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Thanksgiving 2011 in Washington, DC or Northern Virginia (for a very traditional & simple eater)
I am looking for a place to take 4 or 5 people on Thanksgiving day 2011.
The kicker is this- one person going will only go to a place that has some sort of simple beef dish with a potato type thing. This person is really looking for the most simple of beef dishes. I believe a filet just cooked with no sauce, no marinade, no spices, no herbs, etc is their favorite thing and they like it with a potato and or perhaps a simple iceberg salad.
This persons wife has already said no to- 701, Oval Room, Bastille Alexandria, Blue Duck, Acadiana, Vidalia, the Majestic, Virtue Feed and Grain and a few others.
I just do not know what to say or do about this one. Everywhere that I know of in the area is not going to feature such a simple type item. Unfortunately if this person does not go then the meal probably will not happen. I also usually eat seafood so I'm not familiar with good beef places.
All of the other folks are more open minded for food however some are not totally open. I think the other folks would want some sort of turkey traditional entreee. I get the idea that the picky eater wants to go somewhere like Daniel O'connels in Alexandria but places like that are always closed on Thanksgiving.
We will be touring Mt Vernon that day so somewhere near Alexandria or Northern Virginia would be easy. However I have no problem going to DC and then we can roam around there. I guess I would consider MD for the right place.
I already thought about eating at Mt Vernon, as I am sure you can imagine, that is not possible they are booked solid.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions or hints.
1990 M Street, Washington, DC 20036
901 New York Ave NW Ste 200A, Washington, DC 20001
what FUN!
surely any place that has a steak and potato on the menu would be happy to serve it plain and just charge the same as the regular. call ahead and arrange it so these jokers you're fond of (I have some too) don't hijack the day (mine do the same thing).
wait on re-read Mr. Picker's WIFE is the one vetoing? sure it's not them both? you might check out Corduroy, RIS and Georgia Brown's, they're all fairly straightforward but good (can't vouch for Georgia's anymore - been too long but they used to do a deep-fried turkey T-day prix fixe for the others as well as ala carte)
re: hill food
RIS is a great idea if they are open for Thanksgiving. Also maybe Poste.
2275 L Street NW, Washington, DC 20037
I'd start by going to Open Table and seeing what is available for a party of five or six this late in the game. (1789 probably has been fully booked since the day after Thanksgiving 2010.) Then, I'd start phoning those places and asking directly about the special meal.
I don't understand the responses of the person's wife. If you've gotten an agreement from the restaurant to deliver exactly what her DH wants, why should she veto any restaurant?
re: Elyssa
I looked online for the Thanksgiving menus for these three restaurants. Blue Duck's web site isn't posting any special menu for the day, although I assume one will be available.
Between the 701's and The Oval Room's menus, I think your group would enjoy 701 more since the turkey entree there is somewhat more traditional than The Oval Room's turkey entree. Appetizer choices at both places seem trendy, with only the soup sticking close to something grandma might have included in her menu. The desserts at 701 seem closer to tradition than those at The Oval Room.
No restaurant among the list you started with is going to offer the stripped down meal one of your guests likes as part of its menu, but these are all service-oriented places who are likely to meet your needs with planning.
I'm not sure what their other menu options would be on Thanksgiving, but there is always BLT steak.
I didn't see a price point in the original post. Michel Richard's place at the Tysons Corner Ritz Carlton has a special Thanksgiving menu. Worth a call to see if a plain filet can be ordered for the above mentioned diner [they already have a petit filet on the kids' menu]. There's the traditional turkey & sides as well as fish and veg on the menu too.
http://www.michelrichardva.com/menu.php [Thanksgiving menu is one of the selections on this page]
re: Lydia R
I heartily recommend Clyde's. I have enjoyed their Thanksgiving Day menu at their various locations (I prefer Tysons and 1789 but you won't get in to 1789). The T-Day special meal is of very high quality and pricing is quite reasonable. The "regular" Clyde's menu is also available should anyone in your party not favor turkey with the usual sides and desert. Several locations I have been too were, in recent years, packed so reservations would seem to be essential.
I plan to return to Clyde's Tysons this Thanksgiving for a fifth year in a row. I think there are ten locations in the DC area. As other posters suggest, you should be calling now to see about your options and make reservations (and do try 1789 in case there is an opening).
I'd cook for this person at home or maybe, let them cook for themselves-why aren't they offering to cook for themselves anyway, if they have such restrictive dining options? Good luck w/ your guest, & hope you both manage a great T' giving...
Why are you letting *one* person determine where you will eat on Thanksgiving day?
Do you live in the area? Perhaps the best solution is to have a pre-ordered Thanksgiving meal delivered to your house and grill a strip of steak on the side for your guest?
Supermarkets and catering companies often have Thanksgiving-to-go packages.
These are all some excellent suggestions and I really appreciate all of the suggestions. Some of the suggestions I thought about and pitched. I told the wife that any place serving a beef dish for example will serve it without the sauce or garlic for example. And every restaurant has potatoes so I'm sure any place could throw out a potato as a side dish. They like Clyde's and have been there but they only want to go there if Clyde's is serving a beef filet which he previously had but is not on the menu now. I told them that I think it was probably a special and that they could call to ask if it will be a special for that day.
They were not interested in custom ordering something to be plain. I think the wife is being overly sensitive about the situation honestly. I do not know maybe he as pitched a fit about something in the past. Some other family members told me that he has gone to places like Rosa Mexicano in the area and ordered something simple like a enchilada then taken two bites and said no I do not like it, I do not want it. I'm also told that he protested that the salsa was just chopped tomatoes and did not have a sauce consistency like grocery store canned.
I have friends that are traditional eaters but this just seems so extreme. I almost feel like I am planning a Thanksgiving meal for a toddler or something. He will not even eat Turkey and the traditional side dishes- even if they are without herbs and such. He demands a cheeseburger and fries or a steak and potato. He also eats a seafood dive type restaurants- which again not open on Thanksgiving!
These kind of places that serve food like this are usually pubs- in my opinion and they are not open on Thanksgiving and if they were I would not want to take my holiday meal there probably anyway. I did not even invite them for this Thanksgiving meal, they kind of invited themselves. And when they did I cautioned them that it would be a proper meal at a proper place. So I am rather confused.
