Did you have your 14 ramen yet?
“As of 2008, global consumption of instant ramen reached 94 billion packages per year — that’s an average of fourteen bowls per person.”
(Source: Gizmodo)
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several cities with more than 1 mio inhabitants
Tokyo 34,300,000
Canton 25,100,000
Seoul 24,600,000
Delhi 24,100,000
Bombay 23,500,000
Mexico City 22,900,000
New York 22,000,000
São Paulo 20,800,000
Manila 20,200,000
Jakarta 18,800,000
Shanghai 18,800,000
Los Angeles 18,000,000
Karachi 16,900,000
Osaka 16,800,000
Calcutta 16,700,000
Cairo 15,400,000
Buenos Aires 14,800,000
Moscow 14,800,000
Dacca 14,100,000
Beijing 14,000,000
Tehran 13,200,000
Istanbul 13,000,000
Rio de Janeiro 12,600,000
London 12,500,000
Lagos 12,200,000
Paris 10,500,000
Chicago 9,700,000
Shenzhen 9,500,000
Bangkok 9,450,000
Kinshasa 9,250,000
Wuhan 9,250,000
Lima 9,200,000
Bogotá 8,950,000
Lahore 8,850,000
Taipei 8,800,000
Washington 8,550,000
Tientsin 8,500,000
Nagoya 8,400,000
Madras 8,350,000
Bangalore 8,050,000
Hyderabad 7,750,000
Johannesburg 7,750,000
Saigon 7,550,000
San Francisco 7,500,000
Boston 7,400,000
Hong Kong 7,100,000
Shenyang 6,900,000
Dallas 6,650,000
Chungking 6,550,000
Philadelphia 6,550,000
Baghdad 6,500,000
Madrid 6,500,000
Kuala Lumpur 6,350,000
Singapore 6,350,000
Ahmedabad 6,100,000
Houston 6,100,000
Santiago 6,050,000
Sian 6,000,000
Chengtu 5,800,000
Toronto 5,800,000
Belo Horizonte 5,750,000
Riyadh 5,600,000
Miami 5,600,000
Atlanta 5,550,000
Detroit 5,500,000
Khartoum 4,975,000
Poona 4,975,000
Nanking 4,925,000
Rangoon 4,875,000
Chittagong 4,800,000
St. Petersburg 4,775,000
Shantou 4,775,000
Guadalajara 4,725,000
Alexandria 4,700,000
The Ruhr 4,650,000
Sydney 4,650,000
Milan 4,575,000
Abidjan 4,525,000
Barcelona 4,500,000
Harbin 4,500,000
Caracas 4,425,000
Surat 4,400,000
Monterrey 4,375,000
Berlin 4,325,000
Phoenix 4,300,000
Ankara 4,250,000
Hangchou 4,175,000
Melbourne 4,150,000
Naples 4,150,000
Porto Alegre 4,125,000
Seattle 4,100,000
Casablanca 4,050,000
Brasília 3,950,000
Cape Town 3,925,000
Tsingtao 3,925,000
Montreal 3,900,000
Recife 3,900,000
Athens 3,775,000
Kanpur 3,775,000
Fortaleza 3,750,000
Durban 3,725,000
Accra 3,700,000
Salvador 3,675,000
Pusan 3,650,000
Medellín 3,650,000
Jidda 3,625,000
Nairobi 3,600,000
Changchun 3,550,000
Dairen 3,550,000
Kano 3,500,000
Minneapolis 3,500,000
Lyallpur 3,475,000
Ibadan 3,475,000
Jinan 3,475,000
Jaipur 3,400,000
Santo Domingo 3,375,000
Dar es Salaam 3,350,000
Rawalpindi 3,350,000
Curitiba 3,325,000
Damascus 3,325,000
Kunming 3,300,000
Rome 3,300,000
Taiyuan 3,300,000
Algiers 3,250,000
Kiev 3,225,000
Luanda 3,225,000
Zhengzhou 3,225,000
Addis Abeba 3,200,000
Fuzhou 3,200,000
Denver 3,125,000
San Diego 3,125,000
Amman 3,075,000
Bandung 3,075,000
Kabul 3,075,000
Lucknow 3,050,000
Campinas 2,975,000
Harare 2,975,000
Nagpur 2,900,000
