Some things Man was never meant to know. For everything else, there's Google. [24th May 2011]

Meeting Date:     24th May 2011
Meeting Time:     6:00 - 8:00
Meeting Theme:  Information Technology

TM Majid Hafeez Malik started the meeting and welcomed the guest. TM Arshad Qazi was the toastmaster of the day!

There were three prepared speaker. TM Syed Waqas delivered his 2nd Project from Advanced Manual [Storytelling]. His speech title was "Gratefulness". TM Arshad Qazi delivered his 5th Speech from CC Manual.  His speech title was "Road Safety". A great speech with alot of information. Keep up the good work.  TM Majid Hafeez Malik delivered his 2nd Speech from CC Manual.  Weldone TM Majid. You just rock. Just awesome prepared speeches session.

TM Basharat conducted the Table Topics session. It was very entertaining and impressive. Excellent job TM Basharat.

 

TM Naveed Hussain was the evaluation chairman. TM Naveed evaluated TM Syed Waqas as well.  TM Rayees Syed evaluted TM Jabair and TM Arshad as well.

 

Winners for the Meeting held on 24th May, 2011.

 

Best Speaker             - TM Arshad Qazi

Table Topics              - TM Arshad Qazi

Best Evaluator           - TM Rayees Syed

Best Assistant           - TM Hassan Khan

Big Three                   - TM Arshad Qazi

 

Source: http://compsci.ca/v3/viewtopic.php?t=19912

"If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0" 

"Some things Man was never meant to know. For everything else, there's Google." 

"... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs." - Robert Firth 

"If Python is executable pseudocode, then perl is executable line noise." 

"The more I C, the less I see." 

"To err is human... to really foul up requires the root password." 

"After Perl everything else is just assembly language." 

"If brute force doesn't solve your problems, then you aren't using enough." 

"Life would be so much easier if we only had the source code." 

"Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are." 

"There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't." 

"640K ought to be enough for anybody." - This is not humorous by itself; but in the context it's a classic by Bill Gates in 1981 

Microsoft: "You've got questions. We've got dancing paperclips." 

"Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer." - Erik Naggum 

"Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. Computers are from hell." 

"SUPERCOMPUTER: what it sounded like before you bought it." 

"I'm not anti-social; I'm just not user friendly" 

"A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light" 

"The best accelerator available for a Mac is one that causes it to go at 9.81 m/s2." 

"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila" 

"1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d" 

"To go forward, you must backup." 

"I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code" 

"A Windows user spends 1/3 of his life sleeping, 1/3 working, 1/3 waiting." 

"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features." 

"Better to be a geek than an idiot." 

"Windows isn't a virus, viruses do something." 

"Geek's favorite pickup line: Hey, does this rag smell like chloroform? " 

"Be nice to geeks when you're in school, you might end-up working for one when you grow-up." 

"Difference between a virus and windows ? Viruses rarely fail." 

"Evolution is God's way of issuing upgrades." 

"The only problem with troubleshooting is that sometimes trouble shoots back." 

"It's a little-known fact that the Y1K problem caused the Dark Ages." 

"The box said 'Required Windows 95 or better'. So, I installed LINUX." 

"Computer are like air conditioners: they stop working when you open windows." 

"Like car accidents, most hardware problems are due to driver error." 

"Real men don't use backups, they post their stuff on a public ftp server 
and let the rest of the world make copies." - Linus Torvalds 

"There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that understand trinary, those that don't, and those that confuse it with binary." 

"If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime." 

"It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa." 

"I had a fortune cookie the other day and it said: 'Outlook not so good'. I said: 'Sure, but Microsoft ships it anyway'." 

"The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from."