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I am the only one out there that putting things in quotes NEVER works?!? From personal experience, putting "3G S" (yes, WITH quotes) in any search engine will give results that include 3GS, pages that include "3G" and "S", and my personal "favorites": "3g. S" and "3g, s". Is there some web programmer out there that can explain to me why when I search for the LITERAL string "3G S" all search engines ignore my request and give me the same results as if I had asked for 3G and S. What possible use is there in frustrating the heck out of users with this behavior?

Sorry for the rant, but this has been driving me nuts that last couple of weeks with the searches (and no, not for the iPhone) I've been doing (I'm looking at you Google, Yahoo!, and Bing).

P.S. I love Bing's "new" search engine. I searched for my company's web site as a test. Its number one result was my web site address that has been defunct for two years and listed its replacement web site (with my company's name as the domain name for god's sake) on page three. Oh, by the way, these are the exact same results that Live Search used to give.

How about HD based storage for a cheaper price and more capacity. I have to swap video file out on my 5G iPod's 30GB HD as it is now (and the Touch screams out for video). Oh, and some us are capable of taking care of our gear and don't need expensive solid state drives thank-you-very-much (it, and my 3G 20Giger still function perfectly).

I'm chomping at the bit to buy a Touch, but 32GB isn't enough. (and no, I can't use an iPhone, AT&T doesn't work where I live.)

I'll take it!

me want.

gimmee!

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Round up all the MBA's and put'em on a small desert island!

"It reminds me of the old CRT monitors that everyone used before LCDs were popular"

Huh?!? Funny, every CRT I've ever owned had an anti-glare coating on it! You couldn't sell one without it on your bullet point list. Not only did high end CRT's for color critical work have really good anti-glare coatings, they also had hoods to cut down on stray side lights. Some even came with black smocks for the user to wear.

Never trust the numbers ANY computer gives you.

The first problem with this discussion is that the "correct" answer is 11.28318530717959. It isn't. Its only, what, 11.28 or 11.3 (I forget which, it's been a while since I've done "real" math; but its a classic 1st year engineering school mistake - one our slide rule bearing ancestors would never have made). You're assigning way too much significance to all those extra digits. Or do we know for a fact that it really is 2.000000000000000 and 5.000000000000000 and not just 2 and 5?

Second, and far more importantly here, all digital computer have problems with floating point numbers. Its in their nature. They do binary integers and binary integers only. They have to do some mathematical trickery to do floating point numbers and bad things can happen when you fill up the register with ones and zeros (Is it a really large integer, or a really small decimal number, for example.). You get problems when programers get sloppy and don't account for these edge cases properly. Which is obviously the case here. (And why high end scientific calculator have special placeholders for numbers like pi, use algebra whenever possible instead of arithmetic, and save turning pi into a decimal approximation until the end, if ever.)

In short, you should never trust the numbers that any computer gives you. You should always ask yourself "is this the answer I was expecting?" And no, it doesn't matter if its a $200 hp rpn, an Excel spreadsheet, or especially, a throw away calculator app.

Oh, and the "stack" has nothing to do with it. If you're getting "7" when you calculate "2*pi+5", the calculator app is flat out dropping pi altogether, not changing the precedence of * over +.