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Does anyone own this website? I'd check by going to the site myself but I'm scared it'll give me a virus.
This site is now registered. It is a web comic that uses a penisaur as its mascot/logo.
I have a completely ordinary dishwasher, which has in the usual fashion two detergent cups: one open, one with a lid. The "Normal" wash cycle actually fills the cabinet with water, sprays it around for a while, then pumps it out three times; it is during the second and longest of these cycles that the closed detergent cup opens, and the bulk of the washing happens.
If I leave the open cup empty, then the first cycle is called the Pre-Rinse cycle, and its function is primarily to knock off the loose stuff. But, if I put detergent in the open cup, then the first cycle is called a Pre-Wash cycle, and presumably does a better job of loosening up some of the dried-on crud. In either case, at the end of this cycle the dirty water and whatever came loose is pumped out and the main wash cycle begins.
So, (finally) my question: suppose I wish to use only one spoonful of detergent. Am I better off dividing it in half or 40/60 or whatever, so that some detergent is used up and discarded and then replaced by "fresh"; or should I leave the small cup empty, let plain water do whatever it can and have the full shot of detergent applied only in the second cycle?
(Please do not advise to RTFM -- or the fine Box in this case -- as I believe the goal of detergent manufacturers is to sell as much detergent as possible.)
P.S. This is not a homework question, I know that's a hot issue for some people :-). --Danh, 70.59.79.230 ( talk) 00:44, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Good evening. I am having a bit of a issue here. Its hard to trust the little box. Morrowind IV: Oblivion has a Game of the Year Edition that comes with all the other expansion. Will I need Xbox Live to use the expansion packs or are the expansions been put into the game on one disk? Also, how much is the cost of Game of the Year Edition compared to just the game? Thank you for answering my question. I really appreciate it. Have a positively wonderful evening. Rem Nightfall ( talk) 01:35, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Elder Scrolls: Oblivion...I'm sorry I call the game Morrowind all the time I get confused and then I confuse other people. So I mean the fourth game Oblivion. Rem Nightfall ( talk) 04:04, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
So I was just watching the College World Series between LSU and North Carolina. It was the top of the first inning, and North Carolina was leading 2-0, with the bases loaded and 1 out. The game was immediately suspended following severe lightning storms. Does the game reset the following day with no score? I heard that if less than five innings were complete, the game restarts, but if five or more innings are complete the game is called. Anyone know the ruling on this? 76.194.67.13 ( talk) 03:11, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
after reading the above question on bezels, I'm prompted to ask about my watch. It's from a gift from Mazda and it has a counterclockwise rotating dial with the code: reading from the left (3 letter break) POL LON PAH GAI MOW OXB NMI DSC RAA HKG IYO SYO NWW SKI MOY HNL ANC LAY BEN MEX MYC CCS RIO
what does this mean? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.240.203.201 ( talk) 03:19, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Well, either the manufacturer has goofed badly or or you have misread/miscopied several of the letters and left out one 3-letter code; and, in addition, the watch is out of date.
The "HNL ANC LAY BEN MEX MYC CCS RIO" part obviously should read "HNL ANC LAX DEN MEX NYC CCS RIO", standing for: Honolulu, Anchorage, Los Angeles, Denver, Mexico City, New York, Caracas, and Rio de Janeiro, whose time zones (ignoring daylight saving time) until recently were respectively 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, and 3 hours west of UTC. Interpreting and correcting the rest of the sequence, I leave as an exercise for the reader. :-) Unfortunately, Venezuela changed its time zone recently and Caracas is now 4:30 west of UTC. They would have done better to put HFX for Halifax instead.
--Anonymous, edited 05:43 UTC, June 20/08.
more like the watch maker goofed, the alphabetical sequence is copied correctly, oh well. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.240.203.201 ( talk) 16:20, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
You have done well, Grutness. I'm sure that LON, MOW, HKG (not HGK), SYO=SYD, and IYO=TYO are correct, since they all fit the time zone sequence. But Lisbon is on time zone 0, like London. Zone −1 is much less populated, but it includes the Azores, and I think the answer is to be found there. And New Zealand is on +12, not +11. I think NWW is Nouméa, New Caledonia; its correct IATA code is NOU, but perhaps someone was confused by its ICAO code, which is NWWW. The obvious city to use for zone +12 would be Auckland, and given the number of errors elsewhere in the list, I think it's reasonable to conjecture that SKI is a mistake for AKL -- the first letter is a typing error (adjacent keys) while the third letter represents a misreading, like in SYO and IYO.
