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Ossi was the youngest of six children born to Roman Catholic Gypsies who traveled in a family wagon. Their caravan spent winters in Vienna, Austria's capital, and summers in the Austrian countryside. The Stojkas belonged to a tribe of Gypsies called the Lowara Roma, who made their living as itinerant horse traders. Ossi's ancestors had lived in Austria for more than 200 years.
1933-39: Ossi was 2 years old when Germany annexed Austriain March 1938. The Stojka family wagon was parked for the winter in a Vienna campground when the Germans marched in. They ordered the Gypsies to stay put. The Stojkas had to convert their wagon into a wooden house and had to adjust to staying in one place.
1940-44: Gypsies were forced to register as members of a different "race." When Ossi was 5, the Germans took away his father. Next, they took his sister, Kathi. Finally, Ossi and the rest of his family were deported to a Nazi camp in Birkenau for Gypsies. There was very little to eat, mostly turnips. Little Ossi fell ill with typhus, and was taken to the barracks for sick prisoners. The infirmary was often referred to by prisoners as the "antechamber of the crematoria."
Ossi was given no medical treatment in the infirmary, and died of typhus and malnutrition. He was 7 years old.
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There's so much going on in Talk and the comments week to week that we almost can't keep up. If you're in the same boat, here's a small selection of topics and responses that have piqued our interest this week.
Using Ground Turkey
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ASUS MeMO Pad HD7 Review: $149 Nexus 7.1 Successor & Our First Look at MediaTek's MT8125by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/29/2013 3:55 PM EST
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n0b0dykn0ws - Monday, July 29, 2013 - linkGiven the MicroSD card slot I would highly consider getting one of these and using it for on the go media, especially for the kids. Reply
YaBaBom - Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - link+1 for kids... Especially since this tablet actually outlasts the Nexus 7 in the 3D tests--i.e. gaming. Seems like a pretty well balanced tablet. Reply
synaesthetic - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkShame the 8GB model isn't available in the US. >< I would love to have the 8GB model and throw a bigass sdcard in it, then fill it full of movies. Reply
anxyandy - Thursday, August 08, 2013 - linkHmm, I think the SD card is the only advantage over the Nexus 7! I would just pay the tiny bit extra, for what is one of the best tablets on the market!!!
Have a look:
Direct updates by OS vendor Yes vs No It can be updated directly by the OS vendor, so no need to wait until the manufacturer or network provider releases an update.
Significantly higher pixel density 323 ppi vs 216 ppi 49.54% higher pixel density.
Reasonably more RAM memory 2 GB vs 1 GB 1 GB more RAM memory.
Lots narrower 114 mm vs 120.6 mm 6.60 mm narrower.
Thinner 8.65 mm vs 10.8 mm 2.15 mm thinner.
Much faster CPU clock speed 4 x 1.5 GHz vs 4 x 1.2 GHz 25% faster CPU clock speed.
Has NFC Yes vs No Near-field-communication (NFC) allows wireless transactions like payments.
Wireless charging Yes vs No It can be charged w/o any plugs and wires similar to electric shavers or toothbrushes (as extra).
Source; http://versus.com/en/asus-memo-pad-hd7-vs-google-n... Reply
BryanDobbins - Saturday, August 17, 2013 - linkmy buddy's aunt earned $14958 past week. she been working on the laptop and got a $510900 home. All she did was get blessed and put into action the information leaked on this site... http://xurl.es/qa0uk Reply
uhuznaa - Monday, July 29, 2013 - linkDoes the MicroSD slot support SDHX? Or in other words: What size of potential memory expansion are we talking about here? Reply
Death666Angel - Monday, July 29, 2013 - linkFound one guy in a forum saying his 64GB SDXC doesn't work, but he didn't elaborate on the file system used or what didn't work. Reply
gorskiegangsta - Monday, July 29, 2013 - linkI believe SDXC cards use the ExFAT format. Reply
madmilk - Monday, July 29, 2013 - linkMaybe exFAT is the most common, but there's nothing stopping you from formatting an SD card as say, ext4. Reply
hrrmph - Monday, July 29, 2013 - link64GB Micro-SDXC cards from SanDisk come pre-formatted with exFAT.
I can attest that they work fine in a Samsung Note 2 and it's widely published on forums that other Samsung devices work fine with these cards.
The Blackberry Z10, and possibly other BB OS 10 devices, require the card to be reformatted to FAT32. This works fine, except that you are subjected to the 4GB file size limit of FAT32. For most uses this isn't a problem, but if part of your usage scenario is wanting to backup a few large files, in addition to all of the smaller, more typical file sizes that you would normally carry, then the Blackberry isn't the appropriate tool.
Also, you cannot then swap Micro-SDXC cards between a Blackberry device and a device that uses the more modern exFAT file system. For example, lets say you shot photos and video using a Z10 and saved it on the Micro-SDXC card in the required FAT32 format. You couldn't then put the card into a more modern tablet's Micro-SDXC exFAT enabled slot to display the photos and video to your friends.
But, if you shoot photos and video on a Samsung device (Note 2, S4, S4 Mini), you could then swap the Micro-SDXC exFAT card over to another device with a Micro-SDXC exFAT enable slot (I believe the Samsung Note 8, Tab 7, and possibly some of the other major name brand soon-to-be-released devices coming out of Asia) to easily display your photos and video to friends and family.
Many of the smaller devices are shooting 1080P video, but I'm not aware of any 7" or 8" tablet with a Micro-SDXC exFAT enabled slot that has the requisite 1080P screen to display the videos in full resolution once the Micro-SDXC card is swapped over to the larger display device.
In addition to capacity expansion, I also find it easier to get files in and out of my devices and PCs quickly with the Micro-SDXC cards.
That is why (for me) it is so frustrating to see Google Asus build such a nice Gen 2 Nexus 7, but leave off the fundamentally important Micro-SDXC slot. My main reason for wanting to replace my Gen 1 Nexus 7 is the lack of a Micro-SDXC slot. The Samsung Note 8 has the slot, but lacks the 1080P display.
Coming back to the Asus HD7, I realize that it is a budget device and makes no attempt to compete at the high end. The screen isn't 1080P for example. But, until we get devices that universally have Micro-SDXC exFAT enabled slots, we are looking at a fragmented market where devices don't inter-operate that well together.
It would be interesting to know what the retail incremental cost of a Micro-SDXC exFAT enabled slot is compared to the cost of a Micro-SDHC slot.
Maybe Asus can't hit their target price on the HD7 with a modern Micro-SDXC slot. Or maybe they are taking a page out of Samsung's book (e.g. S4 Mini) and will under-promise and over-deliver by giving us the more modern slot in the end anyway. Reply
Evil804 - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkhave you looked into the Wifi external drives like the seagate goflex? I've been flirting with the idea of putting my 2012 Nexus 7 in the dash of my car as a Nav/media head unit, and think something like the goflex would be perfect to bring all my music with me and not have to fill up the Tablet's storage. It's a bit pricey, but it seems to be a great option. Reply
hrrmph - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkNope... but it has occurred to me that if they equip more smartphones and tablets with Wi-Fi-AC, and improve Wi-Fi interoperability between devices and PCs, then internal storage capacity concerns could be much alleviated, although not completely done away with.
Wi-Fi, when implemented properly (as in more reliably and more openly so that devices are easier to be found and recognized), could be a winner on all fronts (storage, communications, etc.).
Unfortunately the only Wi-Fi to PC connection I've been able to get working has been the Samsung Kies Air PC client software. It was kludgey at best, and unworkable most of the time, so I just abandoned using it.
For your nav system, you might have better luck. At least you should have a steady power source from the car's electrical system, and therefore the devices' battery discharge times shouldn't be such a big concern. Reply
JayGrip - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkThe nexus 13 has a hotspot built in. Its fast 300 mgs a min. Es file exployer lets start a ftp server. Thats how I get files on my nexus 13 Reply
DanNeely - Monday, July 29, 2013 - linkIn general the forward/backward compatibility requirements in the SD standard mean that larger than standard SD cards should work (SDHC in SD, and SDXC in SDHC slots). If there's a problem out of the box, it's generally that older devices only understand FAT32 while SDXC cards are formatted as exFAT by the factory. This is easy enough to fix yourself assuming you've got a PC with an SD card reader. Reply
Death666Angel - Monday, July 29, 2013 - linkHuh? Since when does the SD standard include backwards forward compatibility of the card readers? I've had plenty of card reads that didn't work with SDHC cards, no matter the file system. If what you are saying was the case, there would be no need for these new standards, as SD card readers would be fine reading up to 32GB and 64GB even.... ? :) Reply
hrrmph - Monday, July 29, 2013 - linkSDXC slots can read the modern SDXC cards as well as the older SDHC and SD cards.
SDHC slots can read the specified SDHC cards and the classic SD cards.
The older slots (such as SD or SDHC) cannot read cards of a newer, more modern standard (such as SDXC). Reply
DanNeely - Monday, July 29, 2013 - linkI've got a cheap SDHC based mediaplayer (Sansa clip zip) happily reading a 64GB SDXC card that I reformatted as FAT32. A year or two ago when most Android phones with a card slot officially topped out at 32GB SDHC, most if not all of them would take 64GB cards if you downformatted them. Except for an occasional device that had a hardcoded limit and threw a snit they almost universally would read the card at full capacity if you formatted it in a way they understood (at the cost of losing SDXC's higher theoretical speed limits).
