If the car is really driverless, then there are people who might buy them (subject to laws of course)

Steven Hawking might enjoy the freedom of a driverless car, or any other person with some disability, legally blind and able to get to work with one.

What about people with driving bans could they have one?

Would anyone be interested in one for a night out and not to worry about drink driving. There's a thought.

Back in the 40's and earlier there was a low tech equivalent the Horse and Cart the horse knew his job and would go about his rounds, and even stop at the pub as a matter of course. The driver had very little to do with the driving.

If the 'market' is static then thats a fall in share if its growing then its static or slower growing. Phones were pretty useless for other than phone use till the larger screened versions turned up (my phone is for calls and as a modem mostly, the screen is as big as needed for phone use).

Windows tablets seem to be around and cheap but they a) run windows and b) are short on ram to run windows.
If a desktop barely boots windows7 on 1gb and then takes 10 minutes to start word is windows8 going to be acceptable, i don't think so.

Android tablets I like but seem to be buggy slow and crash a lot to one degree or another, they are thrown out the door by manufacturers and orphaned from birth it seems. I've 3 or 4 tablets one of which gets used (mainly as an alarm clock) if it hasn't crashed. I considered buying a new tablet my last has ics,(my first had 1.6 and hardly any ram) but can't see a point in doing so, no one except google seems to be interested in supporting
their tablets, once you have bought them. Is it wrong to hope for a tablet that works properly and can handle a few upgrades to a current version of android.
I really don't like the way most of them will not support their customers, sure i understand that older models will have less ram storage and processor power and if they were kept up to date i'd move on to a current model at some point in time. I might even do so if they were open enough so third party developers could make the upgrades and fix the problems.

Apple i'm starting to like because while not cheap they do allow their customers to upgrade, don't like the walled garden but an iPad is looking like a better tablet option long term.

It's a bit of a strange country the UK, Google ASBO for a set of rather far reaching laws, that don't need a crime to be committed.

One thing that is a fairly major difference is bail, depending on the crime, it can be just a ticket maybe followed up by a time to appear in court, or maybe taken to a police station for a few hours and then bailed to appear at a magistrates court sometime later which can be months as crimes go up in seriousness you might get held overnight and appear before a magistrate to be bailed or remanded in custody.

There are no bail bonds in the UK either your safe to be let out (possibly with a tag or a curfew) or your not. It takes a lot to be kept in jail before trial. Even if you will be in jail eventually when sentenced, which maybe a year away. If you behave yourself before your trial, ideally taking positive steps in your life then you maybe even get a suspended sentence or even a conditional discharge.

So it's highly unlikely that in this case he will have been kept overnight in cells let alone been chucked in to prison on remand.

Under an American system, i guess it would depend if he has enough money to pay a bail bonds man or not. There are plenty of offenses he could have been charged with even before asbo's there was the good old breach of the peace.

Insulting Glaswegians in such circumstances would probably do it. He's liable to end up in hospital at some point, after some rough justice anyway, unless things calm down. The Police may be doing him a favor by charging him.

There were 6 people killed one woman saw both her parents and her daughter killed in front of her eyes. Think about it. How would you feel if you were that woman. I think most people can feel some empathy. Its christmas today pick any three of the people around you to be killed in front of your eyes, doesn't feel very good does it.

You might not like the law it could be used for censorship and repression, but its not in this case is it? in fact its the complete opposite you are aware of what that little shit said and your probably not even in the UK.

He is unlikely to go to jail maybe not even fined but he has been publicly shown to be the worthless scrap of humanity that he is.

Some things are just not done, and are socially unacceptable this is one of them. When it comes to censorship and repression how about Edward Snowdon does his case count as an example?

There is, used in most supermarkets (certainly in the Uk in Ireland since the eighties at least) a system of aluminium cages. usually 3 sides to them and wheels like shopping trolleys. The bottom folds up and the sides fold to the back.

picked and filled at the warehouse. dragged onto a truck dragged off at the supermarket emptied on the shop floor. empty trolleys back on the truck. Exceptions seem to be drinks slabs of coke and bottles. which tend to be palletized.

for garden centres there is another system of shelved trolleys for plants often re-shelved for selling direct off the trolley. Plants need to be watered regularly and being mobile is useful.

Clothing often is shipped on racks to avoid creasing too.

pallets are great when shipping 1 product from a factory but not so good for 1 of this 2 of that ect. which is the case often from distribution centres.

Ok so whats the difference between gun ownership between Denmark and Norway

http://www.gunpolicy.org/firea...

484298 Licensed guns in Norway Denmark just 21,000
http://www.gunpolicy.org/firea...
http://www.gunpolicy.org/firea...

Your mixing two different societies with different laws and differing social norms.
http://www.gunpolicy.org/firea...

As you might imagine, USA has around 101 guns per 100 people.

A more interesting statistic in 2012 34.4% of US households have 1 or more guns which means you could say around 2/3rds of US households are not scared enough to feel the need to have a gun in the house.

To be fair there is a learning curve that can rival photoshop or lightroom however there is a pretty comprehensive manual to walk you through the features.
However you will need to invest a little time to get the most out of it.

my first thought was lightroom but darktable is free runs on linux( OSX too) and will also generate a database of your images.

For image processing you would also want a 1GB or better graphics card to take advantage of GPU processing, not that you are really interested in that, other people maybe.

actually it might have been the toshiba e740 /e750 that i was thinking of and your right its been a long long time.

maybe because they had a brewery in nw10 london near the inner ring road. I remember that from around 87-88 when i was working in the area

linux on htc universal
www.unilinux.4fan.cz

7 options including android
openmoko , opie qtopia i think were the ones i played with there is debian (tchy).

how much works i have no idea, but you can get a few applications working and a gui.

think there was gpe for the htc universal it booted but the phone side didn't work one thing it did have was slide to unlock :) you dragged a key to the lock.

haret and z3 i think sound familiar.

A Polish development by any chance? kawa being the polish for coffee, with a java base it seems likely

which model do you suggest?

currently there are a number of 32bit tablets running windows 8 and they are remarkably cheap if lacking a little in the ram department.

These tablets would be great for Linux if it was possible to run on any of them. £150 with windows 8.1, with a proper linux distro. I would buy one, i might even dual boot it if there was enough space. I wouldn't even begrudge buying an iso file from canonical at a reasonable price if the hardware was fully supported.

There is work being done to support some of these tablets but it would be great if canonical could find some devices it could fully support. I don't think another tablet will be on my christmas list this year and i'm not going to buy another android device that is abandoned at birth by it's manufacturer again.