analog vs digital
Definitions
noun
- something having the property of being analogous to something else
adjective
- of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input
Examples
Whereas our analogues on the right used to effuse over how W. was doing a helluva job even as the country went to hell, we mutter or post disparaging comments about how Obama has let us down.
In fact - as a percentage of the population - there's basically a direct analogy between the number of gay tax-payers and the number of gay students.
The present crisis is analogous with the situation immediately before the war.
Definitions
adjective
- of a circuit or device that represents magnitudes in digits
- displaying numbers rather than scale positions
- relating to or performed with the fingers
Examples
McGill University, however, has found a way to increase access to its rare books - thanks to a lot of grant money and one badass digital camera.
Digital technology comes to us heralded by a great deal of utopian ballyhoo, but in some surprising ways it discourages creativity.
Iin this case it uses the atomic unit of digital life - a single screen of data on a Palm, a little brick of reality we spend so much time staring at all day long.