Well the other day after having suggested about 25 different places I got kind of frustrated. So guess what? I kicked the ball to them. I said- you know what- I'm fine with most places and everyone else in the party is fine with most places. So then I said why don't you guys pick the place? I send them an email with some links to open table, Washingtonian, Yelp, Wash Post, the open table page with Thanksgiving meals on it, a link to the page showing places open at our times and such. I even said if you go on there and find one or two places that you like then we can go there or I can find something similar for you. The process of me suggesting things and a constant no was just not productive or effective.
They have never cared much for the places that the various family members have taken them around here or anywhere else for that matter. I like trendy type food I guess and everyone else in the family does. I do like eating at dives, diners, and drive ins but not for a holiday!
Well the end of the story is that they go so angry by my email suggesting that they pick the place that they will not even talk to us now! They did not reply to the email. We called them the other day about 4 or 5 times and they would not answer the phone once. The kicker is that another family member paid for their hotel via priceline bidding so that person is now stuck with a non-refudnable hotel room that they do not need.
I'm just really at a loss for words to explain the whole situation. I have friends with similar relatives of the same age group, from a rural area also, that are traditional eaters. But they do not seem to have problems like this. I think he has some sort of issue or something like that with going to a "fancy place".
Well unfortunately it looks like the entire situation is a bust but I do really appreciate all of the great suggestions that I got from everyone! I have definitely learned a valuable lesson here and I will for sure be more cautious in the future when I agree to accommodate picky eaters for group meals!
re: drake0388
Sometimes things just work out like that. Is it a nice hotel? Why don't you and your partner give yourself a night off and spend a night there after enjoying your dinner without this picky eater?
I was going to suggest that you just leave these folks out of the dinner party but this is Chowhound.
re: drake0388
Sounds like the problem relative was looking for an excuse to back out of the event. He not only wanted plain but he wanted to control the way plain arrived on his plate (i.e. could not be a special request). Perhaps these folks really felt embarrassed about relying on another family member for picking up the hotel tab and had to invent a -- to them only -- plausible reason for refusing to come. I hope everyone who does attend has a warm and loving Thanksgiving visit despite the drama that has led up to the day.
re: drake0388
wow. that IS passive-aggressive. I'd take Mike R's suggestion and somebody should use the room, ask for extra blankets, turn down the temp, order something in and watch bad movies all night. make it dinner and a slumber party for the non-spoil sports.
"I kicked the ball to them." I don't know how else you might have handled that without sending the normal holiday stress up to a steam whistle shriek.
with this update, I get the sense the wife's caught in the middle, he may have just not wanted to do it at all and it was the only way he saw out of it. sad. I find it odd when some freak out when the place is too 'fancy'. I wonder if there's an economic thing going on (as Indy implies) and he saw being treated as a 'charity' gesture. did he or did she sort of invite themselves along? I ask as that might go towards explaining the dynamic here.
re: hill food
+1. You can't please everyone, and it seems like this solution was the best of both worlds. Order take out, enjoy the hotel if it's nice and be thankful you aren't with these people!


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Google and Samsung bare teeth in battle for LANDFILL ANDROID™
Does anyone else other than Google, Samsung and Apple make popular branded smartphones? Well, if you follow the market you'll know there are many brands and many flavours of Android today competing for customers. Some 32,000 voices at Nokia will strongly disagree with my opening proposition – you've heard of Windows Phone, right …
Phone Dialler
KitKat's phone dialer consults Google search.
Why? Pure and simple Why The F**** does it do that? Will it dial Po Lee's Chinese instead of the Bombay TakeAway simply because Po Lee has paid more more to Google to get their page rankings higher?
Thankfully my old Sony-Ericsson T501 does not do that (I hope)
Re: Phone Dialler
Well the geographic nature of search results returned for 'places' nearby seems to work(i.e. searching for bike shop, gets bike shops nearby). I'm not sure how searching for "Bombay TakeAway" will return "Po Lee's Chinese" in the results. Maybe you are mentally retarded? In that case, I suggest you should buy an Apple mobile phone.
Re: Phone Dialler
No, when number thats not in your address book calls, rather than showing just the number, it will look up the buisness online.
You can carry on wearing your tinfoil hat, but to the rest of us, thats actually a very useful feature....
There is plenty of room for other Android manufacturers. Having activated well over a billion Android devices, even a small percentage of marketshare is millions of phones.
I know 10x more Sony Android phone owners than I do people that own the Windows phone disaster...
Re: Phone Dialler
You know TEN Sony Android owners? I've never seen a single Sony Android, though I don't look closely at every phone I see. I can only recognize iPhones and Samsung Galaxy from a glance, because the large majority of the phones I see are one of those. Maybe people I know or am casually acquainted with around here just don't have much variety in their choices.
I've seen a couple Windows phones, both owned by Windows admins as I would have pretty much expected.
Re: Phone Dialler
There's a windows phone out? Why doesn't anyone know about this?
Sour Grapes
I see a lot of rhetoric about supposedly poor quality hardware and somehow unacceptable default apps, but even if that characterisation is remotely true (and completely ignoring the fact that all the defaults can be supplanted), it doesn't seem to have dissuaded people from buying Android devices, which are currently wiping the floor with everything else.
In addition to being brutally pulverised by Android in the smartphone market, it seems Apple's tablet market share has just collapsed. And as for Microkia® ... it's a joke, barely able to achieve double figures.
I find it odd that the openness of Android is being stigmatised as being somehow a Bad Thing®, when it's clearly benefitting so many people ... except Apple and Microsoft, of course.
Re: Phone Dialler
>I know 10x more Sony Android phone owners than I do people that own the Windows phone disaster...
>> I've never seen a single Sony Android, though I don't look closely at every phone I see.
Well, that's anecdotal evidence for you... the good people in my local beer garden have between them three Sony Android phones (an Xperia Z, T, and P) and three WinPho 8 phones... and that's not including the bloke who has a HTC HD2 running WinMobile 6.x that his sister gave him. But hey, that's just a sample pool of several dozen regular drinkers.
Amongst the younger pub users, it does seem to be mainly Samsung Galaxies and iPhones.
