Sentences with phrase «things about our infrastructure»

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The interesting thing about the market is... we've been building cloud technology and infrastructure for a long, long time, but we've just started commercializing it.

«Think about this as a software stack that lets you build and consume things in the cloud or on premises,» Urs Hölzle, Google's senior vice president of technical infrastructure tells Fortune.

Well, last year I talked to economist Michael Hudson about this exact thing, infrastructure.

The things about our cities that make you want to move here are the same reasons many of us live here — we have great systems of higher education, museums, and infrastructure that helps move people and things from one place to another.

A few things in the discussion surprised me, and it also forced me to think a lot more about oil infrastructure in this country and to put some numbers to the question, «What would it take -LSB-...]

One the most amazing things about this budget is that one of its three focuses will actually be the opposite of what itâ $ ™ s touting. Youâ $ ™ ll likely hear that $ 14 billion will be spent on infrastructure over the next 10 years (actually you may hear much bigger numbers but they just re-announce existing programs like the -LSB-...]

But there's one thing just about every Canadian can concur with — particularly while trapped in morning gridlock, or dodging chunks of concrete under a decaying bridge: Our infrastructure badly needs updating.

«We've got to go on reducing that and go on funding the things we do care most about including our vital public services like the NHS and investment in the infrastructure, the capital backbone of the country, that are going to create the jobs of the future.»

Compared to when he announced the Buffalo Billion, Cuomo spoke less about region specific initiatives this year --- but Upstate Mayors Byron Brown and Lovely Warren say the governor's focus on things like education funding, infrastructure and economic development remain important to their cities.

Those things have added up to a mayor that takes her message to Washington, to complain about delays in replenishing the Highway Trust Fund; to Albany, looking to get more state spending on infrastructure; and to the Clinton Global Initiative, as a member of the infrastructure working group.

If you want to tell me about issues you see with traffic infrastructure, and I keep demanding that you first establish that internal combustion is actually a thing, and that it does have the ability to power a motor vehicle, you'd never make any progress because you'd be re-proving what has been proven.

«The important thing for Amtrak now is that we exert the leadership and focus needed to improve the station's infrastructure over the summer and do what is necessary to achieve our common goal — ensuring that passengers will no longer be traveling on aging infrastructure or worrying about when they will get to or from their destinations.»

Lappin talked about employing «bottom - up planning» to look at things 10 to 15 years down the road so that the necessary infrastructure can be built to keep up with development.

«I see the development as a good thing, but I want to make sure it does not affect the residential character of lower Manhattan,» Xie said, mentioning concerns about traffic, air quality and infrastructure.

WASHINGTON — Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner said today one thing that keeps her up at night are worries about the city's crumbling infrastructure, some of it dating back to the 19th century.

I mean, infrastructure really is the key in a lot of these things, but in some ways that goes to the really creative, novel way of thinking about this.

«Solving the e-waste problem is more about developing the appropriate infrastructure to recover the darn things simply for their intrinsic value.»

This workshop teaches students about how not just transport, but the infrastructure surrounding it, is crucial for the most simple things - trade, education, healthcare, communication, enjoyment - and ultimately for climbing out of poverty.

We are trying to change that conversation to be about things our country sorely needs: retirement security, infrastructure and jobs.

There's very little similar about these two districts, but, this week, administrators in both school systems agreed on one thing before a special commission of legislators charged with studying the state's infrastructure: facility and maintenance needs for K - 12 schools are reaching a flashpoint in North Carolina.

But as California enters the «awareness» stage of work on Common Core State Standards, one of the things we are becoming aware of is that we have decimated the improvement infrastructure that we will desperately need if California is to do anything useful about the Common Core.

If you follow news about the mounting student loans debt, you will most often hear people talk about the problem of rising tuition prices which is often blamed on things like the reductions in state funding for state colleges, overblown infrastructure spending on campuses, and bloated college administration budgets.

Additionally, it offers the benefit of helping your investment grow (better than a savings account, fixed deposits, and infrastructure bonds) with the same ease of access that more modern financial instruments... Continue reading PPF Account: List of 21 Banks Supporting It, PPF Interest Rate, and the Only 7 Things You Need to Know About PPF

Here are specific things you should focus on when reading a prospectus or PDS about an infrastructure investment.

