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He most of thought tfa referred to a Tongan man. Tonga GDP 244M

Google is now worth about as much as Sri Lanka. (population: 20 million)

With 6+ billion people on the planet and little hope that we will max out before at least 12 billion, is lowered fertility really a bad this? I say lay on more pesticides!

Forget a population of 12 billion, it's doubtful we'll have a population of more than 9 billion. More and more people are having else and less children. For instance China's population is expected to start declining shortly and there is some concern that within 50 years there won't be enough people working to support those that will be retiring. As it is now the CIA estimates China's growth rate is 0.58% and India's is 1.4%. And as more people move to cities and get more education, which is happening all over the world, they tend to have less children.

With 6+ billion people on the planet and little hope that we will max out before at least 12 billion, is lowered fertility really a bad this? I say lay on more pesticides!

Forget a population of 12 billion, it's doubtful we'll have a population of more than 9 billion. More and more people are having else and less children. For instance China's population is expected to start declining shortly and there is some concern that within 50 years there won't be enough people working to support those that will be retiring. As it is now the CIA estimates China's growth rate is 0.58% and India's is 1.4%. And as more people move to cities and get more education, which is happening all over the world, they tend to have less children.

There was a real system called "Skyhook" developed by the military. Basically it was a one man recovery system intended for use by spies, downed pilots, etc. Someone on the ground let up a balloon with a cable attached and harnessed themself to the end. A plane with a special "Y" shaped "cable catcher" on the front would then fly into the cable and eventually the "recoveree" would be winched on board. Apparently they did get it working http://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/95unclass/Leary.htm l

> Put the base in the ocean, and stick a carrier task force there to protect it.

Better yet, put it on Nauru.
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ nr.html

With the phosphates gone, the international money laundering (er banking) industry dismantled, and nothing else on the horizon, this could be just what this island nation needs.

Finally something that severe isolation is good for.

According to the CIA, North Korea only spends about 20% of its GDP on its military and 30% on food... but then again, perhaps NK hackers inserted this disinformation into the CIA website.

Actually no, that's not its only function. The CIA has many functions with HUMINT actually being one of the smallest, though arguably the most important. It is split up into different departments with the Directorate of Intelligence being the largest. The DI specializes in Analysis and reporting. The Directorate of Operations, which specializes in human intelligence is what you are referring too. The CIA also have a paramilitary wing which was extensively used in Afghanistan. The paramil wing has a role similar to the special forces. It also has a Research and Development wing, which specializes in intelligence technology.

Also an offensive tasking seems like it would more likely be a DoD thing, Airforce maybe though who knows.

The proper parlance is the intelligence world is covert action. And with many departments these days trying to keep up with netwarriors (I don't mean hackers, check the link) they have to assume organisational and offensive formlessness and take up roles which in the past they wouldn't have taken up. This includes the use of covert action by agencies that were considered pre-9/11 as collection agencies.

Just to clarify for some /.'ers who may have a narrow view of intelligence. The intelligence world is split up into collection (HUMINT, SIGINT, IMINT, OSINT etc.), analysis, covert action and counter-intelligence. Pre-9/11 most agencies were traditional set in stone in these areas, however due to 4th Generational warriors and netwarriors the traditional agencies have had to change in the areas of organisation, doctrine and culture. So don't think that traditional agencies still keep their same roles. Their roles are blurred and operate under a complete different set of rules from the soviet era.

Actually no, that's not its only function. The CIA has many functions with HUMINT actually being one of the smallest, though arguably the most important. It is split up into different departments with the Directorate of Intelligence being the largest. The DI specializes in Analysis and reporting. The Directorate of Operations, which specializes in human intelligence is what you are referring too. The CIA also have a paramilitary wing which was extensively used in Afghanistan. The paramil wing has a role similar to the special forces. It also has a Research and Development wing, which specializes in intelligence technology.

Also an offensive tasking seems like it would more likely be a DoD thing, Airforce maybe though who knows.

