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A third example of a common use of these concepts is a web browser that can be instructed Search Oldies to be in either "on-line" or "off-line" states. The browser only attempts to fetch pages from servers whilst in the "on-line" state. Search Oldies In the "off-line" Search Oldies state, users can perform offline browsing, where pages Search Oldies can be browsed using local Arab Search Engine copies of those pages that Search Oldies have previously been downloaded whilst in the "on-line" state. This can be useful when the computer itself is also off-line, with connection to Internet expensive or impossible. The pages are Search Oldies either downloaded implicitly into the Search Oldies Search Engine Websites web browser's own cache, Search Oldies as a result of prior Search Oldies on-line browsing by the user, or explicitly by the browser being configured Search Oldies to keep local copies of certain web pages, which it keeps updated when the browser is in the on-line state, either Search Oldies by checking Microsoft Search that the local copies are up-to-date Search Oldies at regular intervals or by Search Oldies checking Search Oldies that the local copies are up-to-date whenever the browser is switched to the on-line state. One such web browser capable of being explicitly configured to download pages for offline browsing is Internet Explorer. When pages are added to the "Favourites" list, they can Search Oldies be marked for being made "available for offline browsing". Internet Explorer will download Search Oldies 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 Search Oldies of local Search Oldies disc space allowed to be consumed, and the schedule on which local copies are checked to see whether they are Search Oldies 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 telecommunication into the field of human interpersonal relationships. The distinction between what is considered "on-line" and what Search Oldies is Search Oldies considered "off-line" has become a subject of study in the field of Search Oldies sociology.[7]
The distinction between "on-line" and "off-line" Search Oldies is conventionally seen as the Search Oldies distinction between computer-mediated communication and face-to-face communication (e.g. face time), respectively. "On-line" is 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 relationships are more complex than a simple "on-line"/"off-line" dichotomy, he observes that some people draw no distinction between an Search Oldies "on-line" relationship, such as indulging in cybersex, and an "off-line" relationship, Search Oldies such as being Search Oldies pen-pals. He also argues that even the telephone can be regarded as an "on-line" experience in some circumstances, and Search Oldies that the blurring of the distinctions between Search Oldies the Search Oldies uses of various technologies (such Search Oldies as PDA and mobile telephone, television and Internet, and telephone and voice-over-IP) has made Band Search it "impossible to use the term 'on-line' Search Oldies meaningfully in the sense Search Oldies that was People Search By Phone Number employed by the first generation Search Oldies of Internet Search Oldies research".[7]
Slater asserts that Search Oldies there are legal and regulatory pressures to Search Oldies reduce the distinction between "on-line" Search Oldies and "off-line", with a "general tendency to assimilate online to offline and erase the distinction", Search Oldies 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 (pointing out Search Oldies that contractual relationships, such as business Search Criminal Records transactions, Search Oldies on-line are already seen as Search Oldies just as "real" as their Search Oldies off-line counterparts), although he states it to be hard Search Oldies to imagine courts awarding palimony to people who have had a Search Oldies 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" Search Oldies within 10 years
The distinction where "on-line" is seen as virtuality and "off-line" as reality is sometimes Search Oldies inverted, with "on-line" concepts being used to define and to explain Search Oldies "off-line" activities, Bible Passages Search rather than (as per the conventions of the desktop metaphor with its desktops, Search Oldies trash cans, folders, and so forth) the other way around. Several cartoons by The New Yorker have satirized this. One includes Saint Search Oldies Peter asking for a user name and a password before admitting a man into Heaven. Another illustrates "the off-line store" where "All items are actual size!", where shoppers may Search Oldies "Take it home as soon as you pay for Search Oldies it!", and where "Merchandise may Search Oldies be handled prior to purchase!". |
