27-538: Observer Media is an American online media company . The company was formed through several acquisitions, including acquisition of The New York Observer in 2007. Observer Media is based in Lower Manhattan , New York City , and was owned by businessman Jared Kushner until 2016, when he transferred his ownership into a family trust, through which his brother-in-law Joseph Meyer took over his former role as publisher and chairman in 2017. It currently publishes
54-852: A print edition called The New York Observer in November 2016. The Commercial Observer online site includes sections such as Leases, Finance, Sales, Design & Construction, Technology, Markets and Events. In April 2016, former editor-in-chief Ken Kurson was criticized for providing "input" to Donald Trump in a speech given at the annual AIPAC conference. The Observer was also criticized in 2014 for an investigative piece on former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman . In July 2016, Observer staff journalist Dana Schwartz published an open letter to her boss Jared Kushner criticizing him for his involvement in Trump's (Kushner's father-in-law) presidential campaign. Shortly thereafter, Kushner responded to
81-423: A problem with the circuit as being on line , as opposed to the power source or end-point equipment. Since at least 1950, in computing , the terms on-line and off-line have been used to refer to whether machines, including computers and peripheral devices , are connected or not. Here is an excerpt from the 1950 book High-Speed Computing Devices : One example of a common use of these concepts with email
108-445: A purely online sexual relationship. He also conjectures that an online/offline distinction may be seen by people as "rather quaint and not quite comprehensible" within 10 years. This distinction between online and offline is sometimes inverted, with online concepts being used to define and to explain offline activities, rather than (as per the conventions of the desktop metaphor with its desktops, trash cans, folders, and so forth)
135-452: A server), but the user may not wish for Outlook to trigger that call whenever it is configured to check for mail. Another example of the use of these concepts is digital audio technology. A tape recorder , digital audio editor , or other device that is online is one whose clock is under the control of the clock of a synchronization master device. When the sync master commences playback, the online device automatically synchronizes itself to
162-458: Is a mail user agent (MUA) that can be instructed to be in either online or offline states. One such MUA is Microsoft Outlook . When online it will attempt to connect to mail servers (to check for new mail at regular intervals, for example), and when offline it will not attempt to make any such connection. The online or offline state of the MUA does not necessarily reflect the connection status between
189-492: Is also given by the prefixes " cyber " and "e", as in words " cyberspace ", " cybercrime ", " email ", and " e-commerce ". In contrast, "offline" can refer to either computing activities performed while disconnected from the Internet, or alternatives to Internet activities (such as shopping in brick-and-mortar stores). The term "offline" is sometimes used interchangeably with the acronym "IRL", meaning "in real life". During
216-434: Is reality (i.e., 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 a simple dichotomy of online versus offline, he observes that some people draw no distinction between an online relationship, such as indulging in cybersex , and an offline relationship, such as being pen pals . He argues that even
243-439: Is termed as offline. In the context of file systems, "online" and "offline" are synonymous with "mounted" and "not mounted". For example, in file systems' resizing capabilities , "online grow" and "online shrink" respectively mean the ability to increase or decrease the space allocated to that file system without needing to unmount it. Online and offline distinctions have been generalised from computing and telecommunication into
270-763: The Commercial Observer and Observer . As of November 2016, Observer Media announced it would no longer print the New York Observer . The Observer site is a consolidation of several notable online properties, including The Gallerist , BetaBeat , NY Politicker , and PolitickerNJ . In 2007, Jared Kushner began acquiring and merging several print and online media publications into the Observer brand, including The New York Observer , BetaBeat , Gallerist , NY Politicker , SCENE Magazine , and PolitickerNJ . These acquisitions became integrated into
297-476: The Internet Archive announced an offline server project intended to provide access to material on inexpensive servers that can be updated using USB sticks and SD cards. Likewise, offline storage is computer data storage that has no connection to the other systems until a connection is deliberately made. Additionally, an otherwise online system that is powered down may be considered offline. With
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#1732779719511324-503: The telephone can be regarded as an online experience in some circumstances, and that the blurring of the distinctions between the uses of various technologies (such as PDA versus mobile phone, internet television versus internet, and telephone versus Voice over Internet Protocol ) has made it "impossible to use the term online meaningfully in the sense that was employed by the first generation of Internet research". Slater asserts that there are legal and regulatory pressures to reduce
351-403: The 19th century, the term on line was commonly used in both the railroad and telegraph industries. For railroads, a signal box would send messages down the line (track), via a telegraph line (cable), indicating the track's status: Train on line or Line clear . Telegraph linemen would refer to sending current through a line as direct on line or battery on line ; or they may refer to
378-520: The company through his investment firm Observer Capital, and serves as chairman and publisher. Jared Kushner has no ownership stake in and has no role in the company. James R. Freiman was named CEO of Observer Media in November 2022. Previously, Michael Rose, the former president of What to Expect, a subsidiary of Everyday Health, was named CEO of Observer Media on October 9, 2019. The Observer online site includes three main content categories: Business, Arts & Entertainment. Observer Media discontinued