One ex:
http://androidforums.com/motorola-droid-3/416704-d... Reply
Death666Angel - Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - linkSDXC standard was released before there was wide spread availability of SDXC cards, so most manufacturers said they only support 32GB / SDHC and it was hard for people to test if they supported more. However, just because some of those who said they only are SDHC compatible support SDXC these days does not mean that it is a general rule or that SD reader now support SDHC/SDXC cards as well. And certainly, there is no kind of forward compatibility that is in the SD-standard that I could find. So please don't go about it as if everything supports everything. Reply
hrrmph - Monday, July 29, 2013 - linkSD = 2GB max
SDHC = 32GB max
SDXC = 64GB (current) max, although specification allows up to 2TB
Asus official specs say "Micro-SD up to 32G" which would indicate that they have installed the cheaper, older Micro-SDHC capable slot with the 32GB limit.
The only hope for larger cards here is that they are mistakenly listing the 32GB limit when there might actually be a Micro-SDXC capable slot installed. This happened recently with the Blackberry Z10 and the Samsung Note 8 devices. Both were originally slated to be 32GB max, but actually ended up with the higher capacity Micro-SDXC slots which handled 64GB cards just fine.
It would be very helpful if AT would keep a 64GB Micro-SDXC card available and pop one in and see if it gets recognized when they do device reviews.
An even bigger question is, for those devices that have a Micro-SDXC slot (nearly everything Samsung makes), what happens when the 128GB cards become available? Will it be like hard drives where the device will automatically recognize the larger capacity up to the limits of the specification? If so, then having a Micro-SDXC slot would become very important for people who plan to keep and use their devices for a long time.
https://www.asus.com/Tablets_Mobile/ASUS_MeMO_Pad_... Reply
kmmatney - Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - linkThe SD max is 4GB. I had a 4GB SD card running happily in my original Wii. The 4GB cards were hard to find, but they did work in most older devices.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8... Reply
rabidpeach - Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - linkconsidering sdhx is mostly a microsoft invention, it might not be well supported in the android universe Reply
MonkeyPaw - Monday, July 29, 2013 - linkThe big issue now is that places will be clearing Nexus 7.1 stock out. I already see the 16GB listed for $170 (or less for refurbs). You can get a 32GB N7.1 for $199 at Microcenter. Reply
Death666Angel - Monday, July 29, 2013 - linkI guess people who want the Nexus experience will still get a Nexus, people who want mSD support, a rare facing camera and a lighter chassis will get the HD 7. And other markets are different as well, here in Germany, the N7 2012 is still at the normal prices: 199€ for the 16GB one over the Play Stor, 238€ for the 32GB one at a normal store with the Play Store being 249€. That makes the HD 7 a lot cheaper, white being 139€ and the rest being 149€, that's not much absolutely, but relatively quite the pay up to get an N7. :) Reply
nafhan - Monday, July 29, 2013 - linkSo... unless the MicroSD slot is really important, the best bet for bargain hunters may be to look for a deal on last year's N7. I've seen those hit this price point a few times (new). Reply
blanarahul - Monday, July 29, 2013 - link"Like most other quad-core implementations in Android, I rarely see the fourth core turn on. The first two are frequently active, with clock speeds usually up at 1.2GHz whenever you're doing anything (loading apps, scrolling, etc…). The third core usually plugs in to keep responsiveness up while doing anything more CPU intensive, but that fourth core is almost never plugged."
I would like to ask. Under what conditions does the 4th core get plugged? How many cores ate used while playing games like Modern Combat 4? Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Monday, July 29, 2013 - linkI updated that paragraph a bit to be more specific to the MT8125/MeMO Pad HD7. MC4 tends to use 2 cores from what I've seen:
http://images.anandtech.com/doci/7160/Screenshot_2... Reply
peter23 - Monday, July 29, 2013 - linkMaybe all cores might get used if you're streaming music, downloading a torrent and using the nav all at the same time. All cores could get used if you find a video that can only be decoded in software. I don't use Chrome but maybe each tab also uses a separate process like the desktop one. I sometimes open up multiple tabs right after each other and maybe each core will be used to process each tab. These are all guess because I only have a dual-core phone. Reply
agentsmithitaly - Monday, July 29, 2013 - linkI'm very happy to see only metric measures except screen diagonals, you guys really listen to your audience!
Now what about an Allwinner soc review? Hard to get excited from a performance point of view, but it's amazing to see working 50 $ tablets Reply
abrowne1993 - Monday, July 29, 2013 - linkI feel like there is so much going on in that title. Reply
jjj - Monday, July 29, 2013 - linkYou should try to find and test a product with Rockchip RK3188 , quad A9 on 28nm with just 25mm2 die size - very curious how it performs and at that size it got to be way cheap. Reply
aryonoco - Monday, July 29, 2013 - linkSeconded. Anand, please get your hands on a cheap Chinese tablet with a Rockchip or Allwinner SoC, if only to test their SoC as well... I'm very intrigued with the RK3188, and Rockchip seems to be ARM's launch partner on Cortex A12, so it's good to keep an eye on them. Reply
hip2bsqre - Monday, July 29, 2013 - linkHow would you enable/turn on the GPS?? Reply
hrrmph - Monday, July 29, 2013 - linkOn the Nexus 7 Gen 1 its in Settings... Personal... Location Access... GPS Satellites.
Checking the box allows applications (maps, navigation, etc.) to get your location from the GPS radio receiver. Reply
HideOut - Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - linkI thought it didnt have the gps fully implemented. Can someone clarify? This would be important to me. Tether off of my S4 and use it as a huge GPS screen while I drive. Reply
comomolo - Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - linkAccording to ASUS, this tablet does have GPS support: https://www.asus.com/Tablets_Mobile/ASUS_MeMO_Pad_... Reply
luki442 - Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - linkMemo pad hd 7 support GPS. I have this tablet and confirm Reply
Zibi - Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - linkMine had it enabled by default. It works OK with Mapamap app Reply
hel556 - Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - linkMemo pad hd 7 have GPS and it works very well. Reply
scott.st - Monday, July 29, 2013 - linkIt would be nice to do a comparison to the hisense sero pro. This is the same price and of very similar specs. I'm thinking the hisense will edge it out but it would be an interesting comparison. Reply
Hubb1e - Monday, July 29, 2013 - linkThese things are getting cheap enough and powerful enough for me to post one up at every toilet in my house. Oh yeah! Reply
matt32 - Monday, July 29, 2013 - linkCan you guys run more kinds of WiFi tests on your review devices? Peak throughput is as useful as only showing sequential SSD writes/reads. Can you show how the throughput and latency changes over time especially when there's some sort of interference (ie. microwaves, other WiFi access points, cordless phones, etc.).
All too often my Skype calls and Netflix videos get forced into a lower quality whenever my WiFi gets burps. Depending on the device (ie. single atenna vs 3 antennas), the frequency of my WiFi spazzing vairous. Of course, I get the least amount of issues when connected via Ethernet. Reply
Alexvrb - Monday, July 29, 2013 - linkYeah I don't know what Google's problem is with SD slots. I'd take this thing over the Google-branded hardware. Reply
lightsout565 - Monday, July 29, 2013 - linkVery compelling but I'll wait till prices drop to $100. If someone could only make a decent $100 tablet, that'd almost be in "impulse buy" territory for me. Reply
Bob Todd - Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - linkI think it's worth noting that the price, although higher than the gen one 16GB Nexus 7 has been since before the iPad mini launch, is actually _cheaper_ than that device when it launched a year ago at $250. Getting a 1200p panel that's also higher quality, a much faster SOC, double the RAM (@1600 vs 1333), much faster storage, and bunch of other little things (rear facing camera, wireless charging, etc.) for $20 less than the 16GB N7 debuted with just one year ago is pretty impressive to me.
As for this thing, I actually wish the 8GB model was available here. This looks like the perfect replacement for an old Nook Color that's used to keep a toddler entertained with movies in the car. Especially if it can read SDXC (even if it's the gimped non UHS 1 speed that some devices not rated for SDXC can read them at). Reply
Bob Todd - Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - linkThat should read..."noting that the price of the Nexus 7.2". Reply
Zibi - Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - linkI've just bought one for my father. Pretty decent thing. Unfortunately it hasn't got USB with OTG. During the brief playing with the thing I did not found the option to create user accounts. Reply
SirCanealot - Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - linkSorry for the possibly silly question, but does anyone know what the cpu monitoring tool used in the screen shot in the battery test is? Looks awesome! Reply
skyline159 - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkIt is System Monitor
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.... Reply
randomhkkid - Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - linkGreat article as expected Anand, what is the program you used to overlay the core usage/speed in game? Reply
Shadowmaster625 - Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - linkSo basically this is what we can expect to pick up for $99 during holidays sales. Reply
Qwertilot - Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - linkA bit scary really this. Judged objectively, this thing is a big percentage - 80? - per cent of an ideal small tablet and the new Nexus 7 is a bigger one. Huge improvements would need battery breakthroughs. Yet they're both down at very low prices.
Budget PCs really do seem to have an awful lot further to come. Reply
HighTech4US - Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - linkAnand why on the "ASUS 7-inch Tablet Specification Comparison" chart (or anywhere in the review) are the different sensors each tablet has (or doesn't have) not mentioned?
Because of the lack of complete specifications I have to dig deeper on other sites to get a complete picture of what each Tablet offers. That really shouldn't happen.
Again a lack of sensors, especially GPS really make these lower cost tablets not very useful.
