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Comment: Now I realize... (Score 1) 753

by MJMullinII (#38392776) Attached to: Firefox Too Big To Link On 32-bit Windows

that is isn't quite so clean and neat when you're compiling a program that must work on millions of systems other than your own :)

But I would have thought they were already doing that. While going from 32bit to 64bit doesn't magically make everything faster, it does generally add a tiny bit of speed simply because of the extra registers Intel and AMD add for 64bit operations.

Even if it were only a few points, I would think that building as much as you know they must, ANY tiny bit of speed improvement would add up pretty fast (even if only 1% or 2%).

Comment: Re:Stealth rockets (Score 1) 230

by MJMullinII (#38107126) Attached to: US Army Completes First Test Flight of Mach 6 Weapon

Bad shape, try completely in ruins.

The problem with all these doom and gloom stories regarding the United States -- and this is something you touched upon quite correctly, I might add -- is that "debt" is just numbers on a piece of paper if you can do nothing to enforce it, that's the chief difference between nations and your household budget.

If you had a First World Army to back you up, Chase would be a lot more interested in dickering with you come loan refinance time.

Getting back to China...if China were to suddenly stop purchasing U.S. Government paper...decided to be real bad asses ("cash only", etc.) -- the net result would be an economic depression for the United States, follower quickly by the rest of the World. The net result for the country of China, a country were the bottom 90% are dependent on the Government for simple day to day existence (healthcare, food, etc.) would be an outright collapse of the Communist State and an almost inevitable Civil War to fill the power vacuum.

Comment: Re:Not first strike! (Score 1) 230

by MJMullinII (#38107098) Attached to: US Army Completes First Test Flight of Mach 6 Weapon

Historically, the USA has not 'struck first. Especially in the 20th century. They have waited until they or their allies had been attacked.
Veitnam war - the French were fighting there for over a decade before

Wrong, wrong, wrong. The french were long gone from vietnam when the US got into it. Unless you want to consider attacking anyone who ever had a war with an ally not a first strike, in which case, almost any nation would be fair play. Why not invade Spain? They've had wars with England our ally! Why not invade England? They've had wars with France our ally! etc... etc... Besides, you say "allies were attacked" . Where the french attacked in indochina? Wouldn't it be more accurate to say they were resisted?

Iraq war was a continuation of the Gulf War part 1 see above

WTF???? a continuation? what's that? a decade later? in which international accord is that NOT a new war?? btw, the US didn't formally declare war. If any other nation other than the US had done it, their leaders would have been prosecuted as war criminals for "fighting a war of agression", same charge was used against nazi leaders.

what about Grenada 1983? Panama 1989? Dominican Republic 1965? Honduras 1912? Bay of Pigs?

Which, as an American, I can say "it's good to be king!" :)

Comment: Apoligies if this has already been said... (Score 1) 218

by MJMullinII (#37813996) Attached to: Canadian Company Plans Solar-Powered Heavier-Than-Air Airships

but this kinda strikes me as a cross between an airplane an a barge. Another way of saying it would be it's like an airborne railroad

Both aren't as fast an an airplane, but both can carry many times as much weight and can travel a predictable distance very affordably on an item-by-item cost basis..

When the ax entered the forest, the trees said, "The handle is one of us!" -- Turkish proverb