Google Killer or Google Pretender?

Started by Joe, May 18, 2009, 02:42:04 PM

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Joe

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Ear

Great idea, gay name. Google is kind of dorky and catchy... "Google it". I mean, "WolframAlpha it" just doesn't have that snap to it.  :sleepy:
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Quote from: Earendil on May 18, 2009, 03:10:53 PMGreat idea, gay name. Google is kind of dorky and catchy... "Google it". I mean, "WolframAlpha it" just doesn't have that snap to it.  :sleepy:

Yeah, but that would be "Wolf It!" in no time.    :laugh: 

This one caught my eye.

Quotecompute properties of a function of a complex variable (use the variable z)

Must work out something to throw at it.     :cheesy:

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gnubler

Agreed.  :laugh: "I dunno...go Wolframalphatize it."

Google already does pretty much everything they described - calculations, conversions, etc. I don't like monopolies and I think competition is good, but I don't see this as terribly useful.
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Quote from: pspdfppdfx on December 06, 2012, 05:03:51 PM
So,  :drunk3: i send the job to the rip with live transparecy (v 1.7 or whatever) and it craps out with a memory error.

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Ear

Okay, good point. Wolf it is a little better.

I just went and threw a few things at it and it had no idea what to do with it. I do think it's cool but a different animal than google.
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Joe

How about Incompetent designer + Microsoft software = ????

The thing would probably blow a gasket! :laugh:
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Joe

Quote from: Earendil on May 18, 2009, 03:24:17 PMOkay, good point. Wolf it is a little better.

I just went and threw a few things at it and it had no idea what to do with it. I do think it's cool but a different animal than google.

Yeah, after looking a little closer it is different than google and I think it will take some time for them to amass the information to answer your queries.
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gnubler

It doesn't work. I asked it what Earendil's pant size is and it gave me the population of Arendal, Norway.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Earendil%27s+pant+size
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Quote from: pspdfppdfx on December 06, 2012, 05:03:51 PM
So,  :drunk3: i send the job to the rip with live transparecy (v 1.7 or whatever) and it craps out with a memory error.

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Quote from: gnubler on July 27, 2010, 12:53:19 PMIt doesn't work. I asked it what Earendil's pant size is and it gave me the population of Arendal, Norway.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Earendil%27s+pant+size

oh come now. You can't give it the impossible to figure and then expect results..  There are no negative zero size pants for Sasquatches.
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gnubler

Quote from: DigitalCrapShoveler on July 27, 2010, 05:32:35 PMAnd NO PANTS for you sir.

I was afraid to search for "ninjaPB_43 no pants". NSFW, probably.
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Quote from: pspdfppdfx on December 06, 2012, 05:03:51 PM
So,  :drunk3: i send the job to the rip with live transparecy (v 1.7 or whatever) and it craps out with a memory error.

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DigitalCrapShoveler

It makes me feel dirty knowing I spent time drawing that man with no pants. Someday, my darling squirrel I shall unleash the second issue. Someday.
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David

would that be the revised final final revised final second issue?
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DigitalCrapShoveler

Are you kidding? I haver to finish it first... THEN all the revisions.
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gnubler

Hicks • Cross • Carlin • Kinison • Parker • Stone •  Colbert • Hedberg • Stanhope • Burr

"As much as I'd like your guns I prefer your buns." - The G

Quote from: pspdfppdfx on December 06, 2012, 05:03:51 PM
So,  :drunk3: i send the job to the rip with live transparecy (v 1.7 or whatever) and it craps out with a memory error.

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