The proper parlance is the intelligence world is covert action. And with many departments these days trying to keep up with netwarriors (I don't mean hackers, check the link) they have to assume organisational and offensive formlessness and take up roles which in the past they wouldn't have taken up. This includes the use of covert action by agencies that were considered pre-9/11 as collection agencies.

Just to clarify for some /.'ers who may have a narrow view of intelligence. The intelligence world is split up into collection (HUMINT, SIGINT, IMINT, OSINT etc.), analysis, covert action and counter-intelligence. Pre-9/11 most agencies were traditional set in stone in these areas, however due to 4th Generational warriors and netwarriors the traditional agencies have had to change in the areas of organisation, doctrine and culture. So don't think that traditional agencies still keep their same roles. Their roles are blurred and operate under a complete different set of rules from the soviet era.

Actually no, that's not its only function. The CIA has many functions with HUMINT actually being one of the smallest, though arguably the most important. It is split up into different departments with the Directorate of Intelligence being the largest. The DI specializes in Analysis and reporting. The Directorate of Operations, which specializes in human intelligence is what you are referring too. The CIA also have a paramilitary wing which was extensively used in Afghanistan. The paramil wing has a role similar to the special forces. It also has a Research and Development wing, which specializes in intelligence technology.

Also an offensive tasking seems like it would more likely be a DoD thing, Airforce maybe though who knows.

The proper parlance is the intelligence world is covert action. And with many departments these days trying to keep up with netwarriors (I don't mean hackers, check the link) they have to assume organisational and offensive formlessness and take up roles which in the past they wouldn't have taken up. This includes the use of covert action by agencies that were considered pre-9/11 as collection agencies.

Just to clarify for some /.'ers who may have a narrow view of intelligence. The intelligence world is split up into collection (HUMINT, SIGINT, IMINT, OSINT etc.), analysis, covert action and counter-intelligence. Pre-9/11 most agencies were traditional set in stone in these areas, however due to 4th Generational warriors and netwarriors the traditional agencies have had to change in the areas of organisation, doctrine and culture. So don't think that traditional agencies still keep their same roles. Their roles are blurred and operate under a complete different set of rules from the soviet era.

Read the cia factbook about North Korea... they can't even feed their own people.. and for "Internet Users", the CIA has "NA"

The official website for North Korea isn't even hosted in North Korea! (it's currently in Spain)

The CIA Factbook has little to say, but a Wired article seems to dismiss the threat, although it notes information is hard to come by.

Populations:
EU : 457million
USA: 296million

Zombies in May:
EU : 26.16% (1320985)
USA: 19.08% (964020)

So, zombies per capita:
EU : 0.00289 (1 zombie per 346 people)
USA: 0.00326 (1 zombie per 307 people)

Sources:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ranko rder/2119rank.html
http://www.ciphertrust.com/resources/statistics/zo mbie.php

I thought the EU didn't support software patents (yet).

Additionally, the EU cannot take action against MS for pulling out of the market if MS pays the current fines. To declare MS's copyright void in such a case would set the kind of precedent that Washington DC politicians hunger for. If anything, the US government is proud of MS. It is a US company, and a real money maker. Whatever issues you think the government has with MS will disappear if the EU tries to pull anything.

And the biggest economy is the US.

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ us.html

China's and Europe's primary trading partner is the US. If anything, China would be happy that trading (or communicating) with Europe becomes that much harder. It just means more business for China.

The EU is hurt in a bad way, as well. Their economies (with the exception of eastern soviet bloc countries) are in hell right now. Compare the US, which champions military spending (which can be cut in an instant with relatively little fallout) with the EU, which provides a 35 hour work week and cradle-to-grave benefits. Me thinks the Europeans will scream a lot louder about their benefits being cut than Americans putting up with a few base closings.

When you throw in the amount of time spent retraining and porting software to Linux, most companies would rather throw in the towel. Or strangle some politicians. Or both. The CEO of those companies are not going to care that OSS is fre or good for society or whatever. What they care about is that the software they paid $$$$$$$$ for now has to be rewritten for even more $$$$$$$. Their staff has to be retrained. And the software they are going to use is not as user friendly or as supported as their previous software.