405-409: The computer on which it is running and the Internet i.e. the computer itself may be online—connected to the Internet via a cable modem or other means—while Outlook is kept offline by the user, so that it makes no attempt to send or to receive messages. Similarly, a computer may be configured to employ a dial-up connection on demand (as when an application such as Outlook attempts to make a connection to
432-581: The distinction between online and offline, with a "general tendency to assimilate online to offline and erase the distinction," stressing, however, that this does not mean that online relationships are being reduced to pre-existing offline relationships. He conjectures that greater legal status may be assigned to online relationships (pointing out that contractual relationships, such as business transactions, online are already seen as just as "real" as their offline counterparts), although he states it to be hard to imagine courts awarding palimony to people who have had
459-435: The field of human interpersonal relationships. The distinction between what is considered online and what is considered offline has become a subject of study in the field of sociology . The distinction between online and offline is conventionally seen as the distinction between computer-mediated communication and face-to-face communication (e.g., face time ), respectively. Online is virtuality or cyberspace , and offline
486-420: The growing communication tools and media, the words offline and online are used very frequently. If a person is active over a messaging tool and is able to accept the messages it is termed as online message and if the person is not available and the message is left to view when the person is back, it is termed as offline message. In the same context, the person's availability is termed as online and non-availability
513-459: The letter defending his contributions to Trump's presidential campaign. Both articles were widely circulated in social media, and attracted attention from various media outlets. Online In computer technology and telecommunications , online indicates a state of connectivity, and offline indicates a disconnected state. In modern terminology, this usually refers to an Internet connection , but (especially when expressed as "on line" or "on
540-622: 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 up-to-date, are configurable for each individual Favourites entry. For communities that lack adequate Internet connectivity—such as developing countries, rural areas, and prisons—offline information stores such as WiderNet's eGranary Digital Library (a collection of approximately thirty million educational resources from more than two thousand web sites and hundreds of CD-ROMs) provide offline access to information. More recently,
567-527: The line") could refer to any piece of equipment or functional unit that is connected to a larger system. Being online means that the equipment or subsystem is connected, or that it is ready for use. "Online" has come to describe activities performed on and data available on the Internet , for example: " online identity ", " online predator ", " online gambling ", " online game ", " online shopping ", " online banking ", and " online learning ". A Similar meaning
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#1732779719511594-513: 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 online. One such web browser is Internet Explorer . When pages are added to the Favourites list, they can be marked to be "available for offline browsing". Internet Explorer will download local copies of both the marked page and, optionally, all of the pages that it links to. In Internet Explorer version 6,
621-405: The master and commences playing from the same point in the recording. A device that is offline uses no external clock reference and relies upon its own internal clock. When many 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 it offline because, if the device is played back online, all synchronized devices have to locate
648-417: The online state. This can be useful when the computer is offline and connection to the Internet is impossible or undesirable. The pages are downloaded either implicitly into the web browser's own cache as a result of prior online browsing by the user or explicitly by a browser configured to keep local copies of certain web pages, which are updated when the browser is in the online state, either by checking that
675-508: The other way around. Several cartoons appearing in The New Yorker have satirized this. One includes Saint Peter asking for a username and a password before admitting a man into Heaven. Another illustrates "the offline store" where "All items are actual size!", shoppers may "Take it home as soon as you pay for it!", and "Merchandise may be handled prior to purchase!" Cyberspace Too Many Requests If you report this error to
702-578: The playback point and wait for each other device to be in synchronization. (For related discussion, see MIDI timecode , Word clock , and recording system synchronization.) A third example of a common use of these concepts is a web browser that can be instructed to be in either online or offline states. The browser attempts to fetch pages from servers while only in the online state. In the offline state, or "offline mode", users can perform offline browsing , where pages can be browsed using local copies of those pages that have previously been downloaded while in
729-830: The website observer.com ( Gallerist was integrated in September 2014, PolitickerNY in March 2014, BetaBeat in January 2015, and PolitickerNJ in August 2016). In March 2012, Observer Media launched The Commercial Observer , a commercial real estate publication . The organization has since received various awards, including "NAREE's 65th Annual Real Estate Journalism" award, "Best Team Report Silver" award (2013), and "Best Weekly Newspaper Report Silver" award (2014). The Commercial Observer publishes at commercialobserver.com, and also publishes weekly print edition. Joseph Meyer now owns
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