One example of Lyric Search a common use of these concepts is a Lyric Search Mail User Agent that can be instructed to be in Lyric Search either "on-line" or "off-line" states. One such MUA is Microsoft Outlook. When it is "on-line" it will attempt to connect to mail servers (to check for new mail at regular Lyric Search Reverse Address Search intervals, Job Search Engines for example), and when it is "off-line" it will not attempt to make any such connections. The "on-line" or "off-line" state of the MUA does not necessarily Lyric Search reflect the connection status between the computer on which it is running and Lyric Search Internet. The user may have the computer Lyric Search itself on-line, connected to Internet via a cable modem or an ADSL connection, but College Search may wish for Outlook to be Bible Search off-line, so that it makes Lyric Search no attempt to send or to receive messages. Or the computer may be configured to employ a dial-up connection on demand (whenever an application such as Outlook attempts Lyric Search to make connection Lyric Search to a server), but the connection may be Lyric Search 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 Lyric Search not wish Outlook to trigger Lyric Search making that call every 5 or 10 minutes to check for mail.
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A Lyric Search third example of a common use of these concepts is a web browser that can be instructed to be in either "on-line" or "off-line" states. The Email Address Search 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 Lyric Search using local copies of those pages that have previously been downloaded whilst in the "on-line" Lyric Search state. This can be useful when the computer itself is also Lyric 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 Windows Live Search result of prior Lyric Search on-line browsing by the user, or explicitly by the browser being configured to keep Lyric Search local copies of certain web pages, which it Lyric Search keeps updated when the browser is in Lyric Search the on-line state, either by 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 the on-line state. One such Lyric Search web browser capable of being explicitly configured to download pages for offline browsing is Internet Explorer. When pages Lyric Search are added to the "Favourites" list, they can be marked for being made "available for offline browsing". Internet Explorer will All Search Engines download to local copies both the Lyric Search marked Lyric Search page and, optionally, all of the pages that it links to. In Internet Explorer version 6, Lyric Search the level of direct and indirect links, the maximum amount of local disc space allowed to be consumed, and the Lyric Search schedule on Lyric Search which Adult Search local copies are checked to see whether they are Lyric Search 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 Lyric Search telecommunication into the Top Ten Search Engines field of human interpersonal relationships. The distinction between Lyric Search what is considered "on-line" and what is considered Lyric Search "off-line" has become a Lyric Search subject of study in the field of sociology.[7]
The distinction between Search Gals "on-line" and "off-line" is conventionally seen as the distinction between computer-mediated communication and face-to-face Lyric Search communication (e.g. face Lyric Search time), respectively. "On-line" is virtuality, and Lyric Search "off-line" Lyric Search is reality (e.g. real life or meatspace). Slater states that this distinction is "obviously far Free Outstanding Warrant Search too 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 people draw no distinction between an "on-line" relationship, such as indulging Lyric Search in cybersex, and an "off-line" Lyric Search relationship, such as being pen-pals. Lyric Search He also argues that Lyric Search even the telephone can Lyric Search be regarded as an "on-line" experience in some circumstances, and that the blurring of the distinctions between Lyric Search the uses of various technologies (such as PDA and mobile telephone, television and Internet, and telephone and voice-over-IP) has made it "impossible to use the term 'on-line' meaningfully in Lyric Search the Lyric Search sense that was employed Lyric Search by the first generation of Internet research".[7]
Slater asserts that there are legal and regulatory pressures Lyric Search to 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 to pre-existing off-line relationships. He conjectures that greater legal status may be assigned to on-line relationships Lyric Search (pointing out that contractual relationships, Lyric Search such as business Free Phone Number Search transactions, on-line are already seen as just as Lyric Search "real" as their off-line Lyric Search counterparts), although he states it to be hard to imagine courts awarding palimony to people Lyric Search who have had a purely on-line sexual relationship. He also conjectures that Lyric Search an "on-line"/"off-line" Lyric Search distinction may be seen by Lyric Search people as "rather Lyric Search quaint and not quite Lyric Search comprehensible" within 10 years
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The distinction where "on-line" is Lyric Search seen as virtuality and "off-line" as reality is sometimes inverted, with "on-line" concepts Lyric Search 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 Lyric Search around. Several cartoons by The New Yorker have satirized this. One includes Saint Peter asking for Lyric Search a user Lyric Search name and a password before Lyric Search admitting a man into Lyric Search Heaven. Another illustrates "the off-line store" where Free Search Engine "All items are actual size!", where Lyric Search shoppers may "Take it home as soon as you pay for it!", and where "Merchandise may be handled prior to purchase!". |
