Yup. For the past two years, my company has been trying to get people to use their PTO at the end of the year to clear it off the books and then backtracked when people started scheduling November and December, allowing additional carryover. Executive level and HR don't seem to realize that people have been told not to take time off all year because we're so busy. We're not some Silicon Valley startup, we're a boring old East Coast company. The fact that this is so prevalent across the US is indicative of a really shitty work culture.

This is pretty much it. I went through this at a previous employer. They were a large company with multiple locations and business units. If some BUs were doing good and others were doing poorly, they all had to share the pain and a percentage of the workforce would be reduced, layoffs being distributed among every department. HR provided a specific script for each manager to follow while they laid off their own people. HR wasn't present at each individual layoff meeting, they just had online presentations for next steps and questions after the sit down with our managers. Done this way, they were able to lay off hundreds of people in a morning.

It varies from fab to fab. Some make employees use communal suits, some only make contractors do that. Some make you strip down to your underwear and put on special pajama pants before putting the suit on.

In any case, it's probably not the cleanroom where the transmission occurs but the cafeteria with hundreds or even thousands of workers all taking their scheduled break at the same time.

Last I heard, they suspended further rollouts in 2016 so even as an existing Google product, it could end up like G+, Hangouts, Goggles, Picasa, Wave, Inbox, and numerous other projects.

Sure you did, fuckwad.

No one is obligated to trust the opinion of a pseudonymous stranger claiming unsubstantiated superiority.

Is it "very obvious" or something that requires a full education in operating system architecture? You want casual users to not spread misinformation, providing solely an opinion and nothing to back it up. Good luck with that.

This is the first I'm hearing that anyone truly gives a shit about iMessage, and I've been listening to Apple fanboys try to convince everyone of their iSuperiority for years.

And the Pixel phones never really took the lead in the premium Android market anyway.

You can get sports and news for free on PlutoTV.

Anti-intellectual? You came to that conclusion based on your inability to effectively communicate? Show your work.

Prime has a far better selection, from former blockbusters to cheesy cult films that are magnitudes better than the low effort schlock that Netflix primarily trades in these days. I've been with Netflix for around 15 years continuously but I find myself watching Prime so much more. I still have the DVD service but even that is dwindling.

Your winter only lasts a week?

It was created to give BitTorrent's creator a job for his efforts and its function is to legitimize the protocol as something other than just an illegal file sharing method.

You are correct in the mish-mash of operating systems found on semiconductor tools in production. Though TSMC has very strict policies against USB drives being used in their fabs. Getting caught with one as a contractor means being banned from all TSMC fabs for life. Employees have more leeway but they do need to justify why they would be using one at all. It is more likely something that was spread over the network as all tools are connected for automated host control. Keep in mind, there are still semiconductor capital equipment makers shipping new tools running Windows XP.

Movie theaters make more money on concessions. They're already passing most of the seat money on to the studios/distributors.