EU companies will import software from the US, and they will like it. MS will stop development of European language packs (saving quite a bundle-> no 30+ languages). The French will really have something to scream about when the software that their companies run on are only available in English, and there isn't a damn thing they can do about. And MS's revenues will stay about the same.

The OSS revolution won't happen. The EU is not a better US (with more economic might and better social benefits).

Countries which mandate OSS will continue to fall behind, and the EU will serve as a poster boy for MS.

I hope MS does pull out of the EU, as the resulting damage to the EU's economy would be f*cking hilarious. I'd buy as much MS stock as my credit cards would allow, buying it on the down swing (when they announce they are pulling out), and selling it on the upswing (EU companies by MS software overseas).

*wrings hands* Oh please, oh please, oh please....

Also curious where you got 68 from, or did you mean 78? From this page, life expectancy at birth for entire US population is roughly 78 years. For the world, it's a dimmer 64 years though I'd suspect similar numbers to the US figures for most first-world countries.

On 20 September 1999 the Australian-led peacekeeping troops of the International Force for East Timor (INTERFET) deployed to the country and brought the violence to an end.

From the CIA World Factbook:

English enjoys associate status but is the most important language for national, political, and commercial communication; Hindi is the national language and primary tongue of 30% of the people; there are 14 other official languages: Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, and Sanskrit; Hindustani is a popular variant of Hindi/Urdu spoken widely throughout northern India but is not an official language

Oh, also, I didn't notice this comment of yours:

It is idiotic to believe that Iraq technology remained static for 10 years, and it is rather naive to believe that with that length of time to aquire material with the illbegotten oil-for-food revenue, that he didn't already have the equipment within his country to refine whatever uranium he was able to import. But this is America, where we allow people to believe whatever they want to believe...

Apparently you think reality is idiotic. Suit yourself. :) I'll quote:

Iraq Survey Group (ISG) discovered further evidence of the maturity and significance of the pre-1991 Iraqi Nuclear Program but found that Iraqs ability to reconstitute a nuclear weapons program progressively decayed after that date.

Saddam Husayn ended the nuclear program in 1991 following the Gulf war. ISG found no evidence to suggest concerted efforts to restart the program.

Although Saddam clearly assigned a high value to the nuclear progress and talent that had been developed up to the 1991 war, the program ended and the intellectual capital decayed in the succeeding years.

They go on to talk about how Iraq wanted to retain its knowlegable people in case the sanctions were ever lifted, but even its knowlege base eroded.

Note that the ISG had every motive to *overstate* the case (and its head was ardently pro-war). I've seen several reputable groups contest some of the measly "intent" evidence that they provide for the various investigated programs. If you want to discuss this more, we should probably take it off slashdot, or we'll get too off topic; the issue is how easy nuclear weapons are to make.

... or America, or any other country listed here.

So, that's why an American's life expectancy at birth is 77.71 years while a Canadian's is 80.1? Who the fuck modded this bullshit up?

CIA World Fact Book:
Can
US

So, that's why an American's life expectancy at birth is 77.71 years while a Canadian's is 80.1? Who the fuck modded this bullshit up?

CIA World Fact Book:
Can
US

Quick Google search:

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ us.html#Econ

GDP: $11.75 trillion
Imports: $1.476 trillion (13% GDP)
Exports: $795 billion (7% GDP)
Deficit: $-646.5 billion (5% GDP)

Trade with China:
http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700. html#2004
Export: $ 34 Billion (1% GDP)
Import: $ 196 Billion (2% GDP)
Deficit: $ -162 Billion (1% GDP)

It appears I was off a bit: Total foreign trade is 20%, I must have been looking at imports. That is still a number which would be possible to overcome given the desire to do so. The long term result of decreased Chinese industrial production would be increased production elsewhere, a situation which is good for everyone but china. Chinese imports account for less than 2% of GDP. I submit that since GDP grows annually by 3-4% lately, a total stoppage of trade with china would be missed for only a few months as the economy restructured and grew out of it. (The slack would be taken up either by American companies or more foreign trade.) China does not currently sell us a significant quanty of goods with inelastic demand, (like oil - notice how a small change in production results in huge swings in price) which would enhance the effect if it were the case.

