Comments on: Second Grade Math http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/10/05/second-grade-math/ By Linden Lab Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:07:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Jamie David http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/10/05/second-grade-math/#comment-492466 Jamie David Sat, 06 Oct 2007 17:03:12 +0000 http://lindenlab.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/second-grade-math/#comment-492466 Tis interesting to me. That such a boreing no news item is given such effort. So a small no nothing piece that no one cares about is now important. Can't be bothered to tell users that they were charged vat till the day of or after. Give us so little news and info, spread it over google and highwater yet......This makes the blog....Open comment no less. No 100 comment limit here. Open unlimited comments about the Tax issue, not goign to happen. Oh by the by "[RESOLVED] Gridwide Slowdowns" which has comments closed is not resolved. Still getting no lindens showing and login can take up to 10 minutes or longer. Grid is not that slow but seems to freeze a lot. What I do take away from all this is. 974,000 Users last month 9-10 Million registered users 90% have left. Tis interesting to me. That such a boreing no news item is given such effort. So a small no nothing piece that no one cares about is now important.

Can’t be bothered to tell users that they were charged vat till the day of or after. Give us so little news and info, spread it over google and highwater yet……This makes the blog….Open comment no less. No 100 comment limit here. Open unlimited comments about the Tax issue, not goign to happen.

Oh by the by “[RESOLVED] Gridwide Slowdowns” which has comments closed is not resolved. Still getting no lindens showing and login can take up to 10 minutes or longer. Grid is not that slow but seems to freeze a lot.

What I do take away from all this is.
974,000 Users last month
9-10 Million registered users
90% have left.

]]> By: U M http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/10/05/second-grade-math/#comment-492434 U M Sat, 06 Oct 2007 15:51:28 +0000 http://lindenlab.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/second-grade-math/#comment-492434 @143 as i said before I don`t trust that source........From pass issues she been involved with and has started. I just don`t believe it. Its just BS. @143 as i said before I don`t trust that source……..From pass issues she been involved with and has started. I just don`t believe it. Its just BS.

]]> By: Musimba Yellowknife http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/10/05/second-grade-math/#comment-492433 Musimba Yellowknife Sat, 06 Oct 2007 15:50:56 +0000 http://lindenlab.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/second-grade-math/#comment-492433 Anyone remember the times George W. Bush stated that the average American earneds $200,000 per year? Obviously, the average American laughed at that statement; however, he was technically correct. It is just that the few that earn several million per year throw the stats off. According to the stat given by Ginsu Linden, the average SL user logged in for 23.6 hours. Could it be that most of those 974,000 users that logged in, stayed logged in for about 12 minutes before abandoning their new avatars to move onto some other activity and only some of us long time users made up the difference? Anyone remember the times George W. Bush stated that the average American earneds $200,000 per year? Obviously, the average American laughed at that statement; however, he was technically correct. It is just that the few that earn several million per year throw the stats off.
According to the stat given by Ginsu Linden, the average SL user logged in for 23.6 hours. Could it be that most of those 974,000 users that logged in, stayed logged in for about 12 minutes before abandoning their new avatars to move onto some other activity and only some of us long time users made up the difference?

]]> By: Vendar Beika http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/10/05/second-grade-math/#comment-492394 Vendar Beika Sat, 06 Oct 2007 14:19:21 +0000 http://lindenlab.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/second-grade-math/#comment-492394 OK I have re read this blog again. Blinders Off Says this says that Dude get a life you have written a book her you ass give some one else a chance to be heard. ad there are only 2 people that got the point of the Yahkie article it was about mobile content not time spent. and those people writ there stats from there own information not the BS stats LL provides. This is a computer program people!! LL has fully accurate info available to them they use to see just how sloppy they can code and still make maximum profit Most of them drink too much and blow into work late hung over like today. that is why people can post negatively here for now the police are sleeping OK I have re read this blog again. Blinders Off Says this says that Dude get a life you have written a book her you ass give some one else a chance to be heard. ad there are only 2 people that got the point of the Yahkie article it was about mobile content not time spent. and those people writ there stats from there own information not the BS stats LL provides.

This is a computer program people!! LL has fully accurate info available to them they use to see just how sloppy they can code and still make maximum profit Most of them drink too much and blow into work late hung over like today. that is why people can post negatively here for now the police are sleeping

]]> By: Klaatu Congrejo http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/10/05/second-grade-math/#comment-492384 Klaatu Congrejo Sat, 06 Oct 2007 13:54:26 +0000 http://lindenlab.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/second-grade-math/#comment-492384 You sure thats not 12 DAYS per month (which is 288 hours) - LOL, I spend that much time reading these blogposts and all the other stuff like tutorials, IM's, Group Messages, etc. each month. The rest of the time, if there IS any time left, is spent building up several projects I'm working on in SL. 70 to 90 hours per WEEK seems to be my going rate at the moment! You sure thats not 12 DAYS per month (which is 288 hours) - LOL, I spend that much time reading these blogposts and all the other stuff like tutorials, IM’s, Group Messages, etc. each month. The rest of the time, if there IS any time left, is spent building up several projects I’m working on in SL.
70 to 90 hours per WEEK seems to be my going rate at the moment!

