[ntp:questions] how to have offset < 1ms

nemo_outis abc at xyz.com
Thu Apr 15 17:18:47 UTC 2010


"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote in
news:U4GdnVOMLZlB3lrWnZ2dnUVZ_sydnZ2d at giganews.com: 

> unruh wrote:
...
>> Once you have proven it works, you can then spend the 3 years and
>> countless memos trying to get official space on the hull to mount the
>> receiver. 
 
> Errr. . . .  I don't thing you want to mount it on the hull.  The hull
> is the part that keeps the water out, provides a place to put engines 
> and other necessary machinery, etc.  I think you want to put the
> antenna somewhere on the superstructure and the rest of the
> electronics somewhere on the bridge.

While I may have misread Unruh, I believe that his use of "hull" above is a 
case of metonymy - or, rather more specifically, its subclass synecdoche -  
and refers to the ship generally.

Regards,




More information about the questions mailing list