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Another example of the use Ipod Nano Won T Play of these Ipod Nano Won T Play concepts is in the world of digital audio technology. A tape recorder, digital editor, or other device that is "on-line" is one whose Ipod Nano Won T Play clock is under the control of the clock Ipod Nano Won T Play of a "synchronization master" device. When the sync master commences playback, the "on-line" device automatically synchronizes itself to Ipod Nano Won T Play the Ipod Nano Won T Play 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 Ipod Nano Won T Play number of devices are connected to a sync master, it is often convenient, if one wants to hear just the output of one single device, to take Ipod Nano Won T Play 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] Ipod Nano Won T Play (For further Ipod Nano Won T Play related Ipod Nano Won T Play discussion, Ipod Nano Won T Play see MIDI timecode, word sync, and Ipod Nano Won T Play recording system synchronization.)
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A third example of a common use of these Ipod Nano Won T Play concepts is a web browser that can be instructed 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. In the "off-line" state, users can perform offline browsing, where pages can be browsed using local copies of those pages that have Ipod Nano Won T Play previously been downloaded whilst Ipod Nano Won T Play in the "on-line" state. This can Ipod Nano Won T Play be useful when the computer itself is also off-line, with connection to Ipod Nano Won T Play Internet expensive or impossible. The pages are Ipod Nano Won T Play either downloaded implicitly into the web browser's own cache, as a result of Ipod Nano Won T Play prior on-line browsing by the Ipod Nano Won T Play user, Ipod Nano Won T Play or explicitly by the Ipod Nano Won T Play browser being configured to keep local copies of certain web Ipod Nano Won T Play pages, which it keeps Ipod Nano Won T Play 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 up-to-date whenever the browser is Ipod Nano Won T Play 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 Ipod Nano Won T Play added to the Ipod Nano Won T Play "Favourites" list, they 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 Ipod Nano Won T Play the pages that it links to. In Internet Explorer Ipod Nano Won T Play version 6, the level of direct and indirect links, the maximum amount of local disc space allowed to Ipod Nano Won T Play be consumed, Ipod Nano Won T Play and the schedule on which local copies are checked to see whether they are up-to-date, are configurable for each
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The ideas of "on-line" and "off-line" Ipod Nano Won T Play have been generalized from Ipod Nano Won T Play computing and telecommunication into the field of human interpersonal relationships. The distinction between what is considered "on-line" and what is considered "off-line" Ipod Nano Won T Play has become a subject of study in the field of Ipod Nano Won T Play 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. Ipod Nano Won T Play "On-line" is virtuality, and "off-line" is Ipod Nano Won T Play reality (e.g. real life or meatspace). Slater states that this distinction is "obviously Ipod Nano Won T Play 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 Ipod Nano Won T Play distinction between an "on-line" relationship, such as indulging in cybersex, and an "off-line" relationship, such Ipod Nano Won T Play as Ipod Nano Won T Play 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 of the distinctions between the uses of various technologies (such as PDA and mobile telephone, television Ipod Nano Won T Play and Internet, and telephone Ipod Nano Won T Play and voice-over-IP) Ipod Nano Won T Play has made it "impossible to use the term 'on-line' meaningfully in the sense that was employed by the first generation of Internet research".[7]
Slater asserts Ipod Nano Won T Play that there are legal and regulatory pressures to reduce the distinction between "on-line" Ipod Nano Won T Play and "off-line", Ipod Nano Won T Play with a Ipod Nano Won T Play "general tendency to assimilate Ipod Nano Won T Play online to offline and erase the distinction", stressing, however, that this does not mean that on-line relationships are Ipod Nano Won T Play being reduced to pre-existing off-line relationships. He conjectures that greater legal status may be assigned to Ipod Nano Won T Play on-line relationships (pointing out that contractual Ipod Nano Won T Play relationships, such as business transactions, Ipod Nano Won T Play on-line Ipod Nano Won T Play are already seen as just as "real" as their off-line counterparts), although he states it to Ipod Nano Won T Play be hard to Ipod Nano Won T Play imagine courts awarding palimony to people Ipod Nano Won T Play who have had a purely on-line sexual relationship. He also conjectures Ipod Nano Won T Play that Ipod Nano Won T Play an "on-line"/"off-line" distinction may be seen by people as "rather quaint and not quite comprehensible" within 10 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 explain Ipod Nano Won T Play "off-line" activities, rather than (as per the conventions of the desktop metaphor with its desktops, trash Ipod Nano Won T Play cans, folders, and so forth) Ipod Nano Won T Play the other way around. Several cartoons by Ipod Nano Won T Play The New Yorker have satirized this. One includes Saint Peter asking Ipod Nano Won T Play 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 Ipod Nano Won T Play it home as Ipod Nano Won T Play soon as you pay for it!", and where "Merchandise may be handled prior to purchase!". |
