Chris Carter and Rob Bownman have been saying for almost a decade that if there is a new movie, it won't continue the plot.
Fox is convinced the reason the first movie wasn't a huge success is because it didn't appeal to new fans, which is BS. I never watched the TV show, because I didn't have the time, and I wanted to watch it someday from the beginning and completely follow the plot. Thanks to the advent of DVD, I was eventually able to buy the entire run of the series and do just that.
I watched the movie in 1998, having never watched a full episode of the show (though I was familiar with the premise) and I enjoyed the movie just fine. So that wasn't really the failing of the original movie. However the execs with the money are convinced of that, and given recent interviews, it has been confirmed yet again that the script Chris Carter wrote is not a continuation of the conspiracy plot.
There have been rumors about an X-Files movie for years. The reason people are running with the story now is that supposedly Chris Carter actually finished a script, and they have signed contracts to bring everyone on board. A week ago Duchovony was telling people that he and Gillian had been signed, and that he was getting his script sent to him.
So it all sounds a lot more likely/official this time around.
Alias and Lost are night and day different. Alias was JJ's child for three years. Lost is something that JJ, Carlton and Cuse invented together, but JJ hasn't touched since the pilot episode. Really, JJ has practically nothing to do with Lost.
Lost is the most well thought out show I've ever seen. It isn't a soap opera, and the story is huge. I honestly am amazed that someone is attempting to tell a story of this scale and caliber on television. The show gets deeper and better the more you go along, but do yourself a favor. You can get the episodes of bittorrent, or iTunes for like $2 a pop. Get the full pilot (may be broken up into two episodes) and, I believe it is one or two more episodes after that when they get into Locke's backstory. You're investing maybe 3 hours of your time, but if after that point you're not amazed and in love, I don't know what to tell you.
Many people, even those who have lost patience for the show still insist it is the best pilot in TV history, and there is a moment in Locke's first episode that often blows people away. It is really good stuff.
Abrams hasn't really had anything to do with Lost since the pilot, so it isn't fair to compare Lost to Abram's earlier works.
Alias seemed to have a metaplot planned for several seasons, but the studio execs hated the whole Rumbaldi thing, by season 4 they ditched the whole serial/cliffhanger thing and even aired episodes out of order. Eventually it became a lame spy/action series with the overall plot taking a back seat, and even completely contradicting itself as Sydney becoming pregnant with no explanation after all her eggs were removed. Whatever was originally planned for Alias never reached fruition. Abrams walked away from the show after three seasons, got bored, and let other people deal with the mess.
Carlton and Cuse however have masterfully minded Lost since day 1. They have said that no doubt no ending can satisfy the fans, and some people will inevitably be let down when all the answers are laid on the table, but they have promised there will be no cheap tricks. No purgatory. No dreams. No zombies popping up.
I'm grateful for that. Lost may be the best show I've ever seen on television, and with each passing season, I fall in love with it even more, even if there are stretches for a few episodes here and there that I don't enjoy as much. It is certainly the most ambitious story I've ever seen told on television. And while I enjoyed X-Files a great deal, it is unfair to compare the two.
X-Files had plenty of filler with monster-of-the-week episodes, and in the end, didn't have the much plot. You can sum up the main conspiracy plot in a paragraph or two. The show lived on atmosphere, and the charisma of the two leads. A similiar premise without such charisma is bound to come across as lame and fail. Night Stalker and Supernatural.
I own the entire run of X-Files on DVD, but Lost is a very different beast. It really is.
The DC Sniper claimed he learned how to murder people by playing GTA, which is ridiculous. GTA isn't even a FPS. However, it provided the perfect quote for people who wanted to insist the game was a murder simulator.
Somehow the PS3 launch is more of a scandal that an actual mass murderer blaming a video game for training him how to kill people.
I intend to launch a tech review site immediately after you give me a copy of that motherboard for review. Just ship it to my house, and I promise you a good review. Mind you I can't really test the board's SLI features unless I have two top-end video cards as well. And I can't really test the overclocking unless you give me a processor, but in the end, you'll get a glowing review. It will be worth it.
I can't pull up any links related to games at work, but GameSutra has an incredible in-depth history of the RPG genre in a 3 part series. It is a great read.
The EU required that they release "portions" of the Windows source code to allow for interoperability with other OSes. They never asked for full source code.
I read it here on Slashdot. You had to pay for the license, but since it was a term of the EU agreement, Microsoft was going to release source for many key portions of Windows.
CFS has been available for some time in Andrew Morton's -mm branch of the kernel. If you really want it now, just download his latest patch and there you go.
