"Davis, Iain E." <feaelin at kemenel.org> writes: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mark A Mandel [mailto:mam at theworld.com] > > > #Hmm. Define "online". > > # > > #If it means "at a computer", It's probably something close to 100 > > #hrs/wk for me. > > > > I certainly wouldn't call it that, any more than being in a > > room with a > > radio -- not necessarily turned on -- counts as listening to > > the radio. > > "Online", to me, means actively using the Internet (including its > > subset the WWW). > > Upon reflection, it's hard to tell when I am _online_ or not (in > terms of internet), when using the computer, since I tend to being > running several things at once, and swap between them. Yep, me too. I'm currently writing a response to an email message via an SSH connection from my desktop machine to an internet server. Am I online? What if I add the information that the internet server is physically adjacent to my desktop machine, and by punching one button and switching to a different keyboard, I could be directly connected to it instead? > Additionally, I'm usually IM'able (which may or may not count, > depending on perspective), and semi-active on a mu*. > In theory the only time I'm probably not actually doing something on > the internet is if I happen to be "working away from my computer" > (e.g. working someone else's computer) or if I happen to be playing > a computer game (single player...most of my computer game time is > multiplayer internet play), but even then, I usually have Trillian > (IM Client) running on another machine. :) I don't generally have any kind of IM client running. I do sometimes work on photos for hours straight, without any other applications running ("working on photos" being a state with about three applications running, for me, usually). -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info