In the past, the manufacturing processes for analog and digital circuits were so different that they could not be combined on the same chip on a large scale. There were big companies that made digital chips and a host of smaller companies that made analog chips. That changed about ten years ago and analog circuits are now included on SOC designs. That has caused a shift in the industry, as the large SOC manufacturers have absorbed most of the new analog circuit designers who used to go to smaller companies that specialized in analog. The smaller companies are faced with competition for designers and a shrinking niche for their specialized products.

Texas Instruments has $12B in sales and analog is a large (and growing) chunk of that.

I always save the cue file when I rip to FLAC, but not for that reason. Gapless playback isn't a problem on any of the players I've used with FLAC files. If anything, you may LOSE the inter-track gaps, if any were inserted.

I don't think so. Very few recordings are available from Apple or anywhere else at higher quality than 1,411.2 kbit/s.

Because of court reporters like this: http://time.com/48136/court-re...

We have considerably less data on the isolated tribes that die out before we meet them.

It leads to defendants with deep pockets, more than any of the other hypotheses.

OK, other than a simple, "Yes", how do you think Schiavo should have responded? (Let us assume that none of the "experts" on the panel know anything more about black holes than she does, so she's on the spot.)

Suburbia (The Full Horror).
http://www.flickr.com/photos/4...

There is no good reason for the financial services company that bundled these policies to be allowed to disclose any of this. I certainly would not use a company that can't keep their mouths shut.

Some enterprising individuals are doing exactly that and selling "used" Teslas over list price. There are some buyers who are willing to pay the premium to eliminate the hassles of out-of-state purchase and to avoid the waiting list for a new one. (Yes, the tax on the resale is part of the markup).

You are correct on both points. Apparently no one else read past the headline.

Science magazine is not published by News Corp.

You have now.
http://titanaerospace.com/

Nonsense. The school negotiated in good faith and came to an acceptable settlement--quite favorable to the plaintiff, when you consider that he didn't have to prove that they had done anything wrong. It's not their fault that the Snays immediately violated the terms of the settlement.

I have one data file, started over ten years ago, still under SCCS. The downstream flow uses the metadata. It's not worth changing. The whole flow will be replaced RSN.