Rotterdam 2,900,000
Surabaya 2,875,000
Izmir 2,850,000
Puebla 2,850,000
Cali 2,825,000
Changsha 2,825,000
St. Louis 2,825,000
Tampa 2,825,000
Cleveland 2,775,000
Kaohsiung 2,775,000
Meshed 2,775,000
Orlando 2,775,000
Dakar 2,750,000
Guatemala City 2,725,000
Aleppo 2,725,000
Pyongyang 2,700,000
Medan 2,675,000
Birmingham 2,650,000
Colombo 2,650,000
Wenzhou 2,650,000
Taegu 2,625,000
Hanoi 2,625,000
Hamburg 2,625,000
Manchester 2,625,000
Patna 2,625,000
Shijiazhuang 2,625,000
Pretoria 2,600,000
Suzhou 2,600,000
Lisbon 2,575,000
San Juan 2,550,000
Sapporo 2,550,000
Zibo 2,550,000
Budapest 2,525,000
Cebu 2,525,000
Port-au-Prince 2,500,000
Fukuoka 2,450,000
Guiyang 2,450,000
Katowice 2,450,000
Urumqi 2,450,000
Douala 2,425,000
Tashkent 2,425,000
Vancouver 2,425,000
Lanzhou 2,375,000
Tunis 2,375,000
Pittsburgh 2,350,000
Sacramento 2,350,000
Tel Aviv-Jaffa 2,350,000
Guayaquil 2,325,000
Yaoundé 2,325,000
Anshan 2,300,000
Hofei 2,275,000
Quanzhou 2,275,000
Taichung 2,275,000
Wuxi 2,275,000
Asunción 2,250,000
Leeds 2,250,000
Nanchang 2,250,000
Portland 2,250,000
Sanaa 2,250,000
Bhilai 2,225,000
Havana 2,225,000
Warsaw 2,225,000
Ningbo 2,200,000
San Antonio 2,200,000
Belém 2,175,000
Cincinnati 2,150,000
Goiânia 2,150,000
Nanning 2,150,000
Isfahan 2,125,000
Gujranwala 2,125,000
Brisbane 2,100,000
Hyderabad 2,100,000
Dammam 2,075,000
Bucharest 2,075,000
Kampala 2,075,000
Lusaka 2,075,000
Stockholm 2,075,000
Kansas City 2,050,000
Indore 2,025,000
Munich 2,025,000
Vadodara 2,025,000
Vienna 2,025,000
Bamako 2,000,000
Las Vegas 2,000,000
Tangshan 2,000,000
Indianapolis 1,990,000
Stuttgart 1,980,000
Xiamen 1,980,000
Amsterdam 1,970,000
Bhopal 1,970,000
Coimbatore 1,970,000
Maputo 1,970,000
La Paz 1,950,000
Maracaibo 1,950,000
Baku 1,940,000
Frankfurt 1,940,000
Jilin 1,940,000
Rabat 1,930,000
Toluca 1,930,000
Tananarive 1,920,000
Multan 1,920,000
Kuwait City 1,910,000
Brussels 1,910,000
Barranquilla 1,900,000
Cologne 1,900,000
Ludhiana 1,880,000
Manaus 1,880,000
Agra 1,860,000
Columbus 1,860,000
Minsk 1,860,000
Hiroshima 1,850,000
Changzhou 1,830,000
Tijuana 1,830,000
Charlotte 1,810,000
Huizhou 1,800,000
Santa Cruz 1,800,000
Baotou 1,790,000
Ouagadougou 1,790,000
Bursa 1,780,000
Valencia 1,780,000
Austin 1,770,000
Vitória 1,770,000
Milwaukee 1,760,000
Nizhniy Novgorod 1,760,000
San Salvador 1,760,000
Santos 1,760,000
Cochin 1,750,000
Montevideo 1,750,000
Nasik 1,750,000
Perth 1,740,000
Asansol 1,730,000
Meerut 1,730,000
Vishakhapatnam 1,730,000
Bhubaneswar 1,720,000
Conakry 1,710,000
Kaduna 1,710,000
Salt Lake City 1,700,000
Kumasi 1,690,000
León 1,690,000
Turin 1,690,000
Chandigarh 1,680,000
Raleigh 1,680,000
Valencia 1,680,000
Virginia Beach 1,680,000
Xuzhou 1,680,000
Peshawar 1,670,000
Dubai 1,640,000
Mecca 1,640,000
Quito 1,640,000
Alma-Ata 1,630,000
Brazzaville 1,630,000
Lubumbashi 1,630,000
Gaza 1,620,000
Nashville 1,620,000
