2004 ROAR Carpet Nationals (The Gate)
03-22-2004, 10:19 AM
#5
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For those of you that didn't know and are coming bring your laptop with a wireless internet card. The track has wireless internet as the practice times are going to be posted straight to J-lap. That also means that there will be some upto the minute updates. If you don't believe me look at the Ask Mike Blackstock thread. See everyone there.
03-22-2004, 10:19 AM
#6
Yeah-I am not looking forward to the LONG drive to track--Oooppps-its only 10 minutes for me---aaaaaahhhhhh!!!!
Ian-I cannot wait to hear you and Johnny V on the mic the whole weekend. Its gonna be great!!
And now quit talking about me on the mic-I cant stop crashing when you do that!!
Ian-I cannot wait to hear you and Johnny V on the mic the whole weekend. Its gonna be great!!
And now quit talking about me on the mic-I cant stop crashing when you do that!!
03-22-2004, 10:53 AM
#8
yes, yes.
this weekend is gonna be a blast.
ray - i'm only 9 min from the track
yesterday was so much fun. we have such a great group of guys and gal(s) running the gate. i think i'm actually as excited to be around that much racing, as i am to be doing the racing. no lie.
the halloween race was great, and this time we have a much better facility, a stocked hobby shop, near real time internet updates, and the racing will be nonstop for 5 days. boy, am i gonna have the monday blues next week.
good luck with travel and racing for everyone looking to come up from afar looking to lay it down.
rock and roll.
this weekend is gonna be a blast.
ray - i'm only 9 min from the track
yesterday was so much fun. we have such a great group of guys and gal(s) running the gate. i think i'm actually as excited to be around that much racing, as i am to be doing the racing. no lie.
the halloween race was great, and this time we have a much better facility, a stocked hobby shop, near real time internet updates, and the racing will be nonstop for 5 days. boy, am i gonna have the monday blues next week.
good luck with travel and racing for everyone looking to come up from afar looking to lay it down.
rock and roll.
03-22-2004, 12:46 PM
#9
i tried to get them to set up a web cam so us slugs could see all the good pics but thay said it was to busy to do this time around but thay liked the idea
rob
rob
03-22-2004, 12:56 PM
#10
I will see what I can do about a webcam when I get there. No promises but you never know. I don't have the funding to set up a live video stream but it's possible that we could do a snapshot that updates every 10 seconds or something.
03-22-2004, 12:59 PM
#11
your the man that would be sweet. i know the advertisers would love to be on that page. i am shure it would generate tons of hits
Rob
Rob
03-22-2004, 01:42 PM
#12
The only real problem for me is bandwidth; if a webcam is sending a 20K JPG (which would be like 400x300) every 10 seconds along with a 15K advertisement banner, that's going to be 35K x 6 = 210KB per minute per user who is watching it. So if we had 100 people around the world watching it, it would be consuming 21,000KB (21MB) of bandwidth per minute.
On the one hand, I'd be stoked if we had 100 people watching it. On the other hand, there's a very large possibility that we'd end up with more than 100 people! We tried this for the PDGA (Professional Disc Golf Associated) World Championships, a live webcast where 100-or-so viewers were expected. When the time came, thousands of people came out of nowhere and brought the server to its knees. I'd hate to see that happen!
However, I'm also a sucker for punishment, so I might give it a shot. Maybe at some of these events next year we could find a company that would be willing to sponsor such a webcam.
On the one hand, I'd be stoked if we had 100 people watching it. On the other hand, there's a very large possibility that we'd end up with more than 100 people! We tried this for the PDGA (Professional Disc Golf Associated) World Championships, a live webcast where 100-or-so viewers were expected. When the time came, thousands of people came out of nowhere and brought the server to its knees. I'd hate to see that happen!
However, I'm also a sucker for punishment, so I might give it a shot. Maybe at some of these events next year we could find a company that would be willing to sponsor such a webcam.
03-22-2004, 01:51 PM
#13
you know as well as i do you will have alot more than 100 people watching it heck racers at work would have it on all day long. i bet a sponser(s) would jump on it in a heart beat. heck how many post where on the snowbirds thread thats the kind of attention you should expect. we all have a need to see the pics lol
rob
rob
03-22-2004, 03:55 PM
#14
Originally posted by seaball
yes, yes.
this weekend is gonna be a blast.
ray - i'm only 9 min from the track
yesterday was so much fun. we have such a great group of guys and gal(s) running the gate. i think i'm actually as excited to be around that much racing, as i am to be doing the racing. no lie.
the halloween race was great, and this time we have a much better facility, a stocked hobby shop, near real time internet updates, and the racing will be nonstop for 5 days. boy, am i gonna have the monday blues next week.
good luck with travel and racing for everyone looking to come up from afar looking to lay it down.
rock and roll.
yes, yes.
this weekend is gonna be a blast.
ray - i'm only 9 min from the track
yesterday was so much fun. we have such a great group of guys and gal(s) running the gate. i think i'm actually as excited to be around that much racing, as i am to be doing the racing. no lie.
the halloween race was great, and this time we have a much better facility, a stocked hobby shop, near real time internet updates, and the racing will be nonstop for 5 days. boy, am i gonna have the monday blues next week.
good luck with travel and racing for everyone looking to come up from afar looking to lay it down.
rock and roll.
03-22-2004, 04:04 PM
#15
Originally posted by WVRACER
you know as well as i do you will have alot more than 100 people watching it heck racers at work would have it on all day long. i bet a sponser(s) would jump on it in a heart beat. heck how many post where on the snowbirds thread thats the kind of attention you should expect. we all have a need to see the pics lol
rob
you know as well as i do you will have alot more than 100 people watching it heck racers at work would have it on all day long. i bet a sponser(s) would jump on it in a heart beat. heck how many post where on the snowbirds thread thats the kind of attention you should expect. we all have a need to see the pics lol
rob
