| One example of a common use of these Arabic Search Tool Meta Email Search Agent concepts is a Mail User Agent that can be instructed to be in either "on-line" or "off-line" states. One such Arabic Search Tool MUA is Microsoft Outlook. When it is "on-line" it Arabic Search Tool will attempt to connect to mail Arabic Search Tool servers (to check for new mail at regular intervals, for Arabic Search Tool example), Arabic Search Tool and when it is "off-line" it will not attempt to make Imperial County Outstanding Warrant Search any such connections. The "on-line" or "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 the computer itself on-line, connected to Internet via a cable modem Arabic Search Tool or an ADSL connection, but may wish for Outlook to be off-line, so that it Arabic Search Tool makes no attempt to send or to receive messages. Or the computer may be Arabic Search Tool configured to employ a dial-up connection on demand (whenever an application such as Outlook attempts to make connection Arabic Search Tool to a server), but the connection may be an expensive telephone call from the particular location in which the computer currently happens to be (such as a hotel room) and the user may not wish Arabic Search Tool Outlook Arabic Search Tool to trigger making that Arabic Search Tool call every 5 or Arabic Search Tool 10 minutes to check for mail.
Another example Arabic Search Tool of the use of these concepts is in the world of digital Arabic Search Tool audio technology. A Arabic Search Tool tape recorder, digital editor, or other device that is "on-line" is one whose clock is under Arabic Search Tool the control of the clock of a "synchronization master" device. When the sync master commences playback, the "on-line" Arabic Search Tool device automatically synchronizes itself to 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 Arabic Search Tool are connected to a sync master, it is often convenient, if one wants to hear Arabic Search Tool just the Arabic Search Tool output of Arabic Search Tool one single device, Arabic Search Tool 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] (For further related discussion, see Arabic Search Tool MIDI timecode, word sync, and Arabic Search Tool recording Arabic Search Tool system synchronization.)
A third example of a common use of these concepts is a web browser that Arabic Search Tool can Arabic Search Tool be instructed to be in Arabic Search Tool either "on-line" or Arabic Search Tool "off-line" states. The browser only attempts to fetch Arabic Search Tool pages from servers whilst Arabic Search Tool in the "on-line" state. In Arabic Search Tool the "off-line" state, users can perform offline browsing, where pages can be Arabic Search Tool browsed using local copies of those pages that have previously been downloaded whilst in the "on-line" Arabic Search Tool state. This can Arabic Search Tool be useful when the computer itself is also off-line, with connection to Internet expensive or Arabic Search Tool impossible. The Arabic Search Tool pages are either downloaded implicitly into Arabic Search Tool the web browser's own cache, as a result of prior on-line browsing by the user, or explicitly by the browser being configured to keep local copies of certain web pages, which it Arabic Search Tool keeps updated when Arabic Search Tool the browser Arabic Search Tool is Little Known Search Engines in the In Search Of The Miraculous on-line state, either by checking that the Arabic Search Tool local copies are up-to-date at regular intervals or by checking that the local copies are Arabic Search Tool up-to-date whenever the browser is switched to the on-line state. One such web browser capable of being explicitly configured to Arabic Search Tool download pages Arabic Search Tool for offline Arabic Search Tool browsing is Internet Explorer. When pages Arabic Search Tool are added to the "Favourites" list, they Arabic Search Tool 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 Executive Search Firm Colorado be consumed, and the schedule on which local copies are checked to see whether they are Arabic Search Tool up-to-date, are configurable for each
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The ideas Live Search Maps Add-in of "on-line" and "off-line" Arabic Search Tool have been Arabic Search Tool generalized from computing and telecommunication Arabic Search Tool into the Arabic Search Tool field of human interpersonal relationships. Arabic Search Tool 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 between "on-line" and "off-line" Arabic Search Tool is conventionally seen Arabic Search Tool as the distinction between computer-mediated Arabic Search Tool communication and face-to-face communication (e.g. face time), respectively. "On-line" is Arabic Search Tool virtuality, Arabic Search Tool and "off-line" is reality (e.g. Arabic Search Tool real life or meatspace). Arabic Search Tool Slater states that this distinction is "obviously far too simple". To support his argument that Arabic Search Tool the Arabic Search Tool 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, Arabic Search Tool such as being pen-pals. He Arabic Search Tool also argues that Singles Search even Arabic Search Tool the telephone can be regarded as an "on-line" experience in some circumstances, and that the blurring of the distinctions between the uses of Arabic Search Tool various technologies (such as PDA and mobile telephone, television and Internet, and telephone and voice-over-IP) has Theather Search made it "impossible to use the term 'on-line' meaningfully in the sense that was Arabic Search Tool employed by the first generation of Arabic Search Tool Internet research".[7]
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Slater asserts that there Arabic Search Tool 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 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, Arabic Search Tool on-line are already Arabic Search Tool seen Arabic Search Tool as just as "real" as their off-line counterparts), although he states it to be hard to imagine courts Arabic Search Tool awarding palimony to people who have had a purely on-line sexual relationship. He also conjectures that an "on-line"/"off-line" Arabic Search Tool distinction Arabic Search Tool may be seen by people as "rather quaint and not quite comprehensible" within 10 years
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 Arabic Search Tool explain Arabic Search Tool "off-line" activities, rather than (as per Arabic Search Tool the conventions of the desktop metaphor with its desktops, trash cans, Arabic Search Tool folders, and so forth) Arabic Search Tool the other way around. Several 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 Heaven. Another illustrates "the off-line store" where "All items are actual size!", where shoppers may "Take it Arabic Search Tool home as soon as you pay for it!", and where "Merchandise Arabic Search Tool may be handled prior to purchase!". |