I've decided this is fun enough to make a try at the complete list, but even using a list of airport codes that I downloaded a while ago in conjunction with the Wikipedia list of time zones, I was only able to get answers for 20 of the 23 codes. Here's what I have...
I wondered if MOY might be a mistake for MOI, but not only are the Cook Islands in zone +10, their main airport is at Rarotonga, not Mitiaro. So this seems most unlikely, but I don't have anything better.
The other two unsolved codes, NMI for zone +5 and RAA for +7, are in much more populous time zones, but I was not able to find plausible codes that they might have been errors for.
--Anonymous, 03:12 UTC, June 21, 2008.
P.S. (1) Isn't it impressive that more than half of the codes are wrong? (2) Two of the three unsolved codes are real airport codes, but too far from the proper time zones to be plausible errors. --Anon, 05:16, June 21.
MOY would be MDY - Midway ( Henderson Field, to be precise). That only leaves RAA, probably somewhere in Southeast Asia. Grutness... wha? 00:24, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
Zone | On watch | Correct | Errors | City | Location |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
−1 | POL | PDL | 1 | Ponta Delgada | Azores, Portugal |
0 | LON | LON | 0 | London* | England, UK |
+1 | PAH | PAR | 1 | Paris* | France |
+2 | GAI | CAI | 1 | Cairo | Egypt |
+3 | MOW | MOW | 0 | Moscow* | Russia |
+4 | OXB | DXB | 1 | Dubai | UAE |
+5 | NMI | KHI | 2 | Karachi | Pakistan |
+6 | DSC | DAC | 1 | Dhaka | Bangladesh |
+7 | RAA | BKK | 2 | Bangkok | Thailand |
+8 | HKG | HKG | 0 | Hong Kong | China |
+9 | IYO | TYO | 1 | Tokyo* | Japan |
+10 | SYO | SYD | 1 | Sydney | NSW, Australia |
+11 | NWW | NOU | 2 | Nouméa | New Caledonia |
+12 | SKI | AKL | 2 | Auckland | New Zealand |
−11 | MOY | MDY | 1 | Midway I. | U.S. Minor Outlying Islands |
−10 | HNL | HNL | 0 | Honolulu | HI, USA |
−9 | ANC | ANC | 0 | Anchorage | AK, USA |
−8 | LAY | LAX | 1 | Los Angeles | CA, USA |
−7 | BEN | DEN | 1 | Denver | CO, USA |
−6 | MEX | MEX | 0 | Mexico City | DF, Mexico |
−5 | MYC | NYC | 1 | New York* | NY, USA |
−4 | CCS | CCS | 1** | Caracas | Venezuela |
−3 | RIO | RIO | 0 | Rio de Janeiro* | RJ, Brazil |
−2 | missing | 1 |
There! 20 different errors fixed. (Tosses chalk in air, catches it, sets it down and dusts off hands.)
--Anonymous, 05:52 UTC, June 23, 2008.
