In comparison, even a card with an 18 percent A.P.R. would charge only half as much interest - and she could take those presents home the same day.

In comparison to transport-level security WS-Security allows the user only to encrypt parts of the message (e.g., the credit card number) and not the whole communication between the client and server.

By comparison, the Home Basic version of Windows Vista requires a 32-bit 1ghz processor, 512mb of RAM, 20gb of hard drive space, and a graphics card with at least 32mb of memory.