No GPS means NO Google Maps. Reply
Arbie - Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - linkIt's great that this Asus tablet has micro-SD. I won't even consider a tablet that doesn't. It is hugely quicker to swap media sets in and out using SD than any other way. For my uses, the size of internal memory is much less important.
Regarding SD formatting, here's a utility that let me put a 64GB card in an circa 2009 media player. Get it at: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32fo... Reply
Arbie - Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - linkAlso, Anand, the presence or lack of micro-SD should appear in the "Basic Tablet Specification Comparison" table. This is really important to people, even if Google and Amazon downplay it for their own marketing reasons. Just look at the number of comments on this topic. Reply
Wwhat - Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - linkI don't think the absence of SD-card slots on google's devices has anything to do with cost whatsoever, SD-card slots are easy and cheap and available on the lowest of budget devices,
It's more an attempt to force people to do everything through (google-)cloud storage I think, as the article states
And yes it's stupid and I'd even say nasty since it would cost them next to nothing to add it.
'don't be evil'? I think there is a reason they abandoned that mantra.
The question now is: What can we the consumers do about it? Are there attachment you can connect to the nexus to add a SD slot without the thing getting too ridiculously messy? Anybody know? Reply
user777 - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkI have Nexus 7 2012 and there is no problem to use USB OTG cable + USB stick (or Transcend USB stick with microSD+SD card slot). I use Total Commander+USB Stick plugin (free). It is possible to open any doc/pdf/jpeg/avi/mp4 file.
It is possible to share any folder or external HDD at your laptop and to use like WiFi Network LAN storage using ES File Explorer. It is possible to play any movie using streaming (without downloading) from the Network LAN storage (MX Player or BS Player). It is even possible playing movie from WiFi FTP server. Reply
n13L5 - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkQuoting the Article: "Google was pretty adamant against including a microSD slot in the original Nexus 7 (preferring a combination of internal and cloud storage), but ASUS put one back in the design of the MeMO Pad HD7."
Good Asus, bad Google, stop being evil, k? Stupid cloud not always accessible. Reply
evolucion8 - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkHi, I have a question, which CPU monitoring software did you use to monitor the CPU usage during videoplayback? Looks sleek and lean! Reply
user777 - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkSmal mistake at the ASUS 7-inch Tablet Specification Comparison:
ASUS Nexus 7 (2012) has 1.2MP front-facing camera Reply
user777 - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkJust got the official Android 4.3 upgrade on my Nexus 7 2012.
Would be glad to see the performance of the new Android version 4.3 at the storage random write tests for the old Nexus 7 and new Memo Pad HD 7. Reply
timon_comment - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkThe "ASUS 7-inch Tablet Specification Comparison" the list was lacked an important function, ---- GPS module.
Not all of the tablet are providing GPS module for you, even though in WiFi iPad are also no GPS module. (no need to say what A-GPS --- a fake GPS, it running is incapable of without wireless network)
ASUS's the three models have GPS module, whether it is as a WiFi version or a 3G version.
ASUS tablet's GPS performance got improved ever since the Nexus 7 (2012) launched.
In Android tablets are only for the two brands provided the dependable GPS performance, another is Samsung tablet, like Galaxy Note 8, Galaxy Tab3 T210, Galaxy Tab3 T310, etc..., whether it is as a WiFi version or a 3G version. Reply
user777 - Thursday, August 08, 2013 - linkNot quite correct comment. Assisted GPS or A-GPS is also functioning as autonomous GPS. Indeed an aluminium case (tablet, smartphone) may be a reason for not quite good performance.
You may check-up the Asus(.)com web site - all Asus tablets support GPS (+Glonass for some areas) except the very first ASUS MeMO Pad ME 172V (1024x600 display, not HD).
From my personal experience Asus Nexus 7 has the best GPS I know - much better sensitivity than any GPS navigation device. It gets GPS signal in seconds and has excellent sensitivity (inside car, train, in a room near the window even behind sunblind).
BTW I would like to see a review of the latest Asus Memo Pad FullHD 10. It is already on the market with better price than Samsung Nexus 10. Reply
timon_comment - Saturday, August 10, 2013 - linkyou are inaccurate,
Some devices just support for A-GPS but is no GPS module. that A-GPS is depending on wireless network.
Although it seems like the WiFi iPad could provide some limited navigation (without the GPS module), actually is just a gyro sensor, NOT GPS, incapable to do random position measuring.
What is a gyro electronic navigation? Please note to some of missiles.
"It gets GPS signal in seconds and has excellent sensitivity (inside car, train, in a room near the window even behind sunblind)."
you did not turn off the WiFI signal and remove all the cache, the A-GPS was still working, so, may be faster.
However, mountainous areas are likely no WiFI signal, or you are being a trip overseas occurred during no free-WiFi over there.
Also, in mountainous areas, if you wanted to get a position measuring, must be with GPS. Reply
timon_comment - Tuesday, August 13, 2013 - linkI have to make a correction to my post above,
although some sellers claiming MeMo Pad HD 7 has embedded GPS, however ASUS's official webpage of the MeMo Pad HD 7 did not list the GPS sensor nor Gyroscope sensor, so I thought the MeMo Pad HD 7 is likely no GPS sensor (module).
Nexus 7 (2012) and Nexus 7 (2013) have GPS module Reply
timon_comment - Tuesday, August 13, 2013 - linkit seems like I have to make 2nd correction,
Maybe ASUS's official webpage is very bad
Seems others who have already tested GPS on the MeMo Pad HD 7, and said GPS in the MeMo Pad HD 7 is slightly worse, it has a MT6628 processor with WiFi/BT/GPS/FM combo chip, a cheap way. Reply
extide - Thursday, August 01, 2013 - linkI wouldn't be so sure that the MTK SoC in there is indeed made on the 28nm process, in-fact I would not be surprised at all if it was on 40nm. There are lots of interesting Cheap CHinese SOC's out there though, it would be cool to see some tested. Like RockChip, Allwinner, Freescale i.MX, etc. Reply
eebrah - Friday, August 02, 2013 - link@extide Freescale is not Chinese Reply
Wolfpup - Friday, August 02, 2013 - linkI wonder if these are stock Android, and if so if that means they'll be updated promptly like Nexus.
Assuming so, then both this, last year's 7, and this year's 7 are really awesome pieces of hardware for the price.
Other than being pocketable I vastly prefer a 10" tablet though, and...ugh...Android just isn't all that useful to me compared to iOS, much less Windows. (Where are the AMD based Windows tablets?!? They've got better CPUs and GPUs and drivers than Atom, and they're just screaming to be put in tablets...) Reply
VisionxOrb - Thursday, August 08, 2013 - linkSero 7 pro from walmart is killer deal as well Reply
Tutua - Thursday, August 15, 2013 - linkDoes know anyone if this tablet supports MKV files? if yes, files with a size +4gb? I want to use this tablet like a portable video player during my journey... Reply
skeighter - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - linkthese are great little tablets. bought one for my wife. she was constantly playing with her phone to access facebook, twitter, instagram, etc. All on a tiny screen. Bought her a nice Lenovo 10" tablet, but she never used it. This is just the right size. Very fast, runs circles around both of my two year old dual core tablets. Liked it so much I bought another for myself. Reply
MarkWebb - Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - linkJust got one, very zippy (surprised), 3 issues: it downloaded, installed and rebooted with 4.2.2 but About still shows 4.2.1 and I tried checking for updates but it now says I am up to date even though About is not reporting it; it seems to occasionally register a single tap as a double; and Kindle dims the brightness! By about 20%. Got this for the micro SD slot. Reply
Asus Memo Pad HD7 - Monday, October 07, 2013 - linkAll the detectives know the power of Asus Memo Pad HD7?
1. ♥ Miracast
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3. ♥ Smart Cover
4. ♥ more later ...
Like us to get the cool update for your Memo Pad HD7
fb/memopadhd7 ♥ Reply
mfox - Thursday, November 14, 2013 - linkI have only had it for a few days, and have not had much time to really run it through its paces yet, but I am most likely going to return it. The display, especially. in regard to video, does seem really good. I have not found the device to be generally laggy so far, although I haven't really used it with many apps, under significant "load." My real complaint is with what I saw in some other reviews and was concerned about, the build, fit and finish and overall quality. it does seem creaky, the screen does seem like it is made from plastic, and the one I got had a little glue in the seam between the screen and the rest of the body. That seem seems to be of uneven width around the device and most likely will get other gunk caught in it. I really haven't had a chance to see if it has problems or works well with various apps, but will probably return it. I have ordered, believe it or not, a Dell venue 7, which has 1gb more internal memory, a decent (from what I have read) processor, and an equivalent screen. It runs stock android and is right now at 4.2 (like the asus), rather than 4.3, I think. And it is at a similar price point. Reply
danbc - Saturday, February 01, 2014 - linkIndeed, the presence of SDHC slot is a good option.
Even on Nexus 7, you can use a stick over otg cable, it's not the same thing, because, on his Asus tablet, and all devices with sd slot, with proper software, like directory bind, you can efectively extend your sotrage space on the SD card .
