... I personally can't wait to witness the destructive forces of ShitStorm3D!!!

Is that the German flick that Cartman's mom was in? (back when she was young and needed the money...)

So, you're saying that the group of people I am working with on this data-warehousing project are also a "guild-like" (and therefore "gang-like") group?

And no, I didn't rtfa because it already sounds sensationalistic... and also because I don't feel the urge to pay to read the PDF.

While I agree, I think the big drawback with having different hardware comes from a programming/user-interface standpoint: how do you develop applications that will run on ALL of these phones when the screen real-estate can be so varied?

Anyone that has done a lot of HTML design knows about the headaches this can cause.

ie. You want to make your site look pretty for someone who runs their OS in 800x600 as well as someone who runs at 1280x1024. While you COULD just develop it for the more popular [higher] resolution, you could be ostracizing a large user-base who opted for the more compact screen. Then you also possibly need to add in the complexity to design your UI for when they turn their phone 90 degrees and want to run your app in portrait mode too...

While I agree with you and several (sub-)responses here in that he has not actually accomplished much (yet??), you guys seem to be ignoring the actually summary of the article here ["the Norwegian committee is honoring his intentions more than his achievements"] as well as the statement from the committee [they are recognizing "his extraordinary efforts"].

From the Nobel website:

On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, giving the largest share of his fortune to a series of prizes, the Nobel Prizes. As described in Nobel's will, one part was dedicated to "the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses".

While you may not think he has done a damn thing to deserve it, apparently the committee thinks otherwise.

Plus there are situations where being able to text "help, I'm being held hostage" is a more viable option than making a voice call to say "help, I'm being held hostage"

Since we have made these types of technological advancements over the past several years, does anyone know if 911 is keeping up with the times and accepts text messages or if there is any plan for it? (Not just for "hostage situations" but also for people who are physically unable to talk/listen on a phone.) Can 911 trace your cellphone to a general location using either GPS or just cell-tower triangulation? etc...

A notification has been sent to "911 Emergency Response". The user must accept your friend request before they will appear in your friends list.

[meanwhile, the victim dies because "911 Emergency Response" is actually "sleeping in today and not going to class cuz last night was so crazy omfg".]

I just briefly scrolled through the list and for a half of a second thought I saw "90210" listed as an up-and-coming Sci-Fi movie.

Where are your 2% figures from?

"42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot." -- Steven Wright

I think the most funny part of the whole suit is that they just write: 'Reservella is a company run by Fredrik Neij' -- out of 40 pages of paper that's all they have to say...

Wow. In highschool, I always thought expanding a 3-page term-paper into a 4-page term-paper was kinda rough, but could always be done by tweaking the font-size (ie. 13pt instead of 12pt) or line-spacing (ie. 2.1 instead of standard double-spacing)... but turning 8 words into a 40 page document?!? I am humbled.

Dude, we have stuff from all over the world: people, ideas, religions, languages... why not names too?
Or did you actually mean to ask if there was any LAND we didn't steal? XD

Heh, rectenna sounds like some alien probing device

Actually, I thought it sounds like something Professor Farnsworth would come up with. (Fing-Longer, Maternifuge, Smell-O-Scope, etc...)

Maybe it's just too early in the morning, but am I really reading this correctly off of that one hyperlink in the /. article summary?

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P.S. If you haven't watched "Firefly" / "Serenity" yet, you're missing the best show that was ever on Sci-Fi.

Well, I don't know about other people who didn't watch this show, but _I_ stopped watching it halfway through the pilot episode. I was just baffled by the technology available to the characters. They have ships that can move from planet to planet with relative ease (and seemingly great speed) and yet they still used 6-shooters and shotguns as their weapon of choice. WTF Mate?

These qualify as 'senses' because they convert environmental information directly into sensations.

By that definition, why not count your sense of humor?

Because people that constantly complain with "there aren't really 5 senses! there are 6 (or 9 or 11 etc...)!!!" most likely do not HAVE a sense of humor. It would be like counting Electroception as a human sense, despite the fact that noone has it.

Vincent Antonelli: Here ya go... What's the difference between a pregnant woman and a lightbulb.
[distinct pause and no response from the humorless opponent]
Vincent Antonelli: You can unscrew a lightbulb!
[still no reaction out of the humorless opponent]
Vincent Antonelli: See? No sense of humor whatsoever!

The word on the street is that the next project will most-likely be named Scuzzlebutt.
"PatrickDuffyForALeg" was just too much to type in all of their Project-, Resource- and Change- Request forms.