Then we switched to digital but analog was still operational and the antennas were still external.
But the analog world is one of shortages, because there is a shortage of great analog engineers in the U.S. and throughout the world.
Vannevar Bush died long before the launch of Forbes.com, but he built analog computers in the 1920s and described a mechanism that anticipated hypertext and the Internet in the 1940s.
The problem is this: the world is analog, but our most powerful tools are not.
Sehat and Pantas planned to design a fast analog chip but needed a market.
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There's only one analog nub, but that's of course because the gun's own motion is meant to emulate the second.
The payoff, the real business value, will come from not only making the analog digital, but from marrying the two worlds.
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There's also a composite analog video input, but the S-Video from the Solo is missing -- understandably so, as that standard has fallen out of favor.
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Milk is becoming an object of interest for those looking to bridge analog and digital worlds, but are these designers and technologists solving actual problems?
Unlike so many digital advances, it is not just incrementally better than the analog standard it replaces, but so superior that anyone who isn't blind can see it.
Many have migrated to the Internet, but others have remained stubbornly adherent to their analog geneses.
But if we stick with our messy, analog cortexes, then we have a different problem.
People always criticize the quality loss in the analog-to-digital conversion but few consider the advantages of reversing the process.
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This little experiment does require every analog subscriber to switch over to digital but TWC says only a "distinct minority" will be affected.
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But if you grew up in an era of analog phones and vinyl records, as most members of Congress did, this is all a little hard to grasp.
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The DualShock 3-esque placement of those analog sticks isn't helping either, but sadly that doesn't look like it's changing -- the sticks are where they are for function's sake.
We always figured that LCDs and plasmas used less power than CRTs, but apparently digital HDTVs actually suck up more power than analog TVs (see the chart below), and to make matters worse, we're buying bigger and bigger television sets than we used to.
Sure, the Xperia Play may have that slick gamepad slider, shoulder buttons, and Sony Playstation's official blessing, but can it hold its own against the Shadow's analog pad?
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Lightweight and incredibly easy to use, but at this point most features (including those all-important analog video inputs) aren't quite ready for primetime.
Sure, part of the bill will pave the way for some of the freed up spectrum to get earmarked for emergency services to use, but it's not like failing to render everyone's analog box completely useless is really going to endanger public safety.
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But there is still that one pesky problem: the universe remains annoyingly analog.
By talking to your iPhone, Siri converts an analog input (your voice) into a digital response, but the process while amazing still requires a human.
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Analog Devices reported profit of 60 cents a year ago, but the consensus estimate calls for earnings per share of 57 cents this time around.
In case you were wondering, ports include analog in and out, composite out, and a headphone port, but we wouldn't dwell too much since we hardly expect to ever see one of these outside a Tokyo flat.
It's hard to get totally excited about a PC hardware peripheral, given the smaller quantity of games (particularly hardware-specific titles) over in desktop land, but with Valve support and what appears to be the perfect control scheme (dual analog sticks, dual fully 3D-sensing motion controllers), we'd say the Hydra has a better shot at winning us over than anything else of its ilk.
But as it pushes creatives in the digital direction, it also wants to allow for the analog capabilities that they enjoy as well.
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