Posted on 24 June 2012. Tags: Campus, dual degrees, Electrical, engineering universities, Google, honors business administration, microsoft bill gates, Option, perimeter institute, Physics, quantum computing, quantum cryptography, undergraduate, university of waterloo, university of western ontario
Hello, I’m looking to do my undergraduate degree in EE and I was wondering what university would you recommend. Here are my two options (both Canadian Universities)
Option One: University of Western Ontario (UWO)
– a more diverse, social (party-type) university , might have more clubs
-Tons of options. General First year of engineering, several specializations
(i.e, embedded systems, power systems, wireless communications)
They also allow you to:
a) get dual degrees in EE & Comp Sci or Physics or Bio or Economics, Honors Business Administration in 5 years
b) Bachelors of Engineering plus a Juris Doctor (JD) in 6 years (competitive)
c)Bachelors of Engineering with a doctor of medicine (MD) in 7 years (highly competitive)
d) Bachelors of Engineering plus a Masters of Engineering in 5 years.
-Co-op is available, not as many placements as the following university
-Campus is more attractive
Option Two: University of Waterloo
-Not as diverse (mostly Chinese and Indian students) who do not party as much. Much more focused on academics (which isn’t a bad thing, but i’d probably not be near the top of the class)
-One of the best engineering universities in the world. Affiliated with the likes of Research in Motion,(This university is the birthplace of Blackberries) , Microsoft (Bill Gates did a speech there), IBM, Apple, Google & the Perimeter Institute of Physics where Stephen Hawking has presented many times.
-Tons of research in emerging areas like Quantum Computing & Quantum cryptography
– Specialization in EE (like embedded systems) is possible, not to sure of dual degrees however.
-Largest Co-op program in Canada. Once you get acceptance, you are guaranteed CO-OP placements. It takes 5 years to get your degree but they claim that students make $50,000-$80,000 over their co-op terms and that would be great in order to pay for tuition and residence.
-Campus is not as attractive
As you can see, both universities sound great. I will apply for both and hopefully I could get some advice from you guys. Thanks so much!
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Posted on 13 June 2012. Tags: Google, Join, niche, Pageranks, Pageviews, Soccer, Sports, sports photos, traffic, viewership, Yardbarker
Hi everyone, I recently started a soccer blog less than 10 days ago, and have had pretty good traffic (much better than I had anticipated) of about 3,000 pageviews per week. I feel as though what I write about is a niche that has potential for even more viewers, and I think joining Yardbarker would help me rank up in Google, give me better Pageranks, increase my viewership, and allow me to get sports photos for my blog. The question is, does anyone know how stringent they are? Do I need more pageviews, would they not accept me just because I’m new? Your comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Posted on 07 June 2012. Tags: affiliate marketing, algorithm, business, dramatic increase, Google, Marketing, penguin, small business, Update, Website
Recently, Google released another algorithm update which have drastically decreased the rank for many small business websites, especially those in affiliate marketing. Has anyone also noticed a dramatic increase in their click-through-rates? Even if you did not see your rankings drop…
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Posted on 03 June 2012. Tags: com, engine, faroo, free software, Google, Greatly, linux, open source, peer software, Peers., sample searches, search engine, Yacy, Yahoo
Hello. I am a huge fan of yacy.net and its completely decentralized search engine. I am all for a free, open, uncensored, and decentralized internet which is why I think YaCy is so awesome. YaCy is a peer-to-peer search engine that is completely open source. YaCy is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The biggest peer-to-peer search engine as of now is faroo.com which has more than 2 million peers, but is not open source, and currently the peer software is only available for Windows. Every time I use YaCy, it only has at most a few hundred peers using it on the network at the time. Faroo’s searches using faroo.com are generally very good because millions of people are using it. Basically, I would like to know how to greatly improve YaCy by getting many more people to join. I want many more people to use and join Yacy to improve the search results. How can YaCy get thousands or even millions of users to join like Faroo? I think YaCy could theoretically compete well against the likes of Google and Yahoo if there were enough people using it. Just FYI, you can test YaCy before running the software at http://search.yacy.net/ to get sample searches, but running the software on your own gives better search results. Any and all ideas and advice is appreciated. I am not affiliated with YaCy, I just am a big open source and free software fan, and really want YaCy to take off.
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Posted on 27 May 2012. Tags: Community, community attention, engine, Google, Protest, Search, search engine, ton, Yahoo
Google is a terrible search engine. And there is a ton of other problems with google. I encourage everyone to boycott google! Please get this out to everyone you know and do some research on google and why you should delete all programs affiliated with it. Protest Google! Are you with me?
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Posted on 15 May 2012. Tags: cached version, COPY, Google, image copy, image search, privacy issues, removal, Search, size image, type, Website
I have followed the directions provided by Google. Click Full Size Image-Copy URL-Create a new removal type-paste my URL
Then it asks for me to type in a word from the live website. It says this,
This page is live on the web, and Google can access it.
If you want to remove the cache, tell Google how the page has changed. Type a word that no longer appears on the live page, but is still in the cached version.
I don’t want to remove the whole page I just want my image removed from Google Image Search. My image has already been removed from the original website per my request. I have been trying to do this since last week.
Please help, I want it removed as soon as possible due to privacy issues.
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