Re: Upload/Download -- definition

["Peter Neilson" <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>]

In both Maine and North Carolina "east" is "down" and for the same reason.

In the computer business "up" and "down" are both sideways. To me, all the  
solutions that avoid upload and download look like improvements. On the  
other hand, for the home user with ADSL, the "uplink" direction (towards  
the ISP) is nearly always considerably slower than the "downlink"  
direction.

From within a single computer program, "put" and "send" are usually easily  
distinguished from "get" and "receive" but there are the nitty details of  
whether communication is mutual, acknowledged, or forced, and how failures  
are avoided, detected or corrected, if at all. To my knowledge the  
terminology has never been uniform, and thus communication between  
dissimilar systems A and B can possibly be up in both directions.

As for California, the whole country is tilted to the south-west, and all  
the nuts and other loose things roll into the corner.

On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:38:49 -0500, John Allred <john2 -at- allrednet -dot- com>  
wrote: