The navigator also had to add any movement of the ship to the side caused by waves or the wind.

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Cloth sails were used to catch the wind to move a ship through the water.

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But if a big gust of wind pushes the ship too far to the left, the solution is not to figure out a way to generate an equally-sized gust of wind to push the ship back in the other direction.

FORBES: Ben Bernanke Is Steering Us Off Course

The ship departed the wind-blasted town of Puerto Natales at first light, with passengers boarding the night before.

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Man, this all sounds a little too weird to be true, but apparently Wind River's VP of Marketing told LinuxDevices that they do have at least one customer who expects to ship a phone in the US running Wind River Linux before Christmas.

ENGADGET: Palm working on a line of Linux-powered, non-Treo feature phones?