Andy Hall wrote:
On 2008-06-19 22:14:39 +0100, geoff said:

In message 485a3c5d@qaanaaq, Andy Hall writes
On 2008-06-19 11:18:34 +0100, Richard Torrens
said:

In article 48592359@qaanaaq,
Andy Hall wrote:
Cheques are a deprecated means of payment that should have been
dropped
20 years ago. There's certainly no reason for cheques to be used at
all in the 21st century. Last year I wrote one cheque. This year
I am aiming not to write any. In general anybody expecting payment
by cheque does not get repeat business from me.
Cheques are still useful for mail payment.
Many people do not have computers and still rely on sending cheques
through the post.

That is the wrong solution.

The correct one would be to enable them to have computer access of some
kind.

I'll take your total confidence in the above to mean that you'll sit
for hours on end showing my mother how to use hers.

I've given up trying

Have you tried a Mac?

OS/X has about 4-5 icons in the dock after loading and most common
things can be done from these. It's very stable and simple to use if
you don't want sophistication. It doesn't break or deteriorate
like Windows either.


But it hs its own annoyances. Like the help key being bang next door to
the delete key.

And a bloody irritating way of handling menus and focus. Like the window
you want is hidden..half the things you try and click and drag take two
clicks..or suddenly explodes a family of windows and cover up what you
are trying to reveal..it takes three clicks to rename a file..click on
it, right click get info, type name in box, and click again..in windows
its right click, type and return. Menus are never where yu expet them to
be..they are scattered all over the place or in a menu bar at the top.
so you need to FIRST click on the app you want to bring the menu bar up
THEN click on the menu item..so all in all its actually far more
keystrokes and mouse moves to drive a mac.