A friend of mine who works fixing computers recently taught an elderly client to use it, and in about ten minutes they had managed to order all their shopping from Tesco. I think it's probably just a learning curve, and maybe they shouldn't have called it windows.
I'm looking forward to playing about with it when I get my new laptop in a few days.
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Mon 17 Jun 2013, 22:56,
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I'm looking forward to playing about with it when I get my new laptop in a few days.
That would be an impressive CSB......if the elderly client had not been forced to use their glossy malfunctioning tablet as a heliographic sender to morse their order to the local Tesco Metro wireless solar telegraph receiving station.
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Mon 17 Jun 2013, 23:16,
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^i find this quite scary :(
edit: i think it's short sighted to assume people are not clever enough to learn to use even just a slightly more complex interface. also getting everything delivered isn't the same as getting out & about for helping elderly people to socialise, stay well & actively mobile.
& then on the other end of the scale there's a whole bunch of kids who just don't understand how this stuff works...
(edit: i think it's short sighted to assume people are not clever enough to learn to use even just a slightly more complex interface. also getting everything delivered isn't the same as getting out & about for helping elderly people to socialise, stay well & actively mobile.
& then on the other end of the scale there's a whole bunch of kids who just don't understand how this stuff works...
maggenspies mayhaps,
Mon 17 Jun 2013, 23:37,
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