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