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Theres also Schwans they are all over, a few bucks more. They also have allot of butchers who will deliver meat if you buy in bulk, and its cheaper than the stores.
Myself, I prefer costco(warehouse store). You buy in bulk, but the cost is about 30% cheaper than the stores. Buy an executive account, and you get 2% of your money back at the end of the year.
An example, Milk is 3.60 at the normal store (3.99 online order), its 1.99 a gallon at the quickie mart, at costco its 2 for 2.70. I have a family of 6, and we drink almost a gallon of milk every 1-2 days, need to shop and save money. - Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have. - Ernest Haskins
..It's almost easier to put picoGUI into a new OS rather than trying to make it replace X in Linux/BSD/UNIX.
No matter what OS you want to develop for, you need good development tools, and knowledge about the OS. Linux/BSD are perfect for this. I dont blame Xfree for the problems in X, driver support is what makes it suck.
Saw a neat program that allows you pop yahoo email for free. Yahoo Pops opensource, windows and linux source. This program converts your pop email to webemail, you point your email client to it, and it then goes to the website and pulls/posts your email.
Neat idea. Thou I wonder what happens if they change the look of the website. (OR if its CGI based.) - The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced. - Vic Gold
There is an annual minimum royalty of $500, which means that the smallest of small webcasters may not be able to afford it.
Put up paypal, 50 bux a month and your covered. Of course better switch to peercast so your bandwidth doesnt run up your expenses (which they can charge 7% if expenses are larger)
BTW, people over at Nectarine have been able to get enough donations to pay for bandwidth. They are even testing OGG streaming (less bandwidth than mp3s)
Actually, it is p2p, if you are the DJ, you only need 1 (perfect world) stream out. Then another person connects and shares your stream out while listening. Thus spreading your music out, increasing with each additional user. If you have the bandwidth, you can stream multiple channels of the same content increasing the user availability of it. (64k in, 128K out, you now doubled the stream)
BTW, that woxy.com radio on peercast is rather good, listened to it the other day on a 64k ogg stream, awesome.
Unless the user is firewalled, or is using NAT. I'll be glad when they can force people to share so leeches cant abuse the system.
BTW, dont use 128K mp3, use 64K ogg, just as good, 1/2 the bandwidth. Also peercast supports ogg metadata, if your on ISDN(or idsl) you can actually listen to CD quality streaming music without pauses. Very cool.
Judging by your opinons i'd say you dont have children.
I have 4 children, and they each have Internet access.
OF course its using a squid proxy server, nat'ed and IPfiltered to block all ports. I have a deny list and an approved list of URLS they can goto. They also use a kid protected email client (web based) that filters out addresses, phone numbers and some key words.
When the kids are about 12 or so, Ill start to loosen the restrictions. I have v-chip on my tvs, and restrict some channels on thier profiles, and block anything above PG. (I had to block MSNBC also, it was for thier own good.)
I really dont want them seeing goatse.cx pics, but they see and hear enough from school as it is. We spend most of our time de-programming them from DARE and other Political Correctness garbage. I want too homeschool them, but both me and my wife work.
Oh yea, reason for having 4 kids, Your own lan party anytime you want. (-;
Wow, these "RF Pipes" will work great on this device I've been working on "RF Pipe Junction" you hook all these RF Pipes into this box and they can all see each other, and to top it off, it closes the end of the pipe so no sniffing!
Well, actually until the hardware vendors support linux as they do windows, X11 will be behind the times. My box is a gaming/work box, so I have to dual boot.
New gfx cards are hardly supported by Xfree, and even the CVS takes a while to catch up. And (OpenGL/DRM/etc) takes longer for X11.
I dont even consider X usable on the network, tightvnc or remote desktop does a better job at that.
Can you run visual basic scripts on Evolution mail on exchange? (Or some other scripting language)
One of the things I do when my email gets too big, run a vb script that saves all attachments. Then deletes the attachment from the email. I can take a 100meg folder and reduce it to 5 megs. Currently I have a few mailing lists and that plus normal work email its easy to get about 30 megs of email a day. (hourly statistics, office docs, etc)
Can you administrate permissions on your outlook folders and mailing lists with evolution mail? (exchange compatible question again)
We have a few emailing lists for vendors/interal departments/etc, and I need to be able to add/remove them. Also we give permission to our folders when we are on vacation, so people can scan for any customer who emailed us directly without going to the correct support email address. (Ya, customers would never do that would they?)