I've reen running with it for some time, and I really like it. I'm still not sure if it is better than Con Kolivas' SD scheduler in his patchset, but we'll see.
The license was never intended to travel to multiple computers. When you activate Windows, it keeps track of your hardware and attempts to tell if you're installing it again on different hardware. And you can only activate the license some 5 times before you have to call in and insist to Microsoft that you are not pirating their software to get it activate.
And Linux has more users in Europe for reasons such as these.
Regardless, how many people buy these licenses as direct consumers?
Most people get their OS license on the cheap bundled directly with their hardware. If Dell was paying Microsoft more than $50 for the license of Windows on a $400 computer, I'd be shocked, yet people keep insisting that license costs over $200.
If Microsoft posted on their website tomorrow new terms to their license that I give them full rights to do anything on my box, or that I owe them whatever, if people really fought it in court, the people would win. You can't hold people responsible for terms that they didn't initially sign up for.
The FSF is claiming to be the good guys here, so why should they do something so underhanded as to claim a new license alters previous agreements retro-actively?
Look, I think M$ is evil as much as the next/.er, however, let me be clear.
I don't think you should ever be held accountable for past actions under a new license. If Microsoft sold vouchers before the GPLv3, then they did so under the assumption that the vouchers covered GPLv2 software. Furthermore, much of this whole argument assumes that all this software is definitely moving to GPLv3, and while I expect many of the GNU tools to do exactly that, I haven't seen that many official GPLv3 announcements just yet. The kernel is certainly not moving to GPLv3 anytime soon.
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Chris Carter and Rob Bownman have been saying for almost a decade that if there is a new movie, it won't continue the plot.
Fox is convinced the reason the first movie wasn't a huge success is because it didn't appeal to new fans, which is BS. I never watched the TV show, because I didn't have the time, and I wanted to watch it someday from the beginning and completely follow the plot. Thanks to the advent of DVD, I was eventually able to buy the entire run of the series and do just that.
I watched the movie in 1998, having never watched a full episode of the show (though I was familiar with the premise) and I enjoyed the movie just fine. So that wasn't really the failing of the original movie. However the execs with the money are convinced of that, and given recent interviews, it has been confirmed yet again that the script Chris Carter wrote is not a continuation of the conspiracy plot.
There have been rumors about an X-Files movie for years. The reason people are running with the story now is that supposedly Chris Carter actually finished a script, and they have signed contracts to bring everyone on board. A week ago Duchovony was telling people that he and Gillian had been signed, and that he was getting his script sent to him.
So it all sounds a lot more likely/official this time around.
Thusly, all the stories now.
Even though the fans hated Doggert, I've always thought Robert Patrick was a pretty good actor, and I hear a pretty decent guy to boot.
I don't care. I was never into Gillian Anderson because of her body. There is just something about her that drives me wild.
I don't care if the movie sucks. I'll pay just to see Scully on the screen one more time.
Alias and Lost are night and day different. Alias was JJ's child for three years. Lost is something that JJ, Carlton and Cuse invented together, but JJ hasn't touched since the pilot episode. Really, JJ has practically nothing to do with Lost.
Lost is the most well thought out show I've ever seen. It isn't a soap opera, and the story is huge. I honestly am amazed that someone is attempting to tell a story of this scale and caliber on television. The show gets deeper and better the more you go along, but do yourself a favor. You can get the episodes of bittorrent, or iTunes for like $2 a pop. Get the full pilot (may be broken up into two episodes) and, I believe it is one or two more episodes after that when they get into Locke's backstory. You're investing maybe 3 hours of your time, but if after that point you're not amazed and in love, I don't know what to tell you.
Many people, even those who have lost patience for the show still insist it is the best pilot in TV history, and there is a moment in Locke's first episode that often blows people away. It is really good stuff.
Abrams hasn't really had anything to do with Lost since the pilot, so it isn't fair to compare Lost to Abram's earlier works.
Alias seemed to have a metaplot planned for several seasons, but the studio execs hated the whole Rumbaldi thing, by season 4 they ditched the whole serial/cliffhanger thing and even aired episodes out of order. Eventually it became a lame spy/action series with the overall plot taking a back seat, and even completely contradicting itself as Sydney becoming pregnant with no explanation after all her eggs were removed. Whatever was originally planned for Alias never reached fruition. Abrams walked away from the show after three seasons, got bored, and let other people deal with the mess.
