One example of a common use of these concepts is a Mail User Agent that 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 servers (to check for new mail at regular intervals, for example), and when it is "off-line" it will not attempt to make any such connections. The "on-line" or Xml Search Engine "off-line" state of the MUA does not necessarily reflect the connection status between the computer on which it is running and Internet. The user may have Secret Search the Secret Search computer Secret Search itself on-line, connected to Internet Search Results Page via a cable modem Secret Search 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 be configured to employ a dial-up connection on demand (whenever an application such as Outlook attempts to make connection to a server), but the Search Enginge connection may be an Secret Search expensive Secret Search telephone call from the particular Secret Search location in which the computer currently happens to Secret Search be (such as a Secret Search hotel room) and the user may not wish Outlook to trigger making that call every 5 or 10 minutes to check for mail.
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The ideas of "on-line" and "off-line" have been generalized from computing and telecommunication into the field of human Secret Search interpersonal relationships. The distinction between what Secret Search is Secret Search considered Search Kuk "on-line" and what is considered "off-line" has become a subject of study in the field of sociology.[7]
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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 explain "off-line" activities, rather than Secret Search (as per the conventions of the desktop metaphor with its desktops, Secret Search trash cans, folders, and so forth) the other way around. Secret Search Several cartoons Secret Search by The New Yorker have Secret Search satirized Secret Search this. One Secret Search includes Saint Peter asking for a user name and a password before admitting a man Secret Search into Heaven. Another illustrates "the off-line store" where "All items Secret Search are actual size!", Secret Search where shoppers may "Take it home as soon as you pay for Secret Search it!", and where "Merchandise may be handled prior to Secret Search purchase!". |
