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It is actually being sold for $35 right now at:
Raspberry Pi | element14[^]
This is one of the licensed resellers. $35 for real! This is going down for real. 
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What's a Date? Many a programmer still does not know how to handle it properly. On Feb, 29, the luggage transport software of Düsseldorf Airport (Germany) crashed due to the strange value.
Flughafen Düsseldorf: Schalttag-Problem legt Koffersoftware lahm.
Keine Abfertigung am 29. Februar: Das ungewöhnliche Datum hat eine Gepäck-Software am Flughafen Düsseldorf durcheinander gebracht. Mehr als tausend Koffer blieben liegen.
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Oops!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Sounds like business as usual 
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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A journalist issued such a “hack me” challenge to expert hackers and the resulting pwnage was not pretty. Spoilers! (You get hacked)
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Next time, they should ask tier-3 hackers.
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Microsoft today announced that they are taking pre-orders for HoloLens Development Edition and it costs about $3000. Augment all your realities!
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A team of Stanford researchers have developed a novel means of teaching artificial intelligence systems how to predict a human's response to their actions. They've given their knowledge base, dubbed Augur, access to online writing community Wattpad and its archive of more than 600,000 stories. Let's hope they don't read, "To Serve Man"
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So, I should start reading one book at a time to my laptop? To get it to have some common sense.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Ages ago you could double the capacity of a 5.25″ floppy disk in just a few seconds, and the only tool you needed was a hole punch. Bumping a 3.5″ floppy to a whopping 128GB requires a bit more effort. Because "just stick a thumb drive in the USB slot" is too easy?
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Lost clusters!...just like the old days 
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What a bs...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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India MP Kirit Somaiya says he's looked into the little-known company that makes the phone and says they're Ponzi schemers. "Step 3 is profit!"
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Aaand... he's upset that he didn't think of it first? 
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Quote: profit!
Something that fits in a pro way.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Software updates are just another term for cryptographic single-points-of-failure. Don't bother upgrading? Yeah, that will be secure.
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A concept is a set of requirements on a set of template arguments. “Concepts” is currently an ISO TS and it is proposed to be put into the standard proper for C++17. The Concept concept
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Being able to run C# programs on on Android and iOS sounds good, but Xamarin was never able to make a go of it. So, why should things change now? The...contrarian view
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I'm excited to give Xamarin a try, but I'm a bit skeptical. I haven't had any need to write mobile apps, but my curiosity got to me recently. Being a .Net developer for over a decade makes me cringe at wasting time learning new languages that I will not use. Thus, I watched a Pluralsight video on Xamarin and felt it over complicated things. I almost feel that it would be easier write a secure web service and call it from separate IOS and Android user interfaces.
I see Xamarin as more of a marketing ploy than anything else. It is Microsoft promise to business people that we'll save you time and money doing it our way. Hopefully my skepticism is wrong.
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jgakenhe wrote: I watched a Pluralsight video on Xamarin and felt it over complicated things
I felt the same way. I had investigated other ways to build mobile apps too (cordova / phoneGap).
None of it worked well.
I finally started learning Android Java and though I'm an old C++ dev who migrated to C# (over 10 years ago), I find the Google Android Java stuff to be done very nicely. There's a lot of support out there too.
The new Android Studio is quite a bit nicer than Eclipse (IMO) too.
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Last time I tried there wans't much help for a "real" beginner.
they need a here is the mimnum you need to know tutorial for the dev platform
don't assume I already know how to use the UI.
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I'll have to take a closer look later.
I will also have to set up a system specifcally to run it because I will not have the Java SDK on my daily system.
To bad the new book is only on Kindle unless i missed something. I don't own one nor plan on getting one at the moment.
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Thanks for the kind reply.
I will also be releasing the book as a bound and printed book 6x9 format using CreateSpace.com (amazon.com publishing arm) and I am guaranteeing to keep my price at $9.99. My book is at 270 pages right now and looks like it will be somewhere in the neighborhood of 500-600 pages and my aim is to keep the price very low. I'll only make about $1.00 from each copy, but low price is important to me.
I think the price of tech books is outlandish.
I am releasing the Kindle version for $2.99 and they allow the pre-release page but so far I don't have that ability on the print book. The print book will release on April 1, 2016 also.
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Ok thanks for the reply, I'll have to look into it more when I get time for the learning curve.
And have time to set up another system.
I learn best by doing.
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