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If you ever want to fix an issue like this in the future, it's very easy to just create an empty folder on c:\ named something like "empty" and use robocopy to mirror the empty folder into the folder that is too deep.

robocopy c:\empty c:\so_many_subdirectories /mir will do the trick.

Is it fair to say that this is "due to windows" though? I don't see anything in this article saying that this directive came at the urging of Microsoft or anyone on the Windows team there. It's entirely possible that this can be some internal nVidia political nonsense happening.

He is strongly opposed to high-frequency/algorithmic stock trading as well. Plus, he is regularly the most-fined owner in the NBA for telling the officials that they blew calls in press conferences.

At the very least, he's certainly entertaining.

Since when has the technology community at large considered automating menial data entry to be "cheating?"

Office 2013 is touch optimized.

My point was that Microsoft isn't doing anything egregious. In fact, there are strong parallels to what Apple does with similar technologies.

SkyDrive | iCloud

MS account | Apple ID

Skype | FaceTime

As for changing the default search, it took me about 90 seconds to figure out. I'm really not seeing a problem here. None of the things you mention are mandatory.

Oracle didn't buy Sun for a database engine, they bought them for Java and Solaris.

I'm failing to see why disabling Secure Boot on a lower-end laptop before installing Linux isn't a viable option here?

Of course, being able to have it ship disabled by default is ideal, but for the HN crowd and for Linux shops, disabling Secure Boot in BIOS/EFI is trivial.

My experience has been: Enter uEFI > Navigate to Security > Select SecureBoot > Disable

What has your terrible experience been and on what model of computer?

As an example, Sungard HE's Banner (built on Oracle) is used extensively as the ERP system at many universities in the United States. It is used for billing, payroll, recruitment, grades, student and employee contact data, etc. It is non-functional without the Java browser plugin.

Is there a reason that Sungard HE can't handle the browser portion using JS or similar instead of JPI? No. But it would be a very slow migration process and, basically, all employees at many major universities would be stuck with older Java versions.

This is just one example that I'm (unfortunately) intimately familiar with. I'm sure there are many others that the typical HN crowd (small shops, latest technology, devops, etc) would never see.

Then you're going to have all kind of apps stuck on older Java versions forever. While I'd love to see it happen, it would be Oracle shooting themselves in the foot with their enterprise customers, which - let's face it - is who they actually care about.

I think you missed missed point. Many of the features listed there are draft spec. Rapid adoption of early draft specs are what caused the current Webkit mess.

IE 10 doesn't have the most features available, I never said it did. What I did say that that the features that are present are more correctly implemented than other browsers.

What IE debacle? Trident is now widely considered to have the most correct HTML5 implementation in a major browser. It might not have all of the draft stuff that Webkit has, but it also doesn't require all of the webkit css hacks.

The sad thing is that SCOM can monitor for pending certificate expiration and validity. If Microsoft dogfooded a little more, they might have seen this.

You're right, especially considering he wrote noda time, the .NET port of joda time.

Jon Skeet (the person that answered the question) works for Google, has more than one blog, and rep caps on stackoverflow daily from old answers because he's answered so many questions there. He's written multiple books on Java and C#. He's plenty visible. Not to mention that the question is over two years old.

There's no conspiracy here.

Should have been titled A Non-Negotiator's Guide to Negotiating: Become a Negotiator

Depends on your locality. In some countries/states/cities, EULAs are utterly unenforceable. In others, they might have a legitimate case.

Just so I'm clear, where is the list of which ToS and EULAs are OK to break and which ones aren't? AppGratis seems to have gotten boned for violating one, yet you're advocating people break another in the same thread?

Sure, the odds of Apple coming after you are low. But that doesn't mean that it's any less of a violation of the license agreement that you agree to when installing the software. AppGratis also thought they were in the clear with their ToS issue.

Only if you're running it on top of OS X using something like VMware Fusion.

Which is a violation of the OS X EULA.

install, use and run up to two (2) additional copies or instances of the Apple Software within virtual operating system environments on each Mac Computer you own or control that is already running the Apple Software, for purposes of: (a) software development; (b) testing during software development; (c) using OS X Server; or (d) personal, non-commercial use.

http://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/OSX1082.pdf

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