The French industry of the video game tightens the elbows vis-a-vis with the attacker PARIS (AFP), 05-01-2005
The French industry of the video game, whose brittleness burst at the great day with the intrusion of the American giant Electronic Arts in the capital of Ubisoft, is mobilized to preserve a part of its independence, which could pass by a bringing together between Vivendi Universal Games and Ubisoft.
The financial daily newspaper Agefi launched this assumption Wednesday, by affirming that the group of media Vivendi Universal, present in the plays vidéos with its division CONSIDERING Games (VUG), would have had preliminary contacts with Ubisoft.
Questioned, the groups concerned refused any comment. But the possibility of an increased defense of Ubisoft, which in spite of its smaller size is the French group of video games in less bad form, had the merit to make rebound the action of the Breton group, which gained 9,68% to 27,20 euros with 13h40.
Electronic Arts had announced on December 20 to have bought 19,9% of the capital of Ubisoft with Talpa Beheer, company controlled by John De Mol, cofounder of the house of Endemol production.
With with dimensions of Ubisoft, number two European of the sector, the French leader Infogrames fights to make accept a complicated financial rescue plan, while VUG is an important hearth of losses for Vivendi. During the first three quarters 2004, VUG showed a trading loss of 185 million euros, on a sales turnover of 211 million euros.
"Since years, I repeat that the French editors of video games are threatened of disappearance and their difficulties were amplified by the recent explosion of the cost of the licences and the development of the products", indicated to AFP Jean-Claude Larue, president of the SELL (Trade union of the software publishers of leisure).
The important video games represent today for the editors of the investments of more than 50 million euros, between the purchase of the licences (20 million euros), the increasingly complex work of writing of the software for several platforms (consoles and computers) and of the budgets marketing which can reach 20 to 30 million euros.
Vis-a-vis with countries like China or Canada, where the creation of plays is less expensive or is subsidized, French industry obtained government Raffarin a clear assertion of her will of support, in particular at the time of the proclamation by the Prime Minister in Futuroscope in April 2004 of a "passenger waybill" for the sector.
But principal promised measurement, a tax credit making it possible to lower the costs of the investments in France, still did not come into effect, for lack of agreement of Brussels.
One of the most former editors of plays of the hexagon, Titus Interactive, which fought since years for its survival, announced at the beginning of week its setting in bankruptcy.
As, a regrouping of the French groups it is planned to prevent as the world leader Electronic Arts, whose prosperity contrasts with the difficulties of good of other American groups, comes to make his market with leisure among the French editors.
The owner of the group Vivendi Jean-Rene Fourtou affirmed on several occasions that after having planned to separate from his division video games, it had decided to restructure it, and to even resort to acquisitions for better rectifying it from the point of view of a future transfer or an introduction out of purse.
But VUG, which in the past had not known to exploit the great popularity acquired by its educational plays Adi and Adibou, does not gain today the successes discounted over its last great plays, Half Life 2 and Warcraft, according to professionals'.
Whereas the Guillemot brothers, who controlent 17% of Ubisoft, continue to try to rejoin other shareholders, like the Case of the Deposits, to concrete their minority of control, certain analysts of the sector doubted Wednesday that the best means of consolidating Ubisoft is to make him absorb new hearths of losses.
I was wondering if the university you attend matters in the long term? I'm a freshman right now at a university close to home with a scholorship. The university isnt known for computerscience and the cs classes are really easy. I was wondering if it is worth it to transfer to another (more expensive, well known) university.
Now, I don't have the GPA system in my college(we have a straight forward marks system) - but I have to disagree.
I disagree with him on this point,
Giving advice on such topic really depends where you live. Joel's Advice is correct for American students, and Sriram's advice is correct for Indian students. People from both places may have the same major but the school systems are very different. I have many Indian friends straight from india and it is very hard for them to adjust to the school system.
The entire reason i got into computers was because i was rebellious. My mother bought our family a 386 and i was facinated by it because my mom told me not to use it. Naturally i became really curious because i was told not to touch it. I belive i was 6 or 7 and my curiousity still exsists at 18.
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IE is 25 MB Firefox is 4.7MB thats why ie also sucks
yes only a Live distro!
Haha
I wonder if the FBI will arrest the robot if it aims it's laser at a plane?
indeed you're welcome.
Seems like people are slowly starting to turn to Linux distributions.s p
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1746236,00.a
The French industry of the video game tightens the elbows vis-a-vis with the attacker
PARIS (AFP),
05-01-2005
The French industry of the video game, whose brittleness burst at the great day with the intrusion of the American giant Electronic Arts in the capital of Ubisoft, is mobilized to preserve a part of its independence, which could pass by a bringing together between Vivendi Universal Games and Ubisoft.
The financial daily newspaper Agefi launched this assumption Wednesday, by affirming that the group of media Vivendi Universal, present in the plays vidéos with its division CONSIDERING Games (VUG), would have had preliminary contacts with Ubisoft.
