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[Mark Mandel]

I just call that "send".

m a m

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

> At 10:07 PM -0400 10/6/08, Mark Mandel wrote:
> >On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> >>  new squeeze Josh by up- or downloading (I can never remember which is
> >>  which)
> >
> >The metaphor is that our own computers are "down" and the big servers
> >are "up". You or I UPload TO (the server, the Web, some site or other)
> >and we DOWNload FROM it.
> >
> >m a m
> >
> OK, but what happens if you take a bunch of photos with your phone
> camera and transmit them to your ex-girlfriend's cell phone?  Is that
> up, down, or lateral?  (My own cell phone takes phone calls and makes
> them and that's about it, so I'm a quasi-Luddite in these matters.)
>
> LH
>
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