Uh...according to the CIA Factbook even Mexico has a bigger GDP than Spain. The top 4 in Europe should be Germany, UK, France, and Italy. Italy, not Spain. Spain was and ever is a bucolic backwater, sort of like the southern half of Italy.

Well, neither country would shift 100% to boys or girls, the ratio would only be 4 girls:3boys in the US and 4boys:3girls in india, which interestingly enough is very close to accurate for the two mentioned countries.

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/

...and about a 3% GDP growth rate. Pretty mediocre by U.S. standards, really; we haven't had an unemployment rate as high as yours since about 1985, and moreover, our GDP growth rate tends to average around 3-3.5% per year. We employ more people more often and tend to grow faster all the while.

Nevertheless, compare Finland with current figures for:

* Germany -- a 10.6% unemployment rate presently, and rising, along with a mere 1.7% GDP growth rate.

* Norway -- 4.3% unemployment, 3.3% GDP growth.

* Sweden -- 5.6% unemployment rate, 3.6% GDP growth.

* U.S. -- 5.5% unemployment, 4.4% GDP growth.

* U.K. -- 4.8% unemployment, 3.2% GDP growth.

* Switzerland -- 3.4% unemployment, 1.8% GDP growth.

* Japan -- 4.7% unemployment, 2.9% GDP growth.

* Hong Kong -- 6.7% unemployment, and a torrid 7.9% GDP growth.

All figures taken from the CIA World Factbook (of course, place your own value on stats coming from the same U.S. government agency that overthrows democratic nations, lies on-demand, and kills people on a whim)...

Your memory of the geography of Portugal is correct. "North coast" is referring to the northern end of its long western coast, not a northern (i.e., north-facing) coast. Isn't English a marvelously concise language sometimes?

Frem the CIA Factbook (Canada):

Oil - production:
3.11 million bbl/day (2004 est.)
Oil - consumption:
2.2 million bbl/day (2003 est.)
Oil - exports:
1.37 million bbl/day (2004)
Oil - imports:
987,000 bbl/day (2004)

Sure. Do you want a reference for the trade imbalance on US ag imports to exports, or for the effects of US subsidies on foreign markets?

Both would be good. I'll start with this one you provided from another thread.

This "flood" coming from America you talk about might have been true at one time. However, the year-to-year trade balance appears to be decreasing, not increasing. If anything, it appears that a "flood" of cheap produce is now heading to the US and swamping American farmers, therefore dramatically increasing our imports.

Me: China can get by on old machinery due to the fact that they have a billion people to throw at them
You: Which makes them less competitive.

How? If they can throw 1, 2, or 3 million people at producing socks, how does that make them LESS competitive? They're still paying their factory workers almost nothing. It's the machinery that costs them money. If they can get by on an older type of machinery, they they're paying almost nothing to produce socks. How does paying almost nothing make them LESS competitive?

The fact is that their cost structure makes China more competitive. The US received a flood of low cost clothing from China once trade barriers were eliminated Jan 1st.

Preliminary U.S. data showed a 1,505 percent increase in imports of cotton trousers from China in the first four months of 2005, and increases of 1,346 percent for cotton shirts and 347 percent for cotton and synthetic underwear.

That doesn't sound like they're uncompetitive to me. However, this currency manipulation by the Chinese certainly looks much worse in this light.

Furthermore, growth means *new* production, which means newly acquired machinery.

That's not necessarily true. If you throw more people at production on the old type of machines, then you have growth as well. You make the same kind of sock with an old type of machine that you can with a new machine. It's just that with the new type of machines, you make them much faster. When new-fangled machines cost more than employing a new worker, then you stick with the old machines and just add a bunch of new workers.

