XPost: comp.lang.c, comp.lang.c++, comp.lang.python   
   XPost: comp.mobile.android   
   From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 2015-12-02, Les Cargill  wrote:   
   > 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?   
   >>   
   >> --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news@netfront.net ---   
   >>   
   >   
   > Down is towards an end node; up is towards the backbone. Servers live   
   > closer to the backbone. Usually. Or rather did when the nomenclature   
   > was forged.   
      
   Exactly!  Thats the usage I've been used to for the past 30 years.   
      
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