Word: fractals
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...said his paper investigated where tangent lines existed on curves with fractal properties...
...used to storing our computer files in folders and scrolling through lists of online-search results that it may seem perverse to try to reinvent the way we view these things on our computer screen. But two companies are aiming to do just that. Fractal:Edge has developed an interface called Fractal:PC ($20; available in March) that replaces file folders in Windows with a system of colored circles, above. Each circle represents a folder. If a circle is green, it means you have recently modified a file in that folder. If a circle is red, it means you haven...
...Whatever else evil might be, it is most reliably a fractal, one of those naturally recurring patterns - like the day-to-day and year-to-year fluctuations of the stock market - that repeat themselves at all scales. The Halloween vandal who trashes a house and the Balkan despot who trashes a nation are both cut from the same black cloth. Their sense of impunity, of adolescent entitlement, of imagined roguish grandeur are identical - even if the size of their respective stages are different. For that reason, they should be treated the same. Slap them down, lock them up, expose them...
...take exception to the offhand comment that by 2001 everyone will be using computers with Windows 2001 and that the only holdouts will be "aging potheads still designing really cool fractal algorithms" on Macintosh computers. Even in jest, comments like this distort reality. Macs are not relevant only to impractical deadbeats. Most of us know that if you want an elegant computer that is easy to set up, operate and maintain, you buy a Mac. Otherwise you get a PC. ALAN THOMPSON San Mateo, Calif...
...indispensable info appliance, and if Microsoft manages to merge the software that takes us there into Windows, the results will be dramatic. Suppose that, say, five years from now 98% of the world's computers run Windows 2001 (the only holdouts being aging potheads still designing really cool fractal algorithms on Macs). And suppose Gates, hoping to become the world's leading media titan, stops letting entertainment that Microsoft doesn't control be accessed by Windows machines...