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Friday, April 30, 2010
Bring plastic bags back to SF now!
5:35 PM | 
Posted by
Alcides
Yeah, yeah. Plastic, the ocean, debris on the street. I know. I know. However, do you know that the stores required to use paper bags instead of plastic do not use 100% recycled paper? It's 30% if we're LUCKY! With that, SF and all those other cities have created a larger demand for paper. Trees, pollution, etc.
Now, I see it every day!...
"Can you double bag my bread? I'm walking."
"Can you double bag my potato chips? I walking up the stairs."
"Can you double bag my gallon of water that already has a HANDLE? I'm crossing the River Jordan."
First, the paper bags are strong. However, people abuse what they have and wave their bags around like they're made of cloth and are surprised when they break. And of course, some workers just don't know how to bag ANY type of bag correctly. Still. Bring your own damn bag!
Plastic! Bring it back. Charge 50 cents a pop! Taxed. The city, not the store, should charge 50 cents a bag. Just like they charge 5 cents CRV for the state on cans and bottles. SF looking for revenue? THERE YOU GO!
Stores can no longer just say, "Okay the customer is always right. Give them whatever they want." Now, they HAVE to charge for the bag.
Shopping? Bring your own bag. Or pay 50 cents a bag. Paper or plastic? How many bags would you like? Pay money! Forgot your bag at home? Pay now. Remember next time.
Seriously. Is it that ridiculous?
Alcides.
Monday, March 1, 2010
Why Chrome OS should come with LAMP Server.
"The Cloud? That means I have to be connected to the Internet in order to use my 'dumb terminal.'" Sad, but true. You must have a connection in order to use the machine at all. However...
If you incorporate LAMP Server (or similar) you get an awesome local server that can run applications as well. Granted, it wouldn't run all those cool social sites and your Google Docs, but it could! Say for instance if Google decided to make a LOCAL version of Google Docs. Or if other developers wanted to develop applications, they wouldn't have to learn so much for a new framework. It's PHP! It's MySQL! Apple eat your 1,000,000 "apps for that" heart out! We got 1,000,000,000 "apps for that and their baby mama!"
Heck, we could have people connecting one Chrome OS to another and trading data. I got my 250GB SimpleTech waiting right here.
Oh. But... Security. Well, is it that bad for the web servers that have PHP/MySQL on them that they have to discontinue using these services? And Google OS updates automatically, right? BAM! Security patch! POW! Ready to roll! Apple? Where'd you go?
Instead of another Software Development Kit give us a Software Detachment Kit. Yeah!
Alcides.
I'll probably get one either way. :) Still not affiliated with Google other than I use a few of their services (like Gmail and this Blog! :))
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