a guy that gets around the galaxy and probably learned the menu on replicators when he was young. And it’s possible that there’s some weird alien food that sounds like hot earl grey tea. Some older replicators are probably still in operation on some planets, and he’s found that the order of “Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.” is the most reliable command that works on nearly all replicators. Given how much gets around he got used to always saying it that way so even when he’s in his ready room, he still says it that way without even thinking about it.