Such specialized retail credit cards differ from so-called general-purpose cards used at multiple-location stores.
Electricity is a general-purpose technology and it takes people to reinvent the systems around it.
The question about whether the Amazon tablet will be a competitive, general-purpose tablet runs deeper.
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He envisioned general-purpose computers that could be employed to solve a variety of business problems.
However, the idea that general-purpose robots, capable of learning, will become widespread is wrong, suggests Mr Angle.
As a result, these cards typically carry higher interest rates and lower credit lines than general-purpose cards.
The computer Brownell came up with was built using general-purpose Intel chips and Windows and Linux operating systems.
But he emphasized that Ask would remain a general-purpose search engine with its own algorithm, not a niche site.
This casts doubt on whether the Kindle tablet can cross over and compete in the larger, general-purpose tablet market.
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From being the orphan of scanning methods, therefore, ultrasonics looks as though it may become a general-purpose medical tool.
He hired half a dozen of his colleagues to noodle ideas, the most promising of which was a general-purpose Internet search engine.
The era of LEDs for general-purpose lighting really began last decade, but the technology has been around since the 1960s.
They tend to be costly with few rewards and don't have the flexibility of a general-purpose credit card, experts say.
Sources say the Solaris 8 directory will be a high-performance, general-purpose directory intended to support a range of applications and services.
They would rather rely on a general-purpose and, from a copyright holder's point of view, highly untrustworthy device: the personal computer.
Its chief executive, Jean-Bernard Levy, says it will exploit the internet to distribute its content, but not as a general-purpose advertising medium.
It was among the first general-purpose computers capable of storing programs in rewritable memory, which took the form of mercury delay lines.
Access to large sums of relatively inexpensive, general-purpose cash that can be used for almost any purpose the borrower has in mind.
If Cell did eventually break out of these specialist applications and into general-purpose computers, Intel would have every right to be paranoid.
The PC managed to stay vital longer because it was a more general-purpose machine--exciting new applications were invented for it on a regular basis.
But the iPad is but the latest in a long line of products and would-be general-purpose devices that seeks to fill this gap, most of them short-lived.
FPGAs is as a general-purpose glue that sticks together several different components, such as a microprocessor and its attendant chips, inside a particular device.
His company, Anybots, aims to produce general-purpose robots for home use.
As I was commiserating with him over our cell phones, it occurred to me that we were both holding up to our ears powerful general-purpose computers.
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Long-term development could nudge us closer to robots with truly general-purpose code -- a welcome relief from the one-track minds the machines often have today.
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General-purpose computing capacity grew at an annual rate of 58%.
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This is a result of legislation that was passed in 2007, requiring general-purpose bulbs to be at least 25% more efficient than those using standard incandescent technology Edison invented.
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Such unconditional, general-purpose, non-transparent, undisciplined sources of cash, obtained at an inexpensive rate, lent themselves nicely to underwriting a range of foreign policy and security priorities that might otherwise have been unsupportable.
These habitats, which are folded up for launch and then inflated in space, were designed as interplanetary vehicles for a trip to Mars, but they are also likely to be useful general-purpose accommodation.
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