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- Anrkist, on 10/11/2007, -4/+65The more people using the computer = less people getting laid and procreating.
- Damovisa, on 10/11/2007, -0/+24Hahaha, silly... the Internet doesn't have facts!
- blubloblu, on 10/11/2007, -1/+24ipv6 needed soon
- p0tent1al, on 10/11/2007, -2/+21The more people using the computer = the more people PROPERLY informed about the world.
Because see, while the majority of the public likes to watch TV and likes other people telling them what their opinions should be, I use the internet and form my own opinion based on the facts. - dilibau, on 10/11/2007, -0/+18wow, the Internet population is growing pretty fast. but I wonder how many of those newbiez are using dial-up...
- hfactor, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17It would be awesome if in 2015, 50% of the world´s population had enough to eat and access to medication. Internet access? Ridiculous.
- FiP0, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16that's a fact.
- sail191912, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13I still get a number of forwarded emails about Microsoft giving away $10k for every forwarded email from people who have been using the Internet for a few years.
A number of people using the Internet still don't filter the information that they receive. Some people I know, who have been using the Internet for a while, still think 'if it's on the Internet, then it must be true'.
Same way of thinking as the TV-loving masses, different source of information. - krolm, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10I'm cool with the growth as long as it doesn't hinder my ability to download porn.
- Stonekeeper, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7This graph is inversely proportional to the amount of AMD customers, unless they fix their damn ATI drivers...
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5by country? for a more interesting info, check out the internet penetration statistics:
http://www.internetworldstats.com/top25.htm - unsolicited, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5I can bet that half the planet will be connected well before 2015.
- dstz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5"First World lifestyle (as opposed to a Third World lifestyle)"
You may have your vision of the world kind of blown away like mine did here:
"Talks // Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen"
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/92
and then
http://tools.google.com/gapminder/ - dstz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5http://tools.google.com/gapminder/
- shortarabguy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5And all of them are ruining our internet by being new here and not knowing the rules of the internet...
"gtfo," "gb2 the stone age," etc...
Really though... That's pretty fast growth in my opinion... It's at least 2 new users per second, right? I honestly didn't think that people would still be flooding online that quickly after all this time. - dstz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Then you haven't read how modern communication tools enable some African fishermen to sell their stuff where there is demand instead of letting it rot and staying poor, etc. Cell phones and Internet are powerful tools even for the less fortuned.
- NSMike, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Dear god, am I the only one who thought 8 billion people by 2030 is pretty damned frightening?
- wallyhartshorn, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I'm curious how realistic this is, particularly the goal for 2030, which looks to be about 75%. Does anyone know what percentage of the population lives what we would call a First World lifestyle (as opposed to a Third World lifestyle)? Is it more than 50%? What percentage of the world does not have consistent access to electricity, telephones, clean water, etc?
How sustainable is it to have the infrastructure needed to put that many people on the Internet? By "infrastructure", I'm not talking about Internet infrastructure (IPV6 and so forth); I'm talking about all of the other things you need before getting access to the Internet is plausible -- a way to generate and distribute electricity, a way to manufacture/import and distribute computers, a way to dispose of all of the waste generated by a First World lifestyle, etc.
Basically, I'm wondering about the issues discussed in Jared Diamond's book "Collapse". - Nossie, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2grrrr wrong place
- sam991, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Eternal September.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_september - awesty, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I didn't realize so many people didn't have access to the internet.
It's amazing to watch how many people are being born each second though. - unangst, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2AMD - Proud sponsors of people spending money on more computers... worldwide.
- BillyWells, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2When half of the world is able to connect through the Internet, I don't know, it just sounds crazy. It'll be interesting.
- DrawingTheSun, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1So does he tell you that you should believe in TV instead? Is he a goat?
- EXreaction, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Go say that kind of crap in all the Apple threads...you'll get your head chopped off...I'll laugh.
- EXreaction, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1ATI isn't useless.