Re: Sour Grapes
"I find it odd that the openness of Android is being stigmatised as being somehow a Bad Thing®, when it's clearly benefitting so many people ... except
Apple and Microsoft developers looking to protect and make a return on their hard work, of course.
Re: Hard Work®
I don't especially care if their work was Hard®, I only care if it's good.
Then I'll consider buying it.
As for "protecting" this work, that's exactly the sort of thing that's likely to discourage me from buying it. By an amazing coincidence, those who whine loudest about needing to "protect" their work are also typically those who produce the sort of unholy shit that nobody wants to buy, which is after all exactly why they need to "protect" it in the first place.
I think samsung and google fell out some time ago...
I think the cracks started to show when LG made the nexus 4. Given what a tremendous phone the galaxy nexus was it was a bit odd that LG won the gig for the Nexus 4. And now the nexus 5. Oh, and the galaxy nexus isn't getting kitkat. (unless samsung chose to do that by themselves).
So, I conclude the gloves are off already. LG is deciding to ride the gravy train with google, taking over from where samsung left off.
However, the article is also a bit discourteous to google. While kitkat is clearly geared towards google on the nexus devices (this is after all the 'google implementation devices') if you look at their API's you are easily able to replace the SMS, dialer or even cloud storage by implementing your own provider or app. Its not rocket science and google even allow you to do it and sell it via the play store. In fact, you can even do all that on your own build! (as samsung have proved). There are no 'default' applications that now can't be overridden with your own app. The interesting thing with the hangouts SMS is you are now able to put your own app in to deal with SMS so you don't have to share it with hangouts if you don't want to. It was the only thing you pretty much couldn't do before.
But, given all the money google have put into this you can't blame them for wanting to get something out of it on their 'google' nexus devices. And they have been way more generous with not actually making it so you can't use competitors products as the default - other companies (read apple and microsoft here) don't allow such shenanigans.
Just my opinion though.....I know there are plenty of others.
Re: That'll be an up-vote for you
Very much agreed. Not giving the most excellent Galaxy Nexus (a play with one of these prompted me to buy the S3) KitKat stinks of corporate politics.
Re: That'll be an up-vote for you
As opposed to not being able to support an obsolete chipset?
Android is becoming Google Phone
I've seen people online say that a problem with porting KitKat to the Galaxy Nexus was that Texas Instruments (who made the chipset) have quit smartphones. Doesn't exactly sound like an insurmountable obstacle, though.
There's great coverage on Ars Technica by Ron Amadeo about how Google are taking over android - basically the plan is to close-source as many goodies as possible and keep them for 'true Android' - they're still free for anyone making a true Android phone, but not for Android fork merchants. And many Android APIs for web services - in-app purchases and the like - depend on Google now.
For me, on a Nexus 4, this isn't a huge problem yet, but it's alarming. I think my next phone might well be an iPhone, since it still has Google services if I need them, but Apple seem much less interested in grabbing all my data.
Re: That'll be an up-vote for you
>google even allow you to do it and sell it via the play store.
If a manufacturer forks Android, Google will prevent them from using the Play Store, Gmail Client, Google Maps and any other app that requires the (closed source) Google Play Services library (which they promote to app developers as offering advanced functionality and better hooks into the hardware)... This is maybe why Samsung phones ship with Samsung apps that appear to duplicate the functionality of Google's offerings (i.e there is a Samsung App store, Samsung Translate, Samsung Mail, Calender, S Voice dictation etc.); Samsung have been hedging their bets.
Re: Android is becoming Google Phone
"Ars Technica by Ron Amadeo" is the biggest back door funded confirmed closet Appleholic on the planet. Meaning he goes all out on every freaking story about Samsung, making out like as if they are the worse device maker on the planet. He totally hates them worse than he does anything else on earth and goes into fits of rage on just the mention of their name. It's like he's been personally attacked he's such a nut case on hating Samsung at all cost. If you go by anything this iDiot Moron has to say, you know it's been approved by the Applewellian Thought Police and their Appleholic Inner Party Members in Society!
Normally also died in the flesh, self confessed fascist tin foil hat'd Haters and some sleeper cell Apple addicts, who know no other language than trash talking anti-Samsung retarded infantile gibberish from the Dark Side. Which is always centered on how badly Samsung is killing Apple's iPhone market. Now by a ratio of nearly 3 to 1! .......and with Samsung's last 88.7 Million Smarterphone sales this last quarter, they crushed Apple so bad that he was getting back door funded to totally unleash as much misinformation and hatred as he possibly could. Yet..... the loser had little to no affect on Samsung's Record Breaking Sales even beating Apple here in America, while also again winning in the largest fastest growing markets by huge margins!
Take that all you closet Appleholic losers!
This whole story is a big fat joke out of some of the Register's finest Hate Mongerers. Out to do their part in attempting to sow seeds of doubt in Google Android as well as Samsung's Dominance in selling it's devices in selling the biggest part of the Android Dominated Smartphone Market now at 80% to Apple's 13% and if that's where YOU want to buy.... then YOU are the only one that's been fooled by Ron Amadeo's bull pucky crock of iPoo Poo on Android! Samsung Wins by losing you anyway!!!
Re: Re: Android is becoming Google Phone
Kroneous, people can have opinions without being paid shills.
Re: Android is becoming Google Phone
Sure you're not thinking of Engadget?
While Ars aren't exactly a crowd of Fandroids, they tend to be pretty objective one way or the other.
For example their piece on Android fragmentation is not all doom-and-gloom like some other tech sites and actually explains what frag is, why it happens, and concludes that it's not necessarily bad.
(NOTE: That's just the first piece I came across. I could probably find others, but it's lunch time and I've better things to do that argue on the Interweb)
Granted, their Apple v. Samsung patent coverage was fairly biased, but you'd be hard pressed to find an IT site that wasn't. IIRC the Reg's own coverage wasn't exactly glowing for Sammy.
Now, Engadget on the other hand, are your dyed-in-the-wool Apple-holics for certain. Just visit the site within 48 hrs before or after an Apple Press Conference.
Why Android?
The latest generation of tablets and phones have enough hardware resources to run 'PC' operating systems.
