If part of the success of a mixed reality event is not knowing who produced it - MillionsOfUs did a great job. I didn't realize that you folks were the background on a lot of this - I was more taken with the event which is the way I think it is supposed to be. I can only imagine the administrative nightmares, I've helped organize a few conferences. I think it is an art to getting the pieces in the right places so that they fall together properly. It fell together properly within SL yesterday, barring technology issues. I understand the technology issues, so I'm not easily frustrated by them.

Yeah - I had a feeling you were trying to reach an audience with the 3.7, but I'm not a mindreader and the whole mathematical breakdown really takes some interest from the listener to make stick. How do we explain this to people new to the topic? I'm still trying to figure it out.

A graph of peak concurrent users over time might help. People get pictures and graphs, words and equations require a level of abstraction that can be a put off. Of course, everyone talks about the number of WoW accounts and not the peak number of users, so it becomes an apples and oranges scenario which we're trying to avoid.

But in the context of social interaction - the number of concurrent users allows for more interaction. Some of the interaction is negative at certain points, I expect, but in the context of the potential of social interaction... you can have your raid with 45-50 people. I'll take a world with 25,000 + people online at the same time, thank you very much. We could get into sim limits, etc, but that isn't a bad thing either. Consider adding a few more MIPs per Beowulf cluster could allow much more social interaction... oops. Ran away with that.

The good news is that - like a lot of other revolutions - the word is spreading by word of mouth. The trick is to balance things now so we don't look like bullfighters later. Bullfighters have the luxury of killing the bill after it figures out that he's not a piece of cloth (bulls are actually color blind)... whereas speakers and writers have the bulls come knocking on their doors with torches and pitchforks.

Hold on. I have a mob at the door. :-D