Even an nVidia fanboy can't say that. At the very least they bring some competition to the market, could you imagine where we'd be today if nVidia was the only gpu manufacturer? I'll tell you it certainly wouldn't be a better place. - KMye, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1half of all digg comments make me want to cry lately...
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1This is a good a place as any to ask this question: If digg is so popular, why is the highest number of diggs for a story that I can recall around 10,000? Even when you are generous and double the numbers for potential buries, 20K people on a story seems light.
Either not that many people use digg, or the percentage of people who click on a button is small compared to those who read but do not. - chix0r, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1that's a lot of perverts!
- numberwang, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1http://digg.com/users/tomboy501/news/submitted
No. - KMye, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Internet access doesn't have to be in a cushy first-world setting to be useful. Internet cafes and libraries, or other public access points can still provide people with great benefits even if not allowing for the moment-to-moment integration w/life many of us are accustomed to.
- idc5, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1this is great! more people to send out my e-mail to:
"Subsequently, an internal audit was carried out with the Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) only to discover the sum of
$62,000,000.00 in their account as an
unclaimed payment due to foreign contractors." - eryx, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1It can only be a good thing to have more people on the Internet, regardless of the motivation of AMD.
- hotdrop, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1So about a quarter of the population will be using the internet for legitimate purposes and the other qarter will be running scams, botnets and preying on the legitimate quarter. We already saw what happens when you get internet in countries like Nigeria were just going to see more of that as its becomes more avalible.
- SomaSynth, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Not to rain on your argument, but 50% of the world's population at the very least does have enough to eat. Whatever it is you've heard, it's not only Americans that are 'properly' fed.
- Stevethegreat, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Which means -according to that logic- that about noone should/would be procreated in Western world by today. Sorry to break it to you, but only/just 1% of those using a Computers are nerds.
- gamche, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I'm guessing your still on dial-up or something close to it don't worry you don't need to be defensive about it.
- Nossie, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1lol how weird... did the same up a bit.... :-|
- Murdats, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1tell him you shouldnt believe /anything/ you read.
if you want to gain more then a passing knowledge on something, research multiple sources and come to your own judgement.
otherwise if you just want a brief overview of a topic, well wiki is good enough :) - codyfrisch, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1The Internet is not a right, nor a privledge, its a tool. As such if you can't afford to buy tools you don't have them. Yeah its unfortunate there is inequality in the world. But look at the soviet union, government control, and socialism are not the answer to making things equal. Let the market do it. If the companies can find a way to make money they will, and will bring internet to the masses. If the governments do it, its just going to be a mess like Russia was.
I could care less about equality, fairness is what matters. Don't punish others to make others equal, as long as I'm not purposefully holding them down, and everyone has a fair chance to succeed if they chose to, then I don't care of someone is poor. I'll help them out myself but don't compel me to do so using government force. - neversat, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1AMD's 50X15 project is a joke. AMD thought that their cheap Personal Internet Communicator (PIC) would catch on in the third world. The reality is, the PIC sucked and it is not even being made anymore. Pretty graph AMD, but you have no plan whatsoever to get half the world's population online. We will have to wait until 2030 unless the One Laptop Per Child program picks up the slack.
- DrawingTheSun, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1wrong place, damn comment system
- Gir9000, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1This is dumb and a waste of bandwidth. No wonder AMD is going under.... They should have never bought ATI.
- fermi, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0Amen, dstz----history shows that good, fast communications does as much to improve people's lives as almost any other single factor. It's part of that whole "teach a man to fish" thing.
- dillibob, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1man united states have more internet users than all those countries total population. no wonder most of the sites on the net are U.S.
- dillibob, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1thats because ati is useless. go with nvidia
- dillibob, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1not if wanna actually watch videos
- numberwang, on 10/11/2007, -4/+0Well, if you listened to my ICT teacher, you'd believe that.
He keeps saying how you can't believe /anything/ you read on the internet. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -6/+1ooh how unexpected. something being on the rise rises faster than something else. how unpredictable.
- stewie814, on 10/11/2007, -6/+1this is just an ad for amd. NOT DIGGWORTHY!! most likely posted by someone at amd.
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