Linux is the obvious alternative (yes, I know Android shares a lot of origins with Linux) to provide proper multi-window multi-tasking and provide fully functional programs (not Apps) to those users who would quite like things like Thunderbird as a mail client.
What about Microsoft porting Windows 8.1 (or perhaps XP) to ARM systems? Goes completely against their ethos but I suspect that if Mr&Mrs Average were offered a choice of tablets running a well known and familiar OS at a less than stellar price then they might be quite receptive.
The fly in the ointment, as usual, is the App store - but Google has been messing with this recently as well, like removing AdBlock Plus and other ad blockers so it can monetise Android even more.
Everyone hates Microsoft because they have a reputation for locking down the platform and screwing the customer. Apple have been accused of similar. Is Google now going down the same route and trying to become 'most hated'?
In the same way that Linux had a boost from people fed up with Microsoft, it might get another boost from people fed up with Google.
Here's hoping!
Re: Why Android?
most linux apps aren't touch oriented would be one.. and I assume you've heard of Windows RT ? You know, the Windows 8 that is a port to ARM ?
Why Android, well I think the answer is pretty simple - it was there first, and has a ton of momentum, that is very hard to counter, second is cost for the folks making the phone. Making a (good) mobile OS is expensive and difficult, making an ecosystem around it even more so. I've never used Android for more than a few mins though I am planning to go to Android from WebOS at some point soon.
I do feel it's a sad state of affairs that Android has basically become the Windows of the mobile era, I suppose it could be worse though (speaking as someone who uses Linux exclusively on their desk/laptops).
Re: Why Android?
Microsoft has ported Windows 8 to ARM. It is called Windows RT. The main problem with it is that there are approximately 4 apps available for it, Outlook (new in RT 8.1), Word, Excel and Powerpoint.
Re: Why Android?
While I take your point, I have to add that it's a little more complicated than that!
Don't have a smartphone or tablet myself, but ocassionally use them for short periods. It seems to me
- most of what you'd like to do is on the web anyway
- the app store policies are very different
Read a summary of Microsoft's rules recently; the full requirements are set out in some detail at
App certification requirements for the Windows Store
Bottom line? Windows Store apps have to prove their worth as an app. By contrast, with Android, anything goes (more or less). I would imagine most Android apps would simply never get admission to the Windows app store.
With these circumstances, comparing app store numbers is entirely meaningless...
Re: Why Android?
You also need to add three extra hardware buttons to use Windows effectively
Why Linux?
Android is already Linux. You want to run Android apps on Linux, why not do so? As Android proponents never fail to mention, Android is open, so that should be easy, right? Oh, by "open" you mean that allows someone else to take care of the hard work making that happen for you...
Re: Why Android?
What about Microsoft porting Windows 8.1 (or perhaps XP) to ARM systems?
Windows 8.1 is available for ARM it is essentially RT. Unfortunately google is anti competitive and has a monopoly on the smartphone and search industry. By giving away their operating system for free to promote their search platform they are effectively no better than Microsoft in the 90s....
Re: Why Android?
I do feel it's a sad state of affairs that Android has basically become the Windows of the mobile era"
You might prefer Cyanogen Mod if you want something you can compile and hack yourself which runs on a respectable selection of mobile phone hardware. But most users like myself who benefit from the competition which occurs within Open Source systems tend only want to act as developers in respect of small parts of these systems if at all.
Much better for the most popular choice on this form factor to have sufficient openness to allow for greater openness for those who need it and have the time to develop it.
Re: Why Linux?
> You want to run Android apps on Linux, why not do so?
Re: Why Android?
@Mr Roberts
You can easily experience what a desktop UI feels like on a mobile phone by using a remote desktop app and controlling your desktop machine from your phone. It's doable, but you wouldn't want to make a habit of it. Early versions of Windows Mobile, aka WinCE (for good reason) also tried to bring something that look like desktop Windows to small screens.
Microsoft with Win8 and Canonical with Ubuntu are trying to develop UIs that can be used across screen sizes... Apple aren't bothering, save for bringing some iOS-style multitouch gestures to OSX (note to MS; OSX incorporated gestures in addition to existing menus, 'corners' and keyboard shortcuts. Not genius, just common sense.)
Re: Why Android?
> has a monopoly on the smartphone ...
Google doesn't have a monopoly on smartphones at all, they do have a small marketshare with Nexus devices. Phone manufacturers are not tied to Google and can use whatever OS they wish to. It happens that the public want to buy various different brands that run Android. These sell alongside other OSes.
> and search industry.
You, and everyone else, can select whatever search engine you prefer. A simple click can select from over a dozen different ones. Those that _choose_ to use Google do so because it has better results.
> By giving away their operating system for free to promote their search platform they are effectively no better than Microsoft in the 90s..
When did Microsoft ever give away an operating system ?
Re: Why Android?
So you for one welcome these creepy new overlords. What a joke of a fanboi post!
I know noone who's bought Androd, they've bought Samsung, LG, Sony or whoever. Android isn't the driver, the hardware maker is.
I'm glad too that you consider Google, MS or anyone else holding in excess of 80℅ of ANY market a healthy thing that results in best value for end users. Users may be able to use minnows but advertisers can't, and time and again the point has been proven that small policy changes to Google`s algorithm can kill other businesses.
You're also right MS never gave away an OS but they used monopoly profits from Windows to kill innovation in many other markets.
Are you Eadon?
Re: Why Android?
> So you for one welcome these creepy new overlords.
First of all I don't see them as 'overlords'. I can easily avoid Google or I can use it. Whereas, for example if I ran Windows 8 I would find it harder to avoid having an MS account or Bing.
>I know noone who's bought Androd, they've bought Samsung, LG, Sony or whoever. Android isn't the driver, the hardware maker is.
Exactly. Google isn't the driver, the hardware makers are. They can build WP, Maemo, Meego, Tizen, or any other (except iOS), or write their own. It happens that their customers buy Android so that is what they make.
This is unlike the Windows OEM where if they made other stuff (DR-DOS, BeOS, NetBooks with Linux, etc) MS 'punishes' them by removing discounts, or per-box pricing, or similar.
> I'm glad too that you consider Google, MS or anyone else holding in excess of 80℅ of ANY market a healthy thing that results in best value for end users.
