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Today at least, Wolfram Alpha is for the tech crowd–the kind of people who want to dig into the data. It's a great exploration tool to find out whether somebody who's 5 feet 5 inches and 160 pounds is overweight, the chemical properties of boron, and whether you're going to get a full moon during the evening of September 4 in Buenos Aires when you want to propose to your fiancee.
Wolfram Alpha will show you when the next eclipse will occur over San Francisco. It'll tell you the family, genus, species, and caloric value of an apple, and it'll forecast Apple's stock price, but it won't give you apple pie recipes. It'll tell you the box office take of the first "Star Trek" movie, but it won't tell you the theater where you can see the newest "Star Trek" movie.
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A tool to scrape IANA MimeType Pages to create XSD code lists.
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As video games become an increasingly accepted part of mainstream media, the Triangle is poised to become a major hub for this industry. The inaugural Triangle Game Conference, held April 29 and 30 at Raleigh's Marriott City Center, helped prove this, with nearly double the anticipated attendance and rave reviews from industry veterans and newcomers alike.
With 730 attendees, the conference proved a smash that's already spawned a larger follow-up in 2010. "We overcame the economic downturn, the housing market crash and the swine flu," joked conference programming director Alexander Macris.