Posts by Lars

Re: Is this an EU or Europe thing ?

About the EuroHPC.

"Public members

As of January 2020, public members of the Joint Undertaking include, the European Union (represented by the European Commission), 26 of the 27 EU Member States (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden), and five non-EU associated states of the EU's Horizon 2020 programme (North Macedonia, Norway, Montenegro, Switzerland, and Turkey).

Other EU Member States or countries associated to Horizon 2020 are able to become members, provided that they accept the Statutes and financially contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the Joint Undertaking.

Observer states

Malta has been given "observer" status for the EuroHPC JU, allowing it to participate in deliberations of the Governing Board, but not receive a vote.[28][29] The United Kingdom lost its observer status following its departure from the EU on 31 January 2020.

Re: Is this an EU or Europe thing ?

The first grant agreement is implemented under the European Commission program Horizon 2020 (FPA: 800928) in the December 2018 to November 2021 time span. The second agreement will be implemented afterwards under the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking which issued a call answered to in January 2021 by the same consortium (H2020-JTI-EuroHPC-2020-02 FPA in EPI (phase II)).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Processor_Initiative

"the 'alternative' OS has a market penetration".

It's not only phones and stuff like that.

All the TOP500 supercomputers run Linux like all those big guys like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Ebay, the Stock exchange run on Linux simply most of the Webb.

But on the desktop it's is still Windows because that is what they sell to consumers or it's Apple in an Apple shop.

What people working at Google and similar have in front of them is still probably Windows.

Re: millipede

@HildyJ

We actually use decimal time like for instance nanosecond and millisecond.

Re: millipede

I am glad they got into the act like 16 other countries.

"The Metre Convention (French: Convention du Mètre), also known as the Treaty of the Metre,[1] is an international treaty that was signed in Paris on 20 May 1875 by representatives of 17 nations (Argentina, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden and Norway, Switzerland, Ottoman Empire, United States of America, and Venezuela).".

Spot the missing country and then give a word to explain the reason for that.

Re: The first is such a nice word.

@Yes Me

"Zuse did not know about Turing machines until after WW II".

What the hell has that to do with anything.

Do you think we would have no computers today had Turing never been born or that Zuse needed to know about Turing to design his computers.

Re: Zuse, Binary Numbers

@fg_swe

This story is about the LEO and the year 1951 and I have no doubt computers were in commercial use then not only in Germany too.

Re: first launchers gear up for a historic blast-off?

@Mage

The main contributors to ESA are:

France 26.9 %

Germany 21.1 %

Italy 13.7 %

Britain 9.5 %

Spain 5.1 %

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Space_Agency

"The EU member states provide most of ESA's funding, and they are all either full ESA members or observers."

"Some 20 per cent of the funds managed by ESA now originate from the supranational budget of the European Union. In recent years the ties between ESA and the European institutions have been reinforced by the increasing role that space plays in supporting Europe's social, political and economic policies. ".

Re: first launchers gear up for a historic blast-off?

@Mage

Nice it wasn't the French or the Russians though.

Re: Dan Dare

@Yet Another Anonymous coward

You have some kind of, sadly fairly common, mental sickness regarding the French, sad.

Yes, they beat Britain in aeronautics and they are still miles ahead, still second only to the USA.

Get over it, the first flight across the channel was from France to Britain.

As for the Hermes project.

"When both Russia and ESA joined up with NASA to build the International Space Station, the immediate need for a European crew transport system disappeared as both Russia and the USA had existing capabilities that did not need expansion. Accordingly, ESA decided to abandon the Hermes project. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes_(spacecraft)

And indeed frogs reached space a long time ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcFiE9EeSOw

When a man walks down the street constantly wanking publicly people in the end start to consider him a rather odd piece of shit.

I would claim it's rather thousands of small satellites that is thinking cheap and small.

@itsborken

Yes, but there are "buts", our capacity to send up big stuff is rather limited compared to what we can build on ground.

Compare to this telescope for instance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvjhldjESGo&t=76s

The World's Biggest Optical Telescope, the Extremely Large Telescope

Re: Get rid of the religious exemption.

On Aspirin.

"Medicines made from willow and other salicylate-rich plants appear in clay tablets from ancient Sumer as well as the Ebers Papyrus from ancient Egypt.[11]: 8–13 [18] Hippocrates referred to the use of salicylic tea to reduce fevers around 400 BC, and willow bark preparations were part of the pharmacopoeia of Western medicine in classical antiquity and the Middle Ages.[18] Willow bark extract became recognized for its specific effects on fever, pain, and inflammation in the mid-eighteenth century.[61] By the nineteenth century, pharmacists were experimenting with and prescribing a variety of chemicals related to salicylic acid, the active component of willow extract.[11]: 46–55

Old package. "Export from Germany is prohibited"

In 1853, chemist Charles Frédéric Gerhardt treated sodium salicylate with acetyl chloride to produce acetylsalicylic acid for the first time;[11]: 46–48 in the second half of the 19th century, other academic chemists established the compound's chemical structure and devised more efficient methods of synthesis. In 1897, scientists at the drug and dye firm Bayer began investigating acetylsalicylic acid as a less-irritating replacement for standard common salicylate medicines, and identified a new way to synthesize it.[11]: 69–75 By 1899, Bayer had dubbed this drug Aspirin and was selling it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspirin#History

Re: Get rid of the religious exemption.

