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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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Using Xamarin here and it's awesome! 
Though I was so confused the first project! 
Mostly using Xamarin forms... still confusing when with Xamarin android specific .axaml / Native Android UI files! 
4 project going with it so far.. going strong! 
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I've written Android apps with Java and Xamarin. Without a doubt, Xamarin is superior in every way, from development to deployment, even battery use is lower.
Having said that, Xamarin's pricing is irrational and Microsoft will need to address it asap.
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Thank you Franc and SuperLloyd. I appreciate your hands-on opinion and will look to learn more about it.
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Because, ya know, it's
MicroSoft!
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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imho, a very poor article, a collection of hearsay and rumors by someone who has, evidently, never actually used Xamarin tools to create apps, and, the article does not consider the possibility that Microsoft acquired Xamarin in order to take it off the market (yes, that's unlikely, given that MS killed their "Android Bridge to Nowhere," and is making noises that Xamarin will replace that).
Note the frequency with which the author disclaims his statements by using "sounds ... like."
Consider the hype around the Nokia acquisition, and where Nokia is now.
I do hope they turn loose Miguel de Icaza (un-muzzled) in the halls of Redmond; he's outspoken, and forceful.
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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yeah, sounds like he doesn't know what he is talking about!
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Sure sounds like that to me 
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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Sounds like a possible Microsoft hater to me.
Or just an idiot.
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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Seems like a pretty pointless tool seeing as you still have to re-write the UI code twice, as the the widget libraries for iOS and Android are different.
Plus, I heard that starting up the emulator for Android is so slow it's not even usable.
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Microsoft has made security a priority throughout every aspect of its business and many people would argue is a necessity for a technology behemoth of their caliber. Microsoft and security in one sentence. Those used to be very different sentences.
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Project Centennial is one of Microsoft’s bridges which would enable desktop developers to package and publish their existing .NET and Win32-based Windows applications to the Windows Store. At first I thought they were saying Office was 100 years old
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If you squint, you can see how the word “click” might look inappropriate. But Apple’s too prim and proper for that. Why yes, I am juvenile. Why do you ask?
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Sure, but now Stevie J won't want to lick it.
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The funny thing is they don't do this on the Canadian version (yet they do on the Australian version).
I wonder what Jonny has to say about it all?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Master of Orion[^] is back!
I have been waiting for you for 27 years!
I hope you won't disappoint now...
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Is that like starcarft? Or Age of empires?
I don't want to look like unrespectful, I am just too young to recognise it
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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haha no worries!
turns out I only waited for 20 years, got the date wrong!
at any rate it's like Civilization in space but better
particularly it got:
- each ship is your own design of weapon and devices
- tactical combat, move them around the battle area and even board and capture enemy ships
that said I found the UI a little cluncky.. It just so happen that I bought one day ago!!
2 other game hoping to renew the Master of Orion experience
StarDrive 2 | 4X Turn Based Strategy[^]
Galactic Civilizations III: How will you rule the galaxy?[^]
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But dynamic is: Get resources, build, evolve, get more resources, build more, evolve higher tech... fight
isn't it?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Yeah kind of.
replace get resource by colonize planet and growth them!!
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Biological systems can explore every possible solution rapidly. Welcome to our new myosin-actin computing overlords
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Soon you'll be able to solve the traveling salesman problem by taking a shit.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Calculated route:
0) Get a plane ticket and fly from starting point to Tijuana, Mexico
1) Get Montezuma's Revenge and run to the latrine
2) Think you're over the infection attempt to leave only to realize you were mistaken
3) GOTO 1
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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