Me: China is roughly the size of the US with plenty of its own resources
You: The resources need to supply a billion people for example, they're the second largest importer of oil on the planet. China's exports in the first half of 2000 (first article I found) were 114.5B$, and their imports were 102.1B$. Sustaining a heavy industrial economy requires a lot of imports even in the most mineral-rich places.

From the CIA World Factbook: Exports: $583.1 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Exports - commodities: machinery and equipment, plastics, optical and medical equipment, iron and steel
Exports - partners: US 21.1%, Hong Kong 17.4%, Japan 13.6%, South Korea 4.6%, Germany 4% (2003)

Imports: $552.4 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, oil and mineral fuels, plastics, optical and medical equipment, organic chemicals, iron and steel
Imports - partners: Japan 18%, Taiwan 11.9%, South Korea 10.4%, US 8.2%, Germany 5.9% (2003)
Their low currency can't be hurting them much since they can export much more than they import.

Considering the US receives 21.1% of their exports while only contributing to 8.2% of their imports, I believe that the US has a legitimate complaint regarding China's currency manipulation. This manipulation appears to be done to the express detriment of the US.

...plus I hear there is a nice secluded little getaway resort on the far side of the island!

some governments and large organizations have switched to the free Linux system or have threatened to do so to get discounts.

For as rich as that seems, for some reason the thought simply never occurred to me that people actually got away with this :P.

As for Cuba switching OS's, it's a smart move only in terms of the fact that the nation is far from wealthy. With a total national GDP roughly the size of Alaska's (33.2b in Cuba according to the CIA vs 31.4b for Alaska according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis), any cost savings they could get would be obviously welcomed, Communist or otherwise.

China's population is about 1.3 billion (see the CIA World Factbook on China). The United States' population is about 295 million (see same source). Therefore China is closer to 4x the US population. Interestingly, while China's one-child policy would cause a population implosion around 2050 if maintained, the U.S. may grow to 500 million if the current trends in immigration continue.

Your contention that China's effect on the world should be similar to that of the U.S. based on its middle class population has some merit, but China also is in a different economic situation. Unlike the U.S., which is a mature industrial and post-industrial economy, China is in a high growth industrialization stage and in addition is offloading industrial production from Japan and the West. Therefore their IT needs may grow faster than those of the U.S. and they may indeed achieve some sort of dominance over software standards.

Whether this is a good thing is another question. Because laws in China are drawn up by technocrats and passed by fiat, they tend to represent a top-down view of how things should work. In the U.S. and other countries, standards are set by industrial consortia based partially on collective needs and partially on who's the biggest and richest on the committee. Whichever system prevails has yet to be seen.

The Chinese view the big Western companies as "hegemonist", especially the ones headquartered in the U.S., so they tend to reflexively oppose American-developed standards. Culturally, the Chinese have always been the "central kingdom" with their own language, history, technology and science stretching back thousands of years. They therefore tend to have a "not-invented-here" rejectionist mentality toward foreign ways. This is not to say that they don't copy stuff, but they try to sinicize it as quickly as they can, to translate it and get it to feel more palatable. It's quite likely that they're more comfortable with developing their own standards that may be based on IEEE, w3.org and so forth, but they will extend on them and make them work natively. The rest of the world can either go along and accommodate them or ignore them. Either way, we are in for some interesting times.

A user can afford to spend $100-$200 for a legal copy of Windows in the US, but in India due to the exchange rate it becomes a huge amount!

I think I know what you are trying to say but this sentance makes little sense. The reason people in India cannot purchase Windows at US prices is because the average person's buying power in India is significantly lower. GDP per capita in the US is $40,100 while in India it is $3,100, an order of magnitude difference. But the exchange rate has only a minor impact on the Indian's ability to purchase "imported" goods at US prices. Mostly it's that most Indians are still too poor to purchase the software.

