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All Your LoveLine Links; MTV Loveline Videos, youtubes, downloads, etc.
Topic Started: Aug 21 2008, 09:38 AM (3,886 Views)
Kevin U.
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anobody
Sep 4 2008, 02:02 AM
This brings me to a greater (but totally OT) issue that annoys me quite a bit.

People crap on Vista all of the time, but in my (admittedly limited) experience with it, it is generally a vast improvement over XP.

I'm a huge OS X fan myself, but other than the hardware requirements, the only real complaint I can see against it is that they go way overboard with the "are you really sure you want to let this program diddle your hard drive?" pop ups.
In the limited experience I've had so far with it, it is a pain in the ass to network with XP computers.

Also, my mother, someone who is a very light computer user, has already had software compatibility issues. Why couldn't they build a more backwards compatible OS?
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Becca
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Sep 4 2008, 02:36 AM
I'm satisfied with staying with XP for now.
I agree with you Laith. I still have XP as well.
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anobody

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Also, my mother, someone who is a very light computer user, has already had software compatibility issues. Why couldn't they build a more backwards compatible OS?


Maintaining backwards compatibility is one of the biggest pains in the ass when writing software - especially on the scale of something like Vista.

I'm no fan of Microsoft, but crapping out a new OS that can run ancient software written for Windows 95 and that implements a passably decent security model that doesn't let things anally rape the OS while still supporting device drivers that work by diddling Windows' nether regions is a damned near impossible task.

That's one of the prices of long term success in the tech sector.

Intel is in the same boat.

If either company knew ten or twenty years ago what they know now, there's no way they would have gone the way they did.

As it is, they're victims of their own success.

They can't really afford a ground-up redesign because so many things rely on things working as they did years ago, but at the same time they have a pressing need to do new stuff that conflicts horribly with all of that legacy crap.

Apple is one of the only companies I can think of that (not just once but at least three times) managed to pull off throwing everything out and start from scratch. They did an awesome job in all cases, but even they couldn't pull it off without a few bumps.

All things considered, if you're buying a new computer and you don't have a lot of old hardware or software that you want to run with / on it, Vista is a big step forward (of course, I'd still go OS X if you can, but that's another discussion).
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Emma
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I really love Vista and hate XP,.. I would never, ever run XP on any computer or laptop I ever used. XP is the DEVIL.
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Kevin U.
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Then they shouldn't be discontinuing support for XP anytime in the next 5 years, because consumers who have hardware/software that will only work on XP, are going to stick with XP for a while.
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plurry
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most major companies will be sticking with xp until they are forced to upgrade.
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unclepenny
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I uploaded the Goo Goo Doll's show last night:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVjPuUFCO7U

That's part one, just follow "related videos" or the "more from this user" thing to get 2, 3, and 4.
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Are these on the Hub?
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Becca
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Youtube is awesome for Loveline shows. I remember wathcing Loveline when it was on MTV, I think I was 16 or 17. It's cool that the shows are still out there on places like youtube. It'd be even better if they had just a website for the MTV Loveline shows. I didn't see the Goo Goo Doll's one, so thank you Uncle Penny. And to everyone else who's been posting them, thank you!
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unclepenny
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Yeah, I just got the DVD in the mail last night. If I can figure out how to make an .avi out of it I will.
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