Comment Comparing apples to oranges (Score 1) 224
Open APIs are about directing more users to their webs. Open source is about bringing developers together. Says, how can an open api replace an open source os?
Comment Old news? (Score 5, Interesting) 168
we have car navigation systems that use Beidou for some time now (maybe less than a year).
Comment Re:If it's unencrypted... (Score 0) 103
One doesn't know it is unencrypted until he figures it out (cracks).
Comment Fresh grads... (Score 2) 136
... join the companies and start to write codes?
Comment The news is indeed OLD (Score 1) 1
Date from their blog: Oct 26, 2010.
Submission + - Google dictionary is gone (google.com)
Bananana writes: They simple state that they no longer provide dictionary. The feature is gone.
Comment Maybe Laden has gone, (Score 1) 1855
But ladies of USA keep being touched by TSA. That is what that lasts.
Comment Re:Motivation? (Score 1) 114
The developer has a motive - now you heard it's name and it's on-line game's.
Comment Re:This ... (Score 1) 114
Are you paranoid or what?
Submission + - China recycles uranium and plutonium from spent fu (blogspot.com)
Bananana writes: China has claimed a breakthrough technology in nuclear power. Having experts worked on the research for 24 years, China has found a way to recycle uranium and plutonium from spent fuel, raising fuel efficiency from 1% to 60%, and extend the country's uranium resources lifetime from 70 years to 3000 years.
Submission + - A special-purpose distributed search engine App? (apple.com)
Bananana writes: There are not much companies big enough to beat Google in the search engine market, but there are always rooms for smaller companies serving smaller, specific markets. The iPhone app named "Magazines@searching matrix" claims "Why subscribing magazines while there're virtually infinite out there on the Internet?" and it is a "special-purpose distributed search engine network" which "is designed solely for one purpose — it searches for magazine contents".
Submission + - Professor token a world record 150 billion pixel p (yahoo.com)
Bananana writes: Assistant Professor Pedro Sander from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, this summer, token some pictures from Rio de Janeiro. With 12,238 pictures of 18 mega pixels, he formed a world record 150 billion pixel picture. You can see people on the street from this full view of Rio. The professor is trying a bigger one with Hong Kong Big Buddha, and expects to complete by next January.
You can see the picture here: http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/fullscreen/58857/
You can see the picture here: http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/fullscreen/58857/
Comment Re:Not secure (Score 1) 164
I think that is why they also do encryptions.
Submission + - Research team stores 90GB of data in 1g of bateria (igem.org) 1
Bananana writes: A research tem of the Chinese univerity of Hong Kong finds a way to do data encryption and storage with bacteria. The project is called "Bioencryption" and their presentation in pdf format is here: http://2010.igem.org/files/presentation/Hong_Kong-CUHK.pdf
Submission + - Build a hotel in 6 days (kankanews.com)
Bananana writes: The linked page [http://society.kankanews.com/vods/ff80808129c2919c0129c49baf8502ce/ff8080812c7d2349012c7d5f713700a8/] is in Chinese, but there is little descriptions anyway. The video shows how a hotel built in 6 days, in Changsha, China.
