One example of a common use of these Md Case Search concepts is a Mail Md Case Search User Agent that can be Md Case Search 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 servers (to check for new mail Md Case Search at regular Md Case Search intervals, for example), Md Case Search and when it is "off-line" it will not attempt to Md Case Search make any Md Case Search such connections. The "on-line" or "off-line" state of the MUA does not necessarily Cavity Search reflect the connection status between the computer on which it is running and Internet. The user may have the computer itself on-line, connected to Internet via a Md Case Search cable modem or an ADSL connection, but may wish for Outlook to be off-line, so Md Case Search that it makes no attempt to send or to receive messages. Or the computer may be configured to employ Md Case Search 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 particular location in which the computer currently happens to Md Case Search be (such Md Case Search as a hotel room) and the user may not wish Outlook to trigger making Md Case Search that call every 5 or 10 minutes to check for mail.
Another example of the use of these concepts is Md Case Search in Md Case Search the world of digital audio technology. A tape recorder, Md Case Search digital editor, or other device that Md Case Search is "on-line" is one whose clock is under the control of the Md Case Search clock of a Md Case Search "synchronization master" device. When the Md Case Search sync master Md Case Search commences playback, the "on-line" device automatically synchronizes itself to Md Case Search the master and Md Case Search commences playing from the same point in the recording. Whereas a device that is "off-line" uses no external clock Md Case Search reference and relies upon its own internal clock. Md Case Search When a large number of Md Case Search devices are connected to a sync master, it is often convenient, if one wants to hear just the output of one single device, to Md Case Search take it off-line, because if the device is played back on-line all synchronized devices have Md Case Search to locate the playback point and wait Md Case Search for each other to be in synchronization.[2] (For further related discussion, Md Case Search see MIDI timecode, word sync, and recording system Md Case Search synchronization.)
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A third example of a common use of these concepts is a web browser that can be Md Case Search instructed to be in either "on-line" or "off-line" states. The browser Md Case Search only attempts to Md Case Search 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 Md Case Search using Md Case Search local copies of those pages that have previously been downloaded whilst in the "on-line" Md Case Search Search Engine Management state. This can be useful when the computer itself is also off-line, with connection to Effective Search Engine Optimization Internet expensive or impossible. The pages are either Md Case Search downloaded implicitly into the web browser's Search For Music By Category own cache, as a result of Md Case Search prior on-line browsing by the user, or explicitly by the browser being configured to keep local copies of certain web pages, which it keeps updated when the browser is in 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 Md Case Search up-to-date whenever the browser is switched to Md Case Search the on-line state. One such web browser capable of being explicitly configured to download pages for offline browsing is Internet Explorer. Md Case Search When pages Md Case Search are Md Case Search added to the "Favourites" list, they Md Case Search can be marked for being made "available for Md Case Search offline browsing". Internet Explorer will download Md Case Search to local copies both the marked page and, optionally, all of the pages that it links to. In Internet Explorer version 6, Md Case Search the level of Md Case Search direct Md Case Search 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 Md Case Search up-to-date, are configurable for each
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The Md Case Search ideas of "on-line" and "off-line" have Md Case Search been generalized from computing and telecommunication into the field of human interpersonal relationships. The distinction between what is considered "on-line" and what is considered "off-line" Md Case Search has become a subject of study in the field of sociology.[7]
The distinction between "on-line" and "off-line" is conventionally seen as the distinction between computer-mediated communication and face-to-face communication (e.g. face time), respectively. "On-line" is Md Case Search 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 Md Case Search relationships are more complex than a simple "on-line"/"off-line" dichotomy, he observes that some people draw no distinction between Md Case Search an "on-line" relationship, such as indulging Md Case Search in cybersex, Md Case Search 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 circumstances, and that the blurring Md Case Search 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 Md Case Search "impossible Search Results Help to use the term 'on-line' meaningfully in the sense that was Md Case Search employed by the 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 assimilate online to offline and erase the distinction", stressing, however, that this does not mean that Md Case Search on-line Md Case Search relationships are Md Case Search being reduced to pre-existing off-line relationships. He conjectures that greater Md Case Search legal status may be assigned to on-line relationships (pointing Md Case Search out that contractual relationships, such Md Case Search as business Md Case Search 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 Md Case Search sexual relationship. He Md Case Search also conjectures that an "on-line"/"off-line" distinction may Russian Search Sites be seen by people as "rather quaint and not quite comprehensible" Md Case Search within Md Case Search 10 Md Case Search 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 Md Case Search explain "off-line" activities, rather than (as per the conventions of the desktop metaphor with its desktops, Md Case Search trash cans, folders, and Md Case Search so forth) the other Md Case Search way around. Several cartoons by Md Case Search The New Yorker have satirized this. One includes Saint Peter asking for a user name and a password before admitting a man into Heaven. Another Md Case Search illustrates "the Md Case Search off-line Md Case Search store" Md Case Search where Md Case Search "All items are actual size!", where shoppers may "Take it home as soon Search Engine Optimisation Liverpool as you pay for it!", and where "Merchandise may be handled prior to purchase!". |
