Sorry, I've been consumed at the latest production I'm puting togeather...
Fact #1: Apple uses alot of the best hardware out there, alot of IBM. They use PowerPC for their processors, again by IBM, the G3 and G4 are dirivitives of the PowerPC 7xx series (i belive)... the G3 is in fact a 64bit chip, and the G4 is infact a 128bit chip.
Anyone who says WindowsXP doesn't have security problems and doesnt eat close to 512mb of ram is a *****.
First off, on my first examination of XP it only took me a week to figure out how to fully comprimise any XP system remotely. (I do security consulting)
You don't THINK XP consumes close to 512mb of ram because XP does a nifty trick with Virtuial Memory, meaning it can run on as little as 128MB RAM, but it's very, very, slow compared to and XP system with 512MB ram. Don't belive Microsoft, run a memory benchmarking program and see for yourself. Windows 2000 ate over 200MB RAM without running applications.
Apple's are beautiful machines. Try one before you diss it.
As for the school that has a (wow) "network" and a (doubble wow) firewall, almost every school does. Because of the saleries that the Education field offers, anyone who knows what they are really doing isn't waisting their time at a school. Firewalls are easy to setup nowadays, ytou can buy appliances that have easy instructions. Unfortinately, these are usualy peices of crap, and are, in most cases, useless after an idoit gets their hands on them. A firewall is only one component of many for network security. I can eaisly penitrate their internet router, spoof my IP, and get inside the network with little trouble if this school is like most BAD network setups I've seen.
Argueing with people who don't know what they are talking about is fun, but a waste of time. So I'll move on to another topic.
Running a PC emulator is not an acceptable alternitive, I might as well just install windows a one of my PC's again. MacOS X is rapidly gaining popularity. Allthough I disagree with a few parts of the APSL (Apple Public Source Licence) I still think Apple is making a good effort at a decent, user-friendly, unix based OS. Darwin is coming along nicely for it's age.
Nothing out there, is more sleek and stylish then a Mac, they are gorgeous, and the most powerful, home user, computers avible today. The price is very competive as well.
Anyone who says they hate Mac is just saying that because they dont understand how to use it properly, and are intimidated by them. So they make up excuesses to dislike them without ever having really used one... You usualy see this in pompus 'administrators' who like to talk over everyones head to make it SEEM like they know what they're talking about, when in reality, most of them can't even do simple IP classless subnetting...
I think it would be nice if Graal was released under the GPL

*wishful thinking* heh.
It would most likely actualy make Graal extreamly popular, and make it progress faster. Giving more attention to cyberjoures linux, and bringing in more money.
It would also allow people to creat their own graal powered servers, even with this, money wouldn;'t be lost because the Graal team can create much beter levels then someone just trying to setup a server (programers advantage) Just my thought ;-)
Send me the linux source (if it's c) and I'll port it to OS X
