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Comment Re:Trade will encourage Democracy. Sure it will. (Score 3, Interesting) 326

by bommai on Friday October 08, 2010 @10:02PM (#33842858) Attached to: China Blanks Nobel Peace Prize Searches

Actually a middle class exists in China. Except, they are drunk with their new found wealth. They are very patriotic and very government friendly. Why rock the boat and risk losing all that wealth and societal status when you can continue to be a business man or engineer or a lawyer and make lots of money.

Massive Martian Glaciers Found 314

Posted by timothy on Thursday November 20, 2008 @10:56PM from the could-be-a-trick dept.

Kozar_The_Malignant writes "Scientific American is reporting that 'data from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter point to vast glaciers buried beneath thin layers of crustal debris.' Data from the surface-penetrating radar on MRO revealed that two well-known mid-latitude features are composed of solid water ice. One is about three times the size of the City of Los Angeles. This certainly makes the idea of establishing a station on Mars far more plausible."

Comment Re:My experience (Score 1) 1276

by bommai on Tuesday September 23, 2008 @04:08PM (#25126373) Attached to: Bad Signs For Blu-ray

With the PS3, in order to get the lossless sound, you need a receiver that can process 5.1/7.1 PCM audio through HDMI. Do you have one of those? Also, you need to set the audio output on the PS3 to Linear PCM instead of bitstream. I got a huge leap in quality on movies that have lossless sound with my setup.

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