Did I say that ? No I did not.
> the point has been proven that small policy changes to Google`s algorithm can kill other businesses.
Actually most of the complaints along those lines are where someone manages to manipulate the results in their favor and then complains when Google levels it all out again.
> Are you Eadon?
You can see who I am, are you Richto, the vogon, or AC the shill ?
Re: Why Android?
> anyone else holding in excess of 80℅ of ANY market
It wasn't Google that killed off Symbian, Maemo/Meego and Metemi, it was Microsoft via its puppet Elop. It was Microsoft and Nokia that reduced the number of different products in the market leaving the race between two plus BB and WP fighting they way downwards.
OTOH it was Microsoft that killed off DR-DOS first with illegal 'per-box' pricing, then the AARD code, then by bundling MS-DOS and Windows 3.x at the Windows price (actually that was giving MS-DOS away for free to kill off DR-DOS). Then they announced the 'Netware would not be supported by the next DOS/Windows' so Novell bought DRI so that they did have a client OS that supported Netware. They planned to give a copy of DR-DOS with each Netware client licence. MS and Novell settled by MS continuing support for Netware and Novell having to remove DR-DOS from the market.
So DR-DOS died, not because it wasn't wanted, but because MS had engineered that it not be available to be bought.
MS also supported SCO in their attempt to kill Linux, getting SCO $50million funding and also spending $millions in buying Unix licenses from SCO that they didn't need.
It was MS that engineered that the alternatives to WP, and Android, could also not be bought.
Fortunately, Tizen, Jolla, Ubuntu, Firefox OS, and possibly others are becoming available bringing back choice that had been strangled by Microsoft.
Re: Why Android?
I have one of those Linux phones. It's two years old. It's called a Nokia N9.
And some people have another one as well. It's four years old. It's called a Nokia N900.
Re: Why Android?
It was true for the MS 'monopoly' as well. Nobody forced anyone to use Windows or IE. They just came preloaded like Android on mobile phones, and Google in Firefox and Chrome.
Re: Why Android?
> It was true for the MS 'monopoly' as well. Nobody forced anyone to use Windows or IE.
Yes they did. Microsoft forced the OEMs to use Windows and IE, or more specifically, they forced them, via 'loyalty' discounts, per box pricing, and other means to _not_ use anything else. This made the only things available in retail stores was Windows or Apple (who made their own hardware and OS). Even if you wanted to run Linux you were often forced to buy Windows by lack of availability of alternatives.
> They just came preloaded like Android on mobile phones,
But with phones there used to be a choice in the retail shops or on-line of several OSes. That was deliberately reduced by Microsoft's agreement with Nokia, not by Google.
In many, probably most, cases Google has no contact with the phone maker and they can choose whatever system they want to. They only need to deal with Google if they want to include Google services.
It wasn't threats from Google that killed WebOS, it was more likely that Microsoft extended the 'loyalty' discount threat to HP with WoA and RT.
> and Google in Firefox and Chrome.
The search bar on Firefox contains Yahoo, Bing, Amazon, eBay, DuckDuckGo and others and there is a link to add others and set preferences. Chrome also offers other search engines: Yahoo and Bing or easily add others.
In fact Ubuntu's Firefox defaulted to using Yahoo because Yahoo paid them to do so.
Re: Why Android?
Please! Have you seen some of the apps on the Windows App store?
There are huge numbers of apps that simple aren't worth the few seconds to download - they certainly haven't "proved" their worth at all. Try searching for a video player that purports to play DivX - you'll find loads that they they do, but the handful of reviews usually say they don't. All these apps presumably pass the Windosr STore certification, but since they don't actually do what they are advertised to do, what's the point?
That's not to say that Play or the Apple App store aren't full of crap as well, but because they are both well frequented, you can sort the wheat from the chaff by looking at the reviews. This is almost impossible on the Windows App store, because unless we're talking "marquee" apps, most apps seem to have reviews in the single digits!
Comparison of openness
I'd really like to see a comparison of openness between these leviathons, Google Android & iOS (& I'm not suggesting any allusion to FOSS).
I've been using iOS for some time & it hasn't forced me down any roads I don't care for.
We've a Nexus 5 coming into the household next week so maybe I'll get to work that out for myself.
Re: Comparison of openness
I don't know about the Nexus 5, but on most Android devices, you can side-load apps from outside the Play Store, and that can include apps that let you buy stuff from other competing App stores such as Amazon's. That alone makes it much more open than iOS.
Re: Comparison of openness
My reason for preferring Android is it feels more productive. It's easier to transfer stuff from one app to another - you just highlight what you want, hit share and choose the app you want to move it to - widgets mean I can quickly look at my e-mail, calendar and news in a few swipes across the homescreens. It also has SwiftKey, which is absolutely stunning. Utter magic.
The flip side is it's controlled by Google, who want to grab all your data. I've disabled most of the hooks like keeping a record of search history with my name attached, switching to Opera Mini and so on...
Also, many of these advantages are cancelled out for me by the fact that even my Nexus 4 has a truly laughable camera, rubbish plasticky edges and a totally uncalibrated screen. I suspect my next phone will be an iPhone. I'll have to use swiftkey in a separate note app, but I think I can live with that.
Re: Comparison of openness
I find it quite hard to believe that your post here has prompted some down votes!
I should be an iOS person - I have 3 Macs in my house (typing this on an rMBP) and I bought my wife an iPhone and an iPad. However, for my phone and tablet requirements, I too find Android a better fit. That's not to denigrate iOS - it does what it does very well, but at this point in time it doesn't do what I *need* it to do as well as Android does.
Your point about data sharing (via intents) is a prime example of this. Another is screens size - I regularly use my Galaxy Note 3 (and the Note 2 and original Note before it) to access servers using remote desktop. The screen size and resolution of the Note range is vast superior than the iPhone's for this particular purpose, and the S-Pen makes an absolutely superb mouse replacement when a finger simple doesn't give the required precision.
The point is that it's all horse for courses. iPhone for works you? Great! WP8? Brilliant! Android? Good for you!
Personally, I welcome the choice.
So, here's an upvote for your trouble.