MS is attempting to prevent arbitrage but seemingly ends up cutting off their nose since their intended customers can't really purchase the product at the higher prices. Truthfully though, I don't think MS is that dumb. They won't admit it but a certain amount of piracy is good as far as they are concerned because as India develops they will have an installed base to sell to. They aren't really out any money from someone who pirates the software who wouldn't have bought it anyway (despite what the BSA claims) but there is the potential of big profits in years to come.

A user can afford to spend $100-$200 for a legal copy of Windows in the US, but in India due to the exchange rate it becomes a huge amount!

I think I know what you are trying to say but this sentance makes little sense. The reason people in India cannot purchase Windows at US prices is because the average person's buying power in India is significantly lower. GDP per capita in the US is $40,100 while in India it is $3,100, an order of magnitude difference. But the exchange rate has only a minor impact on the Indian's ability to purchase "imported" goods at US prices. Mostly it's that most Indians are still too poor to purchase the software.

MS is attempting to prevent arbitrage but seemingly ends up cutting off their nose since their intended customers can't really purchase the product at the higher prices. Truthfully though, I don't think MS is that dumb. They won't admit it but a certain amount of piracy is good as far as they are concerned because as India develops they will have an installed base to sell to. They aren't really out any money from someone who pirates the software who wouldn't have bought it anyway (despite what the BSA claims) but there is the potential of big profits in years to come.

> Great! Being nerds we will never *play* soccer - we got robots to do that.

The times are changing, my friend.

Here in Finland (yes, it's a country, see CIA Factbook) one the local TV networks
is looking for a number of geeks to form a soccer team "FC Nerds".
They explicitly demand that the applicants are a) geeks, b) not at all interested or proficient
in soccer. They plan to hire experts to coach the team. Perhaps even cheerleaders.

The beginning paragraph says "We're looking for 16 supernice, fun, self-ironic and smart GEEKS,
who are ready to become the new idols on Sub-TV."

I, for one, definitely send in my resume.

-?

For fuck's sake. Copyrighting a journal is not the same as keeping knowledge from anybody. If you want to read any article in any journal, proceed to the local university library and go look it up for yourself. In my country, it is perfectly legal to make a copy for yourself and take it home, as long as it is for personal study purposes. Even if it's not, I doubt anybody is going to care.

Did Brother Lal have anything to say about laziness?

First off, not to nitpick but the title of the article is misleading. The laptop is not sub-$200, 10,000INR is $230 http://www.xe.com/ucc/

The PC penetration in India is very low, at a measly 13 million, due to the high costs involved

Although a $230 laptop is great for people in developed nations unfortunately it is still in the realm of high cost for someone in India.

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ us.html
The GDP per capita in America - $40,000

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ in.html
GDP per capita in India - $3,100

For someone in America, hell a $2,000 computer would be 1/20th of income, while a $230 computer in India is 1/13th.

First off, not to nitpick but the title of the article is misleading. The laptop is not sub-$200, 10,000INR is $230 http://www.xe.com/ucc/

The PC penetration in India is very low, at a measly 13 million, due to the high costs involved

Although a $230 laptop is great for people in developed nations unfortunately it is still in the realm of high cost for someone in India.

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ us.html
The GDP per capita in America - $40,000

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ in.html
GDP per capita in India - $3,100

For someone in America, hell a $2,000 computer would be 1/20th of income, while a $230 computer in India is 1/13th.

Actually British Telecom is a British company. Britain != UK.

Actually "British" refers to somebody/something of the UK, not merely somebody/something of Great Britain. Granted, people in Northern Ireland probably prefer to call themselves Irish rather than British, but they are actually British as well. Even though Northern Ireland isn't in Great Britain. Direct your attention to "Nationality".

The UK actually includes a little more than Great Britain & Northern Ireland as well, IIRC.

Boodly hell our country is complicated.

800 million? For one thing, you're way off. Check out http://www.cia.gov/ and they
state India has over a billion people now. And while we're at it,
most of those folks are vegetarian because they have no
choice. I'll probably be modded down because of political correctness,
since everyone's afraid to criticize someone else's culture
unless it's American, but India simply has bred too much. They need to controlt their population.
If they suddenly went atheist and started eating meat, you would have widespread famine. Vegetarianism simply takes less land per capita than
grazing, which takes less land per capita than hunting/gathering.

