Fair points. I was mostly thinking of situations like downloading using a separate device, writing to a usb drive or SD card and installing via that. Downloading an installer and using it is just downloading without using an app store.
I’ve always took side-loading to mean installing from local storage, as opposed to downloading from remote storage. As far as I’m concerned downloading from a third party app store should not be treated as side-loading.
I’m pretty sure internet means internetwork, as in between networks. There’s also intranets, which are limited access web networks.
You are right that geoblocking really shouldn’t be a thing, it’s existence is thanks to varying laws and regulations, and most annoyingly, IP distribution contracts.
You get sentenced to a lifetime of Dell.
So do you think that shipping companies should charge fees to both sender and recipient? Because that’s the physical equivalent of this situation.
I pay my ISP to deliver data to me at an agreed rate. The data being streamed from the bandwidth heavy sources has been paid for… By me. It would be wrong for my ISP to then go and charge them for the bandwidth that I’m using, much in the same way it would be wrong for a company to both charge the sender and receiver of a package just because that package is heavier than normal.
And many of the CDN agreements that bandwidth heavy content providers sign with ISPs have favourable terms specifically because those ISPs recognise that having good access to that content is exactly what their customers are paying for… At least the ones not completely blinded by greed do.
Fair point. I was more focused on the whole debate of whether the president is legally considered an officer of the United States.
But officer doesn’t necessarily mean military. In fact there are many civilian officers, as an officer is someone who holds an office. In fact one need not hold an office to act as an officer of an organisation, it simply needs them to be acting in an official capacity.
I’d take the Mario game, the disc drive, and the air fryer. I’m ambivalent about the dvd, and the the Miku expo is on a different continent to me.
Well it’s Friday night and they’re all out of Swedish Düff beer.
I bring you love.
Well technically there’s only one adult Man there… And one adult Elf, and an adult Dwarf.
Me and a friend discussed this and it led to an ongoing joke of pole vaulting pikemen.
I prefer to use Main/Sub terminology. It also works without needing to change any acronyms.