Scanner Quotes

That`s what makes our sport so unique. You can sit there and watch it on TV, and you get more of the perspective of the pit strategy and the way the guys are passing each other out on the track. Then when you come to the race, you lose a little bit of that, but you can still see live what`s going on, and you can get a scanner and hear the teams and what transmissions go back and forth. And you have the smell, you`ve got the sight, the feel. When cars come by at 200 miles an hour, it blows you away.

The CT scanner is the backbone of the PAC system, the new digital (imaging) system that is part of the future of this alliance,

Allow one to two hours for 100 pages. There`s a kind of breaking point at about 1,000 documents. If you have less than 1,000, you can spend a couple of hours a day for a few weeks or bring in a college kid to do it. (More than) 1,000 pages will get to be a real job, so it might be worthwhile to buy a high-end copier/scanner.

Everything crossing that scanner is transmitted up to a satellite and then transferred down to the corporate headquarters in Arkansas. That way they know what is happening at every store. They know what pallets of merchandise are needed at each store. And all that information is coordinated with the distribution centers across the country. They are sending items to the right trucks on time every day.