Middle click the terminal button will open a fresh instance, or just use a keyboard shortcut. Vanilla Gnome 3 is terrible, but with Shell Extensions, and Tweak Tools you can have a great DE back. Of course we should not have to install plugins to restore functionality, but I have to say it's a pleasant surprise. I started with FreeBSD in 2001, and tried all the major DEs and WMs (tiling and floating) since then. I'm still waiting for KDE4 to reach the dizzy usabillity heights of KDE3.

Excellent point!

Will it run Linux?

I'm not being facetious, I got stung by the lack of support by Nvidia for their Optimus graphics cards on my ASUS U30JC.

Thankfully Martin Juhl has been working on a solution using VirtualGL, which gives us the use of our Nvidia cards under linux

If you are using the English language then the terms East West etc. are valid. These terms have their origins in Graeco-Roman culture, i.e. the occident and the orient which identify regions that had cultural similarites and connections. Of course with such generalisations there will inevitably be some blurred lines and inaccuracies. With the advent of colonialisation and globalisation the geographic/directional connotations of West and East have lost some of their importance.

In Japanese you may use whatever terms you like, as you might know all foreigners could be referred to as gaikokujin or the more impolite gaijin, but the economic and cultural power of the "Western" nations in the 19th and 20th centuries has led to the term Western becoming adopted in some senses. In fact

from wikipedia.

Before you make any silly western colonial superiority statements against me, I am from a nation that suffered from colonialsm, so I am not biased in that regard.

You misunderstand me, I never made an assumption about the used browser. In fact I too use the default browser, so your point is moot.

Try the classic comments mode. I have it set to that, and I no longer have problems reading /. from my HTC Legend.