At 5:49 PM -0800 on 12/8/00, Bill Stewart wrote:
At 02:47 PM 12/8/00 -0600, Jim Choate emetted:
'fractal geodesic network' is spin doctor bullshit.
Well, buzzword bingo output anyway.
:-). "Neological" is so much more... euphemisitic...
And the Internet is most certainly NOT(!) geodesic with respect to packet paths.
....more like a geodesic dome filled with boiled spaghetti...
Depends on what dimension you're measuring. For fun, I pick time. I leave a definition of fractal time to the more mathematically creative out there. Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'