All four of these topics were real examples talked about by people who had the first - hand experience of being there, and it was fascinating to hear about all the things you had to think about when coordinating disaster relief... Like how the lack of infrastructure proved to be a harder problem to overcome than developing a heat - stable rinderpest vaccine.

Especially when they learn that most of the Belizean population lives not on the mainland, but on the barrier island known as Ambergris Caye, many people worry about things like infrastructure, weather, politics and economics.

One of the best things about Dubai is that, despite being a mega-city with lavish infrastructure, it offers a number of affordable accommodation options for its visitors.Â

The fact is, both Sony & MS's new consoles are about equal in all facets in reality, both have a similar amount of great exclusives, even to the point of being in similar genres... And regardless of propaganda, media beatups (such as in Driveclubs & Halo's cases)... regardless of the OBVIOUS MAINLY U.S. based media favoritism of there own home grown console manufacturing giant, both machines are great, & so similar in all areas, that choosing between the 2, comes down to all these little bullshite bits & bops, such as marketing, corporate naming & such... as well as the more game related things, such as gaming preferences, controllers comfort, online infrastructure, etc, etc.... But, the point is, WHO REALLY CARES??? Who worries about this shite, over actually playing & enjoying such brilliant games?

One thing about the rural / urban question: what excites me about the GMB idea is that you live where you want to live, within certain constraints (mostly the infrastructure needed to produce your Brand of whatever).

But the thing I love most about travelling abroad is discovering the different infrastructure.

When it comes to commuting and two - wheeled urban transport, the Dutch know a thing or two about making city bikes (and about making good city bike infrastructure), and from Royal Dutch Gazelle, which has been making quality city bikes since 1892, comes a new e-bike entry in the daily rider category.

Simpletons and Bush / Mcbush apologists also feel that ethanol which is LESS efficient than ordinary gas, is a GREAT idea, even as it creates the world's largest dead zone in the Gulf, offshore drilling is THE answer despite anyone w / a brain stating that this capacity won't come online for 30 years and which will produce about three weeks» worth of oil at our country's CURRENT rate of use, and that some silly gas tax reprieve, which will cost us in infrastructure improvements and lost jobs, is a good thing....

He said that while «infrastructure is important, like bike racks and other things» many businesses «think only about infrastructure, they think only about money and they sometimes overlook things that don't necessarily cost any money at all.

For anyone who's lived here, it really doesn't take an expert to recognize that the island - state has a number of things going for it: a contained urban area (the longest east - west stretch is just over 40 km and north - south stretch about 20 km), one of the most efficient and reliable electrical grids, sophisticated IT sector, ambitions to remain at the forefront of maintaining its already world - class transportation infrastructure, and a top - down policy environment which will ensure rapid deployment of a complicated and ambitious system once there is buy - in from the top.

One thing is certain about the coming electrification of transport: Our charging / fueling infrastructure will look nothing like the gas stations we all use today.

If increasing state pension age is just about cost saving, then the government should acknowledge this — as things stand, this ignores the wider conversation that needs to be had around different ways to manage the implications of people living longer, and guaranteeing that the jobs market and social infrastructure is in place to ensure that people in old age get adequate support.

But I think you're right, there is a focus really on the infrastructure, getting stability in that infrastructure which is really important, so that reflects in ILTA Survey that the influence of the IT Department which is all about stability, which is all about backup and managing things, but you got to look really hard in these surveys to see where innovation is and how you get out to the edge.

«It involves very detailed questionnaires and interviews about your infrastructure, how you keep things and so it's an awful lot of work to satisfy people about what we're doing.»

Kushner also asserted that his new White House office of American Innovation will seek to «modernize the government's technology infrastructure» as well as make «an effort to bring business sensibility to a government that for too long has relied on past practices as an automatic justification for their continuation» which out of context would be a scary thing to hear coming from an administration with little regard for the foundations of American democracy but in context was mostly kind of boring and about migrating to the cloud.

That's what Stacey Higginbotham, Derrick Harris and I discuss on this week's show as we preview Structure which kicks off next Wednesday and where executives from all those companies will be on hand to talk about how tomorrow's infrastructure needs to grow and evolve to support the massive workloads generated by the Internet of Things.

Perhaps it's the rise of «the Uber of [blank]», or maybe the world is thinking more about the infrastructure that moves people and things around, but salary data certainly makes transportation a compelling industry for tech workers.