Rich format or just html for email?
I know when I'm trying to work with someone its nice to highlight some instructions in yellow, or key parts. Rich Text is very handy for that. I guess html would be ok, but I tend to stay away from that in outlook.
Meeting options?
I saw the screenshot of the meeting availability option, does that work with exchange's availability meeting info?
Netmeeting (for meetings)
Some of our meetings are spread around the US, so we use netmeeting so people can watch the powerpoint slideshow. Also a few of us can work on a document at the same time, or watch someone give a demo. All the netmeeting info is included in the email, the user just has to click and view. (That is still confusing for some people...)
Recall emails.
Can you recall an email after you sent it? I see people doing that all the time, i normally turn it off so they cant recall and hide the evidence.:>
PST files.
I'm currently using office undervmware. But I share my configs/rules/etc on a windows share, so I can boot into winxp when I want the extra speed (laptops are slow..), when I need to work on very large excel spreadsheets.
Hell, one of the reasonsI can use Koffice/OO/SO is sometimes they use =hex2dec office addins, or other nonstandard stuff. - You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun. - Al Capone (1899 - 1947)
What about networking? Most MS-DOS networking was really butt-ugly.
I posted a comment about Barts network boot disk, thought I'd add some info, he currently supports most nic cards and tcp-ip and netbios, even ssh/scp. SSH supports all visual modes, so VI and screen works prefectly. Barts gives you an nice gfx gui to setup tcp/ip with a dhcp option, cant get much easier than that. It even saves your settings on the boot floppy in a config file.
If you use barts boot disk (dos), you can have a floppy install that will will load tcpip and an ssh client. I dont have anything slower than a 486, which was 25 bux at a used hardware shop. Makes a great terminal box.
While Wolfenstien has good single player mode, q3 based games seem to feel the same for multiplayer. Not sure if Doom3 will offer good multiplayer value, but the leaked alpha was not inspiring at all. Also someone needs to come up with some better netcode for Q3 based games, MOHAA is a bandwidth hog taking 2x the bandwidth compared to Wolf.
Tribes1 and CounterStrike seem to offer some great multiplayer fun, UT2k3 offers lots of eye-candy, but is a little weak on a heavy player map. Thou bombing run is pretty fun.
I'm still playing CS, with 6x AA and 16X AF, it looks freaking awesome. Too bad trueform doesnt seem to work in CS (1.5 has trueform) Just need some more detailed skins to top it off.
I have friends overseas who pay little (5-25 bux) for high speed dsl, the catch is, they only get about 20 gigs of transfers included.
Really, for 25 bux you cant expect a T1 for that price. I pay 102 bux for a 144K line, thats a little more than market price for that portion of a T1. I'm running the sys-admin package from covad that allows me to run servers, unfiltered, extra ips, unlimited transfer cap. Checking dslreports you could buy service that is market value. A 768/768 business dsl for servers for about 150-200 bux a month, a 1500/1500 for 450, or a 7000/1500 for 1500 a month.
Its strange, some ISPs will try sell you a 56K frame relay for 200 bux a month, while you can get full T1 for 600 with unlimited transfers from others. I once had a 10mbit line for 3500 a month with unlimited transfer charges. You can chop that up and resell it, and make a nice profit.
Really what we need is tiered pricing that each level has unlimited transfer charge. Then the people who want really high speed transfers will pay for it. Look at how many people upgraded to higher speeds on cable modems, lots of people want high speed and will pay for it.
Which do you think it's wrong to steal a computer from your neighbor or from a Best Buy? Best Buy is a big company and they make money but do you go in and shoplift?
Come on who the fuck do you think your preaching too? Most people know the difference between right and wrong. Does calling everyone who downloads an MP3 a criminal make you feel superior? Go check out Mp3.com and check out the number one MP3, its EMINEM, and its LEGAL to download. The RIAA would have you believe if you download mp3s makes you a criminal, and you seem to agree. Your brainwashed.
