And while talking and walking may still be its primary function, the wireless phone itself is becoming more of an all-purpose communications platform, incorporating functions typically thought of as the exclusive domain of Internet-connected computers in the U.S. One major example likely to hit American shores in the coming year is an application known as Short Messaging Services.
While transforming a submarine from a 1977 Bond film into a functioning, all-purpose, Transformer-like vehicle seems like science fiction, we know by now that not much is beyond Musk.
While an ASIC might gather enough volume in an all-purpose Ethernet switch with formulaic functions, it is unlikely to fill all the multifarious slots, blades and interfaces on the rocky and protean shores of networks, where legacies cling and novelties proliferate with the favored protocol of the month contests or with the new virus remedy or encapsulation scheme.
Cars of the Ford Fiesta and Volkswagen Polo class, including the new Toyota Yaris tested last week, have become big enough to function as viable, all-purpose family cars.
A more liquid mixture of baking soda and water can function as an all-purpose light cleaner that's particularly effective on grease.
So he started Macedon Technologies, which functions as an all-purpose consulting group for the large organizations that are implementing Appian's software platform.
Greenberg's savior -- and the suddenly ever-present fly in his ointment -- during his California sojourn is Florence (Greta Gerwig), his brother's assistant, who functions as an all-purpose au pair for Greenberg's brother's family.
The most straightforward way to obtain a target-biased scoring function is, probably, to re-calibrate an existing all-purpose scoring function directly on certain target classes.
Use an all-purpose cleaner.
As it does in its other big markets — India, South Africa, Saudi Arabia and much of Europe — WhatsApp functions in Brazil as an all-purpose communications tool.
A single tier "all-purpose council" is now responsible for all local authority functions in the whole of Scotland and Wales and some parts of England (also known as unitary, metropolitan or London borough authorities).
