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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 is "on-line" is one whose Lexus Nexus Search clock is under the control Lexus Nexus Search of the clock of a "synchronization master" device. When the sync master commences Lexus Nexus Search playback, the "on-line" device automatically synchronizes itself Lexus Nexus Search to the master and commences playing from the same point in the recording. Whereas Lexus Nexus Search a device that is "off-line" uses no external clock reference and relies upon its own internal clock. When a large number of devices are connected to a sync Lexus Nexus Search master, it is Lexus Nexus Search often convenient, Lexus Nexus Search if one wants to hear just the output of one Lexus Nexus Search single device, to take it off-line, because if the device is Lexus Nexus Search played back Lexus Nexus Search on-line all synchronized Lexus Nexus Search devices have to locate Word Search Puzzle Generator the playback point and wait for each other to be in synchronization.[2] (For further Lexus Nexus Search related discussion, see MIDI timecode, word sync, Lexus Nexus Search and recording system synchronization.)
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A third Lexus Nexus Search example of a Job Search Bakerstown Pa common use of these concepts is a web Search Lyrics Phrase 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 Lexus Nexus Search "on-line" state. In the "off-line" state, users can perform offline browsing, where Lexus Nexus Search pages can be browsed using local copies of those pages that have previously been downloaded whilst in the "on-line" state. This can be useful when Lexus Nexus Search the Lexus Nexus Search 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 Lexus Nexus Search of prior on-line Lexus Nexus Search browsing by the user, or explicitly by the browser being configured Lexus Nexus Search to keep local copies of certain web pages, which it keeps updated when the browser is in Lexus Nexus Search the on-line state, either by checking Lexus Nexus Search that the Lexus Nexus Search local copies are up-to-date at regular intervals or by checking that the local Lexus Nexus Search copies are Lexus Nexus Search up-to-date whenever the browser is switched to the on-line state. One such web Lexus Nexus Search browser capable of being explicitly configured to download pages for Lexus Nexus Search offline browsing is Internet Explorer. When pages are added to the "Favourites" list, they can be marked for Lexus Nexus Search being made "available for offline browsing". Internet Explorer will download to local copies both the marked Lexus Nexus Search page and, optionally, all of the pages that it links to. In Internet Explorer British Patents Search version 6, the level of direct and indirect links, Lexus Nexus Search the maximum amount of local Lexus Nexus Search disc space allowed Lexus Nexus Search to be consumed, 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 Lexus Nexus Search ideas of "on-line" and "off-line" have been generalized Phone Search Usa from computing and telecommunication into the field of human interpersonal Lexus Nexus Search relationships. The distinction between what is considered "on-line" and what is considered "off-line" has become a Lexus Nexus Search subject 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 Lexus Nexus Search and face-to-face communication (e.g. Carolina North Public Record Search face time), respectively. "On-line" is virtuality, Lexus Nexus Search and "off-line" is reality (e.g. real life or meatspace). Lexus Nexus Search Slater states that this distinction is "obviously far too simple". To Lexus Nexus Search 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, Lexus Nexus Search and an "off-line" Adoption Search Canada Htm relationship, such as being pen-pals. He also argues that even the telephone can be regarded as an "on-line" experience in Lexus Nexus Search some circumstances, and that the blurring of the distinctions between the uses of various technologies (such as PDA and mobile Lexus Nexus Search telephone, television Lexus Nexus Search and Internet, and telephone and Lexus Nexus Search voice-over-IP) has made it "impossible to use the term 'on-line' meaningfully in the Lexus Nexus Search sense that was employed by Lexus Nexus Search the first generation of Internet Lexus Nexus Search research".[7]
Slater asserts that Lexus Nexus Search there are Lexus Nexus Search legal and regulatory Lexus Nexus Search pressures to reduce the distinction between "on-line" and "off-line", Lexus Nexus Search with a "general tendency to assimilate online to offline and erase the Lexus Nexus Search distinction", stressing, however, that this does not Lexus Nexus Search mean that on-line relationships are Lexus Nexus Search 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, on-line are already seen as just as "real" as their off-line counterparts), Lexus Nexus Search although he states it Lexus Nexus Search to be hard to imagine courts awarding palimony to people who have had a purely on-line sexual relationship. He also conjectures that an Lexus Nexus Search "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 Lexus Nexus Search distinction where "on-line" is Lexus Nexus Search seen as virtuality and "off-line" as reality is sometimes inverted, with Lexus Nexus Search "on-line" concepts Lexus Nexus Search being Lexus Nexus Search used to define and to explain Lexus Nexus Search "off-line" activities, rather than (as per the conventions of the Lexus Nexus Search desktop metaphor Lexus Nexus Search with its desktops, trash cans, Key Word Search folders, and so forth) 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 Lexus Nexus Search store" where "All items are actual size!", where shoppers may "Take it Lexus Nexus Search home as soon as you pay for it!", and where "Merchandise may be handled prior to purchase!". |
