D'niWeb

[Gehn, lord of ages]

What's the next debate ?

How the controls of the thing formerly known as info boothish should be made.

Here is my very ugly roughout (AutoShapes are not made for graceful Uru devices).

You approach the screens and click on one of them (as shown in the top right). Before clicking on it, you can see the news that is up, but you cannot individually touch the controls.

The Default page for the imagers is the top menu. This would be a good place to explain the usage of the imagers. The buttons correspond to the other pages you can go to. "More..." just changes all the words next to the buttons to the next 9 sites (if there is any need).

Clicking on the buttons will take you to the corresponding site. Notice that the buttons dim when there aren't any options associated with them (and so clicking is futile). Clicking on the big blue button at the bottom takes you up to the menu (so from UruBlogs you go to the main site, from "Explorer's Blogs" you would be taken to the UruBlogs menu). (the orange line is supposed to be connecting the blue button and the orange arrow... )

The big purple thing is a KI interface. You click on something to say "create journey" (or whatever better word is chosen) and then insert a title and description. You fill in each one then hit "New Step" to add a step. Continue doing this until you've finished whatever quest you're making. You can delete the steps or the whole thing at any time.

Then go to one of the info screens and put your hand in a KI slot (represented by the circle ). The info screen will notice that you have unuploaded journeys and will ask you if you want to upload them. If you say "No", it will ask the same the next time you insert your KI (unless you delete all the KI journeys).

[Nalates]

On a side note... mining companies do use wireless underground communications.

Basically, repeaters are setup at strategic places and relay up to the surface or to stations wired to the surface.

Places like Marvel Cave in Missouri (and other tourist caves) use radios to keep guides in touch with the surface.

So, wireless underground is not something new or yet to be done.

[realXCV]

What's the next debate ?

Then go to one of the info screens and put your hand in a KI slot (represented by the circle ).

A KI detector (like in the imagers) would be better.

On a side note... mining companies do use wireless underground communications.

Basically, repeaters are setup at strategic places and relay up to the surface or to stations wired to the surface.

Places like Marvel Cave in Missouri (and other tourist caves) use radios to keep guides in touch with the surface.

So, wireless underground is not something new or yet to be done.

Radios and Internet are not the same thing.

[Mac_Fife]

The buttons correspond to the other pages you can go to. "More..." just changes all the words next to the buttons to the next 9 sites (if there is any need).

Maybe it'd be simpler to have a touch screen and do without the buttons? In RL, ruggedised buttons meant for thousands of pushes by the general public on things like payphones, ATMs, etc., are fairly expensive to implement and so you tend to minimise the number of them you need. There's a break even point where it becomes cheaper overall to use a touch screen, so that might be argument that could carry over into here.

There's no obligation (that I can see so far) for any Information Points to be D'ni technology: They could just as easily be equipment placed in the cavern by the DRC, the local Cavern Explorers Club, the New Mexico Tourist Board, or whatever.

[realXCV]

There's no obligation (that I can see so far) for any Information Points to be D'ni technology: They could just as easily be equipment placed in the cavern by the DRC, the local Cavern Explorers Club, the New Mexico Tourist Board, or whatever.

Human equipment using D'ni technology ?

[Gehn, lord of ages]

What's the next debate ?

Then go to one of the info screens and put your hand in a KI slot (represented by the circle ).

A KI detector (like in the imagers) would be better.

What were those like? It just notes the KI without you having to place it in a slot? That will work fine.

Maybe it'd be simpler to have a touch screen and do without the buttons? In RL, ruggedised buttons meant for thousands of pushes by the general public on things like payphones, ATMs, etc., are fairly expensive to implement and so you tend to minimise the number of them you need. There's a break even point where it becomes cheaper overall to use a touch screen, so that might be argument that could carry over into here.

Touchscreen would be simpler.

There's no obligation (that I can see so far) for any Information Points to be D'ni technology: They could just as easily be equipment placed in the cavern by the DRC, the local Cavern Explorers Club, the New Mexico Tourist Board, or whatever.

Human equipment using D'ni technology ?

The DRC has been able to connect up human and D'ni technology before, right? I imagine the KIs communication translates at some point to simple electrical signals (or magnetic, or something elemental like that) which could just be used to transmit website like information (just 1's and 0's, lots of them), and since there obviously are more than enough KIs stored around, they could use them. Or they could transmit through radio waves (IC: the interface data would all be at the booth, so that wouldn't have to be transferred, and the updates wouldn't have to be immediate) or some similar form.

[realXCV]

What were those like? It just notes the KI without you having to place it in a slot? That will work fine.

It was something like that.

Human equipment using D'ni technology ?

The DRC has been able to connect up human and D'ni technology before, right? I imagine the KIs communication translates at some point to simple electrical signals (or magnetic, or something elemental like that) which could just be used to transmit website like information (just 1's and 0's, lots of them), and since there obviously are more than enough KIs stored around, they could use them. Or they could transmit through radio waves (IC: the interface data would all be at the booth, so that wouldn't have to be transferred, and the updates wouldn't have to be immediate) or some similar form.

It wasn't a question.

[DarK]

Radios and Internet are not the same thing.

[OT] Technically in-correct in terms of Wireless networking, principals behind Wireless Networking are practially the same as audio radios, you are just working at higher frequences, and the problems that come with them

[realXCV]

If you want to generalize, then yes; radios, phones, tv, cell phones, internet, bluetooth are all the same thing.

[Gehn, lord of ages]

If you want to generalize, then yes; radios, phones, tv, cell phones, internet, bluetooth are all the same thing.

No. "Internet" refers to the information, while radios, phones, and bluetooth refer to ways to transfer information. You could technically connect to the internet through radio wave transmission or bluetooth or tv.