A guest worship leader at church with some AWESOME songs also had CD's he was selling so he can continue his ministry.
How would I know about his CDs, I dont attend your chuch. Maybe finding it on a p2p search. And if I liked it, I would buy it, or if the P2P allowed purchase of the music, he would of made money.
Also, the RIAA ain't stupid. They are promoting what is selling... unfortunately there's a lot of CRAP out there. If you don't buy that crap, maybe just maybe the RIAA might promote something you like to listen to.
And how are you suppose to listen to something new if the RIAA kills the only publicly controlled media distribution? You cant, this is where p2p is so important. RIAA could be making a killing on P2P, but they would rather sue everyone on earth.
The RIAA is killing all competition, and the CD manufacturers are buying the RIAA party line that all users are criminals.
I still find it funny, that I work for a telco, and 75% of the people in my group dont have high speed DSL. And we live in a major metro area.
Seems the local telco's wanted to save money so they ran thin copper that cant handle DSL very well, NOBODY has DSL. The local cable company went digital, but would have to spend a hefty chuck of change to upgrade everybody. And all the new housing complexes are wired in the wrong direction, so they are either too far from the CO they are on (and live 1 block from the CO that serves another area) or the area has fiber.
I find it amusing all these Hi-Speed news stories, when there are millions in the larger metro areas that have to use dialup. Hell, my area along there are around 200+ idsl subscribers, everyone has idsl (144k), when lucky people get 2mbit xdsl for the same price.
I hope some new technologies come out that helps everyone get hi-speed broadband, maybe it will rub off in the cities.
That's the problem. You "Music Sharing" people think your doing the world a favor. I don't care how you state it....sharing music online via Kazaaa or whatever is wrong if it's copyrighted music. You have no principles.
Blanket statements about principles for a group of people shows a sign arrogance, not all criminals are morally wrong.
Most of p2p'ers know its wrong to download (some) music with p2p programs. But its almost like a robinhood effect, stealing from evil, is not evil... The RIAA is a bloated fat fuck of a company that could care less about the artists or the consumers, they want total control and will do everything short of killing people to control it. (I'm sure they would kill too, if it they could get away with it, maybe after they buy some more congresscritters.)
I buy cd's of music I like, and the RIAA seems to be controlling what I get to hear. The only other alternatives for me to listen to new types music, on uncontrolled RIAA media is p2p and streaming music (shoutcast/etc).
There is SO much music out there, so many genres, so many languages. P2P opens up unlimited new music to experience.
- "In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." -Desiderius Erasmus
Because, as was mentioned multiple times, the point of the benchmarks wasn't to compare video cards (as had been done multiple times before in previous reviews) but to compare single versus dual monitors.
But he did compare benchmarks in many FPS's. The 9700 will have faster dual video gaming than the 9000.
The NT line of windows has been great workstations with multimonitor support. I'm not sure why you think it sucks for a desktop, but for a plain desktop (not games) there are hardly any features you want that these new gfx cards dont supply. Plus there are tweaks and registry edits to fix most of the little forgotten problems out.
And NOT EVERYONE puts their second monitor to the right of the first one.
All 3 cards show will let you arrange your monitor to the left/right/top, you just need to select the dual monitor and select orientation.
The biggest things that ATI doesnt have in its control panel that Nvidia does.
1. Color Brilliance enhancer, I just turn up the RGB on the ATI, but the NVIDIA control panel makes it easier.
2. 16bit AA modes, the ATI decided to turn off AntiAliasing in 16 bit modes, bad for some flight sims and multiplayer games. CounterStrike can run in 32 bit mode (+32bpp) so you can get the AA goodness.
But the TV/monitor selector is very easy to use and is laid out correctly. They beat Nvidia on this point. And with the dual 400mhz RAMDAC's expect some execellent output from the ATIs.
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Theres also Schwans they are all over, a few bucks more. They also have allot of butchers who will deliver meat if you buy in bulk, and its cheaper than the stores.
Myself, I prefer costco(warehouse store). You buy in bulk, but the cost is about 30% cheaper than the stores. Buy an executive account, and you get 2% of your money back at the end of the year.
