Lil Nas X used a sample from Nine Inch Nails for Old Town Road and didn’t get it cleared prior to it becoming a success. Reznor decided to clear it, though.

Fight scrapers, provide more targeted advertising, use this as a beginning to get people to make an account.

Google doesn’t have an incentive to keep this information open without an account but several incentives to put it behind an account wall.

The first gaming system that connected to the Internet was the Sega Dreamcast, and even that ran games only off disc. It isn’t until you get to the PS3/XBox 360 era when games would be downloaded to the console directly, and even then games weren’t expected to need an Internet connection to use.

Mario Brothers might have had a small design team, but Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas had a much larger dev team.

I keep a bowling ball in my car. It doesn’t make sense to have it at home.

Why spiral binding? It is a relatively cheap and easy way to bind pages together to become a book.

It uses less material than a three ring binder while having more holes to secure the pages. You lose less material at the binding location compared with staples or screws. It doesn’t require expensive equipment that making a book requires, so you can make smaller runs.

The point of paper documentation isn’t to keep it up to date, but to be a snapshot of the time.

AOL

Yahoo

Sensible Erection

Reddit

Lemmy

Kind of hard to buy something that doesn’t exist.

It is worse in that Vimeo makes money by charging creators to host their content instead of YouTube’s model of it being free or a way to make money.

Except who wants to be YouTube?

Twitch only does streaming. Meta and TikTok only do short form video. Spotify’s attempts to branch into video seem focused on podcasts and curated content. If YouTube were to erase from existence, I don’t see a competitor getting made.

Yeah. Most of the world may be seeing this as a set of crimes when this is really a massive trove of intelligence.

I’ve taken classes on QWERTY and have the right form, but I still need to look at the keys every once in a while.

Practice in online chat rooms has made it so I can type about as fast as I can think, which is good enough for me.

The official position of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce is that, since the walk of fame is a national landmark, all stars are historic and shouldn’t be removed. Also, they only have the authority to create stars and not remove them.

If a star were to be removed, it would need to be destroyed as an act of vandalism and the Chamber of Commerce would need to choose to not rebuild that damaged star. Even then, current policy is to rebuild all damaged stars.

There is a committee which reviews applications and approves nominees. There are also rules on who can get a star.

It is an industry award that has a cost attached both in applying and actually winning it. This is pretty common for awards in various industries.

SNOT is Studs Not On Top. Sometimes I’m order to get the look that you want from your build, it is better to flip part of the build on its side to get a better aligned view stack of plates to what you’re trying to build.

No, I don’t have that kind of money.

Why Mobius?

Nobody in my region?

I’d be surprised if I could find one with any use beyond a small community in an undeveloped part of the world.

Just some SNOT ratios that AFOL need to remember.

I would assume so given the mental labor. I’d be more concerned if I wasn’t exhausted after a session.