Towards a New Europe (part 1 in the New Europe series)

Europe is failing. The Greek credit crisis and the current refugee problem underline that the European project is stalling to the point where it is at risk of failing altogether. I think that the solution is the finalisation of the project. In this post I will explain why I think this is the case and how I plan to explain my solution. Continue reading

Papertrain 4ever!

I just love the ability to just pull up documents and notices without having to start up a computer. The more I think of it, the more I think that the whole ‘paperless’ movement is a sham funded by the IT sector. It is much less robust, unless you spend hundreds or thousans of Euros on proper backups and maintenance of these facilities.

Intel’s new lineup of CPUs extremely disappointing

Lately, CPU’s made by intel have been ever more disappointing. Intel has focussed on power rather than performance since it’s broadwell architecture. As a performance user, this means that I have to make some decisions I don’t like. The question boils down to the question: “Do I pick processing power over features, or do I need the features instead?”

Intel’s latests lineup, Skylake, is even more of a disappointment than Haswell-E was. The top base clock frequency has actually gone down and performance per clock isn’t terribly impressive if I look at the reviews.

The same is true for many core CPU’s as well. The TDP is king. IF you want a CPU with more cores, you automatically have to accept a lower max CPU base frequency. There really isn’t a need for this. We had CPU’s with higher TDPs in the past, so there’s no limit for current gen CPU’s if TDP is the problem.

Please Intel, make us something nice and speedy again! (preferably something with a 4.5+GHz base frequency and 6 or 8 cores with ECC support and an unlocked multiplier)

TTIP must die

From what I’ve been hearing, TTIP seems to be a pretty bad deal for the EU. I fail to see why we should enter in an agreement which will cost us more than it will deliver us. This is especially true for IT related matters, such as privacy related matters. It will effectively enforce the more lax US law on the EU. I’m not at all eager to let that happen.