Analog - I hate it. Not the actual thing people mean when thay say that, but rather the word. It is stupid, it doesn't make any sense. I don't know about any of the rest of you ex-smokers, but when I smoked, I smoked, ... da da da da ... CIGARETTES! OMG!
I never went to the store, and bought a pack of analogs, I bought a pack of cigarettes. Why do people say that? Are they afraid that if they say the word CIGARETTE, they will somehow be drawn under it's evil spell and be back to smoking again against their will? Do they think everytime the word cigarette is used, Big tobacco make 46 cents? Is it some d-ba* hipster need to have some goofy lingo of their own?
There are basically 2 uses of the word analog. The first one refers to something that is a stand in for something else. The second refers to continuous signal mechanisms vs digitized or pulse mechanisms.
So what about the first one? I mean think about it. A cigarette isn't an analog. An electronic cigarette is an analog of a tobacco cigarette. The E-cig is the equivalent, the cigarette is the standard.
<Enter the "But an E-Cig is digital, so the regular kind have to be analog" people>
Wrong again. While an E-cigarette may be digital, the analog/digital usage of those words only really applies to mechanism, a tobacco cigarette isn't a mechanism. Analog vs digital refers to the waveform produced by the function. How do you mechanize burning tobacco?
If anything, there shouldn't be any fear or reluctance to use the word cigarette to refer to , well, cigarettes, the hesitency should be in using "E-cig" for personal vaporizers. It makes no sense to associate them with cigarrettes, and then not think the dolts at the FDA, won't say, "Hey, wait a minute, you said electronic 'cigarette', that makes it a tobacco product.
I will continue to say cigarette, and while I won't personally chastise anyone else for being goofy enough to say analog, think about it, it is silly and pretentious.
I never went to the store, and bought a pack of analogs, I bought a pack of cigarettes. Why do people say that? Are they afraid that if they say the word CIGARETTE, they will somehow be drawn under it's evil spell and be back to smoking again against their will? Do they think everytime the word cigarette is used, Big tobacco make 46 cents? Is it some d-ba* hipster need to have some goofy lingo of their own?
There are basically 2 uses of the word analog. The first one refers to something that is a stand in for something else. The second refers to continuous signal mechanisms vs digitized or pulse mechanisms.
So what about the first one? I mean think about it. A cigarette isn't an analog. An electronic cigarette is an analog of a tobacco cigarette. The E-cig is the equivalent, the cigarette is the standard.
<Enter the "But an E-Cig is digital, so the regular kind have to be analog" people>
Wrong again. While an E-cigarette may be digital, the analog/digital usage of those words only really applies to mechanism, a tobacco cigarette isn't a mechanism. Analog vs digital refers to the waveform produced by the function. How do you mechanize burning tobacco?
If anything, there shouldn't be any fear or reluctance to use the word cigarette to refer to , well, cigarettes, the hesitency should be in using "E-cig" for personal vaporizers. It makes no sense to associate them with cigarrettes, and then not think the dolts at the FDA, won't say, "Hey, wait a minute, you said electronic 'cigarette', that makes it a tobacco product.
I will continue to say cigarette, and while I won't personally chastise anyone else for being goofy enough to say analog, think about it, it is silly and pretentious.
