The idea of a peace prize was probably good in 1895, but it has been poorly implemented in comparison with the other prizes. To me, it just doesn't feel right to say that Albert Einstein and Al Gore are both Nobel Prize winners. Yet, because that's what it means, that's what people perceive (even in academia): that they are both Nobel Prize winners and therefore somehow equal.
OK, I'll give you a great use of Dropbox for hackers: Let's say you use Mercurial instead of Subversion. If you have your Mercurial project in Dropbox, you have at your disposal the full source control functionality provided by Mercurial and automatic backups of your mercurial repository. Get it now?
I agree that Dropbox is ...hmm... "MARVELOUS". Please tip them a goldspot at Spottiness.com. It's a site where the real perception of things emerges through anonymous messages and opinions.