Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> Hoo boy... this could be a time waster:
> 
> Wolfram Alpha: Wasting your time since 2009.(tm)

That's OK. We can prove wasting time is Turing-equivalent to a CA.

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>> Wolfram Alpha: Wasting your time since 2009.(tm)
> 
> That's OK. We can prove wasting time is Turing-equivalent to a CA.

Heh. I like the way you can fire up WA and just type stuff, and it's 
like Star Trek - the computer spits out all sorts of formulas, 
equations, graphs and so on. It's like SciFi.

The only problem is... when you actually want something specific, WA has 
literally no clue what you're talking about.

Actually, no - the *other* problem is that WA serves no real purpose, 
unless you happen to be a math geek. All the unit conversions and 
currency conversions and all that stuff that normal people might want, 
Google can already do. And it has done for years. WA doesn't really 
offer anything new that's of practical use.

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> It used to give an error. Thanks to my feedback, it now works correctly. 
> ;-)

Also, it used to claim that the population of Bletchley was 
(significantly) larger than the population of Milton Keynes - which is 
absurd, considering that the former is a *subset of* the latter.

This issue has also now been rectified. (Although it took several 
months... I'd forgotten that I even filed the ticket!)

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http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+is+povray


http://www.google.fr/search?hl=fr&source=hp&q=what+is+povray&cts=1278020105641&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

...

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Thibaut Jonckheere wrote:
> http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+is+povray

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~teddo/orly.png

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Darren New a écrit :
> Thibaut Jonckheere wrote:
>> http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+is+povray
> 
> http://www.public.iastate.edu/~teddo/orly.png
> 

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Orly+&a=*C.Orly-_*Miscellaneous-

:-P

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On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:06:37 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

>> Hoo boy... this could be a time waster:
> 
> Wolfram Alpha: Wasting your time since 2009.(tm)

That almost rhymes.  Good enough for sloppy poetry, in any event. ;-)

Jim

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On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:02:26 +0200, Thibaut Jonckheere wrote:

> Darren New a écrit :
>> Thibaut Jonckheere wrote:
>>> http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+is+povray
>> 
>> http://www.public.iastate.edu/~teddo/orly.png
>> 
>> 
> http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Orly+&a=*C.Orly-_*Miscellaneous-
> 
> :-P

I just have to say, this is one of the most bizzarre conversations I've 
ever seen - I'd have continued it with a URL, but I couldn't quickly find 
an question to which the answer expressed *this* quite this precisely.

Jim

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Am+I+going+to+die%3F
> 
> It used to give an error. Thanks to my feedback, it now works correctly.
> ;-)

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=the+game&a=-_*Miscellaneous-

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Am 01.07.2010 17:02, schrieb Bill Pragnell:

> OMG this is a fun game

Yeah. But it still doesn't provide a meaningful answer to the question 
that bothers us all:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=What+The+Fuck%3F

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