An example, Milk is 3.60 at the normal store (3.99 online order), its 1.99 a gallon at the quickie mart, at costco its 2 for 2.70. I have a family of 6, and we drink almost a gallon of milk every 1-2 days, need to shop and save money.
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Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have. - Ernest Haskins
..It's almost easier to put picoGUI into a new OS rather than trying to make it replace X in Linux/BSD/UNIX.
No matter what OS you want to develop for, you need good development tools, and knowledge about the OS. Linux/BSD are perfect for this. I dont blame Xfree for the problems in X, driver support is what makes it suck.
Saw a neat program that allows you pop yahoo email for free. Yahoo Pops opensource, windows and linux source. This program converts your pop email to webemail, you point your email client to it, and it then goes to the website and pulls/posts your email.
Neat idea. Thou I wonder what happens if they change the look of the website. (OR if its CGI based.)
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The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced. - Vic Gold
You only mentioned that she did not call to thank you.. Did she at least pay you for your time?
Payment is the thank you for doing work. You didnt work for free in the past, why would you start now?
There is an annual minimum royalty of $500, which means that the smallest of small webcasters may not be able to afford it.
Put up paypal, 50 bux a month and your covered. Of course better switch to peercast so your bandwidth doesnt run up your expenses (which they can charge 7% if expenses are larger)
BTW, people over at Nectarine have been able to get enough donations to pay for bandwidth. They are even testing OGG streaming (less bandwidth than mp3s)
Where is the IRS in all this shit? How many billions of dollars are lost due to this enron math.
I'm sure we will never know, with all the kick backs, ops, pac money donations are clouding elected officals.
Actually, it is p2p, if you are the DJ, you only need 1 (perfect world) stream out. Then another person connects and shares your stream out while listening. Thus spreading your music out, increasing with each additional user. If you have the bandwidth, you can stream multiple channels of the same content increasing the user availability of it. (64k in, 128K out, you now doubled the stream)
BTW, that woxy.com radio on peercast is rather good, listened to it the other day on a 64k ogg stream, awesome.
Unless the user is firewalled, or is using NAT. I'll be glad when they can force people to share so leeches cant abuse the system.
BTW, dont use 128K mp3, use 64K ogg, just as good, 1/2 the bandwidth. Also peercast supports ogg metadata, if your on ISDN(or idsl) you can actually listen to CD quality streaming music without pauses. Very cool.
Judging by your opinons i'd say you dont have children.
I have 4 children, and they each have Internet access.
OF course its using a squid proxy server, nat'ed and IPfiltered to block all ports. I have a deny list and an approved list of URLS they can goto. They also use a kid protected email client (web based) that filters out addresses, phone numbers and some key words.
When the kids are about 12 or so, Ill start to loosen the restrictions. I have v-chip on my tvs, and restrict some channels on thier profiles, and block anything above PG. (I had to block MSNBC also, it was for thier own good.)
I really dont want them seeing goatse.cx pics, but they see and hear enough from school as it is. We spend most of our time de-programming them from DARE and other Political Correctness garbage. I want too homeschool them, but both me and my wife work.
Oh yea, reason for having 4 kids, Your own lan party anytime you want. (-;
Wow, these "RF Pipes" will work great on this device I've been working on "RF Pipe Junction" you hook all these RF Pipes into this box and they can all see each other, and to top it off, it closes the end of the pipe so no sniffing!
I think you are on to something!
Well, actually until the hardware vendors support linux as they do windows, X11 will be behind the times. My box is a gaming/work box, so I have to dual boot.
New gfx cards are hardly supported by Xfree, and even the CVS takes a while to catch up. And (OpenGL/DRM/etc) takes longer for X11.
I dont even consider X usable on the network, tightvnc or remote desktop does a better job at that.
Can you run visual basic scripts on Evolution mail on exchange? (Or some other scripting language)
:>
One of the things I do when my email gets too big, run a vb script that saves all attachments. Then deletes the attachment from the email. I can take a 100meg folder and reduce it to 5 megs. Currently I have a few mailing lists and that plus normal work email its easy to get about 30 megs of email a day. (hourly statistics, office docs, etc)
Can you administrate permissions on your outlook folders and mailing lists with evolution mail? (exchange compatible question again)
We have a few emailing lists for vendors/interal departments/etc, and I need to be able to add/remove them.