I have a question for the writter: what is the name of the cpu usage monitor you used? Reply


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Lt James Hanlon, B-25 Pilot, 310th BG and 321st BG MTO WWII
1943-44 — Italy
James; World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938 - 1946
ARMY SERIAL NUMBER 12010072 NAME HANLON JAMES A JR RESIDENCE: STATE; NEW JERSEY: COUNTY; MONMOUTH PLACE OF ENLISTMENT NEWARK NEW JERSEY DATE OF ENLISTMENT 25 Feb. 1941 PVT# Private GRADE: Private BRANCH: AC# Air Corps BRANCH; Air Corps SOURCE OF ARMY PERSONNEL Civil Life NATIVITY NEW JERSEY YEAR OF BIRTH 1919 RACE AND CITIZENSHIP White, citizen EDUCATION 4 years of high school CIVILIAN OCCUPATION Architects MARITAL STATUS 6 Single, without dependents.
James flew most of (and first) his Combat Missions in the 310th Bomb Group, 380th BS........
JAMES was transferred FROM the 310th Bomb Group, 380th Bomb Squadron TO the 321st BG and 447th BS;
FIRST mention; Wednesday, 30 June 1943 (310,380) Septenber, 1943
22. Back to work we went today. Our objective was the Road Bridge and Switchback just North of Grottaminarda, Italy. It was a highly successful Mission. Due to the intense flak over the target, Lt Hanlon's B-25 was hit with burst of flak. The 3 men in the rear of the ship bailed out. Lt Hanlon however, expertly piloted the stricken bomber to a friendly field. (Special Accounts)
On 16 September 1943, 2Lt. James A. Hanlon, Jr.
was a witness to the CRASH of A/C: B-25J 41-13100
P: Charles R Brown; 2Lt., DOW
CP: Samuel M Wells; 1Lt., KIA
B: George W Ash; Sgt., DOW
R: Charlie W Cooper; S/Sgt., RMC
G: Milton H Miller; Sgt., KIA
*** Shot Down By Enemy Anti-Aircraft Fire ***
16 Sept 1943 A/C Serial Number: 41-13100 MAC Report Number: 718
Location: 3 Miles N E Of Capua, Italy 41°08'; 14°05' Point Of Departure: New Hall
Two minutes before reaching the target, Lt. Brown's plane received a direct hit, (burst of flak), in the left inboard wing tank, which immediately caught fire. The plane left the formation under control and dropped about three or four thousand feet. In this time, three men bailed out, but one of the three parachutes failed to open. At an altitude of about six thousand feet, the plane was clearly out of control. An explosion, presumably in the gas tanks was observed. Below this altitude,a wing and the tail section came off the plane, and it spun into the ground. The first three parachutes were the only ones seen to leave the plane. No one else was believed to have gotten out alive.
Listed Witnesses
1Lt. Joseph S. Weaver, Jr., O-358747
S/Sgt. Jack H. Bixby, 11072102
2Lt. James A. Hanlon, Jr., O-795735
Tuesday, 9 November 1943 447th BS War Diary:No Mission---Today a General Order, Hq. 15th Air Force, dated Nov. 3 came through awarding the Silver Star to S/Sgt. Aage E. Jensen for gallantry in action during a raid July 5.Excerpts form the Order: "…although unprotected from the terrific slipstream and suffering from severe injuries, this non-commissioned officer insisted in remaining at his post. ----His unselfish devotion to duty and personal resourcefulness has upheld the highest traditions of the Army Air Force".5 officers and 5 E/M were transferred here today from the 310th B.G. They are:Officers: ****1st Lt. J.A. Hanlon**** 2ndLts. R.G. Werner, R.A. Knodle, Lloyd Anderson, and P.I. Blumenfeld.*************************************************************
MISSION 1 in the 447th BS; A/C No.42-32450 "Lumber Wagon" on 14 Nov. 1943
Mission TWO A/C No.41-13175"The Saint Myrtle II" (returned early) 16 Nov. 1943
Mission THREE A/C No.42-32450 "Lumber Wagon" 18 Nov. 1943
FOUR; A/C No.42-64694 "Yankee Girl" 26 Nov. 1943
FIVE; (as 1st Pilot) A/C No.42-64695 27 Nov. 1943
SIX; A/C No.41-13181 "The Sophisticated Lady" 28 Nov. 1943
Hanlon, James A., Jr., 1Lt
Anderson, Lloyd G., 2Lt
Blumenfeld, Philip I., 2Lt
Mercer, William R., S/Sgt
Ennis, Edward Charles "Salvo", S/Sgt MY DAD/Ed
Armstrong, Robert E., S/Sgt
Monday, 29 November 1943 447th BS Mission Summary: (Ops Order 161/mission 160) Group Mission # 162: Mission to Sarajevo.12 of our ships participated.No e/a encountered. Flak:heavy, inaccurate.Results:Fair. A/C 41-13181 "The Sophisticated Lady"
Hanlon, James A., Jr., 1Lt
Drury, Alfred C., 2Lt
Brown, Charles O., Jr., S/Sgt My Dad/Ed's best friend (KIA 2 Dec.1943)
Godwin, Charles D., S/Sgt
Boza, Elmer V., S/Sgt
Kazar, William F., S/Sgt
Sunday, 2 January 1944
A/C No. 42-32498
Hanlon, James A., Jr., 1Lt
Trevor, Graham J., 1Lt
Nowakowski, Joseph J., 1Lt
Jeffery, James H., PFC
Tracy, Boyd F., T/Sgt
Manning, Hillard J., S/Sgt
Lamoureau, Archille D., Sgt
447th BS War Diary: Sunday, 2 Jan. 1944; The following completed their fiftieth mission today: Capt. E.H. Beeson, Lt. Paiton, *** Lt Hanlon*** and S/Sgt. Funk. Our New Years Day turkey was served today which helped considerable to remove the gloom that had settled over the moral on New Years Day.
*** Hanlon, James A., Jr., Lt, pilot ***
Monday, 3 January 1944
A/C No. 42-64600 Hanlon, James A., Jr., 1Lt Trevor, Graham J., 1Lt None Deane, George J., 1Lt Czabaj, Matthew W., S/Sgt Kaufold, Adolf (NMI)., S/Sgt Schrader, Harold F., S/Sgt
A/C No. 42-64694 P Hanlon, James A., Jr., 1Lt CP Davidson, James C., 2Lt N None B Adcock, Leonard E., 2Lt E Czabaj, Matthew W., S/Sgt R Wadlow, Verlin L., S/Sgt G Crowell, James M., Jr., S/Sgt
**** Friday, 28 January 1944 447th BS War Diary: As per letter XII Hq. dated Jan. 27 the following officers and E/M were assigned for transshipment to the U.S.: 1st Lts. R.F. Halloran, J.P. Lanza, E.P. Mayben, D.W. Thomas, *** J.A. Hanlon*** H.W. Joiner, A.M. Holloway, T/Sgt. R.A. Lotitio, S/Sgts. M.J. Funk, G.P. Werner, E.F. Bartkus, W.R. Henry and F.X. Early.
*** Hanlon, James A., Jr., 1Lt, pilot ***
321st Bomb Group History Team; John T Fitzgerald, Patti Johnson and Barbi Ennis Connolly; (321st BG Historian) email@example.com


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Epox 9NDA3+: A New Socket 939by Wesley Fink on 10/25/2004 12:01 AM EST
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morkys - Monday, December 20, 2004 - linkWednesday, 24 November 2004
** Solve USB device resume fail from S4 mode.
** Patch system cole booting fail (hang up at POST FF h)when FSB over clock on SATA PHY M/B.
** Support DDR400 for double banks DIMM.
Has this improved anything for anyone?
I was stoked to get this or the MSI Neo2 Plat but there's always problems with new stuff. There's always problems with most stuff, but I may just go socket 462 for now if Epox or MSI nForce3 isn't trouble free. I was thinking of the Gigabyte but the NXP is too expensive and the non- NXP is still troublesome for some people.
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staypuffmarshallowman - Thursday, December 09, 2004 - linkI purcased this mobo a week ago and it is defective....sent back as RMA yesterday. I could not achieve any higher than 20Kbps internet connection over my dsl! Furthermore, i had several (10-20) different post codes and i haven't done any overclocking at all. While this is EXTREMELY frustrating, I am hoping my replacement board will be fine. I am really concerned about your findings with the 4 dimms running only at 333!!! Please let me know if they are able to fix this.
I don't want to give up on epox yet. My last board or thiers rocked. But this experience has sent me close to the end of our relationship. Reply
Wesley Fink - Thursday, October 28, 2004 - linkNed -
I suspect you are working at 200 with 4 dimms because your 256MB are single-sided dimms. Those are usually no issue for any of the boards. Our standard 4-dimm memory test is with 4 512MB DS dimms or a total of 8 sides. That still is not working on the Epox which overrides the DDR400 and resets the speed to DDR320 with 4 DS dimms.
Just to be sure I have just retested the same CPU and the same 4 dimms on 3 other 939 boards. All 3 handled DDR400 with 4 dimms just fine, as confirmed with CPU-Z and SiSoft Sandra. Reply
NedFlanders - Thursday, October 28, 2004 - linkMine board worked out of the box with four DIMMS and with the new BIOS too. I am using 4*256 Kingston HyperX. Even though BIOS says 200 it boots at 202 (RAM 404, FSB at 2020 mhz). I have confirmed the speed with CPUID & SAndra. I OC's it to 220 but just to try it. I'm not really into that. It worked fine.
in addition to the parts i already mentioned,
i have 6800GT, 2 WD120 (IDE0, IDE1) and a 450watt PSU, athlon 64 3200.
Wesley Fink - Thursday, October 28, 2004 - linkI have tested with the new 10/26 and 10/28 BIOS and the issues still are not fixed. Results remain the same as reported in this review.
