Exun Programming competition for classes VI to X was conducted online on Saturday the 19th of August 2006 and was a success. All participants were given 6 Questions and 24 hours to solve them. The following are the top scorers :
Utkarsh Ohm
Class/Sec : 10F
Score : 585
Vipul Malhotra
Class/Sec : 9C
Score : 545
==Gaurav Misra
Exun lifts Overall Rolling Trophy!!!
[Organising School: Mounts Saint Mary’s School, Delhi Cant]
Individual results:
Symposium Best Interjector
Event : Quiz
Second Position
Event: ProgramIt!
Second Position
Event: WebPresent
Second Position
Event: Logo Challenge
First Position
The following was the result of the NASSCOM Dewang Mehta Inter School IT competition held at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan:-
Group Discussion- Vansh Muttreja 2nd
Unfortunately, no overall or runners up:(
Articles for the next issue of under_score are required
You are requested to send your articles to me by Thursday, 17 August
Remember to keep them original
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Result
DPS RKP won the Overall Trophy as well as DPS EOK won the junior event.
Heartiest Congratulations to all the winners!
Thanking you
Manas
The timings of the event at at Tagore International School to be held on 26th and 27th of July from 8 am in the morn are posted as follows. All participants must keep the timings in mind and report to the Web Resource Center as soon as they reach school on the day when they have their events.
Thanking you
Manas
At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated:
“If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon.”
In response to Bill’s comments, General Motors issued a press release stating (by Mr. Welch himself):
“If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:
1) For no reason whatsoever your car would crash twice a day.
2) Every time they painted new lines on the road you would have to buy a new car.
3) Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.
4) Occasionally, executing a manoeuvre such as a left turn, would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5) Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought “Car95” or “CarNT”. But then you would have to buy more seats.
6) Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, reliable, five times as fast, and twice as easy to drive, but would only run on five percent of the roads.
7) The oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single “general car default” warning light.
8) New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
9) The airbag system would say “Are you sure?” before going off.
10) Occasionally for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key, and grab hold of the radio antenna.
11) GM would also require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of Rand McNally road maps (now a GM subsidiary), even though they neither need them nor want them. Attempting to delete this option would immediately cause the car’s performance to diminish by 50% or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice Department.
12) Every time GM introduced a new model car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
13) You’d press the “start” button to shut off the engine.
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“Sony’s PlayStation 3 (PS3) has gone on sale on the web despite not being launched until November this year.
The next generation consoles are on offer as “pre-orders” to Europeans for £550 ($1,020) at online shop, play.com.
The website says that because of an expected European shortage, it cannot guarantee delivery before Christmas.
The PS3 is the successor to the best-selling PlayStation 2 and will compete with Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Nintendo’s Wii.
The Xbox 360 is already available, while the Wii is due out later this year.
All three consoles promise cutting edge processing and graphical power.
Higher price
Sony currently dominates the console market with more than 100 million PlayStation 2s in homes around the world.
The electronics giant had originally planned to launch the new console in the spring, but was forced to delay because of technical problems with its high-definition Blu-ray DVD drive.
The PS3 comes in two different models. The basic model has a 20GB hard drive, while the more expensive model comes with a 60GB one.
The lower end model also lacks wi-fi, a slot for memory cards and a HDMI port for high-definition programmes.
The model for sale on play.com is the 60Gb model.
When Sony announced prices earlier this year it said that gamers would pay about £425 ($785) in the UK for the top end version of the machine.
play.com is also offering three games in its package. Driving simulator Formula One 06, flying game Warhawk and the karaoke-themed Singstar.
The website says the games shipped with the console may change due to availability.
Gamers will have to wait until later in the year to buy a console in the shops.
Japanese gamers will be the first to get their hands on the PS3 on 11 November while the console will arrive in the US and Europe on 17 November. “
SOURCE: BBC News