by Leroy Hurt | Oct 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via Houston Chronicle: “Because an organizational buyer typically makes large-scale purchase decisions, the organizational buyer will use a different evaluation of risk versus reward than the evaluation used by a typical consumer.” From...
by Leroy Hurt | Oct 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via The News Tribune: The Army plans to shed 60,000 troops, or 11 percent of its active force, to reach 490,000 by fiscal 2017. The Marine Corps will cut 20,000 – 5,000 a year over the next four years – to reach an end-strength of 182,100. Read more here:...
by Leroy Hurt | Oct 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via IEEE Spectrum: Robots are fairly decent at using prefabricated materials to build things, but when you get out into an unstructured environment (whether it’s somewhere like a forest or a city after a major disaster), it doesn’t really make sense to bring...
by Leroy Hurt | Oct 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
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by Leroy Hurt | Oct 8, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via Business Insider: Wendy’s came in first — by far — at 129.75 seconds. It’s the only chain that managed to improve its time from 2011. Here’s the breakdown of the six “mainstays” plus one regional chain, Bojangles, from QSR Magazine:...