2007 – TOP 27 COUNTRIES WITH THE
HIGHEST INTERNET PENETRATION RATE
Country or Region Penetration Internet Users
(% Population) Latest Data

United States 69.70% 210,575,287
Japan 67.10% 86,300,000
Germany 61.10% 50,426,117
United Kingdom 62.30% 37,600,000
Korea, South 66.50% 34,120,000
France 53.70% 32,925,953
Italy 52.90% 31,481,928
Canada 67.80% 22,000,000
Australia 71.90% 15,085,600
Taiwan 63.00% 14,500,000
Netherlands 73.30% 12,060,000
Portugal 73.80% 7,782,760
Sweden 75.60% 6,890,000
Czeck Republic 50.00% 5,100,000
Switzerland 67.80% 5,097,822
Hong Kong (China) 68.20% 4,878,713
Austria 56.60% 4,650,000
Denmark 69.20% 3,762,500
Israel 51.10% 3,700,000
Finland 62.30% 3,286,000
New Zealand 74.90% 3,200,000
Norway 67.40% 3,140,000
Singapore 66.30% 2,421,800
Ireland 50.20% 2,060,000
Slovenia 55.50% 1,090,000
Estonia 51.80% 690,000
Luxembourgh 68.00% 315,000
63.63% 605,139,480
Rest of the World 10.10% 567,361,545
World Total Users 17.80% 1,172,501,025
Total World – Population 6,574,666,417

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2007 – TOP 20 COUNTRIES WITH HIGHEST NUMBER OF INTERNET USERS
Country or Region Internet Users, Penetration % of World Broadband
Latest Data (% Population) Users Penetration
United States 210,575,287 69.70% 18.00% 19.30%
China 162,000,000 12.30% 13.80% 2.70%
Japan 86,300,000 67.10% 7.40% 20.00%
Germany 50,426,117 61.10% 4.30% 17.10%
India 42,000,000 3.70% 3.60% 0.20%
Brazil 39,140,000 21.00% 3.30% 3.10%
United Kingdom 37,600,000 62.30% 3.20% 21.50%
Korea (South) 34,120,000 66.50% 2.90% 27.40%
France 32,925,953 53.70% 2.80% 20.70%
Italy 31,481,928 52.90% 2.70% 14.50%
Russia 28,000,000 19.50% 2.40% 0.80%
Mexico 22,700,000 21.30% 1.90% 3.50%
Canada 22,000,000 67.80% 1.90% 23.70%
Indonesia 20,000,000 8.90% 1.70% 0.30%
Spain 19,765,033 43.90% 1.70% 14.80%
Vietnam 16,511,849 19.40% 1.40% n/a %
Turkey 16,000,000 21.10% 1.40% 3.70%
Australia 15,085,600 71.90% 1.30% 18.80%
Taiwan 14,500,000 63.00% 1.20% n/a %
Philippines 14,000,000 16.00% 1.20% n/a %
TOP 20 Countries 915,131,767 21.70% 78.00% n/a %
Rest of the World 257,978,158 11.00% 22.00% n/a %
Total World – Users 1,173,109,925 17.80% 100.00% n/a %
Total World – Population 6,574,666,417

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2007 – TOP TEN COUNTRIES WITH THE HIGHEST POPULATION
Country Population % of World Population Expected Pop.
( 2007 Est. ) Population Growth Rate for year 2050
China 1,317,431,495 20.00% 1.10% 1,470,468,924
India 1,129,667,528 17.20% 1.70% 1,619,582,271
United States 301,967,681 4.60% 0.80% 403,943,147
Indonesia 224,481,720 3.40% 1.80% 337,807,011
Brazil 186,771,161 2.80% 1.40% 206,751,477
Pakistan 167,806,831 2.60% 2.60% 267,813,495 (poor mass)
Nigeria 162,082,868 2.50% 2.60% 303,586,770 (poor mass)
Russia 143,406,042 2.20% 0.50% 118,233,243
Bangladesh 137,493,990 2.10% 1.10% 205,093,861 (poor mass)
Japan 128,646,345 2.00% 0.10% 101,228,471
TOP TEN Countries 3,899,755,661 59.30% – 5,034,508,670
Rest of the World 2,674,910,756 40.70% – 4,049,986,735
TOTAL World Population 6,574,666,417 100.00% 1.10% 9,084,495,405
 

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Top 10 used languages

http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm

Data Source: http://www.internetworldstats.com/

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Top 500 websites in the World and also by countries

Countries Local Top rank site list

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List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita

List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita

The following videos portrait the development of Psychology and its influence on United States’s business, social and political environment since 1920′. Very fun, but I am not sure it is bias or not.

