An American admiral, spotting a blip on the radar screen, ordered his radio operator, "Tell that ship to alter course fifteen degrees."
The researchers are sharing their real-time data on whale locations, transmitted from the buoys via satellite, with tanker captains, who can then slow down their ships or alter course to avoid whales.
But the Difference Engine could only do rote calculations and was incapable of checking its results to alter course.
Fantasia : yes. i will also alter course to avoid the storm. out.