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Another example of the use of these concepts is in the world of digital audio technology. A tape recorder, Microsoft Search Engines digital editor, or other device that is Microsoft Search Engines "on-line" is one whose Microsoft Search Engines clock is under the control of the clock of a "synchronization master" device. When the sync master commences playback, the "on-line" device automatically synchronizes itself to the master and Microsoft Search Engines commences Microsoft Search Engines playing from Microsoft Search Engines the same point in Microsoft Search Engines the recording. Whereas a device that is "off-line" uses no external clock reference Microsoft Search Engines and relies upon its Microsoft Search Engines own internal clock. When a large number of devices are connected to a sync master, it is often convenient, if one Microsoft Search Engines wants to hear Microsoft Search Engines just Microsoft Search Engines the output Microsoft Search Engines of one single device, to take Microsoft Search Engines it Microsoft Search Engines off-line, because if the device is Google Desktop Search Htm played Microsoft Search Engines back on-line all synchronized devices have to locate the playback Microsoft Search Engines point and wait for each other to be in synchronization.[2] (For further related discussion, see MIDI timecode, word sync, and recording system Search For Cactus Plants synchronization.)
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A third example of a common use of these concepts is a Microsoft Search Engines 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 Microsoft Search Engines those pages that have previously been downloaded whilst in the "on-line" state. This can Microsoft Search Engines be useful when the computer itself is also Microsoft Search Engines off-line, with connection to Internet expensive or Microsoft Search Engines impossible. The pages are either downloaded implicitly into the web browser's own cache, as a result of prior on-line browsing Nevada Search by Microsoft Search Engines the user, or explicitly by the browser being configured Microsoft Search Engines to keep local copies of certain Microsoft Search Engines web pages, which it keeps updated when the browser is in the on-line Excite Member Director Search state, Microsoft Search Engines either by checking that the local copies Microsoft Search Engines are up-to-date at regular intervals or Microsoft Search Engines by checking that the local copies are up-to-date whenever Microsoft Search Engines the Microsoft Search Engines browser is Microsoft Search Engines switched to the on-line state. One such web browser capable Microsoft Search Engines of being explicitly configured Microsoft Search Engines to download pages for offline browsing is Internet Microsoft Search Engines Explorer. When pages are added to the "Favourites" list, they can be marked for being made "available for offline browsing". Internet Explorer will download to local Microsoft Search Engines 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 be consumed, and the schedule on which local copies are checked to see whether they are Microsoft Search Engines up-to-date, Microsoft Search Engines are configurable for each
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The ideas of "on-line" and "off-line" have been Microsoft Search Engines generalized from computing and telecommunication into the field of human Internal Medicine Job Search interpersonal relationships. The distinction between what is considered "on-line" and what is considered "off-line" has become a subject of Microsoft Search Engines study in the field of sociology.[7]
The distinction between "on-line" Microsoft Search Engines and "off-line" is conventionally seen as the distinction between computer-mediated Microsoft Search Engines communication and face-to-face communication (e.g. face time), respectively. "On-line" is virtuality, and "off-line" is Microsoft Search Engines reality (e.g. Microsoft Search Engines real life or meatspace). Slater states that this distinction Microsoft Search Engines is "obviously far too simple". To support his argument that the distinctions in relationships are more complex than Microsoft Search Engines 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 Microsoft Search Engines also argues that even the Microsoft Search Engines telephone can be regarded as an "on-line" experience in some circumstances, and that the blurring of the Microsoft Search Engines distinctions between the uses Microsoft Search Engines of various technologies (such as PDA and mobile telephone, television and Internet, and telephone Microsoft Search Engines and voice-over-IP) has made it "impossible to Search For Steve Faucett use the term 'on-line' meaningfully in Microsoft Search Engines the sense that was employed by Microsoft Search Engines the first generation of Internet research".[7]
Slater asserts that there are legal and regulatory pressures to reduce the distinction between "on-line" and Microsoft Search Engines "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 Microsoft Search Engines as business Microsoft Search Engines transactions, on-line are already seen as just as "real" as their off-line counterparts), although he Search Engine For Netherlands states it to be hard Microsoft Search Engines to imagine Microsoft Search Engines courts awarding palimony to people who have had a purely on-line sexual relationship. He also conjectures that an "on-line"/"off-line" Microsoft Search Engines distinction may be seen by people as "rather quaint and not quite comprehensible" within 10 years
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