Thank goodness for Root
Both Google's and Samsung's apps are frozen on my phone. Android works acceptably well without logging into a Google account (delete /data/system/accounts.db) with K9 email (inlcuding Gmail a/c push IMAP), GrooveIP or Skype. Google Maps works unlogged, but Google Play asks you to log in - so that's out - and contact syncing gets complicated.
'A pox on all their houses', I say...
If I can't root it, I won't use it.
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>If I can't root it, I won't use it.
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Sony forcasts 42m Android Xperias sales in 2013.
10m in the last 3 months, 42m for total in 2013. More than the total and the total forcast for the failed WIndows phone...
Re: Sony forcasts 42m Android Xperias sales in 2013.
Not surprised. When my wife wanted a new phone, I advised her to get a Z1. Why? Because she works outside and a waterproof phone is a brilliant thing. All the fancy bling and pointless gimmicks mean nothing. A simple, logical and useful feature won the day.
Re: Sony forcasts 42m Android Xperias sales in 2013.
Sure a Brite yellow "look-at-me-I'm" Loonier wasn't just a little more tempting?
Re: Sony forcasts 42m Android Xperias sales in 2013.
Yep, when there doesn't appear to much to choose between Sony's, Samsung's and HTC's flagship offerings, go with the waterproof phone. Let's hope that it becomes a standard feature on phones in future.
There is a waterproof version of the Galaxy S4, (S4 Active) but it isn't available as part of a UK contract AFAIK, at least on EE.
Value vs Features vs Price
My trusty Nexus S has died finally, so I'm shopping. Probably I'll find a used Nexus 4 on Craigslist, or maybe go one further and pay Google $350 for a Nexus 4. I'm tied sufficiently into the Googleverse that using hardware that's also predominantly Google makes sense.
In the interim I'm using a cheap and crappy Samsung Discovery, running ICS, with no hope of ever upgrading to the beauty of JB - much less KitKat. It's slow, and kind of ugly, but I only paid $100 for it - new - and it runs everything that I use adequately well. You might call it a "landfill" phone, but for 90% of people it would actually work just fine.
If an adequate phone can be had for $100, why would I spend $700-1000 for new Samsung or Sony device? (The asking price from any of Canada's network operators.)
For that matter, how come the Nexus 5 which sells for $350 on Google's web site is being offered for $500 by the Canadian telcos? (Greed of course, pure unfettered greed)
The thing that allows this level of price gouging is obvious: it is more or less impossible to buy a cel phone from anyone other than a cel provider. Whether you're paying the full (inflated) price up front, or going for the the "free" (inflated price) phone with a two year contract, you're pretty much stuck with buying from the greedy cel companies.
The reality is that virtually no-one will know about or buy a phone from Google, because they are awash in advertising from the cel companies that imply that you have to buy from them.
Ultimately what we in Canada need is a big enough, tough enough retail operator who will specialize in selling unlocked name brand phones at good prices. Someone with enough marketing budget to blast through the wall of cel company advertising.
Until we can separate the hardware from the phone service we're going to continue to get screwed.
Re: Value vs Features vs Price
The author doesn't seem to recognise that low price and landfill are not necessarily synonymous. The landfill expression refers to phones where critical engineering compromises were made in order to hit a particular price point. We saw this especially with touch screens and insufficient internal storage and RAM.
Look at it this way. A galaxy s2 was in its day arguably the best smartphone. Today, a phone of equivalent specifications would easily be in the landfill price point yet as a phone it would work fine and would not blink at running words with friends or angry birds.
To paraphrase a famous quote. Phones should be as cheap as possible; but no cheaper.
Re: Value vs Features vs Price
> offered for $500 by the Canadian telcos
Greed, plus people's stupidity. I have a Nexus 4 I bought from Google, then bought a T-Mobile SIM for $3 and signed up for $30/mo service. And that's total, including taxes and the rest.
I have a ton of acquaintances on Verizon or AT&T or whatever for $90/mo to $160/mo PER PHONE and I tell them about this, and they say something like "oh that doesn't sound right" or "you always do weird stuff" and they keep paying their triple-digit fees.
People are stupid.
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More than two years ago, Florida voters jumped at the chance to create a Department of Elderly Affairs.
But the vaguely worded amendment they approved 2-1 never spelled out what the new agency would do, who would run it or how much it would cost.
More than two years ago, Florida voters jumped at the chance to create a Department of Elderly Affairs.
But the vaguely worded amendment they approved 2-1 never spelled out what the new agency would do, who would run it or how much it would cost.
Not much has changed since then.
The plan bogged down after then-Gov. Bob Martinez joined state welfare officials in warning that it was unnecessary and would cost $14 million.
An advisory commission named after the late U.S. Rep. Claude Pepper was formed in its place.
Now, Gov. Lawton Chiles is calling the department his No. 1 priority. Many of the same Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services officials who once scorned the idea support it and say it will cost little.
As legislators, advocates and private agencies scramble to put together a plan, many are at odds over whether HRS` $214 million aging program should be replaced, who would take control and how the changes would affect 3 million elderly Floridians.
``It`s anybody`s guess right now what will happen. It`s all up in the air,`` said Barbara Pogge, executive director of the state`s Long-Term Care Ombudsman Council, a volunteer watchdog group that investigates complaints against nursing homes and boarding homes.
Chiles acknowledged last month that he may have ``overpromised`` to set up the department before he knew whether it could be done.
During his campaign, Chiles proposed that the new agency take over all 11 HRS districts` aging programs and hand the job over to Florida`s Area Agencies on Aging -- mostly private, non-profit groups that run government-financed programs for the elderly in each district.
HRS already distributes $42 million a year in federal funds to the area agencies for senior centers and meals programs that serve 275,000 elderly. The agencies get another $47.6 million in state money to contract for home care, adult day care and other services for 40,000 people.
Under Chiles` plan, area agencies would get at least another $13 million in state funds and, more importantly, added control over contracts.
``I think it`s a superb idea,`` said Sally Gronda, director of the Area Agency on Aging serving St. Petersburg and Tampa.
Gronda said a separate department would eliminate coordination problems and make it easier for the elderly to find the help they need.
But some advocates caution that more authority for private agencies means less accountability over public dollars.
