One example of a common use of these concepts is a Mail User Agent that can Buy Waterbed 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 Buy Waterbed to Buy Waterbed connect to mail servers (to Buy Waterbed check for new mail at regular intervals, for example), and when it Buy Waterbed is "off-line" it will Buy Waterbed not Buy Waterbed attempt to make 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 or an ADSL connection, Buy Waterbed but may wish for Outlook to be Buy Waterbed off-line, so that it makes no attempt to send or to receive messages. Or the computer may be Buy Waterbed configured to employ a dial-up connection on demand (whenever Buy Waterbed an application Buy Waterbed such as Outlook attempts to make connection to a server), but the connection may be an expensive telephone call from the Buy Waterbed particular location Buy Waterbed in which the computer currently happens to be (such as Buy Waterbed a hotel room) and the user Buy Waterbed may not wish Outlook to Buy Waterbed trigger making that call every 5 or 10 minutes to check for mail.
Another example Buy Waterbed of the use of these concepts is in the world of digital audio technology. A tape recorder, digital editor, or Buy Waterbed other device that is "on-line" is one whose clock is under Buy Waterbed the control of the clock of a Buy Waterbed "synchronization master" device. When the sync master commences playback, the "on-line" 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 Buy Waterbed external clock reference and relies upon its own internal clock. When a large number of Buy Waterbed 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 Buy Waterbed it Buy Waterbed Reisen Til Julestjernen Dvd Buy off-line, because if the device is played back Buy Waterbed 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 MIDI timecode, word sync, and recording system synchronization.)
A third example of a common use of these concepts is a web Buy Waterbed browser that can be instructed to be in either "on-line" or "off-line" states. The Buy Waterbed browser Buy Waterbed only attempts to fetch pages from servers whilst in the "on-line" Buy Waterbed state. In the "off-line" state, users can perform offline browsing, where pages can be browsed using local copies of those pages that have previously been downloaded whilst in Buy Waterbed the Buy Waterbed "on-line" state. Buy Waterbed This can be useful when the computer itself is also off-line, with connection to Internet expensive or impossible. The pages are either downloaded implicitly into the web browser's own cache, as a result of prior on-line browsing by the user, or explicitly by the browser being Buy Omeprazole Free Shipping configured Buy Waterbed to keep local Buy Waterbed copies of certain web pages, which it Buy Now Fluconazole keeps updated when the browser is in Buy Waterbed the on-line state, either Buy Waterbed 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 Buy Waterbed browser is switched to the on-line state. One Buy Waterbed such web browser capable Buy Waterbed of being explicitly configured to download pages for offline browsing is Internet Explorer. When pages are added to the "Favourites" list, they Buy Waterbed can be marked for being made "available for Buy Waterbed offline browsing". Internet Explorer will Buy Waterbed download Buy Waterbed to local copies both Buy Waterbed the marked page and, optionally, Buy Waterbed all of the pages that it links to. In Internet Explorer version 6, the level of direct Buy Waterbed and indirect links, the maximum amount of local disc space allowed to be consumed, and the schedule Buy Waterbed on which local copies are checked Buy Waterbed to see whether they are Buy Waterbed up-to-date, are configurable for each
|
The Buy Waterbed ideas of "on-line" and "off-line" have been generalized from Buy Waterbed computing and telecommunication into the field of human Buy Waterbed interpersonal relationships. The distinction between what is considered "on-line" Cheapest Place To Buy Zolpidem Online and what is considered "off-line" has Buy Waterbed become a subject of study in the field of sociology.[7]
The distinction between "on-line" Buy Waterbed and "off-line" is conventionally seen as the distinction between computer-mediated communication Buy Waterbed 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 Buy Waterbed states that this distinction is "obviously far too simple". To support his Buy People Meet Heaven Movie argument that the distinctions in relationships are more complex than a simple "on-line"/"off-line" dichotomy, he observes that some Buy Waterbed people draw no Buy Waterbed distinction between an "on-line" relationship, such as indulging in cybersex, and an "off-line" relationship, such as being pen-pals. He Ambien Buy Cod also argues that even the telephone can be regarded as an "on-line" experience in some circumstances, and that the blurring of the distinctions Buy Zolpidem Cheap between the Buy Waterbed uses of various technologies (such as PDA and mobile telephone, television and Internet, and telephone Buy Waterbed and voice-over-IP) has made it "impossible to Buy Waterbed use the term 'on-line' Buy Waterbed meaningfully in the sense that was Buy Waterbed employed by the first Buy Waterbed generation of Internet research".[7]
Slater Buy Waterbed asserts that there are Buy Waterbed 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 Buy Waterbed mean that on-line relationships Buy Waterbed are being reduced to pre-existing off-line relationships. He conjectures that greater legal status may be assigned to on-line relationships (pointing Buy Waterbed out that contractual Buy Waterbed relationships, such as business transactions, on-line are already seen Buy Waterbed as just as "real" as their Buy Waterbed off-line counterparts), although he states it to be hard to imagine courts awarding palimony to people Best Buy Uk Buy Mortgages Tables who have had a purely on-line sexual relationship. He also conjectures that Buy Waterbed an "on-line"/"off-line" distinction may be Buy Finasteride On Sale seen by people as "rather quaint and Buy Waterbed not quite Buy Waterbed comprehensible" within 10 years
|
The distinction where Buy Waterbed "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" Buy Waterbed activities, rather than (as per the conventions of the desktop metaphor with its desktops, trash cans, folders, and so forth) the other way Buy Waterbed around. Several cartoons by How To Buy A Couch The New Buy Waterbed 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 Buy Waterbed "All items are actual Buy Waterbed size!", Buy Waterbed where shoppers may "Take it home as soon as you pay for it!", and Buy Waterbed where Buy Suboxone "Merchandise may be handled prior to Buy Waterbed purchase!". |