Thanks a whole bunch. That was one terrible watchmaker, oh well, hope at least you had fun with the puzzle. GO Wikipedians! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.240.203.201 ( talk) 18:45, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
Shall much appreciate an economist pointing me to a site where I can obtain comparative data on the amount of GDP each of the EU countries allocates to social support/welfare. 86.209.154.30 ( talk) 14:05, 20 June 2008 (UTC)DT
How precise are Belgian postal codes? Are they as precise as UK ones, or as imprecise as French ones? In other words, how many addresses would a four-digit Belgian code typically cover? Thanks!-- 85.158.139.99 ( talk) 16:13, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Where can I find copyright-free pictures of George W. Bush, preferably of high quality. Copyright-free only in as much as they would be used in art projects with a large 'fair use' umbrella. 200.127.59.151 ( talk) 16:23, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
If I were to venture down into the UK sewer system from a manhole on the street, what dangers should I expect to face and what precautionary measures should I take beforehand? How easy would it be to accurately navigate through the sewer system to reach a set destination, for example from my house to my place of work? Are there any people down there that may challenge my presence? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.75.188.252 ( talk) 16:50, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
I'd get a Leptospirosis innoculation before I even thought about going down and also take along a gas detector to make sure I wasn't walking into any potentially dangerous low oxygen areas (caused by build-ups of methane or other gases). Nanonic ( talk) 22:54, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Very few sewers, whether sanitary,stormwater or combined are large enough to walk or crawl through. The manhole chambers you see in the street are large enough to enter but just to facilitate access to the pipes for water blasting, cameras etc - the pipes are much smaller. Apart from the infectious nature of whats in there, oxygen depletion and asphixiating gases can be a major problem and a quick google of sewer worker deaths or similar will show you it still happens. In terms of navigation, sewers virtually never follow the street layout, they need to use topography and gravity ( its difficult to push faecal matter up hill) so they often run with the land contours, always heading down hill. Mhicaoidh ( talk) 02:02, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
Any sewer or other underground space reached via a manhole cover is likely to be full of bad smells, rats, cockroaches feces, urine and germs. It may fill with water unexpectedly and drown you. The air may be toxic or lacking in oxygen, or contain combustible gases. Best take a bus rather than a sewer to get where you're going. Edison ( talk) 03:45, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
As regulars may know, I am planning a holiday that involves driving around the UK in a rental car. I have been planning an itinerary using driving times from Google Maps. Recently I posted here and in some other places that I was planning to drive from London (near Paddington) to Stonehenge, and that I expected the drive to take 1 hour and 45 minutes. Actually, according to Google Maps, it is 1 hour and 40 minutes. Using the Directions function of Multimap.com, an online map provider based in the UK, I get the same result. However, I got responses from several people who live near the route from Paddington to Stonehenge that this route could not possibly be driven in only 1 hour and 45 minutes, even if there is no traffic congestion. One person said that I should count on 2 hours and 15 minutes without traffic, and probably 2 hours and 30 minutes to be safe. So, I am left wondering, are the driving times provided by Google Maps and other online map providers completely unrealistic for the UK? If so, can I get realistic times by adding a certain percentage, say 50%? Thank you! Marco polo ( talk) 17:39, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
If you lay in a tanning bed is it still ok to lay out in the sun? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.255.205.153 ( talk) 19:20, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
I made a template some time ago ( User:The Vandal Warrior/Userboxes/GTA IV fan). Is there anyway I can see how many users are using this template on their user page? bsrboy ( talk) 19:50, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello,
I am in the 3rd year(out of 4 years) of my Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering. I have heard from a friend of mine that the Master's programmes in Sweden are completely subsidised by the State (i.e. They are free, no tuition fees). When I checked this on our own Wikipedia article, I found it to be true. However, it was stated that the Government is planning to discontinue this, and impose a tuition fee on all the foreign students(Not on students in the EU). I would like to know, if possible, when this might be imposed and if the subsidization is stopped, how much would the actual fee would be? (I would like to know the maximum fee that any University might have). I'll finish my Bachelor's in 2010 and will be applying the same year.
I also checked on the Education system of Finland, and it is subject to the same conditions as above(No tuition fees for now, and might be introduced in the future). And I would like the know the maximum fees that could be imposed in an Uni in Finland.
Is there a list of the countries that are providing Master's courses in this fashion?
How good exactly are these Universities in comparision to the Universities in other countries, such as USA, or Canada and so.
And I have one final question. I checked on a few of the universities in Sweden and Finland. In the requirements section, they mentioned a proficiency in English as a requirement and a minimum score in the [TOEFl] exam. While this is alright, I was surprised not to see any mention of the [GRE] exam. Does it mean that I dont need to write this exam? Or is it like a default requirement for all the Universities?
And also how strict is the intake process? Will my grade at the end of my bachelor's matter a lot? Or is it OK if I finish my degree with an average grade.
As you can see I am in quite a bit of confusion at the moment. I'd really appreciate it if you guys help me out here. :-)
Thanks a lot,
Jayant, 19 Years, India • contribs 21:51, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Oh, Thanks a lot for that guide. I am going through it right now. And how easy or hard is it to learn Swedish or Finnish? And would all the jobs involve talking to the local people? Are there any jobs on campus or something which I could get without learning the language? Not that I am not willing to learn the language. :-P Jayant, 19 Years, India • contribs 10:33, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
My friend just told me that its hard to get a job after I finish my degree from anywhere in the EU because there are a lot of restructions on work permits or something. While I am not really worried about a getting a job after the degree right now, how far is it true? Is it that hard as he is saying? Jayant, 19 Years, India • contribs 11:04, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
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Does anyone own this website? I'd check by going to the site myself but I'm scared it'll give me a virus.
