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when I caught my girlfriend digitizing herself in the bathtub she was already two knuckles deep into it
digitizing by howard8 June 5, 2010
digitize
(Didg-it-ize) :verb: To convert from analogue format to digital format. Common digitizers include drawing tablets, and digital recorders (including digital cameras and camcorders as well as pure audio recorders and scanners.)
Since anything in the real world is analogue, digitizing refers to storing this data as binary numbers. Any method which records something and saves it onto a computer is a digitizing method.
There is no implication of altering the content within a digitizing process except where technology limits the recording. For example, a picture taken with a digital camera will not be of the same resolution as reality, but rather as close an approximation as the technology allows. Just as digitizing an old record will usually drop the very top and bottom ranges of the sound.
Digitizing is always a lossy conversion because an exact approximation is not possible with such a limited amount of space for the huge amount of data analogue methods hold. Once an item is digitized, it will never lose quality on re-recordings or play back because of the method of storage. With high-quality digitizers, the difference between the original analogue source and the digital recording is not percievable by human senses.
Since anything in the real world is analogue, digitizing refers to storing this data as binary numbers. Any method which records something and saves it onto a computer is a digitizing method.
There is no implication of altering the content within a digitizing process except where technology limits the recording. For example, a picture taken with a digital camera will not be of the same resolution as reality, but rather as close an approximation as the technology allows. Just as digitizing an old record will usually drop the very top and bottom ranges of the sound.
Digitizing is always a lossy conversion because an exact approximation is not possible with such a limited amount of space for the huge amount of data analogue methods hold. Once an item is digitized, it will never lose quality on re-recordings or play back because of the method of storage. With high-quality digitizers, the difference between the original analogue source and the digital recording is not percievable by human senses.
We've digitized our family photo album to preserve the images.
I digitized some old recordings I had on records so I could play them in my cd player.
An artist was digitizing simulated brush strokes interpreted by a computer program with a drawing tablet.
I digitized some old recordings I had on records so I could play them in my cd player.
An artist was digitizing simulated brush strokes interpreted by a computer program with a drawing tablet.
digitize by Michael Hamilton July 8, 2005
digitize
digitize by GuidoPosse69 January 27, 2005
digitizen
To describe a citizen from a city who must(or tends to) rely on mobiles, Internet, emails etc. to survive their lives.
Scenario: Digitizen Joon went to visit digitizen Ram over at his place.
Joon: I don't seem to be getting any reception on my pre-paid mobile. I need to send out an email now so could I use your Internet for a sec?
Ram: Sorry, just got disconnected last night coz I forgot to pay the bill.
Joon: Dude! How can you live without it? Pay it now!
Ram: But I can't seem to be able to pay it online...
Joon: I don't seem to be getting any reception on my pre-paid mobile. I need to send out an email now so could I use your Internet for a sec?
Ram: Sorry, just got disconnected last night coz I forgot to pay the bill.
Joon: Dude! How can you live without it? Pay it now!
Ram: But I can't seem to be able to pay it online...
digitizen by gadgetfish October 3, 2007