52 states? Australia has six, plus a brace of territories, the US has 50 plus the District of Columbia. How the hell do you come up with 52 out of that?

Are you counting Guam and Puerto Rico or what?

-Peter

52 states? Australia has six, plus a brace of territories, the US has 50 plus the District of Columbia. How the hell do you come up with 52 out of that?

Are you counting Guam and Puerto Rico or what?

-Peter

Chinese.

From: CIA


CHina
Population:
Definition Field Listing Rank Order
1,306,313,812 (July 2005 est.)
Age structure:
Definition Field Listing
0-14 years: 21.4% (male 148,134,928/female
131,045,415)
15-64 years: 71% (male 477,182,072/female
450,664,933)
65 years and over: 7.6% (male
47,400,282/female 51,886,182) (2005 est.)

USA
Population:
Definition Field Listing Rank Order
295,734,134 (July 2005 est.)
Age structure:
Definition Field Listing
0-14 years: 20.6% (male 31,095,725/female
29,703,997)
15-64 years: 67% (male 98,914,382/female
99,324,126)
65 years and over: 12.4% (male
15,298,676/female 21,397,228) (2005 est.)

It's worth noting that the land area is almost the same for China ans USA.

As for the population and Broadband...

Articles 2007 numbers as a percentage of total population.

China-4.36
USA-18.25

Game developers should take note of the number of males in 0-14 age bracket.
China-148,134,928
USA-31,095,725
When you multiply by % of population with broadband, the numbers are almost identical.

Yes, they have 4x as many people as we have.
But their GDP is $7.262 trillion, quite lower than the GDP in the US which is $11.75 trillion.

That's why it's worth a story!
Their GDP per capita is much lower than ours, however, they manage to have more highspeed internet access than us.

Use your brain, for once, for chriiss sake.

Yes, they have 4x as many people as we have.
But their GDP is $7.262 trillion, quite lower than the GDP in the US which is $11.75 trillion.

That's why it's worth a story!
Their GDP per capita is much lower than ours, however, they manage to have more highspeed internet access than us.

Use your brain, for once, for chriiss sake.

From http://www.citypopulation.de/China.html , here are the estimated populations of the five largest cities in China as of 12-31-2001:
Shanghai: 9,838,400
Beijing: 7,441,000
Tianjin: 5,095,900
Wuhan: 4,488,900
Guangzhou: 4,154,800
Total of these five cities: 36,173,000.

Even if the population of these five cities had doubled in the past four years to 72 million, that would still be less than a quarter of the estimated 295.7 million people in the United States.

Don't forget to take into account land mass. The US is the third largest, while China is the forth largest. With the thought that, the smaller area there is to cover, the easier it is to connect your citizens. So, we have a 14% higher boadband usage AND a larger land mass, therefore, I think we are well not to consider this any pressing news.

Data gathered from:
http://cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/us.h tml
http://cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ch.h tml

Don't forget to take into account land mass. The US is the third largest, while China is the forth largest. With the thought that, the smaller area there is to cover, the easier it is to connect your citizens. So, we have a 14% higher boadband usage AND a larger land mass, therefore, I think we are well not to consider this any pressing news.

Data gathered from:
http://cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/us.h tml
http://cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ch.h tml

Japan actually has a lot of wilderness due to the mountainous terrain. It only has 12.19% arable land, compared to 19.13% in the US and 23.46% in the UK. Most of Japan's population is concentrated in the major metropolitan areas.

Japan actually has a lot of wilderness due to the mountainous terrain. It only has 12.19% arable land, compared to 19.13% in the US and 23.46% in the UK. Most of Japan's population is concentrated in the major metropolitan areas.

Japan actually has a lot of wilderness due to the mountainous terrain. It only has 12.19% arable land, compared to 19.13% in the US and 23.46% in the UK. Most of Japan's population is concentrated in the major metropolitan areas.