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
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