The difference here, presumably, is that when Kryotech is selling you an 800MHz Athlon, it's still within AMD's specs. That is, it's not considered overclocked... yet.
I assume you could then go ahead and actually overclock it to... well, who knows to where?
The reason that the G4 is under export control is not because of the core speed of the CPU... it's because of the AltaVec unit inside the package.
The thing that determines whether you're under export control or not is how many operations per second you can do - no, not FLOPS, any operation. The AltaVec is very, very good at doing a particular kind of operation very, very quickly - thus putting the CPU as a whole over the limit.
I couldn't really care less about how fast the transfer rate of a single hard drive is - that's really not the question to be asking when it comes to IDE or SCSI. The question to be asking is, "Do I expect to ever be asking for more than one hard drive access at a time?" Admittedly, I'm definitely a power user - I do a lot of audio and graphics, work, 3-D raytracing, that sort of stuff. But my set of four "puny" little 2 and 4GB SCSI-2 Wide drives, in actual use, will kick the tar out of any single or combination of IDE drives on the market today.
See, the thing is, a single hard drive can't transfer at anything *close to UltraATA/66. Only the fastest two or three drives on the market come anything close even to UltraATA/33. What matters is, with SCSI, all the devices on the chain can share the bus! That means on my system, SCSI ID 0 can be loading WinDoze DLL's, ID 1 can be swapping memory pages, and ID 2 can be doing the Fourier transforms on a 65MB audio file... so what that each drive is only transferring at 8MB/s! On an IDE system, only one device can access the bus at a time, so... everybody else waits. That's one of the big reasons that everybody tells you not to have a CD drive on the same bus as a hard drive; the drive will be sitting around waiting for that darned slow CD.
Okay. Maybe I'm just being overly pessimistic here, but, well, here goes. It doesn't matter. You see, it's distasteful to the human psyche to consider things of this nature. Did anyone else see the online Onion article on Columbine? I think that they're a lot closer to the mark than any of us should feel comfortable with. Face it. The reaction to this has not been "Oh, those kids must have felt terrible!" It's been "We need more security in our schools!" What's worse, the sideline message has, in fact, been a backlash - "See what happens when you let those freaks get out of line?" I'm in Boulder - a whopping twenty miles from Columbine - and people are already forgetting. I know this because it's safe for me to go out on the streets in my leathers or my black wool cloak again, without fear of the "norms" starting something. If it was that bad in tolerant Boulder, I shudder to think of what it was like elsewhere. People forget. They don't want to remember. It's unpleasant to dwell on as soon as it's no longer the day's soap opera, the current bit of scandal for them to dwell on. And yes, as has already been pointed out, the United States is very hardset in its violent ways. We haven't yet given up on racism, and those are people who are only visibly different. People who are psychologically very different - that's a much greater hurdle, one that I'm not sure I have the faith in humanity to overcome. As my SO put it to one of her very Christian cow-orkers, "You should be glad that they wear that funny makeup and paint their nails weird colors. Otherwise, they could be right there... among you... without you even knowing..." Bah. I'm going back to work before I get any more disgusted with humanity...
Fuzzy little muppets?!? Didn't you ever watch the Muppet Show - or, for that matter, the movies? Those "fuzzy little muppets" were pretty twisted, man... come to think of it, it seems somehow ironic that Kermit would be promoting a chip that would probably block his own shows and movies. After all, lessee here... Animal was a womanizer and a drug addict (hard drugs here, people), Kermit... well... I seem to recall a very tongue-in-cheek movie line about "bring home the bacon"... and I guess I don't even need to mention Crazy Harry or the fish guy (whose name I can't recall right now).
I know that at some point, I've seen at least one VCR that had a feature that while recording, it would parse the codes in the extreme-overscan area and pause the tape during commercials.
Thus, a recorded tape with no commercials...
Admittedly, it didn't work too well if the station didn't leave a couple of seconds between the end of the ad and the return to the show - it took it a second to restart recording. That, certainly, is one place that the TiVo would win.
