An alternative to this technique is long polling, which can avoid both these problems.
There is an alternative to establishing private-sector monopolies and here 'privatize and regulate' can work both ways.
Investors looking for a medium- to low-risk route to income investing are increasingly turning to the corporate bond market as an alternative to equities and government bonds.
But foreigners have very little access to it, and local investors have very little alternative to it: China's financial markets remain closed, opaque, and underdeveloped.
Acupuncture is an effective alternative to drugs for the treatment of depression, drug and alcohol addiction, and other addictive behaviors such as smoking and overeating.
For investors in gold who think of it as an alternative to paper currencies, its attractiveness is intimately linked to their fears about the capacity of these other currencies to retain their value.
Zachariah Mathew's Violent Elephant Control Gear has been designed to provide a humane alternative to sedating the animals, which are often used in religious festivals and are revered in Hinduism.
The fact that they are automatically rendered means that they can be ignored by model merges, thereby making them an attractive alternative to hand-drawn diagrams from a team modeling standpoint.
Theres no alternative to working through a catechism such as this: Are you…
There is one major exception to the pattern. Airlines do not currently have a low-carbon alternative to jet fuel.
Butterfly gardens in large open sunlit areas may make an attractive alternative to an open expanse of manicured lawn.
While charter schools provide an alternative to other public schools, they are part of the public education system and are not allowed to charge tuition.
They were paying their own unofficial visit, an alternative to the (in their eyes, phoney) reconciliation of the earlier event attended by Messrs Tusk and Putin.
She and other engineers are toying with lighter materials and some are pondering ideas as radical as returning to propeller-driven planes as an eco-friendly alternative to passenger jets.
The alternative to a lending splurge is to try again to push global product lines.
It’s the perfect, discreet alternative to the braces our kids wear.
But now researchers at the University of Washington have discovered nature's alternative to the power outlet: living trees.
Flat printing is an acceptable if less chic alternative to hand engraving, and matching envelopes with diamond flaps are non-negotiable.
"When it was introduced, homeopathy was a mild, welcome alternative to heavy-handed therapies such as bleeding, but it has since been criticized for focusing on symptoms rather than causes. With the rise of alternative medicine, it has seen a resurgence. "
And as the last level of detail, special custom runtime behaviour could be coded by a developer as an alternative to selecting an activity type from the used process language.
The Sunday Telegraph put the coffee alternative to the test - to see if the truth could be filtered out.
Abu Dhabi is trying to present itself as a more cultured, less congested alternative to neighbouring Dubai, and is building a huge Guggenheim museum.
As an alternative to this impotent "realism," I'd like to propose a clear-eyed idealism, which recognizes that these are bad times but refuses to accept that the bad times are inevitable.
So I think it's a very nice attempt to discuss the physicalist alternative to Plato's dualism.
But there is at least one viable alternative to LUCA: the mirror image of the entire system.
In tribal areas, it provides an alternative to hard-line clerics with a medley of local news, talk shows, and music.
iPads and their ilk may yet turninto a practical alternative to textbooks.
Coffee made from a type of pistachio nuts could provide a caffeine free and healthy alternative to the popular hot beverage, according to research by scientists.
The trouble is that, as the unhappiness at HP makes clear, the alternative to clubbishness is not some genteel exchange of views called “accountability”, but often strife and division.
Your best alternative to a negotiated agreement with the new boyfriend is. your old boyfriend, who by your admission is an excellent catch.
The alternative to the structure adopted by Mr Augar and Ms Tett is to take a thematic approach.
And, crucially, any league must not be seen as an alternative to reforming the UN.
Fuels are an attractive alternative to drugs for the new generation of synthetic biologists because they are not subject to regulatory whim to the extent that drugs are.
But when you discover that the only alternative to the standard V-6 is a V-6 hybrid, you understand in which direction the industry is headed: better fuel economy and less torque.
Lady Ashton has tried to propose an alternative to full UN membership: the Vatican option, plus a Quartet statement setting out the terms and timetable for new talks on Palestinian statehood.
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