Most of those Beetles probably don't date back that far... Production of the Type 1 Beetle continued until 2003.

NASA doesn't just chuck stuff on a rocket and launch it on an interplanetary mission. TFA mentions that LEGO had to design them so as not to interfere with the probe's measurements. This is a gravimetric survey of the planet, so the center-of-gravity of the probe has to be a very finely-known factor. There had to have been a fair amount of careful design and testing on both NASA's and LEGO's parts. Those rocket scientists aren't cheap!

Somehow I think that if a team of astronauts is spending several months together in a cramped, hot, strange-smelling canister, eating together, sleeping together, working together, and going to the bathroom together, taking a suppository isn't a big deal.

The problem is, once you've built a tablet with a capacitive screen AND the ability to display modern web content, you've already gone way past the $100 price point and have specs comparable to or exceeding the iPad. AJAX applications and HTML5 need some pretty hefty processing power as it is.

There's two books that can change a teen's ife: LotR and Atlas Shrugged. One is a fantasy full of unbelievable heroes. The other has orcs.

There is another theory that the first theory was concocted by a wily editor of the Hitch Hiker's Guide to C Programming to raise the level of general insecurity in the industry, and thus boost the sales of the book.

Seems to be working fine now, at least as far as glxinfo/glxgears can tell me. Incidentally, this update also fixed issues with slow redrawing in all X11 apps, especially Inkscape 3