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I assume you could then go ahead and actually overclock it to... well, who knows to where?
The thing that determines whether you're under export control or not is how many operations per second you can do - no, not FLOPS, any operation. The AltaVec is very, very good at doing a particular kind of operation very, very quickly - thus putting the CPU as a whole over the limit.
I couldn't really care less about how fast the transfer rate of a single hard drive is - that's really not the question to be asking when it comes to IDE or SCSI.
The question to be asking is, "Do I expect to ever be asking for more than one hard drive access at a time?"
Admittedly, I'm definitely a power user - I do a lot of audio and graphics, work, 3-D raytracing, that sort of stuff. But my set of four "puny" little 2 and 4GB SCSI-2 Wide drives, in actual use, will kick the tar out of any single or combination of IDE drives on the market today.
See, the thing is, a single hard drive can't transfer at anything *close to UltraATA/66. Only the fastest two or three drives on the market come anything close even to UltraATA/33. What matters is, with SCSI, all the devices on the chain can share the bus! That means on my system, SCSI ID 0 can be loading WinDoze DLL's, ID 1 can be swapping memory pages, and ID 2 can be doing the Fourier transforms on a 65MB audio file... so what that each drive is only transferring at 8MB/s! On an IDE system, only one device can access the bus at a time, so... everybody else waits. That's one of the big reasons that everybody tells you not to have a CD drive on the same bus as a hard drive; the drive will be sitting around waiting for that darned slow CD.
Okay. Maybe I'm just being overly pessimistic here, but, well, here goes. It doesn't matter. You see, it's distasteful to the human psyche to consider things of this nature. Did anyone else see the online Onion article on Columbine? I think that they're a lot closer to the mark than any of us should feel comfortable with. Face it. The reaction to this has not been "Oh, those kids must have felt terrible!" It's been "We need more security in our schools!" What's worse, the sideline message has, in fact, been a backlash - "See what happens when you let those freaks get out of line?" I'm in Boulder - a whopping twenty miles from Columbine - and people are already forgetting. I know this because it's safe for me to go out on the streets in my leathers or my black wool cloak again, without fear of the "norms" starting something. If it was that bad in tolerant Boulder, I shudder to think of what it was like elsewhere. People forget. They don't want to remember. It's unpleasant to dwell on as soon as it's no longer the day's soap opera, the current bit of scandal for them to dwell on. And yes, as has already been pointed out, the United States is very hardset in its violent ways. We haven't yet given up on racism, and those are people who are only visibly different. People who are psychologically very different - that's a much greater hurdle, one that I'm not sure I have the faith in humanity to overcome. As my SO put it to one of her very Christian cow-orkers, "You should be glad that they wear that funny makeup and paint their nails weird colors. Otherwise, they could be right there... among you... without you even knowing..." Bah. I'm going back to work before I get any more disgusted with humanity...
Fuzzy little muppets?!? Didn't you ever watch the Muppet Show - or, for that matter, the movies? Those "fuzzy little muppets" were pretty twisted, man... come to think of it, it seems somehow ironic that Kermit would be promoting a chip that would probably block his own shows and movies. After all, lessee here... Animal was a womanizer and a drug addict (hard drugs here, people), Kermit... well... I seem to recall a very tongue-in-cheek movie line about "bring home the bacon"... and I guess I don't even need to mention Crazy Harry or the fish guy (whose name I can't recall right now).
Sure. So then, if you're a censoring organization, you just ban a) all pages that contain no rating, or b) all redirectors.
I know that at some point, I've seen at least one VCR that had a feature that while recording, it would parse the codes in the extreme-overscan area and pause the tape during commercials.
Thus, a recorded tape with no commercials...
Admittedly, it didn't work too well if the station didn't leave a couple of seconds between the end of the ad and the return to the show - it took it a second to restart recording. That, certainly, is one place that the TiVo would win.