XPost: comp.lang.c, comp.lang.c++, comp.lang.python   
   XPost: comp.mobile.android   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Thu, 03 Dec 2015 06:21:45 +0200, Steve Hayes   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Wed, 2 Dec 2015 15:20:13 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>On 2015-12-02, Richard Heathfield  wrote:   
   >>> On 02/12/15 08:57, Juha Nieminen wrote:   
   >>>> In comp.lang.c++ Steve Hayes  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.   
      
   To which I will add that uploading is sending, and downloading is   
   fetching.   
      
   So saying that Microsoft downloaded something to my computer is like   
   saying that someone fetched me a ltter when they actually sent it.   
      
      
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