Below is the email I sent to Epox:
"I have retested the Epox 9NDA3+ with the new BIOS and the 4 dimm issue is NOT fixed. No matter what I set in BIOS with 4 dimms the system boots at DDR320 at 2T (The BIOS states on boot DDR400@166, but CPU-Z reports actual CPU speed as 160x2). I have tested with:
4x512MB Corsair 3200XL v1.1
4X512MB OCZ PC3200 Platinum Rev.2
4X512MB G. Skill TCCD
4X512MB Corsair CMX512-4400C25PT (DDR550)
I also tested each of the 4 memories at SPD timings at DDR400 and at a forced 3-3-3-10 at DDR400, even though all 4 are rated at DDR400 2-2-2-5. Same results in both sets of tests. In addition the Epox still hangs on reboot more than 50% of the time. The PS is a OCZ PowerStream 520W. Memory Timings were checked with CPU-Z version 1.24 which is a free download at www.cpuid.com. Memory Speed was confirmed in SiSoft Sandra 2004.
Do you have any further suggestions?"
Wesley Fink - Wednesday, October 27, 2004 - linkEpox has just sent a revised BIOS dated 10/26 and called 9ND34A26 to correct the 4-dimm issue and reboot issues with the Epox. As I soon as I complete tests with the new BIOS I will post an update to the review. Reply
NedFlanders - Tuesday, October 26, 2004 - linkmy ep-9nda3+ is in. it overclocks well, cpu is cool and no problems with 4DIMMS at 200 Reply
ThePlagiarmaster - Tuesday, October 26, 2004 - linkWesley,
If divx 5.1.1 is so optimized for Intel, why does hardocp show Intel losing by 20%?? You need to run tests with two different frontends. DVD2AVI for AMD and Xmpeg for Intel. Unless someone has a better suggestion for Intel (Xmpeg always caused them to win no matter what encoder was used). It's a small change and would give a MUCH more accurate picture of what we'd see in the realworld. Nobody comes home with a shiny new PC and runs they crappiest frontend they can find for their given cpu. Especially when they are both free for the taking.
Did a bit more reading, it appears AutoGK is the only difference between your article and hardocp's usage. You should NOT be using this for AMD if it throws away a 20% victory and hands the lead to Intel. Nobody would do that at home. That big of a margin is akin to throwing away 3-4 cpu speed grades these days! I'd further say you shouldn't be using it for Intel either. It appears to slow them down compared to Xmpeg (who even link to Intel on their website).
With all of these being free, why wouldn't the user want to pick the fastest for their chosen cpu? I see no reason why you couldn't run the same chapter with the same settings on each frontend for the different cpus. It's not like your adding a test, you're just changing a frontend for ONE of the tests. Right now, you're showing us a situation none of us would come home and run. We'd all take the faster route with different front ends for BOTH cpus.
Divx 5.1.1 is NOT heavily optimized for Intel or they would win no matter the frontend. Using this codec and DVD2AVI as a frontend Intel loses by 20% (as shown at hardocp's article). Clearly it's more about the frontend in this case than the codec. Reply
thebluesgnr - Tuesday, October 26, 2004 - linkI think this review is very well written. Only disagree with one thing:
"The locations of the SATA connectors are a huge improvement over the locations on the nF3-250 Reference Board."
I think this location is the opposite of that. On the reference board it's probably harder to install SATA drives, but this is something you do once or twice; the location used by EPoX makes it impossible to use the SATA ports with some graphics cards.
Term - Tuesday, October 26, 2004 - link#26, are you 100% positive that Doom3 requires DX?
If i remember correct I don't have DX installed and it runs just fine. Reply
TrogdorJW - Monday, October 25, 2004 - linkWes (#23) - I'm not 100% positive, but I'm almost sure that UT2K3/UT2K4 are DX8.1 in terms of the 3D code, but they require DX9 in order to run. Sort of like how Doom 3 is an OGL game but requires DX9 for input/output functions. AFAIK, no Unreal engine game has shipped with DX9 features, but that will probably change soon.
You could even make the argument that most of the UT engine is still DX7, with only a few DX8 additions. What does that mean? That pixel and vertex shaders are not absolutely necessary to get great graphics. Useful? Yes. Required? Nope. :) Reply
AtaStrumf - Monday, October 25, 2004 - linkI had 2 Epox nForce 2 Ultra 400 boards (got a new one after I RMA-ed the first one) and not one worked perfectly. That was reason enough for me to stay clear of Epox boards from that moment on. After reading tihs review, it seems that they still send out unfinished/not properly tested products, so I sugest to all to pick some other brand, because something is systematicly wrong at Epox. They are just not a good choice for the enthusiast anymore.
ABIT seems to have improved a bit though, but I don't garantee anything. Reply
NedFlanders - Monday, October 25, 2004 - linkany new info on the FSB for the ep-9nda3+ when using 4 sticks? Epox's website has no owner's manual for this board on ANY of their worldwide websites. No BIOSs either. Reply
Wesley Fink - Monday, October 25, 2004 - link#22 -
My UT2004 package says "DirectX version 9.0b or higher required." The website says DirectX 8.1. If someone can provide a definitive answer and a link I will change the category. Reply
CrystalBay - Monday, October 25, 2004 - linkHi Wes, I'm just curious why UT2k4 is considered a DX9 benchmark ? Reply
Bonesdad - Monday, October 25, 2004 - linkI think the review was quite good. I did not get the sense that this is a "positive" review or even a wholly "negative" review. I think you did an admirable job of giving readers your observations and letting them make the final purchase decision. Which is the goal of a good review.
Based on current information about this board, I will skip it too. I'll stick with my 8RDA+ until the field is more populated with 939s. Reply
NedFlanders - Monday, October 25, 2004 - linkmy Epox 9kda3+ is en route. The whole reason why i waited for 939 was to use all of my RAM sticks (4). Should I just return this thing un-opened to newegg or is there the potential that i can run 4 256 hyperX's at 400?
Thanksdidilyanks Reply
Gholam - Monday, October 25, 2004 - linkDoes Cool'n'Quiet work on this board with four DIMMs? Because 8KDA3+ has this annoying problem with Cool'n'Quiet not working with two or three DIMMs present... Reply
ksherman - Monday, October 25, 2004 - linkThanks for changing the article title Wesley! Now its more representative of the review ;) Reply
LocutusX - Monday, October 25, 2004 - linkThis board seems like "too little, too late". Still, I think AT has done a good job on this review as it has indicated where most of the problem areas lie so people can decide for themselves if its an important issue or not. As for me, I`d skip this one.
PrinceGaz - Monday, October 25, 2004 - linkI agree with #7 (The Plagiarmaster) that something needs to be done to improve the video encoding tests. Results with a given codec can vary considerably for a processor-family (Athlon 64, Prescott etc) depending on the front-end app used (VirtualDub, AutoGK, DVD2AVI etc).
Its not too important for mobo articles like this where you should only really be comparing the results with the same CPU on other mobos, but its critical to the CPU articles like the recent 4000+ and FX-55 review.
It would be better for those to take some time to find the best performing popular front-end app for a particular codec and processor family, and then use that in all tests for that processor type and codec. So for the DivX tests you might use a different front-end for the Prescott to what is used for the A64 depending on which was found to be fastest. Same for XviD depending on what was fastest for that. The codec should obviouslly be the same for all CPUs else the test would be invalid, only the front-end app could differ. At the end of the day both will produce the same results regardless of the front-end so it makes sense to use whichever is best suited to a given CPU, as the current results with only one app in isolation may be quite misleading. If you don't like the idea of using different apps depending on the CPU, then the only alternative for presenting useful video encoding results is to repeat the test several times with different apps in all CPU articles.
And further to earlier comments, I could not recommend a mobo with the issues the Epox has on the hope that things will improve in a future BIOS revision. I might recommend it *when things have improved*, but I would never do so before. As it stands I'd steer well clear of this board. Reply
rickcfer - Monday, October 25, 2004 - linkI tried to manually set the speed, but the board would not even post until I removed the second set of dimms. Corsair xlls 3200 pro 512 dimms. Reply
Wesley Fink - Monday, October 25, 2004 - link#13 - On the K8N Neo2 you need to set the BIOS memory timings to DDR400 when you use 4 dimms. If you leave it on auto it sets 333 with 4 dimms. Reply
rickcfer - Monday, October 25, 2004 - link"However no one should need to live with a board that forces DDR333 with 4 dimms when no other 939 board does it."
The MSI Neo2 Platinum does it too. It's documented in their manual. How did you guys get around this? I filled all dimms and it defaulted to DDR333. Bios was 1.2 Reply
Wesley Fink - Monday, October 25, 2004 - link#7 - dvd2avi shows better results with AMD than AutoGK, even though Auto GK is based on the dvd2avi engine. AMD also performs better with XVid than Divx, since Divx has many optimizations for Intel. Another huge difference is the video clip used for encoding. Certain video clips generate much higher or lower frame rates than our standard video clip. The Star Wars clip we used in the past is about 20% faster on AutoGK than the longer Sum of All Fears we now use.
For all of these reasons we use a standard procedure with a standard file for encoding tests.
#8 - The poor location of the ATX/12V contrasts with the best layout I've seen for the slots and SATA. I prefer the ATX upper right edge but other A64 boards also use this layout and at least there is plenty of room around the connectors. I think Epox would disagree with you that this is a positive review.
