100 Websites To See Before You Die (Part 1) - Page 1. Here at Maximum PC, we've always done our fair share of website recommendation articles--including a couple of doozies from the past few years.
And of course we're not the only ones who do this sort of article either; it's a proven popular format. But this year, we thought we'd mix things up a little bit. Rather than just focusing on what's services are popular, or which web apps will make you the most productive, we wanted to take a look at what's fun on the Internet. Www.mtrs.co.uk/subscriptions/Downloads/iaw toolbox/virtual keyboard.swf. Decapitate animals. Earth vs. Funk. World Population Clock. This page will only work with a graphical browser implementing Javascript 3.0 or higher.
It fairly accurately clocks the current population and reflects its growth using a second-order approximation of the exponential; in addition, if you enter a date in any form Javascript will accept and hit the "Do this time" button, it will use its magic formula to estimate the population for any date from 1900 to 2100, although the estimates become unreliable outside the range 1950 to 2050. Use the "Un/Freeze" button to "freeze" the clock at a certain time while it is ticking, or to resume it ticking with the present population after you have frozen it or asked for an estimate. Those familiar with the earlier version will note that the range in which the new version gives reasonable estimates has increased considerably. It is of some interest to note that this approximation predicts that the population will start decreasing before the end of the 21st century. The raw data is from the U.S.