Also we give permission to our folders when we are on vacation, so people can scan for any customer who emailed us directly without going to the correct support email address. (Ya, customers would never do that would they?)
Rich format or just html for email?
I know when I'm trying to work with someone its nice to highlight some instructions in yellow, or key parts. Rich Text is very handy for that. I guess html would be ok, but I tend to stay away from that in outlook.
Meeting options?
I saw the screenshot of the meeting availability option, does that work with exchange's availability meeting info?
Netmeeting (for meetings)
Some of our meetings are spread around the US, so we use netmeeting so people can watch the powerpoint slideshow. Also a few of us can work on a document at the same time, or watch someone give a demo. All the netmeeting info is included in the email, the user just has to click and view. (That is still confusing for some people...)
Recall emails.
Can you recall an email after you sent it? I see people doing that all the time, i normally turn it off so they cant recall and hide the evidence.
PST files.
I'm currently using office undervmware. But I share my configs/rules/etc on a windows share, so I can boot into winxp when I want the extra speed (laptops are slow..), when I need to work on very large excel spreadsheets.
Hell, one of the reasonsI can use Koffice/OO/SO is sometimes they use =hex2dec office addins, or other nonstandard stuff.
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You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun. - Al Capone (1899 - 1947)
ya, but people are left to write thier own netcode. And nobody can seem to come up with a standard for cheat protection.
What about networking? Most MS-DOS networking was really butt-ugly.
I posted a comment about Barts network boot disk, thought I'd add some info, he currently supports most nic cards and tcp-ip and netbios, even ssh/scp. SSH supports all visual modes, so VI and screen works prefectly. Barts gives you an nice gfx gui to setup tcp/ip with a dhcp option, cant get much easier than that. It even saves your settings on the boot floppy in a config file.
If you use barts boot disk (dos), you can have a floppy install that will will load tcpip and an ssh client. I dont have anything slower than a 486, which was 25 bux at a used hardware shop. Makes a great terminal box.
While Wolfenstien has good single player mode, q3 based games seem to feel the same for multiplayer. Not sure if Doom3 will offer good multiplayer value, but the leaked alpha was not inspiring at all. Also someone needs to come up with some better netcode for Q3 based games, MOHAA is a bandwidth hog taking 2x the bandwidth compared to Wolf.
Tribes1 and CounterStrike seem to offer some great multiplayer fun, UT2k3 offers lots of eye-candy, but is a little weak on a heavy player map. Thou bombing run is pretty fun.
I'm still playing CS, with 6x AA and 16X AF, it looks freaking awesome. Too bad trueform doesnt seem to work in CS (1.5 has trueform) Just need some more detailed skins to top it off.
I have friends overseas who pay little (5-25 bux) for high speed dsl, the catch is, they only get about 20 gigs of transfers included.
Really, for 25 bux you cant expect a T1 for that price. I pay 102 bux for a 144K line, thats a little more than market price for that portion of a T1. I'm running the sys-admin package from covad that allows me to run servers, unfiltered, extra ips, unlimited transfer cap. Checking dslreports you could buy service that is market value. A 768/768 business dsl for servers for about 150-200 bux a month, a 1500/1500 for 450, or a 7000/1500 for 1500 a month.
Its strange, some ISPs will try sell you a 56K frame relay for 200 bux a month, while you can get full T1 for 600 with unlimited transfers from others. I once had a 10mbit line for 3500 a month with unlimited transfer charges. You can chop that up and resell it, and make a nice profit.
Really what we need is tiered pricing that each level has unlimited transfer charge. Then the people who want really high speed transfers will pay for it. Look at how many people upgraded to higher speeds on cable modems, lots of people want high speed and will pay for it.
Which do you think it's wrong to steal a computer from your neighbor or from a Best Buy? Best Buy is a big company and they make money but do you go in and shoplift?
Come on who the fuck do you think your preaching too? Most people know the difference between right and wrong. Does calling everyone who downloads an MP3 a criminal make you feel superior? Go check out Mp3.com and check out the number one MP3, its EMINEM, and its LEGAL to download. The RIAA would have you believe if you download mp3s makes you a criminal, and you seem to agree. Your brainwashed.