``Part of the whole problem has come out of the area agencies wanting more power and control. It`s inappropriate,`` said Budd Bell, who heads the Clearinghouse on Human Services, a Tallahassee-based umbrella organization of social service advocacy groups.
``The governor has committed himself, unfortunately, to something,`` Bell said. ``We want to keep it from being a white elephant.``
Some advocates say they oppose the separation of children`s programs from those for the elderly.
``I think voters could have passed a department of ma and pa and apple pie,`` said Jack Levine, executive director of the Florida Center for Children & Youth in Tallahassee. ``It was an attempt to have one powerful interest group seek additional recognition. We don`t think it`s a wise move, in terms of dollars and political message.``
Two bills have already been filed that would create a separate department.
One, from State Rep. Walter Young, D-Pembroke Pines, would transfer the entire HRS aging program to the new department. Only the Medicaid payment unit for seniors would remain in HRS.
The House HRS Committee is taking a more cautious approach. Its bill would fold the Pepper Commission into the new agency but allow HRS to continue running most programs until a new plan could be worked out.
Either way, the future appears uncertain for the 18-member Pepper Commission, which has five staff members and a $400,000 budget. The panel, which advises state leaders on aging issues, may be rolled into the new department or eliminated.
C. Colburn Hardy, a commission member from West Palm Beach, opposes abolition. ``It`s important to have independent advocates like us who aren`t involved with the delivery of services.``
Nor does Hardy support creating a separate department in haste.
``It`s an insult to the seniors for the governor to use them as a temporary solution to a political problem,`` said Hardy, 81. ``It`s ridiculous to try to run a multimillion (dollar) enterprise like social services out of a ballot box.``
HRS, too, has found itself in a politically delicate situation.
Under the Martinez administration, former HRS Secretary Gregory Coler frequently blasted the plan for a department on aging. In May 1989, an internal HRS report estimated the proposal would cost almost $14 million.
Now, Larry Polivka, HRS assistant secretary for aging and adult services, says that he supports Chiles` plan and that it would cost little.


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- Lemonii Oct 2, 2007 01:38 PM
I LOVE coffee, but my nerves can't handle the caffeine anymore (sigh). I refuse to give up on coffee though, and have switched to decaf.
I use my French press, freshly grind my beans every morning, but most of the places I go to buy beans only offer one kind of decaf option. AND who says just because I want decaf I want it to be "light". I want rich, bold, sultry yummy beans people. Any suggestions on where to buy them online? Organic / fair trade would be cool too...
I really like La Semeuse - vacuum packed, though also available in NYC as loose beans. Very smooth taste.
I think Peets does the best decaf. And there are choices. My favorite is the Decaf Sumatra.
You can order online if there isn't one near you.
I found that Dunkin' Donuts decaf is worthless.
If you have a Trader Joe's around I find both the decaf French Roast and the decaf Italian roast to be quite drinkable.
re: Dyspepsia
Graffeo is fantastic coffee! First had it at Zuni cafe.... and always pick some up when we're in SF. I hadn't thought about it in quite some time...might have to order some now!
The other question is - if you ask for decaf, do you get decaf?
We were in Hammondsport NY eating at the Village Tavern and was we drank our decaf our server stopped to chat - my wife mentioned that she had slept very poorly the night before probably because she had been given full-caff coffee when she asked for decaf.
The expression on our server's face told us that we were drinking full-caff.
Wifey asked her god-daughter (who was working at Panera) if she always gave decaf to those who requested it. Again we got a very sick expression.
I use Peet's in my French press and am very happy with it. It is available online if you don't have a store near you.


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Buck kill appears averageBy Dennis Jensen
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Adam Murkowski, the deer project leader for Vermont Fish & Wildlife, poses with one of the bucks he took this season in his native Wisconsin.While the final figures are still not known, the 2012 buck kill is running about average for the kill numbers over the past three years.
As of Dec. 4, the latest figures released by the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department, 4,897 bucks have been brought into checking stations around the state.
Meanwhile, the average kill for the previous three years over the same time period is 4,867 antlered deer.
Adam Murkowski, the deer project leader for Fish & Wildlife, said that he is encouraged by the number thus far. And Murkowski stressed that many reports are still due from checking stations.
"This year, compared to last year, the numbers are up," he said. "These are really preliminary numbers. After the muzzleloader season, we'll have a much better handle as they continue to come in from every check station."
This is Murkowski's first buck season with the department after taking the position earlier this year as the top deer biologist in the state.
Murkowski said that, from what he has seen and from what he has heard, Vermont hunters seem to be satisfied with the results of the four 2012 deer seasons.
"Overall, everybody, from archers and young kids and the rifle hunters, everybody seems to be seeing deer," he said. "The general consensus is that people are seeing more deer and are harvesting bigger and more healthy bucks."
The weather for hunting deer during the 16-day firearms buck season was also favorable, Murkowski said.
"People got to sit a little longer and enjoy it," he said.
While Murkowski, an avid deer hunter, didn't get to hunt much in Vermont, he did manage to take three bucks in his native state of Wisconsin.
"I went back home, with my family," he said. "We had a really good year. I got a five-pointer, a nub-horn (button buck) and what should have been a 4-by-4, but every tine on his left side was broken off, with just the main beam showing."
Vermont has an antler restriction rule, which forbids hunters - the exception being the youth deer weekend - from taking spiked bucks. The spike horn rule has been in effect since 2005 and Murkowski said he believes it has done what it was proposed to do.
"There's no doubt the spike horn ban is working," he said. "We know it protects 50 percent of the yearling age class. And we know from the rifle harvest data that the composition of the harvest has been shifting increasingly up to the 2- and 3-year-old bucks."
Since the spike horn ban, the average buck kill has been about 40 percent for yearlings (1-year-old bucks), 35 percent for 2-year-old bucks and 25 percent for bucks 3 years and older, Murkowski said.
"We see that body weights continue to go up and we know from talking to hunters that the number of antler points are going up. We know from talking to hunters at checking stations that they are seeing more bucks and seeing older bucks," he said.
Murkowski said that he believes that the Vermont deer population is in very good shape.
"Vermont has some stark contrasts, in terms of habitat. There's farm country and big woods and a big difference in deer density. But overall the deer herd is very healthy," he said.
