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Rand Paul, the congressman's son andSwiss replica Watches an insurgent Republican candidate for Senate in Kentucky, has taken a no-pork pledge and supports DeMint's proposed earmark ban. "The Tea Party movement is an effort to get government under control," the younger Paul said in a statement. "I'm running to represent Kentuckians and to dismantle the culture of professional politicians in Washington. Leadership isn't photo-ops with oversized fake cardboard checks. That kind of thinking is bankrupting our nation. Senator DeMint understands that and has taken action to stop it."
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This moment -- involving a 200-plus designer handbagsyear-old bottle of wine that almost certainly turned to vinegar long ago -- marks the first time that the scales fall from Andre's eyes and he begins to see that the French-speaking, Princeton-educated starlet, who first won fame in the movie The Blue Lagoon, is not the one for him. It is the beginning of a terrible case of buyer's remorse.
The American people are now getting Replica Watches the same sinking feeling in their relationship with Barack Obama. They see that they elected a president who -- trusting in his own innate wisdom and mental superiority -- doesn't know or care what they think, and who seems strangely indifferent to their well-being.
With his decision to use the Omega replica Watchesmisnamed "reconciliation" process in Congress to ram his hugely expensive and wildly unpopular health care legislation down the throats of the American people, the president, in a metaphorical sense, is holding up a dust-covered bottle… and telling us that we must drink from it.
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Scale? It's received wisdomdesigner handbags that heavy HTTP polling is stupid and wrong, whereas push is both more efficient and more optimal. The problem is there isn't much science or shared field experience on what it means to have a public XMPP data and notification endpoint with a lot of subscribers. When I say a lot, I mean 250,000 to 1M clients holding open connections to your server.
Issues I've seen are that load Replica Watchesbalancing becomes a problem, db access costs dominate login times for clients, and XMPP server clustering isn't as far along as I'd thought it was. Scaling XMPP does not appear to be a commodity problem the way HTTP scaling is - you are back down to looking at whether/if the servers are using epoll/nio;
whether load balancing should be done by clients
My suspicion is that services Omega replica Watchespushing out notifications to a number if subscribers (Sn) where that number is large is not yet a panacea to web poll scaling issues because there is latent asymmetry in the costs of pushing out events to increasing numbers despite it being more peformant and less latent for smaller values of Sn.
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