#11 - There are some other great OC boards that have issues with reboot freezes. I had to balance the fact the Epox was one of the best 939 overclockers we've tested with the annoying reboot issue. Some can live with that, but I couldn't. However no one should need to live with a board that forces DDR333 with 4 dimms when no other 939 board does it. If you don't use 4 dimms the board may be acceptable to some.
I'm surprised that I point out two glaring faults on this board, qualify all my comments in light of those faults, and you still don't think I've been negative enough. I tried to keep in mind this board could become a great 939 board with a decent BIOS update and then the review would be totally misleading. It could be a great board, but it isn't there yet.
I believe readers need the full perspective to make informed buying decisions, although we all know great put-down lines are more entertaining. Reply
tagej - Monday, October 25, 2004 - linkOne of the last lines in the review: "The Epox is a great 939 choice now if you will only run 2 DIMMs and you can deal with the annoying reboot problems."
Does this stike anyone else as crazy? How in the world is freezing and other reboot issues acceptable to anyone? Sounds to me like right now this board belongs on the junk heap, not in my PC -- at least until the issues get fixed, presumably with a bios update or two.
tagej - Monday, October 25, 2004 - linkWith the nforce 4 chipset boards just around the corner, it's probably wise to simply wait for those. Unless you have a significant investment in a video card you want to protect (which a lot of people do), you can just go straight to nv4 instead of getting one of these nv3 boards. If you have a great vid card you want to keep using, then nv3 939 is a relatively good path. Reply
jAMBAZZ - Monday, October 25, 2004 - linkHi Anand, please regard the fact that many people wont/dont buy the expensive RAM you are testing with. As A64 will do just as fine using HTT/Ram dividers and 200 mhz PC3200 ram at very tight timings (2-2-2-5) and is not like the previous Athlon (XP) model.
As a note to this Epox review, it would be very nice indeed if you didnt use 1:1 HTT/RAM since you would then be able to show what kind of FSB this mobo truly allows for. You did the same in the A64 value and overclocking article which is a shame imho.
Best Regards Mikkel Nielsen. Reply
JonathanYoung - Monday, October 25, 2004 - linkI've noticed this a lot on this and other hardware review websites... it makes me think that motherboard companies pay these sites to review their products. What I'm talking about are comments such as "The basic layout of the Epox is generally excellent, with some standout elements and a few glaring layout faults." Before reading this line I already noticed the PSU ATX connector in an ugly location, and I'm sure no one would agree that this is "generally excellent". Now, how can something tbe "generally excellent" yet still have "glaring faults"? It doesn't make any sense to me. You see this a lot on hardocp as well. There'll be a major fault or issue with a product, but they always come back with (and I'm paraphrasing here) "but other than that, it's overall excellent". If something is truly "excellent" then it doesn't have any faults, otherwise it's just average or mediocre. Okay, rant over! Reply
ThePlagiarmaster - Monday, October 25, 2004 - linkSince it didn't get answered in the last article comments, I guess it's worth repeating (especially since the same results keep showing up):
I'm wondering why the dvd2avi divx 5.1.1 show such close results here. With basically the same machines on hardocp, they show the athlon64 beating Intel's best by HUGE margins (like 20% faster than the 3.6 and almost the same over the 3.4ee)
You guys showed the same thing no too long ago, but I can't find the article now. The paragraph under the graphs of the A64 winning said Intel lost the last thing they used to win in the benches. The article appears gone? What happened here, why so different from dvd2avi results at hardocp? They used the same divx 5.1.1 so it's not the encoder or the frontend. Heck even the 3500+ dominated the 3.6 and 3.4ee (more than 10%).
Whatever it is, I think a bit of research needs to be done on what's best for AMD, and what's best for Intel and pit them against each other. Clearly AMD people would run the way hardocp does (though it looks no different than what's used here). While you state you can show whatever you want, perhaps you should be showing the BEST for each platform. Would people really go home and run in a way that makes their cpu look like crap?
When you're talking about cutting 20% off of encoding, that adds up to a lot of time. I'd argue with the statement about divx 5.1.1 exploiting sse3 and making Intel a usual winner. Hardocp has been using 5.1.1 and A64's kill p4's with it (and have for a long time on their site). Is it AutoGK that throws things out of whack? Does it favor Intel so much that it causes a 20+ percent reversal? If it's truly based on dvd2avi how could it be so far out of whack compared to hardocp's scores? I think your readers would want to know which way to encode the fastest with whichever cpu they choose. Why would people want to know what the middle ground is and lose 20% cpu performance? Maybe Xmpeg for Intel, and pure dvd2avi for AMD?
ksherman - Monday, October 25, 2004 - linkI think you should change the title a little bit... kinda misleading to say "Epox 9NDA3+: New Choice for Socket 939" You should write Epox 9NDA3+: A New Choice for Socket 939. I find it to be a little misleading... just my input!
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Gnoad - Monday, October 25, 2004 - linkTell me about it. I really don't want an MSI board but its basically the only option right now. DFI and Abit need to get their arse in gear quick. Mmmm, socket 939 LanParty board.....that would be my future board right there. Reply
Zebo - Monday, October 25, 2004 - link#2, AGP
Many people sunk $400-$600 in new AGP cards and want to use them. Many cards arnt PCIe. Basically NF4 probably won't support the graphics standard 98% of people have.
Wes, Where are the real enthusiast boards? Ya know ASUS/ABIT/DFI :( Hard to believe MSI has the best NF3 board still. Reply
Beenthere - Monday, October 25, 2004 - linknF4 is PCIe only not AGP. nF3 and nF4 are virtually identical other than AGP vs. PCIe. Reply
FearoftheNight - Monday, October 25, 2004 - linkWhy not straight to nf4????? Reply
Budman - Monday, October 25, 2004 - linkpage 3 ... this a DFI or Epox board??
The basic layout of the DFI is generally excellent, with some standout elements and a few glaring layout faults.


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WASHINGTON ? Eric Kulberg was an 18-year-old intern in the summer of 1963 when he asked his boss for the day off so he could attend the March on Washington.
"What are you, a n----- lover or something?" Kulberg's superior at the Department of Interior asked.
"Uh-huh. I guess so," Kulberg blurted out.
The exchange between Kulberg and his boss, who was also white, didn't sway the young man's resolve to march. After the boss told him, "Go ahead ? you'll have a job when you get back," Kulberg took his Argus C3 camera and Kodachrome film to the roof of the Interior building to take photographs of the buses rolling in. Then he joined the crowd walking around the Tidal Basin toward the Lincoln Memorial, one of between 75,000 and 95,000 white people who joined the swelling, predominantly black crowd.
"Seeing everybody drinking from the same water fountain, that hit me," Kulberg recalls. "I'd never seen Jim Crow, but still it hit me at the time."
In the sweep of the day, the presence of the tens of thousands of white people joining the mass of African-Americans was mostly a passing mention, but they were essential to the strategy behind the march.
"The idea really was to say to those people in the middle, white folks in the middle, 'You have to come and support this movement. You can't sit on the fence anymore,' " remembers Rachelle Horowitz, who coordinated transportation for the March on Washington as an aide to lead organizer Bayard Rustin.
To reach those "white folks in the middle," March organizers had to ensure that their movement not be seen as solely a "Negro thing."
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom came at a moment when many white Americans felt personally disconnected from the burgeoning civil rights movement ? even if they supported its aims. At the time, nearly three-fourths of whites said in a national survey that "Negroes should have the right to use the same parks, restaurants and hotels as white people," but many fewer were doing anything to actively support the movement.
The early events of 1963 had already risked allowing whites to see the race problem as a Southern phenomenon and the civil rights issue as blacks vs. whites. Freedom movements in Greenwood, Miss., and Birmingham, Ala., resulted in thousands of blacks being arrested for marching to register to vote or participating in peaceful lunch-counter sit-ins and pickets. The "Children's Crusade" in Birmingham sent across the globe violent images of snarling police dogs attacking black children dressed in loafers and sweaters. White lawmen abused their power. Hoodlums set fire to the meeting rooms of civil rights groups. In parts of middle America, the movement and the segregationist pushback were seen as extreme ? hardly relatable.
"What do you Negroes want?" whites often asked Courtland Cox, then a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He was based in New York and spoke before seemingly liberal white audiences in the North as he went about raising money for the cause. He later served as an SNCC representative in the March on Washington's Harlem planning office.
"You'd talk about the South and the barriers and so forth and inevitably the first question was, 'Do you want to marry my daughter?' They didn't understand," says Cox. " 'What do you Negroes want?' That was the big question."
If executed with near perfection, the March on Washington could reach the white family in Toledo, Ohio, and pique their interest with a scene they had likely never seen before: throngs of demonstrators forming a joyously dense, multiracial crowd. Broadcast around the world, carried live in the United States, the march would assuage latent fears of "race-mixing" with scenes of brotherhood, answering that lingering question ? "What do Negroes want?" ? once and for all.
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Gathered on July 2, 1963, at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York, the six men who led the nation's largest civil rights groups hashed out the details of the nonviolent show of force planned for late summer. In that meeting room sat the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the NAACP's Roy Wilkins, the National Urban League's Whitney Young, the SNCC's John Lewis and the Congress of Racial Equality's James Farmer. The 74-year-old black union leader A. Philip Randolph was the elder statesman and march chairman who had brought them all together. They called themselves "the Big Six," and their organizations all had interracial support but were predominantly black, as was their leadership.