A guest worship leader at church with some AWESOME songs also had CD's he was selling so he can continue his ministry.
How would I know about his CDs, I dont attend your chuch. Maybe finding it on a p2p search. And if I liked it, I would buy it, or if the P2P allowed purchase of the music, he would of made money.
Also, the RIAA ain't stupid. They are promoting what is selling... unfortunately there's a lot of CRAP out there. If you don't buy that crap, maybe just maybe the RIAA might promote something you like to listen to.
And how are you suppose to listen to something new if the RIAA kills the only publicly controlled media distribution? You cant, this is where p2p is so important. RIAA could be making a killing on P2P, but they would rather sue everyone on earth.
The RIAA is killing all competition, and the CD manufacturers are buying the RIAA party line that all users are criminals.
I still find it funny, that I work for a telco, and 75% of the people in my group dont have high speed DSL. And we live in a major metro area.
Seems the local telco's wanted to save money so they ran thin copper that cant handle DSL very well, NOBODY has DSL. The local cable company went digital, but would have to spend a hefty chuck of change to upgrade everybody. And all the new housing complexes are wired in the wrong direction, so they are either too far from the CO they are on (and live 1 block from the CO that serves another area) or the area has fiber.
I find it amusing all these Hi-Speed news stories, when there are millions in the larger metro areas that have to use dialup. Hell, my area along there are around 200+ idsl subscribers, everyone has idsl (144k), when lucky people get 2mbit xdsl for the same price.
I hope some new technologies come out that helps everyone get hi-speed broadband, maybe it will rub off in the cities.
That's the problem. You "Music Sharing" people think your doing the world a favor. I don't care how you state it....sharing music online via Kazaaa or whatever is wrong if it's copyrighted music. You have no principles.
Blanket statements about principles for a group of people shows a sign arrogance, not all criminals are morally wrong.
Most of p2p'ers know its wrong to download (some) music with p2p programs. But its almost like a robinhood effect, stealing from evil, is not evil... The RIAA is a bloated fat fuck of a company that could care less about the artists or the consumers, they want total control and will do everything short of killing people to control it. (I'm sure they would kill too, if it they could get away with it, maybe after they buy some more congresscritters.)
I buy cd's of music I like, and the RIAA seems to be controlling what I get to hear. The only other alternatives for me to listen to new types music, on uncontrolled RIAA media is p2p and streaming music (shoutcast/etc).
There is SO much music out there, so many genres, so many languages. P2P opens up unlimited new music to experience.
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"In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." -Desiderius Erasmus
Isnt the VE the 7000 chipset? I was talking about the 9000/9700.
Because, as was mentioned multiple times, the point of the benchmarks wasn't to compare video cards (as had been done multiple times before in previous reviews) but to compare single versus dual monitors.
But he did compare benchmarks in many FPS's. The 9700 will have faster dual video gaming than the 9000.
I mean, Windows sucks...
The NT line of windows has been great workstations with multimonitor support. I'm not sure why you think it sucks for a desktop, but for a plain desktop (not games) there are hardly any features you want that these new gfx cards dont supply. Plus there are tweaks and registry edits to fix most of the little forgotten problems out.
And NOT EVERYONE puts their second monitor to the right of the first one.
All 3 cards show will let you arrange your monitor to the left/right/top, you just need to select the dual monitor and select orientation.
For XP you can get Microsoft Powertoys Virtual Desktop manager for free also.
IF you turn on all the screen wipes and gfx goodies, you need a very fast cpu and gfx card thou. Its fairly quick if you turn all eye-candy off.
The biggest things that ATI doesnt have in its control panel that Nvidia does.
1. Color Brilliance enhancer, I just turn up the RGB on the ATI, but the NVIDIA control panel makes it easier.
2. 16bit AA modes, the ATI decided to turn off AntiAliasing in 16 bit modes, bad for some flight sims and multiplayer games. CounterStrike can run in 32 bit mode (+32bpp) so you can get the AA goodness.
But the TV/monitor selector is very easy to use and is laid out correctly. They beat Nvidia on this point. And with the dual 400mhz RAMDAC's expect some execellent output from the ATIs.