In March 2011, NVIDIA introduced the dual-GPU monster GeForce GTX 590 packing 1024 CUDA cores, alongside CUDA 4.0 with Unified Virtual Addressing to supercharge scientific parallel computing.
People live amid the bustling, flourishing city. Yet their hearts are lonely.
On an evening in winter, I strolled leisurely along the streets of the small town of Tamsui. The clear, boundless sky carried a comfortable breeze blowing past. Passing by the gate of Aletheia University, I was unexpectedly distracted for a moment, and I crossed the empty campus gazing at the distant skyline.
The deep blue of summer fades into the red of autumn chrysanthemums. A gentle breeze, swaying softly. Children run freely through the alleys, and the pale colorful sun circles endlessly in the sky.
This article is a short piece I wrote in December of ROC Year 99, submitted to the "Writing Is Storytelling" essay contest organized by United Literature. The topic was "If I Were a Bird," and this piece won an Encouragement Award.
Invited by Chunghwa Telecom to document the picturesque scenery across Taiwan Province, Republic of China using a mobile phone, and share these photos via their excellent mobile network with friends to experience the excitement of real-time travel and life touches...
I took an old RCA digital camera that had been sitting at home for about a decade to perform a complete teardown for practice. The goal was to understand its internal structure before attempting infrared modifications on more advanced cameras.
Originally used internally by NASA and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the 'Impact: Earth!' planetary impact simulator has been developed into a public version by British and American researchers, allowing interested users to 'direct' asteroid impacts on Earth as they please.
While writing 'Software Recommendation: Playing Games with Google Picasa', an intriguing idea popped into my mind: Which single word occupies the largest volume in Google's database? I spent some time investigating Google's search index just for the fun of it.
Most people are undoubtedly familiar with Google, but perhaps less than one-tenth know about the software Picasa (Note 1). Simply put, Picasa is a web album service provided by Google (with 1 GB of free storage) and a versatile image software suite featuring powerful photo management, fast image viewing, adequate editing capabilities, and diverse special applications (such as photo collage design).
