Is this another WolframAlpha joke?(wolframalpha.com)

Jason, I think you are being too snarky.

Here's an example where Wolfram Alpha served me well:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=distance+between+haifa+...

Nothing fancy, but it did the job and gave me a few bits of information I didn't ask for but were good to know.

elblancovor 16 Jahren

Welcome to the pinnacle of modern Knowledge Management engineering.

smackfuvor 16 Jahren

I disagree. Maybe it's not magic, but it's a very simple way to run things in Mathematica.

cool-RRvor 16 Jahren

I was trying to figure out how much the price of fish fluctuates through the seasons. Instead I got this. Is this another geek joke? What's it referring to?

EDIT: Bonus imaginary karma points to whoever can point me to a graph showing the fluctuations of the price of various fish...

halovor 16 Jahren

It's not a joke, you're just not taking the reponse literally enough. It's trying to tell you that "What's that got to do with the price of ....?" is an idiom which literally means "Your question is unrelated to the current topic of discussion". The idiom is used as a reponse when someone in a conversations asks something that seems like a non-sequitur.

The "...price of fish?" version is the most common version I've encountered, but is probably chiefly British, but I know other variations exist (i.e. "...tea in China?", "...price of rice?").

NeilCJamesvor 16 Jahren

Count on economists to have the lamest jokes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whats_that_got_to_do_with_the.....

aliljavor 16 Jahren

Have you tried using www.google.com?

cool-RRvor 16 Jahren

Yes I have. It seems you have much better googling skills than myself. If you wish you can try yourself and post your findings.