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Another example of the use Duns Search of these Duns Search concepts is in the world of digital audio Search Electoral Role Free technology. Job Search Kansas City A tape recorder, digital editor, or other device that is "on-line" is one whose Duns Search clock is under the control of the clock of a "synchronization master" device. Duns Search 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. Duns Search Whereas Duns Search a device that is "off-line" Duns Search uses no external clock reference and relies upon its own internal clock. When a large Duns Search number of Duns Search devices are connected to a sync master, it is often Duns Search convenient, if one wants to hear Duns Search just the output of one single device, to take it off-line, because if the device is played back on-line all synchronized devices have to locate the playback Job Search Nc point and wait Duns Search for each other to be in synchronization.[2] (For further related discussion, see MIDI timecode, word sync, and recording system synchronization.)
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A third example of a common use of these concepts Duns Search is a web browser that can Duns Search be instructed to be in either Duns Search "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 Duns Search perform offline browsing, where pages can be Duns Search browsed using local copies of those pages that Duns Search have previously been downloaded whilst in the "on-line" state. This can be useful when the computer itself is also off-line, with connection to Internet expensive or impossible. Duns Search The pages are either downloaded Duns Search implicitly into Search Zilla 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 keeps 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 switched to the on-line state. One such web browser Duns Search capable of being explicitly configured to download pages for offline Duns Search browsing Duns Search is Internet Explorer. When Duns Search pages are added to the Duns Search "Favourites" Duns Search 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 the pages that it Duns Search links to. In Internet Explorer version 6, the level of direct Duns Search and indirect Duns Search links, the maximum amount Duns Search of local disc space allowed to be consumed, and the schedule on which local copies are checked to see whether they are up-to-date, are configurable for each
The ideas of "on-line" and "off-line" have been generalized from computing and telecommunication into Religious Search Engines the field of Duns Search human interpersonal relationships. Duns Search The distinction between what is considered "on-line" and what is considered Duns Search "off-line" has become a subject of study in the field of sociology.[7]
The distinction between "on-line" and "off-line" is conventionally seen Duns Search as the distinction between computer-mediated communication and Duns Search face-to-face communication (e.g. face time), respectively. Duns Search "On-line" is virtuality, and "off-line" Duns Search is reality (e.g. real life or meatspace). Slater states that this distinction is "obviously far too simple". To support his argument that the distinctions in relationships are more complex than Duns Search a simple "on-line"/"off-line" dichotomy, he observes that some people Duns Search draw no distinction between an "on-line" relationship, such as indulging in cybersex, and an "off-line" relationship, such as being Duns Search pen-pals. He Duns Search also argues that even the telephone can Duns Search be regarded as Duns Search an "on-line" experience in some circumstances, Duns Search and that the blurring of the distinctions between the uses of various technologies (such as PDA and mobile telephone, television and Internet, Duns Search Library Book Search and telephone and voice-over-IP) has made it "impossible to use the term 'on-line' meaningfully in the sense that was employed by the first generation of Internet Time Magazine Search research".[7]
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Slater asserts that there are legal and regulatory pressures to reduce the distinction between "on-line" and "off-line", with a "general tendency to assimilate online Duns Search to offline and erase the distinction", stressing, however, that this does Peple Search not mean that on-line relationships are Duns Search being reduced to pre-existing Duns Search off-line relationships. He conjectures that greater legal status may Duns Search be assigned to on-line Duns Search relationships (pointing out that contractual Duns Search relationships, Duns Search such as business transactions, on-line are already seen as just as "real" as their off-line counterparts), although he states it Duns 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 "on-line"/"off-line" distinction may be seen Duns Search by people as "rather quaint and not quite comprehensible" within 10 Duns Search years
The distinction Duns Search where "on-line" is seen as Duns Search virtuality and "off-line" as Duns Search reality is sometimes inverted, Duns Search with "on-line" concepts being used to Duns Search define and to explain "off-line" activities, rather than (as per the conventions of the desktop metaphor with Duns Search its desktops, trash cans, folders, Duns Search 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 store" where "All items are actual size!", where Duns Search shoppers Duns Search may "Take it home as soon as you pay for it!", and where "Merchandise may be handled prior to purchase!". |