The Century of the Self (part 1 of 4)

other sub parts can be easily found on Google Video.

 There are awesome things to do other than JUST money !! In fact, you can do both goods and making money.

 The New Heros series from PBS Episode 1

Africa – Children Town

An hour with Muhammad Yunus, the inventor of micro finance to poor.

Social Capitalist awards 2007

BBC  search on Google Video

Panorama search on Google Video

Horizon search on Google Video

Hardtalk search on Google Video

Louis Theroux search on Google Video

BBC1 search on Google Video

BBC2 search on Google Video

BBC3 search on Google Video

BBC4 search on Google Video

even more BBC

PBS  search on Google Video

Frontline search on Google Video

Frontline on official PBS site

Nova search on Google Video

Nova on official PBS site

Charlie Rose search on Google Video

Charlie Rose channel on Youtube

even more PBS

BBC Documentary search on Wikipedia

PBS Documentary search on Wikipedia

Computer Chronicles in 80’s search on Google Video

MORE documentaries film at HERE.

I neither reject the possibility of God’s existence nor have a religion, because I do not believe in contemporary religions. I do not buy their stories because their pictures just do not add up, not even close.

First of all, God is human being’s concept. I do not think other animals have the concept of God.

To me, God is perfect, flawless (error free), otherwise he can not be the “God”. So we would not listen God says: “Oops, Sorry !” I think this is a reasonable assumption, and universal accepted one and therefore anything contradict to this assumption can not be the “God”. It is just that simple.

So far, I can not find anything not contradict to this assumption. As the matter of fact their stories do not even consistence. However, it is not hard to find a religious person to argue with you. I would like to tell them that, “God does not need us to argue about his existence or identity, if God can not self-evidence himself, he is not God”

Unfortunately, human beings are very good at fixing bugs, just like programmers do. But, why don’t they think why there are bugs in the first place? Nevertheless, they are not very good programmers neither; they should learn the UNIX principle which is “KISS”. It stands for “Keep It Simple Stupid”.

I talked to a few intelligent religious close friends. We argued in a logical fashion, but they find no way out and finally they admitted that they do not use pure reasoning to their religion but also personal subjection, and feelings.

From my understanding, when anything involve human subjectivity and emotions, it becomes both complicated and complex. It is not hard to cite examples, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the differences between Roman Catholic Church and Christian Church,…etc. Don’t they read the same bible, but interpreted differently, How come? Answer is “human being”. It seems like God having trouble in teaching us how to read.

Well, I am too dumb to understand all those, so I think I better find my own way. Nevertheless, I do not object people to be religious. They have their own right to chose whatever their belief as long as they do not intervene others. In fact, I witness a lot of benefits to be a religious person. Despite the issue about their God is truth or not, they usually are more easy to find peace and solution. Here is how we manage things differently. When there is an unsolvable problem, for them, they will hand it to God. God is their faith. For me, since the problem is unsolvable, just drop it. Afterall, we all humans.
YouTube – Secular Believers (Part 1 of 6)
YouTube – Richard Dawkins with Brian Lehrer – Part 1 of 3 

Richard Dawkins, The Enemies Of Reason – Part 1

sub part can be easily find on Youtube

Click to see videos – The Great Robot Race

Dr. Sebastian Thrun from Standford explains how his car “Stanley” works.

More information on DARP Grand Challenge on Wikipedia.

FOSS stands for “Free and Open Source Software”

It started in 1980s by GNU project then Linux project joined in at 1990s. Now there are more than 100,000 open source projects on going with hundreds of thousands programmers participating.

Following videos tell you all.

Revolution OS

The Codebreakers – A BBC World Documentary on FOSS and Development

The Code Linux

A conversation with Linus Torvalds of Linux operating systems

Go Open – TV Series 13 Episode

The History Of Hacking -Documentary

Want to have a better use of your software, tips and trick, do things more and faster? Or looking for open source software ? check this out !

http://del.icio.us/marblehead/hack

Enjoy !

Here are some resources about Space , Astronomy, and Universe.

http://del.icio.us/marblehead/space

http://del.icio.us/marblehead/astronomy

http://del.icio.us/marblehead/universe

Enjoy !

 Want to learn how Silicon Valley revolute the whole digital age? Listen to those people who invented TCP/IP (the Internet Protocol), created Macintosh systems, making the CPU, making the first router, created the first spreadsheet, indexing the search engine, found the Paypal and of course those who do the investment, Venture Capital. You come to the right place, All at one place NerdTV .