]]> By: Storyof Oh http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/10/05/second-grade-math/#comment-492382 Storyof Oh Sat, 06 Oct 2007 13:37:54 +0000 http://lindenlab.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/second-grade-math/#comment-492382 lol i return to my computer to find its crashed out SL yet again but hey i can put money on that and maybe should spare some electricity when i go off...but i still try and hold the faith. Upon relogging my screen is filled with blue warnings re what has been going awol in my absence just at a time the USA are online. And STILL this blog is running. Can we now have an assurance from LL that all blogs in future will have comments enabled and unlimited? By so doing blogs might, just 'might' stay on topic...people can quickly see their problem is not 'just them' and feel they DO have a voice cos LL so loves voice right? LL should take SL use with a pinch of salt and concentrate on making our ACTUAL TIME LOGGED IN USEABLE! plus it really isn't on to not be 100% compatable with VISTA which is a bit like saying lets ignore DVD's and keep everything on video tape..... Have a great bug free weekend, met here in this blog Monday ? ;) lol i return to my computer to find its crashed out SL yet again but hey i can put money on that and maybe should spare some electricity when i go off…but i still try and hold the faith.
Upon relogging my screen is filled with blue warnings re what has been going awol in my absence just at a time the USA are online.

And STILL this blog is running. Can we now have an assurance from LL that all blogs in future will have comments enabled and unlimited?

By so doing blogs might, just ‘might’ stay on topic…people can quickly see their problem is not ‘just them’ and feel they DO have a voice cos LL so loves voice right?

LL should take SL use with a pinch of salt and concentrate on making our ACTUAL TIME LOGGED IN USEABLE! plus it really isn’t on to not be 100% compatable with VISTA which is a bit like saying lets ignore DVD’s and keep everything on video tape…..
Have a great bug free weekend, met here in this blog Monday ? ;)

]]> By: Zennia Zenovka http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/10/05/second-grade-math/#comment-492361 Zennia Zenovka Sat, 06 Oct 2007 12:14:01 +0000 http://lindenlab.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/second-grade-math/#comment-492361 Yankee Ingenuity: Strange analyst report pulled Shortly after the Lindens joined the collective headscratching, Yankee Group has wisely withdrawn its report asserting twelve minutes monthly Second Life usage, and other oddities, claiming those disputes are a distraction from the report's main theme. The real point, the co-author tells Virtual World News, was to discuss SL's failure to provide mobility, like cellphones, to the MMO experience. "We're not really in the business of monitoring the blogosphere," he adds. Yankee Ingenuity: Strange analyst report pulled
Shortly after the Lindens joined the collective headscratching, Yankee Group has wisely withdrawn its report asserting twelve minutes monthly Second Life usage, and other oddities, claiming those disputes are a distraction from the report’s main theme. The real point, the co-author tells Virtual World News, was to discuss SL’s failure to provide mobility, like cellphones, to the MMO experience. “We’re not really in the business of monitoring the blogosphere,” he adds.

]]> By: Jonas Ingrassia http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/10/05/second-grade-math/#comment-492295 Jonas Ingrassia Sat, 06 Oct 2007 09:34:40 +0000 http://lindenlab.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/second-grade-math/#comment-492295 See Tateru Nino's analysis from two days ago for Second Life Insider, also. http://www.secondlifeinsider.com/2007/10/03/do-the-math-yankee-group-cant-seem-to/ See Tateru Nino’s analysis from two days ago for Second Life Insider, also.

http://www.secondlifeinsider.com/2007/10/03/do-the-math-yankee-group-cant-seem-to/

]]> By: william Fish http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/10/05/second-grade-math/#comment-492276 william Fish Sat, 06 Oct 2007 08:46:08 +0000 http://lindenlab.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/second-grade-math/#comment-492276 I do have to agree with one thing... probably about 50% (as the article stated) that are logged in at any given time are camping. One only needs to go to popular places in search and visit the top places to see th % of campers and actual % of people visiting that place for other things. Also, how many people log in with their alts and their main person at the same time? I would say about a 1/3 of that 50% above.. maybe a lil less as some maybe camping. Now the 12 mins a month logged in and playing... that's just dead wrong! And lets not forget it was summer time and most people im sure would rather be outside during the summer months then inside playing SL. (gasp did i just say that?). Overall... this article has some truth... but more washed up facts then anything else. I do have to agree with one thing… probably about 50% (as the article stated) that are logged in at any given time are camping. One only needs to go to popular places in search and visit the top places to see th % of campers and actual % of people visiting that place for other things.

Also, how many people log in with their alts and their main person at the same time? I would say about a 1/3 of that 50% above.. maybe a lil less as some maybe camping.

Now the 12 mins a month logged in and playing… that’s just dead wrong! And lets not forget it was summer time and most people im sure would rather be outside during the summer months then inside playing SL. (gasp did i just say that?).

Overall… this article has some truth… but more washed up facts then anything else.

]]> By: Research Firm Doesn’t Buy the SL Hype | Second Life Sucks http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/10/05/second-grade-math/#comment-492269 Research Firm Doesn’t Buy the SL Hype | Second Life Sucks Sat, 06 Oct 2007 08:20:55 +0000 http://lindenlab.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/second-grade-math/#comment-492269 [...] On October 5, 2007, Linden Lab responded to the results on the Yankee Group’s findings. My reply to that: This isn’t second grade. There’s actually a lot more to the numbers than dividing hours by users. I use a main account a 4 alts in SL. The 4 alts haven’t been logged in for months. My main account is logged on for maybe 5 minutes, every other day. That’s about 15 minutes a month. [...] [...] On October 5, 2007, Linden Lab responded to the results on the Yankee Group’s findings. My reply to that: This isn’t second grade. There’s actually a lot more to the numbers than dividing hours by users. I use a main account a 4 alts in SL. The 4 alts haven’t been logged in for months. My main account is logged on for maybe 5 minutes, every other day. That’s about 15 minutes a month. [...]

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