True the words aren't always interchangeable (so, ok, maybe "synonymous" wasn't the right word to use). However there are meanings for which both words are appropriate. For example "the last ever $event" would mean the same as "the final $event".
I don't think it's unreasonable to think that someone to whom English is a second language could confuse the two words.
Obviously the use of the word "Earth" makes you look twice but still...
Anyway, your example isn't the best as in this context "Final" means "last game". If you swap "final" and "last game" then it still makes sense.
I had something like this - it was a piece of paper that just said "now" on it. Unfortunately, for some reason I found I wasn't getting much work done so I have had to update it.
I like the idea of an International Theoretical Shooting Confederation. I picture a group of men with big moustaches sitting round, smoking pipes, discussing...
Statistics can be massively misleading. For example 6 out of 7 dwarves aren't Happy. Also 9 out of 10 people enjoy gang-rape.
Statistically, i believe that such life from lifelessness is very very improbable without some form of ID
This is true. Unfortunately there was no designer so we had to wait several billion years for a planet with the right conditions to appear. Once that was in place the rest didn't take too long (cosmologically speaking), just a few million years.
I read an article about some people that had queued for six hours to buy an iPad and didn't mind because it was "all part of the experience". Fucking idiots.
Ok, so say the police take a copy of the database. All they have to do now is take the fingerprint (say, from a crime scene) and apply the same hashing algorithm and compare the results in the same way that many password systems work. You never actually have to see the fingerprint/password, you just need to know that the hashes match.
Depending on how good the algorithm it might not be 100% accurate but if it's good enough to implicate one person then that person can then have their fingerprints taken to make sure.
Pretty tenuous but stranger things have happened...
I have yet to use an iPad but I have used TouchOSC on an HTC Hero over WiFi and the latency was negligible - it felt as responsive as a normal MIDI controller.
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Balderdash.
True the words aren't always interchangeable (so, ok, maybe "synonymous" wasn't the right word to use). However there are meanings for which both words are appropriate. For example "the last ever $event" would mean the same as "the final $event".
I don't think it's unreasonable to think that someone to whom English is a second language could confuse the two words.
Obviously the use of the word "Earth" makes you look twice but still...
Anyway, your example isn't the best as in this context "Final" means "last game". If you swap "final" and "last game" then it still makes sense.
"Pravin Lal" sounds like the name of someone who might not have English as a first language.
"Final" is synonymous with "last".
"Last" can also mean "previous".
"As the Americans learned so painfully in the last century..." makes sense.
It's not that big a leap.
Apparently the average persons attention span is
I'd suggest a martial art. Also helps you keep fit, teaches you self defence, helps self-esteem...
Heterosexual as opposed to asexual.
I had something like this - it was a piece of paper that just said "now" on it. Unfortunately, for some reason I found I wasn't getting much work done so I have had to update it.
Now it just says "soon".
Oh, it was humor and truth, rolled into one. :)
it was....a tumor?
I like the idea of an International Theoretical Shooting Confederation. I picture a group of men with big moustaches sitting round, smoking pipes, discussing...
"Boom."
"Bang?"
"Ratatat!"
"Indeed."
4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3...
So it does exactly what it's supposed to then?
I'm also guessing (perhaps naively) that it will boot much faster.
Now, now. there's nothing unnatural about a duck sleeping with a beaver.
Statistics can be massively misleading. For example 6 out of 7 dwarves aren't Happy. Also 9 out of 10 people enjoy gang-rape.
Statistically, i believe that such life from lifelessness is very very improbable without some form of ID
This is true. Unfortunately there was no designer so we had to wait several billion years for a planet with the right conditions to appear. Once that was in place the rest didn't take too long (cosmologically speaking), just a few million years.
or a stand-up comedian (Jesus)
I thought he was more of a stage magician.
"Here we have a fish an a loaf of bread. Nothing up my sleeves.... BAM! Who's hungry?"
My kingdom for a mod point!
Everyone seems to be getting angry over nothing.
I read an article about some people that had queued for six hours to buy an iPad and didn't mind because it was "all part of the experience". Fucking idiots.
Ok, so say the police take a copy of the database. All they have to do now is take the fingerprint (say, from a crime scene) and apply the same hashing algorithm and compare the results in the same way that many password systems work. You never actually have to see the fingerprint/password, you just need to know that the hashes match.
Depending on how good the algorithm it might not be 100% accurate but if it's good enough to implicate one person then that person can then have their fingerprints taken to make sure.
Pretty tenuous but stranger things have happened...
Why else would a packet of toothpicks need instructions?
Yes and literally millions of innocent bystanders have died as a result.
Should be covered by the Being Bloody Stupid Act of 1844.
Whereas driving into a lake because your GPS tells you to makes you look like an intellectual...
Indeed, worse yet, as a Web Developer a virtual machine running IE 6 is necessary...
Fixed that for you.
Good lord, Captain! The sarcasmometer is off the scale!
I have yet to use an iPad but I have used TouchOSC on an HTC Hero over WiFi and the latency was negligible - it felt as responsive as a normal MIDI controller.
Not really, no.