Questioned, the groups concerned refused any comment. But the possibility of an increased defense of Ubisoft, which in spite of its smaller size is the French group of video games in less bad form, had the merit to make rebound the action of the Breton group, which gained 9,68% to 27,20 euros with 13h40.
Electronic Arts had announced on December 20 to have bought 19,9% of the capital of Ubisoft with Talpa Beheer, company controlled by John De Mol, cofounder of the house of Endemol production.
With with dimensions of Ubisoft, number two European of the sector, the French leader Infogrames fights to make accept a complicated financial rescue plan, while VUG is an important hearth of losses for Vivendi. During the first three quarters 2004, VUG showed a trading loss of 185 million euros, on a sales turnover of 211 million euros.
"Since years, I repeat that the French editors of video games are threatened of disappearance and their difficulties were amplified by the recent explosion of the cost of the licences and the development of the products", indicated to AFP Jean-Claude Larue, president of the SELL (Trade union of the software publishers of leisure).
The important video games represent today for the editors of the investments of more than 50 million euros, between the purchase of the licences (20 million euros), the increasingly complex work of writing of the software for several platforms (consoles and computers) and of the budgets marketing which can reach 20 to 30 million euros.
Vis-a-vis with countries like China or Canada, where the creation of plays is less expensive or is subsidized, French industry obtained government Raffarin a clear assertion of her will of support, in particular at the time of the proclamation by the Prime Minister in Futuroscope in April 2004 of a "passenger waybill" for the sector.
But principal promised measurement, a tax credit making it possible to lower the costs of the investments in France, still did not come into effect, for lack of agreement of Brussels.
One of the most former editors of plays of the hexagon, Titus Interactive, which fought since years for its survival, announced at the beginning of week its setting in bankruptcy.
As, a regrouping of the French groups it is planned to prevent as the world leader Electronic Arts, whose prosperity contrasts with the difficulties of good of other American groups, comes to make his market with leisure among the French editors.
The owner of the group Vivendi Jean-Rene Fourtou affirmed on several occasions that after having planned to separate from his division video games, it had decided to restructure it, and to even resort to acquisitions for better rectifying it from the point of view of a future transfer or an introduction out of purse.
But VUG, which in the past had not known to exploit the great popularity acquired by its educational plays Adi and Adibou, does not gain today the successes discounted over its last great plays, Half Life 2 and Warcraft, according to professionals'.
Whereas the Guillemot brothers, who controlent 17% of Ubisoft, continue to try to rejoin other shareholders, like the Case of the Deposits, to concrete their minority of control, certain analysts of the sector doubted Wednesday that the best means of consolidating Ubisoft is to make him absorb new hearths of losses.
I was wondering if the university you attend matters in the long term? I'm a freshman right now at a university close to home with a scholorship. The university isnt known for computerscience and the cs classes are really easy. I was wondering if it is worth it to transfer to another (more expensive, well known) university.
4.0 = uptight asshole or passionless droid
3.5ish = smart but obviously had to work at it
3.0 forget it
Translation... You're damned if you do, and you're damned if you dont
Never underestimate how big a deal your GPA is
Nonsense.
Now, I don't have the GPA system in my college(we
have a straight forward marks system) - but I have to disagree.
I disagree with him on this point,
Giving advice on such topic really depends where you live. Joel's Advice is correct for American students, and Sriram's advice is correct for Indian students. People from both places may have the same major but the school systems are very different. I have many Indian friends straight from india and it is very hard for them to adjust to the school system.
Wait, is your name Peter Gibbons from Office Space?
Google employees use Google as their search engine 100% of the time
That means when the employees actually use what they make... it must be good.
So did the yahoo desktop search not make the list?
or did they froget it
Dont tell Microsoft or they will get bought.
I think Hydrogen fuel is a great replacement if implemented correctly (for obvious safety reasons).
I just "refueling" would be rather expensive compared to gasoline. This will probably make the transition over really slow.
Would it be possible to get the same functionality from a PDA with wifi and a mic?
just when i thought they were going to use linux.
Could this be a stunt informing consumers to hold off on buying a treo 650 before the holidays?
Oh wait the holidays are over... who knows
So when are they going to redesign the shuttle though?
Then eat cheerios.
you're right,
Nextel merged with Sprint(nextel has walkie talkies) Verizon might merge with Sprint/Nextel to match cingular... there
Just wait and do the math...
Nextel merged with Verizon (nextel has walkie talkies)
Sprint might merge with Verizon/Nextel to match cingular
Then you have wifi walkie-talkies, right?
so they're probably waiting for the right moment.
Lemme get this straight.
They make code to get rid of stuff that exploited their exsisting code.
Then whats stopping that code from sucking too?
The entire reason i got into computers was because i was rebellious. My mother bought our family a 386 and i was facinated by it because my mom told me not to use it. Naturally i became really curious because i was told not to touch it. I belive i was 6 or 7 and my curiousity still exsists at 18.
I remember my first programming language "Logowriter"
All the language did was give instructions to a turtle and the turtle would move.
Nasa Disowned him because he rebelled.
Opportunity uses martian time and doesnt recognize earth time.