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