This site is now registered. It is a web comic that uses a penisaur as its mascot/logo.
I have a completely ordinary dishwasher, which has in the usual fashion two detergent cups: one open, one with a lid. The "Normal" wash cycle actually fills the cabinet with water, sprays it around for a while, then pumps it out three times; it is during the second and longest of these cycles that the closed detergent cup opens, and the bulk of the washing happens.
If I leave the open cup empty, then the first cycle is called the Pre-Rinse cycle, and its function is primarily to knock off the loose stuff. But, if I put detergent in the open cup, then the first cycle is called a Pre-Wash cycle, and presumably does a better job of loosening up some of the dried-on crud. In either case, at the end of this cycle the dirty water and whatever came loose is pumped out and the main wash cycle begins.
So, (finally) my question: suppose I wish to use only one spoonful of detergent. Am I better off dividing it in half or 40/60 or whatever, so that some detergent is used up and discarded and then replaced by "fresh"; or should I leave the small cup empty, let plain water do whatever it can and have the full shot of detergent applied only in the second cycle?
(Please do not advise to RTFM -- or the fine Box in this case -- as I believe the goal of detergent manufacturers is to sell as much detergent as possible.)
P.S. This is not a homework question, I know that's a hot issue for some people :-). --Danh, 70.59.79.230 ( talk) 00:44, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Good evening. I am having a bit of a issue here. Its hard to trust the little box. Morrowind IV: Oblivion has a Game of the Year Edition that comes with all the other expansion. Will I need Xbox Live to use the expansion packs or are the expansions been put into the game on one disk? Also, how much is the cost of Game of the Year Edition compared to just the game? Thank you for answering my question. I really appreciate it. Have a positively wonderful evening. Rem Nightfall ( talk) 01:35, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Elder Scrolls: Oblivion...I'm sorry I call the game Morrowind all the time I get confused and then I confuse other people. So I mean the fourth game Oblivion. Rem Nightfall ( talk) 04:04, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
So I was just watching the College World Series between LSU and North Carolina. It was the top of the first inning, and North Carolina was leading 2-0, with the bases loaded and 1 out. The game was immediately suspended following severe lightning storms. Does the game reset the following day with no score? I heard that if less than five innings were complete, the game restarts, but if five or more innings are complete the game is called. Anyone know the ruling on this? 76.194.67.13 ( talk) 03:11, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
after reading the above question on bezels, I'm prompted to ask about my watch. It's from a gift from Mazda and it has a counterclockwise rotating dial with the code: reading from the left (3 letter break) POL LON PAH GAI MOW OXB NMI DSC RAA HKG IYO SYO NWW SKI MOY HNL ANC LAY BEN MEX MYC CCS RIO
what does this mean? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.240.203.201 ( talk) 03:19, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Well, either the manufacturer has goofed badly or or you have misread/miscopied several of the letters and left out one 3-letter code; and, in addition, the watch is out of date.
The "HNL ANC LAY BEN MEX MYC CCS RIO" part obviously should read "HNL ANC LAX DEN MEX NYC CCS RIO", standing for: Honolulu, Anchorage, Los Angeles, Denver, Mexico City, New York, Caracas, and Rio de Janeiro, whose time zones (ignoring daylight saving time) until recently were respectively 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, and 3 hours west of UTC. Interpreting and correcting the rest of the sequence, I leave as an exercise for the reader. :-) Unfortunately, Venezuela changed its time zone recently and Caracas is now 4:30 west of UTC. They would have done better to put HFX for Halifax instead.
--Anonymous, edited 05:43 UTC, June 20/08.
more like the watch maker goofed, the alphabetical sequence is copied correctly, oh well. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.240.203.201 ( talk) 16:20, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
You have done well, Grutness. I'm sure that LON, MOW, HKG (not HGK), SYO=SYD, and IYO=TYO are correct, since they all fit the time zone sequence. But Lisbon is on time zone 0, like London. Zone −1 is much less populated, but it includes the Azores, and I think the answer is to be found there. And New Zealand is on +12, not +11. I think NWW is Nouméa, New Caledonia; its correct IATA code is NOU, but perhaps someone was confused by its ICAO code, which is NWWW. The obvious city to use for zone +12 would be Auckland, and given the number of errors elsewhere in the list, I think it's reasonable to conjecture that SKI is a mistake for AKL -- the first letter is a typing error (adjacent keys) while the third letter represents a misreading, like in SYO and IYO.