Semarang 1,610,000
Belgrade 1,600,000
Adana 1,590,000
Kharkov 1,590,000
Luoyang 1,590,000
Mbuji-Mayi 1,590,000
Yantai 1,590,000
Qiqihar 1,580,000
Kitakyushu 1,570,000
Lomé 1,570,000
Phnom Penh 1,560,000
Sendai 1,560,000
Kolhapur 1,550,000
Mogadishu 1,550,000
Taizhou 1,550,000
Benares 1,550,000
Mosul 1,540,000
Kwangju 1,540,000
Liuzhou 1,540,000
Kathmandu 1,530,000
Khulna 1,530,000
Tabriz 1,530,000
Weifang 1,530,000
Buffalo 1,510,000
Taejon 1,510,000
Yangzhou 1,510,000
Huainan 1,500,000
Yekaterinburg 1,500,000
Palembang 1,500,000
Zhuhai 1,500,000
Doha 1,490,000
Córdoba 1,490,000
Xiangfan 1,490,000
Davao 1,480,000
San José 1,480,000
Lyon 1,470,000
Marseille 1,470,000
Rajkot 1,470,000
Jamshedpur 1,460,000
Novosibirsk 1,460,000
Ciudad Juárez 1,450,000
Donetsk 1,450,000
Glasgow 1,430,000
Linyi 1,430,000
Copenhagen 1,420,000
Louisville 1,420,000
Okayama 1,420,000
Amritsar 1,400,000
Madurai 1,400,000
Makassar 1,400,000
Dhanbad 1,390,000
George Town 1,390,000
Jabalpur 1,390,000
Prague 1,390,000
Auckland 1,380,000
Greensboro 1,370,000
Jacksonville 1,370,000
Daqing 1,360,000
Dnepropetrovsk 1,360,000
São Luís 1,360,000
Volgograd 1,360,000
Liverpool 1,350,000
Gaziantep 1,340,000
Sevilla 1,340,000
Shiraz 1,340,000
Memphis 1,330,000
Sheffield 1,330,000
Allahabad 1,310,000
Huhehot 1,310,000
Beirut 1,300,000
Natal 1,300,000
Aurangabad 1,300,000
Vijayawada 1,300,000
Rosario 1,290,000
Basra 1,280,000
Chelyabinsk 1,280,000
Panama City 1,280,000
Haikou 1,280,000
Oran 1,280,000
Richmond 1,280,000
Tainan 1,280,000
Benin City 1,270,000
Calgary 1,270,000
Datong 1,270,000
Niamey 1,270,000
Oklahoma City 1,270,000
Port Harcourt 1,270,000
Samara 1,270,000
Torreón 1,270,000
Cixi 1,260,000
Sofia 1,260,000
Srinagar 1,260,000
Manama 1,250,000
Freetown 1,250,000
Mannheim 1,250,000
Ottawa 1,250,000
Lille 1,240,000
Maracay 1,240,000
Porto 1,240,000
Mudanjiang 1,230,000
Tripoli 1,230,000
Yerevan 1,230,000
Barquisimeto 1,220,000
Dusseldorf 1,220,000
Grand Rapids 1,220,000
Hartford 1,220,000
Tbilisi 1,220,000
Adelaide 1,210,000
Maceió 1,210,000
Sholapur 1,210,000
Ash-Shariqah 1,200,000
Edmonton 1,200,000
Cartagena 1,190,000
Cotonou 1,190,000
Managua 1,190,000
Ranchi 1,190,000
Rostov-na-Donu 1,190,000
New Orleans 1,180,000
Zurich 1,180,000
Medina 1,160,000
Joinville 1,160,000
Monrovia 1,160,000
Hamamatsu 1,150,000
Naha 1,150,000
Querétaro 1,150,000
Yiwu 1,150,000
Zhanjiang 1,150,000
Birmingham 1,140,000
Kazan 1,140,000
Trivandrum 1,140,000
Ulsan 1,140,000
Fes 1,130,000
Himeji 1,130,000
Maiduguri 1,130,000
Tai’an 1,130,000
Ulan Bator 1,130,000
Yancheng 1,130,000
Greenville 1,120,000
Gauhati 1,120,000
Helsinki 1,120,000
Jodhpur 1,120,000
Omsk 1,120,000
Bucaramanga 1,110,000
Cochabamba 1,110,000
João Pessoa 1,110,000
Kumamoto 1,110,000
Newcastle upon Tyne 1,110,000
Valparaíso 1,110,000
Ahvaz 1,100,000
Dublin 1,100,000
Fresno 1,100,000
Jixi 1,100,000
Baoding 1,090,000