With less than eight weeks before the big day, Randolph and the others decided that they would add four more leaders to their roster: Four white men were invited to join the six blacks.
It was a strategic move, says David Levering Lewis, a historian of the movement. "Unless it could be shown quite graphically, dramatically, how important it was to white people that black people wanted change, we wouldn't have gotten there," he says.
Letters sent out by Rustin's team soon included a call to action on behalf of what was now the Big 10, the six black men plus a rabbi, a Catholic leader, a Protestant minister and a labor boss.
The Big Six first invited AFL-CIO President George Meany to join their ranks. Meany declined, thinking a demonstration in Washington not politically savvy while Congress was considering President John F. Kennedy's civil rights legislation.
The spot reserved for him was passed on to United Automobile Workers President Walter Reuther, who was then a household name, having helped to unionize Detroit's auto industry. But despite Reuther's backing of civil rights, many of his union locals were not convinced that "one for all and all for one" and "workers unite" should apply to blackworkers. It was the same issue in liberal church denominations. The leadership pledged opposition to segregation, but Sunday in and Sunday out, churches remained segregated.
"Somehow, some way, we worked well together. The six of us, plus the four. We became like brothers," Lewis remembers. "When we would have disagreements, Randolph, in his deep baritone, would say things like, 'Brothers, let's stay together.' "
In the weeks before the march, the Big 10 had to work to stay together amid pressure from the Kennedy administration, which at first had disliked the idea of a march.
"Somebody from the White House is calling somebody every day and telling them, 'You don't want to march,' " Horowitz recalls. "So, they're calling in Roy Wilkins. They are calling in Dr. King."
From allies in Congress, a body then of white men, came a string of what became known around the march's headquarters as the "latrine letters." Had they thought about where 100,000 people would use the restroom, the senators wanted to know. Rustin and his team responded by renting sufficient numbers of portable toilets.
The Kennedy White House also kept track of the march plans through alliances and political connections. Reuther was close to Kennedy. White House adviser Louis Martin, who had been a pioneering black journalist and Democratic operative, also kept his ear to the ground and reported back as the planning progressed.
Mass demonstrations of any sort were rare; there was hope in Washington that it would fizzle.
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The stretched nerves began to fray the night before the march, when drafts of Lewis's speech were circulated by members of SNCC, which hoped to generate buzz for the youngest of the day's official speakers.
In prepared remarks Lewis threatened to "march through the South, through the heart of Dixie, the way Sherman did ? nonviolently," and also criticized Kennedy's civil rights bill as being too weak. It rattled the Big 10's alliance.
Washington's Archbishop Patrick O'Boyle, who was to give the invocation at the march, said he would not speak if Lewis's speech was not altered. (O'Boyle's role was to be symbolic. It was Mathew Ahmann, executive director of the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice, who was the Catholic member of the Big 10.)
Lewis chafed at O'Boyle's interference. "I didn't know him from Adam's house cat, and he probably didn't know me," Lewis says.
The fear seemed to be based on how the militant notes in the speech would land on white ears.
Reuther told Lewis he shouldn't speak ill of the White House civil rights bill. Wilkins sided with Reuther, and he and Lewis ended up wagging their fingers in each other's faces.
"We were all so uptight about giving the appearance of [the] commitment and civility and strength of the nonviolent movement," recalls Berl Bernhard, Kennedy's staff director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, who spoke often with Wilkins. "It was like, 'Don't light this incendiary situation because it could get out of control.' "
The aging Randolph stopped the infighting by asking Lewis and the other young people to bow to the wishes of their elders and pare back the rhetoric.
All along, there was racial sensitivity about who was in control of the march. Malcolm X held press conferences in the lobby of the Capital Hilton, telling any reporter who would listen that the March on Washington had become the "Farce on Washington," with black leaders kowtowing to white interests. "Talk about 'integrated!' It was like salt and pepper," he said afterward.
But Randolph and Rustin never turned over control, Horowitz says ? not to the White House, not to the churches, not to labor leaders.
"They demonstrated that black folks could put on a march this big and have it be nonviolent," she remembers. It was an attitude of "we're going to show them we can do this. The racial diversity, the integration, sort of came as a secondary factor."
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On the day of the march, cameras caught James Baldwin gripping and grinning with Marlon Brando. March organizers had asked Harry Belafonte to persuade the biggest stars in Hollywood to fly to Washington. Now Brando was there, with Charlton Heston standing nearby.
All around them were symbols of white privilege, historian Taylor Branch wrote in his Pulitzer Prize-winning King trilogy, describing everything from the national monuments that provided the backdrop to the journalists tracking the Hollywood A-listers. Folk music stars Joan Baez and Bob Dylan serenaded the crowd alongside gospel stalwart Mahalia Jackson. A handful of supportive congressmen came to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
Cox, the SNCC activist, says the celebrity participants, as well as the political and religious leaders, were cultural "legitimizers."
Lonnie Bunch, director of the Smithsonian's upcoming National Museum of African-American History and Culture, says they allowed the "march to claim its American-ness as well as its black American-ness. Here were people who didn't visibly have a stake in this fight suddenly saying, 'This is our fight as well.' "
Other minorities made their presence known. One sign read, "Puerto Ricans and Negroes Together. Freedom!"
As black marchers descended on Washington in the early morning hours of Aug. 28, they were met by busloads, planeloads and railroad-car-loads of whites. Among them were working-class auto machinists and other union members, young university intellectuals, elderly leftists, the Hollywood elite, socially conscious Catholics, Jews and Protestants, and the stray, curious government worker who wandered onto the National Mall to check out the scene.
Diana Zentay remembers walking from her Georgetown apartment to the National Mall with her roommate. The two young white women had recently graduated from college. It was the first civil rights action Zentay had participated in and she was afraid, amid the media-stoked concerns about riots.
"We did not know whether we were going to make it back alive," Zentay recalls. "There was fear. Who knows what would happen, but I said 'Do we believe in this or not?' "
They walked on.
Jonathan Prinz ? whose father, Rabbi Joachim Prinz, was one of the four white leaders of the march and on the program that day ? sat in a chair on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. He heard in the words of his German immigrant father a perspective of Jewish history that related to the theme of the march.
"His general objective was to change the dynamic of American life and to remind people they couldn't just sit back and watch this," Prinz recalls. "You can't be silent and onlookers. He had said the same thing in Nazi Germany."
The sentiment was echoed by a Big 10 member, the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake, sweating in his ministerial collar. "We have come late, but we have come," Blake, a past president of the National Council of Churches, told the crowd on behalf of his white brethren.
Few would remember the words he and the other white leaders uttered. All oratory was surpassed by King's more memorable remarks. But the presence of the white speakers on the rostrum and the white faces in the integrated crowd had another lasting effect.
"It showed us in one day what the whole United States could be," Zentay says.
She never became an activist, but just as the March on Washington changed the nation, it changed the arc of her career. In 1964, she joined a Commerce Department agency that ensured that public facilities around the country were integrating. ?


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If we tell someone; "Somewhere, there is a person who is harboring a grave enmity towards you. There is nothing that he wouldn't do to give you the biggest harm one can ever give. He is a master in every form of trickery, lie, games and deceitfulness. And he would not leave you alone until he can harm you the way he wants," how would one react? Would it be possible for him to only say "Okay" and go on with his life without taking any precautions against that enemy and not be interested at all?
Of course the answer to that question is a "No". Every person, the minute he becomes aware of such an enemy, would pay a great attention to this matter. He would not take his mind off this matter before taking the precautions that would prevent the possible damage that might come from his enemy and before neutralizing him.
However, man has a much more dangerous and ravenous enemy than any other man harboring a grave enmity against him. This enemy is the "satan". And the satan is man's biggest and most determined enemy ever existed on Earth. He is an entity that is far more dangerous than an army of enemies consisting of humans, that it is not even possible to compare the two. In that case, whilst a person takes precautions against any enemy, it would be a grave mistake to remain indifferent and uninterested in the face of the enmity of the satan.
That is because there is an "end" that satan aims for a man. This end is his entering to the "endless Hell". It is not possible for the satan to leave man alone until he gets this result. This is a definitive law of Allah, He revealed in the Qur'an:
Mankind! eat what is good and lawful on the earth. And do not follow in the footsteps of satan. He truly is an outright enemy to you. (Surat Al-Baqara:168)
Satan is your enemy so treat him as an enemy.He summons his party so they will be among the people of the Searing Blaze. (Surah Fatir: 6)
I will lead them astray and fill them with false hopes. I will command them and they will cut off cattle's ears. I will command them and they will change Allah's creation.' Anyone who takes satan as his protector in place of Allah has clearly lost everything. (Surat An-Nisa: 119)
In the Qur'an Allah tells man to "treat satan as an enemy" , in the face the satan being an enemy to mankind. In that case man should obey this command of Allah –for the approval of Allah- and make neutralizing the satan, a prioritized aim for him.
Satan is a big enemy for man. However Allah made it very easy for man to be saved from the evils of the satan. In the Qur'an Allah revealed many secrets to show man the way for that. Some of those secrets are as follows:
Only the fact that man –by the leave of Allah- knows these secrets Allah revealed in the Qur'an is enough for him to neutralize his biggest enemy, the satan, promptly and conclusively.
- If man lives without forgetting that there is no power other than Allah; that neither the satan, nor man has any power and do not ascribe any partners to Allah, no matter from which aspect satan approaches him, he will take no result and will not be able to give any harm to man.