Carlton and Cuse however have masterfully minded Lost since day 1. They have said that no doubt no ending can satisfy the fans, and some people will inevitably be let down when all the answers are laid on the table, but they have promised there will be no cheap tricks. No purgatory. No dreams. No zombies popping up.
I'm grateful for that. Lost may be the best show I've ever seen on television, and with each passing season, I fall in love with it even more, even if there are stretches for a few episodes here and there that I don't enjoy as much. It is certainly the most ambitious story I've ever seen told on television. And while I enjoyed X-Files a great deal, it is unfair to compare the two.
X-Files had plenty of filler with monster-of-the-week episodes, and in the end, didn't have the much plot. You can sum up the main conspiracy plot in a paragraph or two. The show lived on atmosphere, and the charisma of the two leads. A similiar premise without such charisma is bound to come across as lame and fail. Night Stalker and Supernatural.
I own the entire run of X-Files on DVD, but Lost is a very different beast. It really is.
The robot also turns you to stone, but don't fear. Harry Potter will slay it with a sword.
The DC Sniper claimed he learned how to murder people by playing GTA, which is ridiculous. GTA isn't even a FPS. However, it provided the perfect quote for people who wanted to insist the game was a murder simulator.
Somehow the PS3 launch is more of a scandal that an actual mass murderer blaming a video game for training him how to kill people.
If they have a keylogger, those hackers will know that I go to hot-llama-on-marsupial.com
And I shouldn't split two pages of content over 12 pages just to generate more ad hits?
I intend to launch a tech review site immediately after you give me a copy of that motherboard for review. Just ship it to my house, and I promise you a good review. Mind you I can't really test the board's SLI features unless I have two top-end video cards as well. And I can't really test the overclocking unless you give me a processor, but in the end, you'll get a glowing review. It will be worth it.
There is a part 3 on the modern era as well.
I can't pull up any links related to games at work, but GameSutra has an incredible in-depth history of the RPG genre in a 3 part series. It is a great read.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_zdext/is_200 203/ai_ziff23969
The same article noted that often the documentation for such things often is basically opening up your code.
In order to network using the CIFS protocol for interoperability, Microsoft ended up having to release the full code for CIFS.
http://www.euractiv.com/en/infosociety/microsoft-f ights-keep-source-code-closed/article-143997
Again, the EU only requested enough code for interoperability.
The EU required that they release "portions" of the Windows source code to allow for interoperability with other OSes. They never asked for full source code.
I read it here on Slashdot. You had to pay for the license, but since it was a term of the EU agreement, Microsoft was going to release source for many key portions of Windows.
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CFS has been available for some time in Andrew Morton's -mm branch of the kernel. If you really want it now, just download his latest patch and there you go.
I've reen running with it for some time, and I really like it. I'm still not sure if it is better than Con Kolivas' SD scheduler in his patchset, but we'll see.
The license was never intended to travel to multiple computers. When you activate Windows, it keeps track of your hardware and attempts to tell if you're installing it again on different hardware. And you can only activate the license some 5 times before you have to call in and insist to Microsoft that you are not pirating their software to get it activate.
I ran into that myself a few times.
Net worth of the company and cash on hand are two different things.
You're telling me stockholders don't mind when you lose half a billion dollars? If stockholders jump ship, how much more money do you lose?
Microsoft only has to bundle 3.0.xx releases which aren't GPLv3. Are the 3.2 GPLv3 releases even out yet?
And Linux has more users in Europe for reasons such as these.
Regardless, how many people buy these licenses as direct consumers?
Most people get their OS license on the cheap bundled directly with their hardware. If Dell was paying Microsoft more than $50 for the license of Windows on a $400 computer, I'd be shocked, yet people keep insisting that license costs over $200.
Because that is evil, and stupid.
If Microsoft posted on their website tomorrow new terms to their license that I give them full rights to do anything on my box, or that I owe them whatever, if people really fought it in court, the people would win. You can't hold people responsible for terms that they didn't initially sign up for.
The FSF is claiming to be the good guys here, so why should they do something so underhanded as to claim a new license alters previous agreements retro-actively?
Look, I think M$ is evil as much as the next /.er, however, let me be clear.
I don't think you should ever be held accountable for past actions under a new license. If Microsoft sold vouchers before the GPLv3, then they did so under the assumption that the vouchers covered GPLv2 software. Furthermore, much of this whole argument assumes that all this software is definitely moving to GPLv3, and while I expect many of the GNU tools to do exactly that, I haven't seen that many official GPLv3 announcements just yet. The kernel is certainly not moving to GPLv3 anytime soon.