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