Re: You crack me up, Mr. Pott
Come on El Reg, at least tell us what he was banging on about - in a thread about a card game - that was bad enough to delete twice?
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"Over the next decades the challenge will be for people to develop skills that cannot be displaced by machines", he said.
"The world we are creating is an opportunity for mass creativity. Those are the sorts of jobs that we need," he said.
Or, the challenge will be for societies to get over this notion that everyone should HAVE to work. If machines can do all the work, people should be freed from work not pushed into doing something new for the sake of it. Why bother using labour-saving technology in the first place if we don't want to save people from labour?
I was under the impression some WP8.x devices would support W[P]10 although I cannot remember where I got that impression.
"Write once run on any device" doesn't actually mean all devices have to have the same instruction set. Even with Apple, you have to compile your code multiple times to build binaries compatible with 64bit & non-64bit hardware and sometimes more - it does this automatically and packages it into one big file but you can see it compiling 2-3 times in one of my projects.
So W10 could still support x86/64 and ARM in the same way as long as they have all the APIs - Visual Studio would just build multiple versions which get uploaded to the Store, and your device automatically downloads the appropriate one.
Maybe it was in theory worthwhile initially - although Winsows Phone would probably have been better - but as El Reg showed only this week you can now get a full Win8.1 tablet, that actually runs OK, for £100! So where's the place for a cut-down, budget version that costs more than the real thing?
The implementation was undeniably ugly but there's really SO much promise to the concept. Maybe not for every-day use - that depends on fashion as much as utility - but for many, many learning and educational uses.
I have a few great app ideas but it seems a bit pointless to work on them with nobody to sell the apps to :(