In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Greg Hennessy writes: >> As I have said before: if astronomers played their hand wisely, >> they'd say "We can live without leapseconds if you give us $N to >> handle the transition", they might be able to get some nice >> upgrades to instrumentation out of this. > >Doesn't that work in the other direction as well? Can't computer folk >say "we can live with leapseconds if you give us $N to handle it?" You >might get some nice upgrades to hardware out of this. . .
I suspect $N would be found to be quite a bit larger in that case, which is why I'm sure the astronomers could get a really sweet deal. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