Do you actually know or do you just think.

Re: The medical powerhouse that is CISCO...

"Vaccines do not and have never conferred 100% protection to the entire population."

Not quite true as there is so far one.

"From 1958 to 1977, the World Health Organization conducted a global vaccination campaign that eradicated smallpox, making it the only human disease to be eradicated. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox_vaccine

Re: Get rid of the religious exemption.

"And since natural immunity is WAY better than the jab"

Yes that is silly. We got rid of smallpox because we had a vaccine and we used it for many many years.

Without a vaccine and vaccination we would never have gotten rid of it.

Some of it from the Wikipedia.

"The first hemisphere-wide effort to eradicate smallpox was made in 1950 by the Pan American Health Organization.[107] The campaign was successful in eliminating smallpox from all countries of the Americas except Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Ecuador.[106] In 1958 Professor Viktor Zhdanov, Deputy Minister of Health for the USSR, called on the World Health Assembly to undertake a global initiative to eradicate smallpox.[108] The proposal (Resolution WHA11.54) was accepted in 1959.[108] At this point, 2 million people were dying from smallpox every year. "

When I as 16, a long time ago, wanted to be a merchant sailor for a summer I had to have my jab or stay ashore.

Re: Get rid of the religious exemption.

@Pirate Dave

Reading about Georgia we find this:

"Georgia has administered at least one dose to 6,062,599 people,

covering 60.8% of the eligible population, 12 and older...

and 57.1% of the state’s entire population.

At least 5,141,539 people have been fully vaccinated.".

But the Total reported cases per 100k U.S. overall is 13,867 while it's 15,433 in Georgia.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/health/covid-vaccine-states-distribution-doses/

Re: The medical powerhouse that is CISCO...

@MJI

I copy/paste part of that text here as I know that there a those who find it too hard work to have a read at something behind a link like that,

"Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said he decided against taking funding from the US government's Operation Warp Speed for the development of the vaccine "because I wanted to liberate our scientists [from] any bureaucracy that comes with having to give reports and agree how we are going to spend the money in parallel or together, etc." Pfizer did enter into an agreement with the US for the eventual distribution of the vaccine, as with other countries."

And as for that money try the link here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer%E2%80%93BioNTech_COVID-19_vaccine#Funding

Re: now even the latest can understand

"EVERY Cisco employee on planet Earth will need to be vaccinated".

I am fully with you there.

Re: The medical powerhouse that is CISCO...

Oh Please bombastic bob.

You cannot believe that anybody could take that Trump claim seriously. The vaccines were developed in several countries totally regardless of any Trump, including in the USA.

Best you can say about Trump is that he did not manage to destroy that too.

A race to develop a vaccine started the second that virus was found.

The reason it took, what ever time it took, is that the type of virus is known to us and there is a lot of money to be made with that vaccine.

For Americans I would rather name the virus the Trump Virus than the vaccine anything Trump for how poorly you have managed.

Or you could of course share it with Britain and call it the Trump-Boris Virus.

Re: Get rid of the religious exemption.

Re"There are a handful of religions".

I don't think there is really any need to call them "religions".

Re: Negotiating...

It's not all about Turkey as a country and a people it's a lot about a "feeling" that the EU is simply not ready for any expansion just now and it's a lot about Erdogan alone.

Re: British institutions are left high and dry

@codejunky

Poland is perfectly free to leave the EU, but the majority of Poles don't want to leave and I doubt the government wants to leave either.

@Phil O'Sophical

"The paternalist "daddy knows best" way the EU is run, where we're supposed to accept that the state knows best and just do what we're told, is not good for growth and innovation."

You must know how childish you claim is, I hope.

Re: Negotiating...

@Xalran

You do forget EFTA.

"The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) is a regional trade organization and free trade area consisting of four European states: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland.[4] The organization operates in parallel with the European Union (EU), and all four member states participate in the European Single Market and are part of the Schengen Area.[5] They are not, however, party to the European Union Customs Union.

EFTA was historically one of the two dominant western European trade blocs, but is now much smaller and closely associated with its historical competitor, the European Union. It was established on 3 May 1960 to serve as an alternative trade bloc for those European states that were unable or unwilling to join the then European Economic Community (EEC), the main predecessor of the EU. The Stockholm Convention (1960), to establish the EFTA, was signed on 4 January 1960 in the Swedish capital by seven countries (known as the "outer seven": Austria, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom).[6] A revised Convention, the Vaduz Convention, was signed on 21 June 2001 and entered into force on 1 June 2002.[7]

Since 1995, only two founding members remain, namely Norway and Switzerland. The other five, Austria, Denmark, Portugal, Sweden and the United Kingdom, had joined the EU at some point in the intervening years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Free_Trade_Association

And they pay for the advantages they have.