I've decided this is fun enough to make a try at the complete list, but even using a list of airport codes that I downloaded a while ago in conjunction with the Wikipedia list of time zones, I was only able to get answers for 20 of the 23 codes. Here's what I have...
I wondered if MOY might be a mistake for MOI, but not only are the Cook Islands in zone +10, their main airport is at Rarotonga, not Mitiaro. So this seems most unlikely, but I don't have anything better.
The other two unsolved codes, NMI for zone +5 and RAA for +7, are in much more populous time zones, but I was not able to find plausible codes that they might have been errors for.
--Anonymous, 03:12 UTC, June 21, 2008.
P.S. (1) Isn't it impressive that more than half of the codes are wrong? (2) Two of the three unsolved codes are real airport codes, but too far from the proper time zones to be plausible errors. --Anon, 05:16, June 21.
MOY would be MDY - Midway ( Henderson Field, to be precise). That only leaves RAA, probably somewhere in Southeast Asia. Grutness... wha? 00:24, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
Zone | On watch | Correct | Errors | City | Location |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
−1 | POL | PDL | 1 | Ponta Delgada | Azores, Portugal |
0 | LON | LON | 0 | London* | England, UK |
+1 | PAH | PAR | 1 | Paris* | France |
+2 | GAI | CAI | 1 | Cairo | Egypt |
+3 | MOW | MOW | 0 | Moscow* | Russia |
+4 | OXB | DXB | 1 | Dubai | UAE |
+5 | NMI | KHI | 2 | Karachi | Pakistan |
+6 | DSC | DAC | 1 | Dhaka | Bangladesh |
+7 | RAA | BKK | 2 | Bangkok | Thailand |
+8 | HKG | HKG | 0 | Hong Kong | China |
+9 | IYO | TYO | 1 | Tokyo* | Japan |
+10 | SYO | SYD | 1 | Sydney | NSW, Australia |
+11 | NWW | NOU | 2 | Nouméa | New Caledonia |
+12 | SKI | AKL | 2 | Auckland | New Zealand |
−11 | MOY | MDY | 1 | Midway I. | U.S. Minor Outlying Islands |
−10 | HNL | HNL | 0 | Honolulu | HI, USA |
−9 | ANC | ANC | 0 | Anchorage | AK, USA |
−8 | LAY | LAX | 1 | Los Angeles | CA, USA |
−7 | BEN | DEN | 1 | Denver | CO, USA |
−6 | MEX | MEX | 0 | Mexico City | DF, Mexico |
−5 | MYC | NYC | 1 | New York* | NY, USA |
−4 | CCS | CCS | 1** | Caracas | Venezuela |
−3 | RIO | RIO | 0 | Rio de Janeiro* | RJ, Brazil |
−2 | missing | 1 |
There! 20 different errors fixed. (Tosses chalk in air, catches it, sets it down and dusts off hands.)
--Anonymous, 05:52 UTC, June 23, 2008.
Thanks a whole bunch. That was one terrible watchmaker, oh well, hope at least you had fun with the puzzle. GO Wikipedians! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.240.203.201 ( talk) 18:45, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
Shall much appreciate an economist pointing me to a site where I can obtain comparative data on the amount of GDP each of the EU countries allocates to social support/welfare. 86.209.154.30 ( talk) 14:05, 20 June 2008 (UTC)DT
How precise are Belgian postal codes? Are they as precise as UK ones, or as imprecise as French ones? In other words, how many addresses would a four-digit Belgian code typically cover? Thanks!-- 85.158.139.99 ( talk) 16:13, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Where can I find copyright-free pictures of George W. Bush, preferably of high quality. Copyright-free only in as much as they would be used in art projects with a large 'fair use' umbrella. 200.127.59.151 ( talk) 16:23, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
If I were to venture down into the UK sewer system from a manhole on the street, what dangers should I expect to face and what precautionary measures should I take beforehand? How easy would it be to accurately navigate through the sewer system to reach a set destination, for example from my house to my place of work? Are there any people down there that may challenge my presence? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.75.188.252 ( talk) 16:50, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
I'd get a Leptospirosis innoculation before I even thought about going down and also take along a gas detector to make sure I wasn't walking into any potentially dangerous low oxygen areas (caused by build-ups of methane or other gases). Nanonic ( talk) 22:54, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Very few sewers, whether sanitary,stormwater or combined are large enough to walk or crawl through. The manhole chambers you see in the street are large enough to enter but just to facilitate access to the pipes for water blasting, cameras etc - the pipes are much smaller. Apart from the infectious nature of whats in there, oxygen depletion and asphixiating gases can be a major problem and a quick google of sewer worker deaths or similar will show you it still happens. In terms of navigation, sewers virtually never follow the street layout, they need to use topography and gravity ( its difficult to push faecal matter up hill) so they often run with the land contours, always heading down hill. Mhicaoidh ( talk) 02:02, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
