"anyone who cares about having a usable OS probably dropped Ubuntu as soon as they made Unity the default." I use Ubuntu on my laptops, but I don't use Unity or any desktop environment. I use the dwm window manager. I care about having a usable OS, so you are incorrect.

I didn't know it was a dupe. And I have some sympathy with the view that "unconscious" makes an awkward noun, correct or not, now that I take a hard look at it. It reminds me of the Uncola.

Submitter here. It seems to me that the commenter thinks that "unconscious" is an adjective and that I left out the noun. But it is indeed a noun, as a quick trip to any dictionary published after 1912 will confirm.

A prominent one would be graphviz, of course. But most other software that describes itself as dealing with "mind maps" can only handle a basic tree structure, you're right. Another exception would be Tinderbox, but that's closed source.

I only see the term "maser" in popular accounts of science. In my experience the people who work on them call them "lasers", "free-electron lasers" (FELs), "microwave lasers", etc. And microwave lasers have been commonplace for decades in the form of FELs. What's new here is the "solid state" part.

If they are basically truthful, then they are improving on their record.

The article begins with an example of what the author seems to think is truly outmoded technology, only useful for teaching preschoolers. But people who know how to use the abacus can multiply a couple of four-digit numbers together, arriving at the result before an experienced electronic calculator user has finished entering the first number into the machine. I've seen shopkeepers in New York's Chinatown using abacuses in place of cash registers, and I'm sure their use is still widespread in China, at least. Electronic calculators begin to have an edge when you need to extract square roots of numbers more than a few digits long. There is a pattern here: old technology often requires some training to use it effectively, but if you put in the work to develop the skill, it works better in some situations.

How cool is it that lumberjacks read Slashdot?

I don't follow. You still get all the advantages of separate semantic markup and styling, of only requiring the user to download the styling information once, of being able to reuse your stylesheets, and of allowing the user to substitute his own stylesheet.

You can't make adaptive colors in CSS, like a shadow color automatically calculated from another color.

You can use CSS compilers, like CleverCSS, for this.

if you don't want to give each element multiple classes.

But that's the best way to do it.