This is really nothing new. The prizes in physics, chemistry, medicine, even literature are often given long after a discovery has been made (or late in one's career in the case of literature). Those awards are generally given for things that have stood the test of time.

The peace prize, on the other hand, requires no such scrutiny. Mahatma Gandhi never actually won a prize despite multiple nominations, yet Obama wins despite the fact that his nomination occurred before he even had time to do anything? There is something fundamentally wrong with this picture. Then again I suppose that just makes me a terrorist sympathizer, and therefore unable to form a completely impartial view on the matter.

I attempted to read the comments for this article. I do believe that this is the most troll-filled article ever to hit /.

Close. Overpriced cosmetics are the new Tupperware. It appears that Microsoft is the new overpriced cosmetics.

Tell him that most of the functionality of google voice can be accessed through Safari on the iPhone. Perhaps then google won't 'suck' quite as much ; )

I think it's even simpler than this. Since the app was rejected google has made massive improvements to the web interface allowing iPhone users many of the features of google voice*. For now I'm going to have to live without a few features (conference calling? audio of voicemail?) but I still get to enjoy:

• Unlimited SMS
• Free domestic calling
• Voicemail Transcripts
• Account management
• **Probably more

I can't remember the last time I had to make a conference call, so for me much of this is a non-issue. Everyone at least digitally signed their willingness to allow Apple to dick around with the scope and style of the additional applications made available, yet in threads like this it seems to be non-iPhone owners that are really throwing a stink. Why do you guys care so much what is or isn't in my phone.

*If I remember correctly prior to rejection it wouldn't let me use anything and google just said that it wouldn't work with the browser
**OK, I only just got my gvoice invite so I'm still not quite familiar with all of the functionality, but I'm sure there's cool stuff google threw in that I have missed.

Hey, the first link actually uses that exact text...

Wow! Deja vu anyone? Let's delve deeper.

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Wait something's not right. Hey the first link actually uses the quoted text. Someone better mod parent down, sheesh.

Wait a minute... What's happening here?...

*downscroll*

Nooooooooooo!

I've been tracking this thing's movements for years, moving from one shitty hotel to another just to maintain a safe distance from it. All those long years spent away from everything that I love. My wife... My kids... A semblance of a job or social life... I've spent the past decade in a stupor of booze-induced half sedation just to function--all the time knowing that it's every twitch, every hiccup could mean the end for half the population of a major city in mere hours. We think that we're so safe and secure, taking enough soma every night to put us to sleep until the next morning.

We blissfully sing the praises and ask the blessings of our giant robotic overlords so that we may continue to feel like we maintain some small amount of dignity like we still own this god-forsaken half-inhabitable rock. Oh, friends, it's just a matter of time. Sure, I may be some drunk crackpot scurrying from one corner of the globe to another in piss-stained underoos waving around my pitiful sign of "The end is nigh"... but what if I'm not. Yes, we could take solace in our belief that the monster before you is completely under our control, chewing away at the filthy mountains that hide our richly deserved natural resources... but what if it realizes what we've done to it, and it gets angry? You think that this thing looks bad now? You can be damned sure that I'm not going to be anywhere near it when it transforms.

"Visible" meaning within the visible portion of the EM spectrum.

Hulk has gone through a number of various phases throughout his history. The Hulk you're probably thinking of is the mindless, violent brute. Hulk has fought numerous villains, and at some points has been able to retain much or all of the intelligence and control of Bruce Banner while Hulked out.

Somehow I doubt that autocomplete is the strongest feature that someone can point out in their IDE, but it's one that's certainly not limited to IDE's (M-/ in emacs).

Things may have changed, but last I remember hearing he was he was supposed to be digital. Did he eventually sign on?

You must be a troll, Mr. A.C. I have it on good authority that Dan Akroyd's most recent efforts involved solving mysteries of the ancient world.

It appears that this usage is not just limited to the furniture industry. The parent's search had Dell as the first sponsored link

Just your 1/50th of a cent?

Mod parent up, for replying to an asshat who replies to his replies of his posts.