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Most portable applications do not leave files or settings on the host computer or modify the existing system and its configuration. The application may not write to the Windows registry [3] or store its configuration files (such as an INI file) in the user's profile, but today, many portables do; many, however, still store their configuration files in the portable directory.
La femme qui ne supportait pas les ordinateurs (The woman who could not stand computers) is a 1986 interactive fiction video game developed by French company Froggy Software. The game was designed by Chine Lanzmann and programmed by Jean-Louis Le Breton for Apple II computers. The player character is a woman who faces several seducers, one of ...
The French game developer trade group, known as Association des Producteurs d'Oeuvres Multimedia (APOM, now "Syndicat National du Jeu Video") was founded in 2001 [1] by Eden Studios' Stéphane Baudet, Kalisto's Nicolas Gaume, former cabinet member and author Alain Le Diberder, financier and former journalist Romain Poirot-Lellig and Darkworks' Antoine Villette.
Video gaming in France is one of the largest markets in Europe. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The French government gives special tax breaks to video game companies. [ 4 ] In 2014, the French diplomatic service released a report which calculates the profit generated by the French video game industry at €2.7 billion.
A human computer, with microscope and calculator, 1952. It was not until the mid-20th century that the word acquired its modern definition; according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first known use of the word computer was in a different sense, in a 1613 book called The Yong Mans Gleanings by the English writer Richard Brathwait: "I haue [] read the truest computer of Times, and the best ...