One example of One Act Play Script a common use of How To Play Truth Or Dare these concepts is a Mail User Agent that can be instructed to be in either "on-line" or One Act Play Script "off-line" One Act Play Script states. One such MUA is Microsoft One Act Play Script Outlook. When it is "on-line" One Act Play Script it One Act Play Script will attempt to connect to mail servers (to One Act Play Script check for new mail at regular intervals, for example), and One Act Play Script when it is "off-line" it will not attempt to make any such connections. The "on-line" One Act Play Script or "off-line" state of the MUA does not One Act Play Script necessarily reflect the connection status between the computer on which it is running One Act Play Script and Internet. The user may have the computer itself on-line, connected to Internet via a cable modem or an ADSL connection, but may wish for Outlook to be off-line, so Play Desktop Tower Defense that it makes no attempt to send One Act Play Script or to receive messages. Or the computer may be configured to employ a One Act Play Script dial-up connection on demand (whenever an application One Act Play Script such as Outlook attempts One Act Play Script to make connection to a server), but the connection may be an expensive telephone call from the particular location in One Act Play Script which the computer currently happens One Act Play Script to be (such as a One Act Play Script hotel room) and the user may not One Act Play Script wish Outlook to trigger making One Act Play Script that call every 5 One Act Play Script or 10 minutes to check for mail.
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A third example of a common use of these concepts is a web browser that can One Act Play Script be instructed to be in either "on-line" or "off-line" states. The browser only attempts to fetch pages from servers whilst in the "on-line" state. In the "off-line" One Act Play Script state, users can perform offline One Act Play Script browsing, where pages can be browsed One Act Play Script using local copies of those pages that have previously been downloaded whilst in One Act Play Script the "on-line" state. This can be useful when One Act Play Script the computer itself is also off-line, with connection to Internet expensive or impossible. The pages are either downloaded One Act Play Script implicitly into the web One Act Play Script browser's own cache, as a result of prior on-line browsing by the user, or explicitly by the browser being configured to One Act Play Script keep local copies Play Texas Hold Em Online of certain web pages, which it One Act Play Script keeps updated when the browser is One Act Play Script in the on-line state, either by checking that the local copies are One Act Play Script up-to-date at regular intervals or by checking that the local copies are up-to-date whenever the browser One Act Play Script is switched to One Act Play Script the on-line state. One One Act Play Script such web browser capable of being explicitly configured to download pages for offline browsing is Internet One Act Play Script Explorer. When pages are added to the "Favourites" list, they Dreamgear Plug N Play Games can One Act Play Script be marked for being made "available for offline One Act Play Script browsing". Internet Explorer will download to local copies both the marked One Act Play Script page and, optionally, all of the pages that it links to. In Internet One Act Play Script Explorer version 6, the level of direct and One Act Play Script indirect links, the maximum amount of local One Act Play Script disc space allowed to be consumed, and the schedule One Act Play Script on which local copies are checked to see whether One Act Play Script they One Act Play Script are up-to-date, are configurable for each
The ideas of "on-line" and "off-line" have been generalized from One Act Play Script computing and telecommunication into the field of human interpersonal relationships. One Act Play Script The distinction One Act Play Script between what is considered "on-line" and what is considered "off-line" has become a subject of study in the field of sociology.[7]
The distinction between "on-line" and "off-line" is conventionally seen as the distinction between computer-mediated communication and face-to-face communication (e.g. face time), respectively. "On-line" is virtuality, and "off-line" is reality One Act Play Script (e.g. real life or meatspace). Slater states that this distinction is "obviously far too simple". To support his argument that One Act Play Script the distinctions in relationships One Act Play Script are more complex than a simple "on-line"/"off-line" dichotomy, he observes that some people One Act Play Script draw no distinction between One Act Play Script an "on-line" One Act Play Script relationship, such as indulging in cybersex, and an "off-line" relationship, such as being One Act Play Script pen-pals. He also argues One Act Play Script that even the telephone can be regarded as an One Act Play Script "on-line" experience in some One Act Play Script circumstances, and that the blurring of the distinctions between the uses of various technologies (such as PDA and mobile telephone, television and Internet, One Act Play Script and telephone and voice-over-IP) has made it "impossible to use the term 'on-line' meaningfully in the sense that was employed by the One Act Play Script first One Act Play Script generation of One Act Play Script Internet research".[7]
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Slater asserts that there are legal and regulatory pressures to One Act Play Script reduce the distinction between "on-line" and "off-line", with a "general tendency to assimilate online to offline and erase the distinction", stressing, however, that this does not mean that on-line relationships are being reduced One Act Play Script to pre-existing off-line relationships. One Act Play Script He conjectures that greater legal status may be assigned to on-line relationships One Act Play Script (pointing out that contractual relationships, such as business transactions, on-line are already seen as just as "real" as Play My Music their off-line counterparts), although he states it to be hard to imagine courts awarding palimony to people who have had a purely One Act Play Script on-line sexual One Act Play Script relationship. He also conjectures that an "on-line"/"off-line" distinction may be seen by people as "rather quaint One Act Play Script and not quite comprehensible" within 10 years
The distinction where "on-line" is seen as virtuality and "off-line" One Act Play Script as reality is sometimes inverted, with "on-line" concepts being One Act Play Script used to define and to explain "off-line" activities, One Act Play Script rather than One Act Play Script (as per the conventions of the desktop metaphor with One Act Play Script its desktops, trash cans, folders, and so forth) the other way around. Several cartoons by The New Yorker have satirized this. One includes Saint Peter asking for a user name and a password before admitting a man into Heaven. Another illustrates "the off-line store" where "All items are actual size!", where shoppers may "Take it home as soon as you pay for it!", One Act Play Script and where "Merchandise may be handled prior to purchase!". |
