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Personally, I hope so but not just now ;-)
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Best Regards,
Stephen
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On 6/30/2010 3:56 PM, 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.
> ;-)
>
Hoo boy... this could be a time waster:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+is+the+meaning+of+life%2C+the+universe+and+everything%3F
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=What+is+the+ultimate+question%3F
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=how+much+wood+could+a+woodchuck+chuck+if+a+woodchuck+could+chuck+wood%3F
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=why+am+I+here%3F
Geesh... this is just spooky.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Where+am+I%3F
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~Mike
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Mike Raiford <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> wrote:
> Geesh... this is just spooky.
I especially like the last one. Here's another:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=how+many+beans+make+five
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"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmail com> wrote:
> Mike Raiford <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Geesh... this is just spooky.
>
> I especially like the last one. Here's another:
>
> http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=how+many+beans+make+five
OMG this is a fun game
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=do+you+feel+lucky+punk
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=are+you+talkin+to+me
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+is+the+matrix
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=who%27s+the+man
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what%27s+up
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=how+many+fingers+am+i+holding+up
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Mike Raiford wrote:
> Geesh... this is just spooky.
> http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Where+am+I%3F
What's more fascinating is the method they use to do this. In addition to
all the things you'd think of, the company that publishes the database also
has deals with Amazon, AOL, etc to get lists of IP vs sign-up geographic
locations. So when you sign up for a service (Amazon, facebook, etc) from a
particular IP, that and the address goes to the company, who then do
statistics to figure out if enough people with similar IP addresses are
putting in similar physical addresses.
At least, that's one way MaxMind works, and that's pretty much what most
people use.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
C# - a language whose greatest drawback
is that its best implementation comes
from a company that doesn't hate Microsoft.
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> Hoo boy... this could be a time waster:
Wolfram Alpha: Wasting your time since 2009.(tm)
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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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.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
C# - a language whose greatest drawback
is that its best implementation comes
from a company that doesn't hate Microsoft.
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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.
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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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!)
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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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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