Pretty damn close it did. Sony released the PS2 on March 4, 2000. Until January 4, 2013, Sony would sell you a new PS2. Twelve years and 10 months. Close enough.
introduced bluray and dvd (were those sony first?)
Yes, Sony has been consistently in front on optical media. The PS was the first successful console with CD-ROM, the PS2 was the first console to have DVD (GameCube had a proprietary disc format, Dreamcast had CD-ROM with a more capable proprietary disc format. XBox could do DVD but came out after PS2 and unlike the PS2 wouldn't play video DVDs out of the box--you had to buy the special controller). PS3 was the only console of its generation to have BluRay (Wii had yet again a proprietary format, and the XBox 360 had a DVD out of the box, with an HD-DVD add-on drive that flopped completely).
Caveat about the self-employed and living expenses. My office is in my home. I can deduct some of the costs of running my office out of my home
You can do this in the US as well, as long as you can prove to the satisfaction of the IRS that the area of your home you are claiming a deduction on is used for *nothing* except work. Again, this has nothing to do with being self-employed...all that determines the deductibility of the home office is how it's used.
P.S.: Among the reason to celebrate Sony, the second article says: "It gave us dual thumbsticks". Except that the real innovation was to introduce ONE thumbstick, and it was done by Nintendo with the N64 controller. Whatever...
While the single thumbstick was certainly an advance, I don't think you can sell dual thumbsticks short--it was a big advance. Being able to work two sticks at once (often one as character control and one as camera control) made a big difference.
The funny part is, they didn't expect it to be. The second thumbstick was added only because the designers thought it made the controller look more balanced.
Not if you are an employee. I can't deduct my car that I need to get to work, house to live, utilities, food, medicine, etc. Only if you are self employed.
Yes if you are an employee. You can't deduct things that are not directly related to work and not required by it. You don't *need* your car to get to work, that's a consequence of where you decided to live. If you drive your car in the performance of your job, that's dedcutible. Your commute, your house, your living expenses...those aren't deductible whether you are an employee or self-employed. The same things are deductible either way, for the most part. The only difference is when you're an employee, the things that would be deductible if you paid for them are generally paid for by your employer in the first place.
And even if you specify chicken eggs, it's *still* the egg. By the process of evolution, the first chicken would have been a mutation from parents that were almost, but not quite, chickens. The almost-but-not-quite-chicken mother would have laid an egg, out of which hatched the first chicken. So the egg came first.
I've never cited an article from either of them and wouldn't think to look at them
You may not cite them, but lots of people do. There's widely cited figures of 1999-2009 (alas, I haven't been able to readily Google something more recent) which have Nature and Science easily at the top of references per article (they're 3 and 4 for overall cites; PNAS and Journal of Biological Chemistry have somewhat more, but PNAS published three times as many papers, and JBC published over five times as many)
They're Nature. Along with Science, *the* leading scientific journal. They figure you can't live without them, but they can live without you. And they're right enough of the time to get away with it.
Very bad idea - if someone breaks into your car they know (a) you are not at home, (b) may have your garage door opener, and (c) thanks you your idea know where you live.
They'll know where you live anyways. In the US, at least, you're required to keep your car's current registration card in the vehicle; that has your address on it.
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Actually, I believe the Vietnamese had a General Giap.
"We have to protect our users from not giving their money to us!"
It's pizza for Stephen Hawking!
As bad as they were, the pirate games that managed to sneak under the wire were worse. I curse *you* to play Bible Adventures and Action 52!
TRUE. I know this because I just went to my Xbox and tried loading a video DVD into it. Just like always, this is what said, verbatim:
"You need to connect the DVD Playback Kit receiver to a controller port to watch movies. Remove the disc to continue."
Turbo Graphix had a CD add-on (the Genesis had one as well). They sold 500,000 of the CD units, which doesn't seem very successful to me.
Pretty damn close it did. Sony released the PS2 on March 4, 2000. Until January 4, 2013, Sony would sell you a new PS2. Twelve years and 10 months. Close enough.
Nope, that was the PSP. The Vita changed it again; they made it so you had to get a special memory card made solely for the Vita.
Yes, Sony has been consistently in front on optical media. The PS was the first successful console with CD-ROM, the PS2 was the first console to have DVD (GameCube had a proprietary disc format, Dreamcast had CD-ROM with a more capable proprietary disc format. XBox could do DVD but came out after PS2 and unlike the PS2 wouldn't play video DVDs out of the box--you had to buy the special controller). PS3 was the only console of its generation to have BluRay (Wii had yet again a proprietary format, and the XBox 360 had a DVD out of the box, with an HD-DVD add-on drive that flopped completely).
You can do this in the US as well, as long as you can prove to the satisfaction of the IRS that the area of your home you are claiming a deduction on is used for *nothing* except work. Again, this has nothing to do with being self-employed...all that determines the deductibility of the home office is how it's used.
While the single thumbstick was certainly an advance, I don't think you can sell dual thumbsticks short--it was a big advance. Being able to work two sticks at once (often one as character control and one as camera control) made a big difference.
The funny part is, they didn't expect it to be. The second thumbstick was added only because the designers thought it made the controller look more balanced.
Heck, if you count portable consoles, the PS4 wasn't even the first *Sony* console to have touch controls.
Imagine, a vast collection of Things connected electronically! Maybe next we can have an Internet of Itts!
Yes if you are an employee. You can't deduct things that are not directly related to work and not required by it. You don't *need* your car to get to work, that's a consequence of where you decided to live. If you drive your car in the performance of your job, that's dedcutible. Your commute, your house, your living expenses...those aren't deductible whether you are an employee or self-employed. The same things are deductible either way, for the most part. The only difference is when you're an employee, the things that would be deductible if you paid for them are generally paid for by your employer in the first place.
Untrue, at least for US income tax. You are allowed to deduct your business expenses--you are taxed on on your income net of those expenses.
And even if you specify chicken eggs, it's *still* the egg. By the process of evolution, the first chicken would have been a mutation from parents that were almost, but not quite, chickens. The almost-but-not-quite-chicken mother would have laid an egg, out of which hatched the first chicken. So the egg came first.
You may not cite them, but lots of people do. There's widely cited figures of 1999-2009 (alas, I haven't been able to readily Google something more recent) which have Nature and Science easily at the top of references per article (they're 3 and 4 for overall cites; PNAS and Journal of Biological Chemistry have somewhat more, but PNAS published three times as many papers, and JBC published over five times as many)
They're Nature. Along with Science, *the* leading scientific journal. They figure you can't live without them, but they can live without you. And they're right enough of the time to get away with it.
They'll know where you live anyways. In the US, at least, you're required to keep your car's current registration card in the vehicle; that has your address on it.
They have long commutes...but 8.5 *hours*? Each way? He spends 17 hours a day just driving?
I pull out my wallet, which has a very small notebook, a pad of scratch paper, and a pen in it. Total time=under 5 seconds.
Because it's not happening yet. Actually, they're phasing out nuclear for coal, oil and gas because that's what can take over the load.
And turkeys aren't from Turkey. (They can't fly but they can dance)
We already have fleets of drones equipped with explosives killing people. No terrorists required.
Thus accounting for the fact that they suddenly can't hit the broadside of a barn anymore...