Changwon 1,090,000
Ndjamena 1,090,000
Bulawayo 1,080,000
Pingdingshan 1,080,000
Port Elizabeth 1,080,000
San Luis Potosí 1,080,000
Xining 1,080,000
Jining 1,070,000
Odessa 1,070,000
Qom 1,070,000
Saratov 1,070,000
Tiruchirappalli 1,070,000
Yichang 1,070,000
Zaozhuang 1,070,000
Gwalior 1,060,000
Mandalay 1,060,000
Nuremberg 1,060,000
Rochester 1,060,000
Zhangjiakou 1,060,000
Florianópolis 1,050,000
Yueyang 1,050,000
Zaria 1,050,000
Guilin 1,040,000
Konya 1,040,000
Perm 1,040,000
Ufa 1,040,000
Zhuzhou 1,040,000
Ashgabat 1,030,000
Shaoxing 1,030,000
Tegucigalpa 1,030,000
Huai’an 1,020,000
Calicut 1,020,000
Quetta 1,020,000
Batam 1,010,000
Mérida 1,010,000
Albany 1,000,000
Hengyang 1,000,000
Krasnoyarsk 1,000,000
Yangjiang 1,000,000
(according to http://www.citypopulation.de/world/Agglomerations.html)
Mother of all Steckdosenleisten (http://www.lidl.de/cps/rde/xchg/lidl_de/hs.xsl/index_21140.htm)
“
Sexual intercourse began
In nineteen sixty-three
(which was rather late for me) -
Between the end of the Chatterley ban
And the Beatles’ first LP.
Up to then there’d only been
A sort of bargaining,
A wrangle for the ring,
A shame that started at sixteen
And spread to everything.
Then all at once the quarrel sank:
Everyone felt the same,
And every life became
A brilliant breaking of the bank,
A quite unlosable game.
So life was never better than
In nineteen sixty-three
(Though just too late for me) -
Between the end of the Chatterley ban
And the Beatles’ first LP.
Motorcycle cop
Top 100 brands 2010
- IBM
- Apple
- Microsoft
- Coca-Cola
- McDonald’s
- Marlboro
- China Mobile
- GE
- Vodafone
- ICBC
- HP
- Walmart
- BlackBerry
- Amazon
- UPS
- Tesco
- Visa
- Oracle
- Verizon Wireless
- SAP
- AT&T
- HSBC
- Bank of China
- BMW
- Toyota
- China Construction Bank
- Gillette
- Louis Vuitton
- Wells Fargo
- Santander
- Nintendo
- Pampers
- BP
- Cisco
- RBC
- Bank of America
- Budweiser
- ExxonMobil
- Shell
- Disney
- Carrefour
- Nokia
- Accenture
- ICICI
- Honda
- Colgate
- Intel
- L’Oréal
- Orange
- PetroChina
- American Express
- Mercedes
- Citi
- T-Mobile
- BBVA
- NTT DoCoMo
- Pepsi
- Nike
- Movistar
- Chase
- Target
- H&M
- Subway
- Porsche
- Dell
- MasterCard
- Samsung
- Telcel
- O2
- TD
- MTS
- Petrobras
- FedEx
- Baidu
- Ebay
- Siemens
- Goldman Sachs
- Wrigley’s
- Zara
- Home Depot
- Red Bull
- Aldi
- Nissan
- Starbucks
- Hermès
- Barclays
- US Bank
- Standard Chartered
- China Merchants Bank
- State Farm
- Beeline
- JP Morgan
- Sony
- Morgan Stanley
- Auchan
- Gucci
- Bradesco
- Avon
- Tim
(via http://www.millwardbrown.com/Sites/mbOptimor/Ideas/BrandZTop100/BrandZTop100.aspx)
Algorithms for the Ages
Top ten algorithms:
- 1946: The Metropolis Algorithm for Monte Carlo. Through the use of random processes, this algorithm offers an efficient way to stumble toward answers to problems that are too complicated to solve exactly.