Any sewer or other underground space reached via a manhole cover is likely to be full of bad smells, rats, cockroaches feces, urine and germs. It may fill with water unexpectedly and drown you. The air may be toxic or lacking in oxygen, or contain combustible gases. Best take a bus rather than a sewer to get where you're going. Edison ( talk) 03:45, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
As regulars may know, I am planning a holiday that involves driving around the UK in a rental car. I have been planning an itinerary using driving times from Google Maps. Recently I posted here and in some other places that I was planning to drive from London (near Paddington) to Stonehenge, and that I expected the drive to take 1 hour and 45 minutes. Actually, according to Google Maps, it is 1 hour and 40 minutes. Using the Directions function of Multimap.com, an online map provider based in the UK, I get the same result. However, I got responses from several people who live near the route from Paddington to Stonehenge that this route could not possibly be driven in only 1 hour and 45 minutes, even if there is no traffic congestion. One person said that I should count on 2 hours and 15 minutes without traffic, and probably 2 hours and 30 minutes to be safe. So, I am left wondering, are the driving times provided by Google Maps and other online map providers completely unrealistic for the UK? If so, can I get realistic times by adding a certain percentage, say 50%? Thank you! Marco polo ( talk) 17:39, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
If you lay in a tanning bed is it still ok to lay out in the sun? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.255.205.153 ( talk) 19:20, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
I made a template some time ago ( User:The Vandal Warrior/Userboxes/GTA IV fan). Is there anyway I can see how many users are using this template on their user page? bsrboy ( talk) 19:50, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello,
I am in the 3rd year(out of 4 years) of my Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering. I have heard from a friend of mine that the Master's programmes in Sweden are completely subsidised by the State (i.e. They are free, no tuition fees). When I checked this on our own Wikipedia article, I found it to be true. However, it was stated that the Government is planning to discontinue this, and impose a tuition fee on all the foreign students(Not on students in the EU). I would like to know, if possible, when this might be imposed and if the subsidization is stopped, how much would the actual fee would be? (I would like to know the maximum fee that any University might have). I'll finish my Bachelor's in 2010 and will be applying the same year.
I also checked on the Education system of Finland, and it is subject to the same conditions as above(No tuition fees for now, and might be introduced in the future). And I would like the know the maximum fees that could be imposed in an Uni in Finland.
Is there a list of the countries that are providing Master's courses in this fashion?
How good exactly are these Universities in comparision to the Universities in other countries, such as USA, or Canada and so.
And I have one final question. I checked on a few of the universities in Sweden and Finland. In the requirements section, they mentioned a proficiency in English as a requirement and a minimum score in the [TOEFl] exam. While this is alright, I was surprised not to see any mention of the [GRE] exam. Does it mean that I dont need to write this exam? Or is it like a default requirement for all the Universities?
And also how strict is the intake process? Will my grade at the end of my bachelor's matter a lot? Or is it OK if I finish my degree with an average grade.
As you can see I am in quite a bit of confusion at the moment. I'd really appreciate it if you guys help me out here. :-)
Thanks a lot,
Jayant, 19 Years, India • contribs 21:51, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Oh, Thanks a lot for that guide. I am going through it right now. And how easy or hard is it to learn Swedish or Finnish? And would all the jobs involve talking to the local people? Are there any jobs on campus or something which I could get without learning the language? Not that I am not willing to learn the language. :-P Jayant, 19 Years, India • contribs 10:33, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
My friend just told me that its hard to get a job after I finish my degree from anywhere in the EU because there are a lot of restructions on work permits or something. While I am not really worried about a getting a job after the degree right now, how far is it true? Is it that hard as he is saying? Jayant, 19 Years, India • contribs 11:04, 23 June 2008 (UTC)