One example of a common use Name Search of these concepts Name Search is a Mail User Name Search Agent that can be instructed to be in either "on-line" or "off-line" states. One such MUA Name Search is Microsoft Outlook. When it is "on-line" it will attempt to connect to mail servers (to check for new mail at regular intervals, for example), and when it is Name Search "off-line" it will not attempt to make any such connections. Name Search The "on-line" or "off-line" state of the MUA does not necessarily Name Search reflect the connection status between Name Search the computer on which it is running and Internet. The user may have the Name Search 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 that Name Search it makes no attempt to send or to receive Name Search messages. Or the computer may Name Search be configured to employ Free Search Engine a dial-up connection on demand (whenever an application such as Outlook attempts to make connection to a server), but the connection may be an expensive telephone call from the Name Search particular location Name Search in which Name Search the computer currently happens to be Lyric Search (such as a hotel room) and the user Name Search may not wish Outlook to trigger making that call every 5 or 10 minutes to check for mail.
Another example of the use of these concepts is in the world of digital audio technology. A tape recorder, digital editor, or other device that Name Search is "on-line" is one Name Search whose clock is under the control of the clock of a "synchronization master" device. When the sync master commences Name Search playback, the "on-line" device automatically Name Search synchronizes itself to Name Search the Name Search master and commences playing from the same point in Name Search the recording. Whereas a device that is "off-line" uses no Name Search external clock Name Search reference and relies upon its own internal clock. When a large number of devices are connected to a sync master, it is often convenient, if one wants to hear just the output of one single device, to take it off-line, because Name Search if the device is played Name Search back Name Search on-line all synchronized devices have to locate the playback point and wait for each other to be in synchronization.[2] Name Search (For further related discussion, see MIDI timecode, word Name Search sync, and recording system synchronization.)
A third example of a common use of these concepts Name Search is a web browser that can Email Search Hotmail be instructed to be in either Name Search "on-line" or "off-line" states. The Name Search browser only attempts to Name Search fetch pages from servers whilst in Sex Search the "on-line" state. In the "off-line" state, users can perform offline browsing, where Name Search pages can be browsed using local copies of those pages that have previously been downloaded whilst in the Name Search "on-line" state. This can be useful when the computer itself is also Name Search off-line, with connection to Internet expensive or impossible. The pages are either downloaded implicitly into the web browser's own cache, as a result of prior on-line browsing by Name Search the user, or explicitly by the browser being configured to keep local copies of Name Search certain web pages, which it keeps updated when the browser is in the on-line state, either by Name Search checking that the local copies are up-to-date at regular intervals or by checking that the local copies are up-to-date whenever the browser is switched to Name Search the on-line state. Name Search One such web Name Search browser capable of being explicitly configured to Name Search download Name Search pages for offline browsing is Internet Explorer. When pages are added to the "Favourites" list, they Name Search can be Name Search marked for being made "available for offline browsing". Internet Torrent File Search Engine Explorer will download to local copies both Name Search the marked Name Search page and, optionally, all of the pages that it links to. In Internet Explorer version 6, the level of direct and indirect links, the maximum amount of local Name Search disc space allowed to be consumed, and the schedule on which local copies are checked to see whether Name Search they are up-to-date, are configurable for each
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The ideas of "on-line" Name Search and "off-line" have been generalized from computing and telecommunication into the field of human interpersonal Name Search relationships. The distinction between what is considered "on-line" and what is considered "off-line" has Free Search Engines become a subject of study in the field of sociology.[7]
The distinction between Name Search "on-line" and "off-line" is conventionally seen Name Search 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 (e.g. real life or meatspace). Slater states that this distinction is "obviously far too simple". To support his argument that the distinctions in relationships are more Name Search complex than a simple "on-line"/"off-line" dichotomy, he observes that some people Name Search draw no distinction between an Name Search "on-line" relationship, such as Name Search indulging in cybersex, and an "off-line" Name Search relationship, such as being Name Search pen-pals. Name Search Torrent Search Engine He also argues that even the telephone can be regarded as an "on-line" experience in some circumstances, and that the blurring of the distinctions between the uses of various technologies Name Search (such as PDA and mobile telephone, Name Search television and Internet, and Name Search telephone and voice-over-IP) has made it "impossible to use Name Search the term 'on-line' meaningfully in the sense that was employed by the first generation of Internet research".[7]
Slater asserts that there are legal Name Search and regulatory pressures to Search Vids reduce the distinction between "on-line" and "off-line", with a "general Name Search tendency to assimilate online to offline Used Car Search and erase the distinction", stressing, however, that this does not mean that on-line relationships are Name Search being reduced to pre-existing off-line relationships. Name Search He conjectures Name Search that greater legal status may be Name Search assigned Name Search to on-line relationships (pointing out that Name Search contractual relationships, Name Search such as business transactions, on-line are already seen as just as "real" as their off-line counterparts), although he Name Search states it to be hard to Name Search imagine courts awarding palimony to people who have had a purely on-line Name Search sexual relationship. Name Search He also Name Search conjectures that an "on-line"/"off-line" distinction may be Search For Schools seen by people as "rather quaint and not quite comprehensible" within 10 years
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The distinction where "on-line" is seen as virtuality and "off-line" as reality is sometimes inverted, with "on-line" concepts being used to define and to explain "off-line" activities, rather than (as per the conventions of the desktop metaphor with its desktops, trash cans, folders, and so forth) the other way around. Several cartoons Internet Search Engine Search Engine by The New Yorker have Name Search satirized this. One includes Saint Peter asking for a Name Search user name and a password before admitting a man Name Search into Heaven. Name Search Another illustrates "the off-line store" where "All items Name Search are actual size!", where shoppers may "Take it home as soon as you pay for it!", and where "Merchandise may be handled prior to purchase!". |
