On Wed, 2 Dec 2015 15:20:13 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>On 2015-12-02, Richard Heathfield <r...@cpax.org.uk> wrote: >> On 02/12/15 08:57, Juha Nieminen wrote: >>> In comp.lang.c++ Steve Hayes <hayes...@telkomsa.net> wrote: >>>> You download things FROM a computer, you upload them TO a computer. >>> >>> It's a matter of perspective. If a hacker breaks into your computer and >>> starts a download from somewhere else into your computer, isn't the hacker >>> "downloading" things to your computer? >> >> My understanding of the term has always been that you upload from a >> smaller device to a larger, and download from a larger device to a >> smaller. Thus, from your laptop you might *up*load data to a Web server >> or a mainframe, but you would *down*load data to your phone or tablet. > >That's sort of the usage I'm used to, but it probably has more to do >with network topology than CPU power. Servers on the internet are at >the top of the diagram, and embedded devices that can't access the >internet directly are at the bottom with my PC somewhere in the >middle. In my usage it all has to do with sending and receiving, like immigration and emigration. I UPload photos from my cell phone to Facebook. I DOWNload photos from my cell phone to my desktop computer. -- Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
