One example of a common use of these concepts is a Mail New Video Search User Agent that can be instructed New Video Search to be New Video Search in New Video Search either "on-line" or "off-line" states. New Video Search One New Video Search 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 New Video Search intervals, for example), and when it is "off-line" it New Video Search will New Video Search not attempt to make any such connections. The "on-line" or "off-line" state of the MUA does not necessarily reflect the connection status between New Video Search the computer on which it is running and Internet. The New Video Search user may have the computer itself New Video Search on-line, connected New Video Search to Internet via a cable modem 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 New Video Search on demand (whenever an application such as Outlook attempts to make connection to a server), but the connection may be an expensive telephone call New Video Search from the particular location in which the computer currently happens to be (such as a hotel room) and the user Battery Search may not wish New Video Search 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 recorder, digital editor, or other device that New Video Search is "on-line" is New Video Search one whose clock is under the control of the clock New Video Search of a "synchronization master" device. When the sync master commences playback, the "on-line" device New Video Search automatically New Video Search synchronizes itself to the master and commences playing from the same point in the recording. Whereas a New Video Search device that is "off-line" uses no external clock reference New Video Search and relies upon its own internal clock. When a large number of devices are connected to a sync master, New Video Search it is often New Video Search convenient, if New Video Search one New Video Search wants to hear just the output of one single New Video Search device, to take it off-line, because if New Video Search the device is played back on-line all New Video Search synchronized devices have to locate the playback point and wait for each New Video Search other to be in New Video Search synchronization.[2] (For further related discussion, see MIDI timecode, word sync, and recording system synchronization.)
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A New Video Search third example of a common use of these New Video Search concepts is a web browser that can New Video Search be instructed to be in either "on-line" New Video Search or "off-line" states. The browser only attempts to fetch pages from servers whilst in the "on-line" state. In New Video Search the "off-line" state, users New Video Search can perform offline browsing, New Video Search where pages can be browsed using local New Video Search copies of those pages that have previously been New Video Search downloaded whilst in the "on-line" New Video Search state. This can be useful when the computer itself is also off-line, Family Search Labs with connection to Internet New Video Search expensive or impossible. The pages are either downloaded implicitly into the web browser's own cache, as a result of prior on-line browsing New Video Search 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 New Video Search the local copies are up-to-date at regular intervals or by checking that the local copies are up-to-date whenever the browser is New Video Search 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 be marked for being New Video Search made "available for offline browsing". Internet New Video Search Explorer will New Video Search download to local copies both the marked New Video Search page and, optionally, all of the pages that it links to. In New Video Search Internet Explorer New Video Search 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 New Video Search up-to-date, New Video Search 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 New Video Search field of human interpersonal relationships. The distinction between what is considered "on-line" and France Search Engine what is considered "off-line" has become New Video Search a subject New Video Search 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 virtuality, and New Video Search "off-line" is reality New Video Search (e.g. real life or meatspace). Slater New Video Search states New Video Search that this distinction is "obviously New Video Search 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 "on-line" relationship, such as indulging in cybersex, and an "off-line" relationship, such as being pen-pals. He also argues that even the telephone can be Search Engine Robots regarded as an "on-line" experience in some circumstances, and that the blurring of the distinctions New Video Search between the uses of various technologies (such as PDA and mobile telephone, television and Internet, and telephone and voice-over-IP) Hard Word Search Puzzles has made New Video Search it New Video Search "impossible to use the term 'on-line' meaningfully in the sense that was employed by the first generation of Internet research".[7]
Slater asserts that there are legal and regulatory pressures to reduce the distinction between New Video Search "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 on-line relationships are being reduced to pre-existing off-line relationships. He conjectures New Video Search that greater legal status may be assigned to on-line relationships (pointing New Video Search out that contractual relationships, such as business transactions, on-line New Video Search are already seen as just as "real" as their off-line counterparts), although he states New Video Search it to be hard to imagine courts awarding palimony to people New Video Search who have had a purely on-line sexual relationship. New Video Search He also conjectures that an "on-line"/"off-line" distinction may be seen by people as "rather New Video Search quaint and not quite comprehensible" within Search Submission 10 New Video Search years
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The distinction where "on-line" is New Video Search seen as virtuality and "off-line" as reality New Video Search is sometimes New Video Search 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) New Video Search the other way around. New Video Search Several New Video Search cartoons by The New Yorker have satirized this. One includes Saint Peter asking for a user name and a password before admitting a man into New Video Search Heaven. New Video Search Another illustrates "the off-line store" where "All items are actual size!", where shoppers may New Video Search "Take it home as soon New Video Search as you pay for it!", New Video Search and where "Merchandise may be handled prior to purchase!". |
