I'm postulating here (haven't had a chance yet to play The Sims 3, neither in 'leaked'/previewing or purchased form).
I am going to guess that the launcher (getting some confusion reading through the comments here -- was there a form of the launcher in the leaked version? This comment only makes sense if there was a form of the launcher on the leaked version), if it integrated the web-based features - or even just had the framework in place for the web components to be added in -- likely they are making use of a web analytics company like Omniture.
I've noticed various applications making use of Omniture for their web analytics. Photoshop comes immediately to mind, with Photoshop CS3 sending requests through the router to 192.168.112.2o7.net and being extremely puzzled/concerned about it initially - as honestly, the CS3 suite academic packaging in Canada, and the registration key process did not look anywhere near as polished as all the previous suites 7, CS, CS2 were.
(Aside: yes, my licensing is valid, and yes it was purchased through a legitimate college bookstore -- but when the previous suites are higher quality packaging and inserts, and then finding just the disc and printed leaflet instructing you to go to a non-Adobe website to obtain the registration key, it makes you kind of go "hrm...")
My confusion had been cleared up re: Photoshop when John Nack posted on the Adobe blog about it, but it made me aware of Omniture using the look-a-like 192.168.112.2o7.net in gathering analytics for companies, resembling at a quick glance internal network --- and saw various other software doing it as well (as well as strict web based apps as well)
Just a tiny little invisible image, that's all it takes.
Of course, there is also the other possibility in EA's "telemetry" -- scraping blogs/social networks to see countries of origin, languages being posted in, of screenshots and excited babbling users playing the game before it was released.
AFAIK, there hasn't been a Second Life client yet to run on a cell-phone based platform.... Unless you want to talk text-only solutions but you cannot use inventory items in clients like SLiM, which are focused on communication only.
"...but what I can see might be under 18 teens taking more pictures of themselves, then younger teens wanting to be like the older teens and in the 'in' crowd. Pictures getting posted to the internet, and soon a huge influx of child pornography, and sexual predators getting more access to the illegal material, all in the name of 'self expression' of the teenagers."
Honestly, that is not likely.
What happens more often, is that the more forbidden something is, without it being explained in a way that is understood by the listener, and appears to have a valid reason for being forbidden, the more it will occur.
Teens have been taking naked photos of themselves for years - the difference is that now, there is the potential for them to be spread online.
Simply telling a child or teen not to do something - generally seems to work only up until around puberty. After that, you need to actually sit down and explain the rationale. Saying "it is illegal" or "it is wrong to do" or "good girls don't do that" -- aren't strong for convincing majority.
Actually sitting down and speaking with them about body image, self-expression, the risks of files ending up much farther distributed than intended, the potential liability to their future career, difficulties it may cause their family in terms of discomfort were those who know the family to find out - possibly something like asking them to consider the question "would you be comfortable if your [teacher, minister, friend's mom, doctor, grandmother, friend's younger sibling, your younger or older sibling, etc] ended up seeing the images unintentionally?" in terms of having them consider the implications of how freely information/images can end up distributed past the intended recipient - even by something as simple as a friend using a friend's phone, seeing the images on it when browsing for another file or something, forwarding it to themselves, etc, -- or quite simply, the recipient forwarding it along themselves to their friends or posting it on the net for kicks.
Any further details on the time period he would have been spiking drinks? It looks like he would have not been acting in capacity of being executive past 2003, but would he have been running a muck past then? I was at an after-party in Southern California last summer for an animation convention - can I hop on the bandwagon and blame him rather than a random waitress for spiking my drink with ecstasy?
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Re: Re: Re: Hmmm
I'm postulating here (haven't had a chance yet to play The Sims 3, neither in 'leaked'/previewing or purchased form).
I am going to guess that the launcher (getting some confusion reading through the comments here -- was there a form of the launcher in the leaked version? This comment only makes sense if there was a form of the launcher on the leaked version), if it integrated the web-based features - or even just had the framework in place for the web components to be added in -- likely they are making use of a web analytics company like Omniture.
I've noticed various applications making use of Omniture for their web analytics. Photoshop comes immediately to mind, with Photoshop CS3 sending requests through the router to 192.168.112.2o7.net and being extremely puzzled/concerned about it initially - as honestly, the CS3 suite academic packaging in Canada, and the registration key process did not look anywhere near as polished as all the previous suites 7, CS, CS2 were.
(Aside: yes, my licensing is valid, and yes it was purchased through a legitimate college bookstore -- but when the previous suites are higher quality packaging and inserts, and then finding just the disc and printed leaflet instructing you to go to a non-Adobe website to obtain the registration key, it makes you kind of go "hrm...")
My confusion had been cleared up re: Photoshop when John Nack posted on the Adobe blog about it, but it made me aware of Omniture using the look-a-like 192.168.112.2o7.net in gathering analytics for companies, resembling at a quick glance internal network --- and saw various other software doing it as well (as well as strict web based apps as well)
Just a tiny little invisible image, that's all it takes.
Of course, there is also the other possibility in EA's "telemetry" -- scraping blogs/social networks to see countries of origin, languages being posted in, of screenshots and excited babbling users playing the game before it was released.
Re: hm
AFAIK, there hasn't been a Second Life client yet to run on a cell-phone based platform.... Unless you want to talk text-only solutions but you cannot use inventory items in clients like SLiM, which are focused on communication only.
Re: 12o's comment
"...but what I can see might be under 18 teens taking more pictures of themselves, then younger teens wanting to be like the older teens and in the 'in' crowd. Pictures getting posted to the internet, and soon a huge influx of child pornography, and sexual predators getting more access to the illegal material, all in the name of 'self expression' of the teenagers." Honestly, that is not likely. What happens more often, is that the more forbidden something is, without it being explained in a way that is understood by the listener, and appears to have a valid reason for being forbidden, the more it will occur. Teens have been taking naked photos of themselves for years - the difference is that now, there is the potential for them to be spread online. Simply telling a child or teen not to do something - generally seems to work only up until around puberty. After that, you need to actually sit down and explain the rationale. Saying "it is illegal" or "it is wrong to do" or "good girls don't do that" -- aren't strong for convincing majority. Actually sitting down and speaking with them about body image, self-expression, the risks of files ending up much farther distributed than intended, the potential liability to their future career, difficulties it may cause their family in terms of discomfort were those who know the family to find out - possibly something like asking them to consider the question "would you be comfortable if your [teacher, minister, friend's mom, doctor, grandmother, friend's younger sibling, your younger or older sibling, etc] ended up seeing the images unintentionally?" in terms of having them consider the implications of how freely information/images can end up distributed past the intended recipient - even by something as simple as a friend using a friend's phone, seeing the images on it when browsing for another file or something, forwarding it to themselves, etc, -- or quite simply, the recipient forwarding it along themselves to their friends or posting it on the net for kicks.
When was he spiking drinks?
Any further details on the time period he would have been spiking drinks? It looks like he would have not been acting in capacity of being executive past 2003, but would he have been running a muck past then? I was at an after-party in Southern California last summer for an animation convention - can I hop on the bandwagon and blame him rather than a random waitress for spiking my drink with ecstasy?