- If man –under any circumstances whatsoever- is determined to put his trust in Allah; and do not forget that Allah creates everything on a destiny with goodness and wisdom and that man can only act as Allah preordained in destiny, satan will never be effective on him.
- Upon the evil impulse of the satan, if a man seeks refuge in Allah and thinks with the verses of the Qur'an –by the leave of Allah- that evil impulse will be removed and satan will never be effective on that person.
- If man does not forget that satan has no power –that he only performs according to the command of Allah- and that he is a very helpless creature and does not see the satan as an independent power and take up a position in the side of Allah , satan will lose all power against that person.
- If man evaluates the tricky schemes of the satan, the truths he turns about, the lies he tells, the tricks he plays, the evil impulses he gives with the verses of the Qur'an, he will instantly see that all those are very corrupt and weak traps and the satan again will not be able to influence him in any way.
When man acts with a faithful consciousness against the satan, by the leave of Allah, the efforts of satan will remain inconclusive until the end of his life.
The point of view of man against the satan should never involve any logic other than these facts. A Muslim should never see satan as powerful and should never assume that it is difficult to neutralize it. A Muslim should never forget that "Allah created satan only as a deviator for the unbelievers; that he has no authority over the devout Muslims who love Allah and who live by the morality Allah likes".
He has no authority over those who have faith and put their trust in their Lord. (Surat An-Nahl: 99)


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Florida flips receiver Ryan Sousa from FSU
Published: Monday, December 2, 2013 at 9:31 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, December 2, 2013 at 9:56 p.m.
If you can't beat them, steal one of their recruits.
That's what the Florida Gators did Monday when they flipped receiver Ryan Sousa from Florida State, the school he had been committed to since June.
Orlando Lake Nona coach Anthony Paradiso informed The Sun of Sousa's decision.
The 6-foot, 177-pounder, rated a four-star prospect by ESPN, picked the Seminoles shortly after his standout performance at Florida's summer camp.
But an offer from the Gators on Nov. 1 put them back in the mix, and he officially visited Gainesville this past weekend.
Despite UF losing by 30 points to FSU and firing offensive coordinator Brent Pease the following day, Sousa felt Florida was the better fit for him.
Receivers coach Joker Phillips, his primary recruiter, played a key role in his recruitment.
"He's one of the best coaches that I've ever met," Sousa told The Sun after working with Phillips in June.
The Gators now have 16 members in their 2014 class. Verbal commitments are not binding until prospects sign their national letters of intent on Feb. 5.
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MARK Collier is aiming to knit his Chippenham Town squad together as tightly as possible as the Bluebirds look to improve their results.
In the wake of last week's disappointing defeat at Bashley, management and players got together to discuss where they fell short.
And Collier reckons he got the intended reaction in a gutsy performance at promotion-chasers St Albans City on Monday, despite a 1-0 defeat courtesy of John Frendo's strike.
"We didn't train last Thursday – we had a meeting with myself, Tom (Jones) and the players," said the Hardenhuish Park chief, whose side's trip to leaders Hemel Hempstead Town on Saturday was rained off.
"We talked about where we wanted to go and the hope that everyone was on board. Obviously, Saturday's game was off so we all got together and watched Chippenham Park play.
"We wanted to make sure we are a team and we're sticking together. We felt that the performance at Bashley wasn't good enough and we wanted to speak about it. We didn't want to go straight on the training ground and forget about it.
"Myself and Tom have got responsibilities to the chairman and they've got responsibilities to myself and Tom, and the football club. I think you could see (against St Albans) that there's a togetherness about the team and hopefully we're moving in the right direction."
Collier, pictured, added: "To be perfectly honest, I thought we were excellent (on Monday night), and we had a disappointed dressing room because I thought we deserved to get something from the game.
"We've come to a team that are 30-odd points clear of us and given a very good account of ourselves and I said to the players that if they play like that for the rest of the season then there's only one place where we're going to go and that's up the table.
"But we need to make sure that we continue to play with that kind of application. I want the players to be disappointed, but not down, because the performance level was pretty good."
Chippenham have a chance to right the wrongs from their 3-1 loss at Bashley when the New Forest strugglers visit this weekend.
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Women revenge rape on increase in AIDS payback "as human right groups in South Africa say '1 in 2 women risk being raped, but they are facing new twists to their biggest public health problem of AIDS as 'women who rape men, often at gunpoint, in a deliberate attempt to infect them with AIDS. According to The Australian, 18 May 2004 page 10, 'a 39 year old father of 3 was ambushed on his way home from work late at night on the East Rand, near Johannesburg. Three armed women forced him to accompany them to an isolated field near his bus stop. The man was ordered to strip and was then raped by each of the women. The traumatised victim told police one of the women had mocked him with the words 'welcome to the world of AIDS.' The assault was the latest in a string of similar rapes by women in recent months. According to Delpine Senumaga, director of People Against Women Abuse, 'Men have been rape victims for quite some time,' she said. UN figures show 5.2 million of South Africa's 47 million people are infected with HIV.
Editorial Comment: If there is no creator God, and evolution is what's happening, then this is just another form of Natural Selection. The only way we could ever have a rule against such behaviour does depend on the absolute principles God has laid down based on His authority as Creator. He has always ruled against revenge, rape, intent to kill, as well as sex outside marriage. The same Lord also told us to love our neighbours as ourselves. Deliberately sharing AIDS is the opposite of this. (See Genesis 1, The Ten Commandments and Matthew 2239 for details.) (Ref. morals, AIDS, murder)


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Corn futures are trading higher at midday. Corn futures are extending gains despite strength in the dollar index. Strength in the soy and wheat markets is spilling over into corn market midmorning. Futures are expected to trade with more volatility as the trade awaits the release of the October WASE estimates. Pre report trade estimates peg the average production of the 2012 corn crop at 10.601 billion bushels, 126 million bushels below the September estimate. December corn is trading 1 ½ cents higher.
Soybeans futures are trading higher at midday. Soybean futures climbed by as much as 22 cents before declining. Futures posted firm gains overnight on short covering and bargain buying. October WASDE estimates are scheduled to be released on Thursday and pre report trade estimates forecast soybean production at 2.759 billion bushels with an average yield of 37.006. Although yields and production estimates are forecast higher than September estimates, Oil World reports supplies will tight due poor production in South America. November soybeans are trading 7 cents higher.
Wheat futures are trading higher at midday. Wheat futures continue to exhibit strength across all three exchanges. Global supply worries are the predominant force driving market prices higher ahead of the October WASDE report. Freezing temperatures across the U.S. Plains is suspecting of damaging the impeding winter wheat crops, thus providing additional support for the KCBT market. December wheat at CBOT is trading 7 ¼ cents higher; KCBT is trading 8 ¾ cents higher; and MGE is trading 5 ½ cents higher.
Live Cattle futures are trading higher at midday. As expected cattle futures are pushing higher on follow through buying and the rebound in wholesale beef prices. Both choice and select cuts increased over 50 cents, which has attracted buying interest into the complex. Cash trade has not developed yet but is called steady versus last week's trade. October cattle is trading $1.30 cents higher while December is trading 53 cents higher.
Lean hog futures are trading mixed at midday. Lean hog futures are randomly mixed across the board. Cash is anticipated to slow down with bids steady to lower due to ample pork supply at the moment. It is suspected that demand has slowed slightly due to grocers buying more than enough pork for National Pork Month (October). However, seasonal demand as the holiday's approach should limit losses and provide support over the next few weeks. October is trading 18 cents higher while December is trading 2 cents higher.


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I'm working on this problem for my my homework but I don't understand why it's not reading data from a file ?
13.13 (Tkinter:display a graph) A graph consists of vertices and edges that connect vertices. Write a program that reads a graph from a file and displays it on a panel. The first line in the file contains a number that indicates the number of vertices (n). The vertices are labeled as 0,1,…,n-1. Each subsequent line, with the format u x y v1, v2, …describes that the vertex u is located at position (x,y) with the edges (u,1). (u,v2), and so on.
Here is my code:
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from tkinter import * # Import tkinter
from tkinter import filedialog
def displayGraph(canvas, vertices, edges):
radius = 3
for vertex, x, y in vertices:
canvas.create_text(x - 2 * radius, y - 2 * radius, text = str(vertex), tags = "graph")
canvas.create_oval(x - radius, y - radius, x + radius, y + radius, fill = "black", tags = "graph")
for v1, v2 in edges:
canvas.create_line(vertices[v1][1], vertices[v1][2], vertices[v2][1], vertices[v2][2], tags = "graph")
def main():
infile = filedialog.askopenfilename()
numberOfVertices = int(infile.readline().decode()) # Read the first line from the file
vertices = []
edges = []
for i in range(numberOfVertices):
items = infile.readline().strip().split() # Read the info for one vertex
vertices.append([int(items[0]), int(items[1]), int(items[2])])
for j in range(3, len(items)):
edges.append([int(items[0]), int(items[j])])
infile.close() # Close the input file
window = Tk() # Create a window
window.title("Display a Graph") # Set title
frame1 = Frame(window) # Hold four labels for displaying cards
canvas = Canvas(frame1, width = 300, height = 200)
displayGraph(canvas, vertices, edges)
window.mainloop() # Create an event loop
When I try to test it out I get this error message:
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line 19, in main
numberOfVertices = int(infile.readline()) # Read the first line from the file
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'readline'


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