I really hope you mean Harrier, otherwise I've really missed out on a neat trick the Vulcan could pull off :-)

It's not quite like that though is it, it's:

cd /Applications
open Mail.app

or

cd /Applications
open Microsoft\ Office\ 2011/Microsoft\ Word.app

I wouldn't fancy trying to explain that to most of our users, let alone explaining that they need to match the case, rather than just saying "It's in the Applications folder" or even more quickly "Click on the Spotlight icon and start typing Word...".

I use the command line fairly constantly (our servers are OpenIndiana and don't have a GUI installed), but command lines require using a particular grammar and vocabulary that need to be learned. Most users have no interest in learning those and it's very different from Google which will handle re-ordering of terms, different capitalisation and even typos.

I know someone who is involved in the Bloodhound project, working with a large education company over here (one of the sponsors of the car). There is a really big focus on the education side of things with this; they're touring schools and colleges doing presentations, along with a full size replica of the car. One of the big reasons for doing it is to get kids at school interested in science, maths and engineering and that seems like a pretty good idea because there has been a continuing decline in students going on to study those subjects at higher levels in the UK (and I believe most Western countries these days).

There's a bit about it on their website http://www.bloodhoundssc.com/education.cfm . I also doubt that the overall resource usage for the entire project is actually that high (I'd bet fewer resources used than most Hollywood films for instance), so if it increases interest in the areas they're targeting so that general science and engineering gets a bit more attention, I don't think that's too bad a result.

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The Apple Cinema Displays *do* use Mini DisplayPort, and it's been officially brought into the standard now, so isn't just an Apple only port. There's also quite a few laptops out there using it, from Dell, Toshiba HP... The Wikipedia page for Mini DisplayPort has a list of a few.

It's worth bearing in mind that the version of Light Peak that we're likely to see tomorrow, is probably going to be copper-based rather than optical, so Light Peak would probably be just as unrelated as Thunderbolt

What's wrong with an ARD Task Server and scheduled tasks to push out softwareupdate commands to clients? Tends to work pretty well in my experience.

We're not required to have it with us while driving. If you don't have it on you the Police can demand that you take it into a Police station within 7 days though.

That's not actually true, Apple provide a download of Safari 4 for Snow Leopard (10.6), Leopard (10.5) and Tiger (10.4). That G5 purchased in 2006 would have shipped with 10.4, so you don't even need to have purchased any additional software in order to use the very latest version of Safari. You can download a 10.4 compatible version of Safari from here.

I really don't know where you're getting this 10.6 requirement from, because there really isn't one.