- 1947: Simplex Method for Linear Programming. An elegant solution to a common problem in planning and decision-making.
- 1950: Krylov Subspace Iteration Method. A technique for rapidly solving the linear equations that abound in scientific computation.
- 1951: The Decompositional Approach to Matrix Computations. A suite of techniques for numerical linear algebra.
- 1957: The Fortran Optimizing Compiler. Turns high-level code into efficient computer-readable code.
- 1959: QR Algorithm for Computing Eigenvalues. Another crucial matrix operation made swift and practical.
- 1962: Quicksort Algorithms for Sorting. For the efficient handling of large databases.
- 1965: Fast Fourier Transform. Perhaps the most ubiquitous algorithm in use today, it breaks down waveforms (like sound) into periodic components.
- 1977: Integer Relation Detection. A fast method for spotting simple equations satisfied by collections of seemingly unrelated numbers.
- 1987: Fast Multipole Method. A breakthrough in dealing with the complexity of n-body calculations, applied in problems ranging from celestial mechanics to protein folding.
From: From Random Samples, Science page 799, February 4, 2000. (via http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/~jborwein/algorithms.html)
38 Reasons Why Iron Man is Cooler than Darth Vader
- It didn’t take six movies for Iron Man to kill his evil mentor
- Iron Man’s got way better luck with the ladies
- Iron Man’s armor, you know, does stuff.
- Black Sabbath
- Iron Man has never had a kinda-racist CG sidekick
- Tony Stark eats fast food.
- Darth Vader has never used a foursome as a cover for heroic derring do.
- Iron Man has Paul Bettany whispering into his ear. Darth Vader’s just got a chorus of dead younglings.
- Crazy facial hair.
- Superheroic guinea tee.
- Tony Stark has a chauffeur. Vader’s gotta fly his own TIE fighter.
- Doesn’t breathe funny.
- Tony’s better-looking than Vader, he’s a better dresser than Vader, he had more hair, he told funnier jokes, and he could dance the pants off of Vader!
- Doesn’t remind you of barbecue.
- Tony Stark is not a tool of the government.
- Tony Stark can build his own armor, thankyouverymuch.
- Tony’s parental issues are paternal. Like a man. He’s not a momma’s boy.
- Oh, and Tony is not the result of some bullshit space-bacteria-related immaculate conception.
- Capes suck.
- If you push the buttons on Iron Man’s suit, you’ll probably die. If you push the buttons on Darth Vader’s suit, he’ll probably die.
- Tony surrounds himself with assistants like Gwyneth Paltrow and Scarlet Johansson. Darth’s got Admiral Piett and IG-88.
- Darth’s spaceship has a big barometric-chamber sphere for him to rest in. Tony’s private jet has a stripper pole. And strippers.
- Someday, a woman will be Iron Man’s downfall. But it won’t be because she’s a dutiful wife and expectant mother.
- “Noooooooooooooo!”
- Sam Jackson hasn’t tried to kill Tony Stark. Yet.
- Vader’s finest forces got their asses kicked by stuffed animals. That always bears repeating.
- Tony Stark’s best friend is a suave black dude. Vader’s best friend is a craggly bald dude.
- Tony’s got a number of suits of armor. Vader’s only got the one…which, let’s be honest, probably smells a bit.
- When Tony’s done with a suit of armor, he shares it with his friends. Rolling with Tony is profitable.
- Tony can make it rain, bitches.
- Tony Stark doesn’t “swan.”
- When Tony designs an artificial intelligence, it’s not annoying as shit. That’s right, C-3PO, I’m talking about you.
- Iron Man can fly. At best, Vader simply falls with style.
- AC/DC
- Tony Stark drinks. To excess, sure, but he’s a fun drunk.
- Tony has a thing for redheads. Which is never a bad thing. Darth Vader has a thing for…um…well…genocide?
- Iron Man’s boots shoot nuclear fire. NUCLEAR FIRE!
- Darth Vader has a pink lightsaber. Oh, he’d have you think it’s red. But it’s pink.
from: http://io9.com/5527652/38-reasons-why-iron-man-is-cooler-than-darth-vader