Fish & Wildlife understands that the deer herd is not "evenly distributed throughout the landscape," Murkowski said "There are places where we would like to see deer numbers increase."
Meanwhile, deer hunters would be wise to consult the annual deer harvest report, compiled by Fish & Wildlife biologists in time for the annual deer meetings held each winter, Murkowski said.
"We put a lot of effort into analyzing that stuff," he said. "Hunters can analyze that information and use it to help make informed harvest decisions when they are out hunting."
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According to Dr. Quinton White, marine science director at Jacksonville University, algae could cause serious health problems, suck up oxygen from water and prevent vessels from sailing. A number of contributing factors have fueled algae growth. Algae usually die during cold winter months but there were fewer freezes this winter. Adding to the problem is the fact that fertilizers and leaks from septic tanks have washed nutrients into the river, causing further growth, White explained.
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Well lets see....
The bad ones that come to mind for me are:
- Hogan Vs. Sid at VIII was underwhelming, saved by the return of The Ultimate Warrior
- The Bret/Yoko/Hogan debacle at IX definitely deserves mentioning, though I will give it credit for being memorable.
- LT Vs. Bam Bam was bad. Really bad, but so was the entire show. At least LT wrestling was interesting on paper.
- Undertaker Vs. Sid at 13 was a borefest with a stupid finish. The only thing this match had going for it was "Well at least I get to see Taker win the belt" and even that was tainted by having heel Bret Hart help Taker win! It was clear they had no idea what to do for the ME here, and it is no wonder WCW Uncensored 97 (a throwaway B-Show) beat them in the buyrates.
- The Four Way at 2000 wasn't awful up until it came down to Triple H & Rock, which is what the main event should have been all along. Of course then they fucked it up by doing one of the worst endings in Mania history with yet another McMahon heel turn and basically saving the good ending for Backlash.
- HHH Vs. Jericho at X-8 was a disaster. People use Rock/Hogan and them having to follow it as the excuse, but lets not underestimate the shitty build up. Hell, shitty is a perfect word for it because Jericho, the UNIFIED WORLD FUCKING CHAMPION, was shown on live TV cleaning up dog shit on Stephanie McMahon's orders. How the fuck am I supposed to take him seriously after that? Stephanie was the villain of the match and Jericho was just a placeholder. It was doomed from the start.
- I hate Cena Vs. HHH at Wrestlemania 22. I am going to go Roger Ebert on North here: I hated that match! Hated hated hated that match! I hated that match! I hated every stupid, simpering, audience insulting moment of it! I've explained why at least a dozen times, so lets just movie on.
- HHH Vs. Orton at XXV....Jesus Christ almighty was this awful. Boring doesn't even begin to cover it.
- Cena Vs. Miz at XXVII, the main problem here was that the whole thing felt like a prelude to The Rock. We knew Rock was going to play some kind of role in this, so why did he sit in the back the entire match? We knew nothing would end until he showed his face. The match was boring as a result and Cena & Miz were really off too. I liked that they had Rock cost Cena the title, but their Russo-ish way of getting to that finish was pretty silly too.
Those are the worst that come to my mind.
Which would I say is the number one worst? I'll go with HHH Vs. Orton at XXV. It was horrible, boring, and just impossible to sit through a second time. It was pretty atrocious and had little in the way of redeeming value.
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The target is Zakaria Bakkali, a 17 year old who has played only eight games for PSV Eindhoven. Despite his lack of experience, Bakkali is already breaking records – he recently became the youngest ever player to score a hat-trick in the Eredivisie when he netted three times against NEC Nijmegen at the ripe old age of 17 years and 196 days.
Arsenal have reportedly also expressed significant interest in the youngster, and it is the nature of contracts in Holland that make the player such an interesting prospect. Legally, Bakkali is unable to sign a professional contract in the Netherlands until he turns 18 – until then, he is able to sign for any club in England.
Belgium manager Marc Wilmots has likened the player to his compatriot Hazard, stating that he is a "player that scores easily, is very fast and has skillfull dribbling. Zakaria has just about the same profile as Eden. If something happens to Eden, I will swap him for Bakkali."
Manchester United and Manchester City have registered their interest and rumours are abound that they have both made contact with the player's agent. Evidently, there appears to be a Mancunian transfer saga brewing on the horizon.
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Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Erica Frantz argue that autocrats have more to fear from popular uprisings than from coups -- and that western policymakers should take note.
Erica Chenoweth and Stephen Zunes make the case that nonviolent resistance is the best strategy for preserving Ukraine's unity against threats from Russia.
Jonathan Schienberg profiles Bashar al-Masri, a Palestinian businessman who believes that the path to democracy runs through an economic empowered middle class.
With an eye to President Obama's recent foreign policy speech, Mohamed Eljarh indicts the American failure to support Libya's transition.
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In a new Atlantic Council report, Mohsin Khan and Karim Mezran ask how Algeria has managed to avoid the Arab Spring -- and whether it can continue to do so without undertaking major reforms.
Joshua Kurlantzick, writing for the Council on Foreign Relations, looks at the decline of democracy in the Southeast Asian countries and its repercussions.
Human Rights Watch reports on the institutional features that distort Bahrain's judicial system, sentencing peaceful protesters to life in prison while abusive cops roam free. (In the photo above, Bahraini activists participate in an anti-regime protest in Abu Saiba.)
Writing for the Irrawaddy, Aung Naing Oo considers what Burma can learn from the political upheaval in Thailand.
In her report for Politico Magazine on last week's Ukrainian presidential election, Sarah A. Topol examines the irony behind voters' choice of an oligarch for president after months of protests against the oligarchic system.
In the Washington Post, Liz Sly explains how a succession quandary is revealing dissent within Saudi Arabia's royal family.
Atlantic Council's Rafat al-Akhali maps out key considerations for Yemen's shift to federalism.
Finally, authors from the Legatum Institute in London, the Center for Development and Enterprise in Johannesburg, the Center for Policy Research in New Delhi, and the Instituto de Estudos do Trabalho e Sociedade in Rio de Janeiro present the results of Democracy Works, a project that explores three examples of democratic development from the global south: Brazil, India, and South Africa.
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