Word: turn
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...technology improved, programmers competed for the geek prestige conferred upon the author of the most up-to-date mimetic software. That crown was seized last month by the anonymous duo behind UltraHLE, the first emulator to turn your PC into a fully operational Nintendo 64. UltraHLE, or High Level Emulator, became a hot property at a time when Nintendo was starting to claw market share back from its larger rival, Sony. Now every college kid with a speedy T1 Internet connection could theoretically download all 26 megabytes of the holiday season's runaway hit, Legend of Zelda. UltraHLE, says Nintendo...
...download. They must copy CDs, using special $300 drives, and install a mail-ordered $4 modifying chip--a significant psychological barrier to mass piracy. And Sony has an ace up its sleeve in the shape of the PlayStation II, set to wow its first U.S. users at the turn of the millennium. Nintendo looks more vulnerable to emulators. Its cartridge-based games are much smaller, download more quickly--and, with UltraHLE, play easily...
...beasts like this one. Foot Locker, Structure and Florsheim Shoes sit empty. Victoria's Secret is naked. Only a handful of the 120 stores are still open, Orange Julius and Howick's Fine Gifts & Jewelry among them, but they'll soon be gone, and an 18-month renovation will turn the space into an office center with a few shops and restaurants...
...album is being produced by the godfather of Latin pop, Emilio Estefan. Of course, all the producing and marketing in the world won't carry a bad record across the street. Latin pop will do fine in the English market just so long as its producers don't turn the music's soulfulness and extravagant passion--two things that make it different, and most worth listening to--into just more slick pop product...
Employment and consumer confidence remain robust, and the economy should turn in a solid year of 2.5% to 3.5% growth, Sinai notes. As we've been hearing (but not seeing) for much of the '90s, sustained growth leads to rising wages, which lead to higher prices and, ultimately, higher interest rates. For the umpteenth time, bond traders say we have reached the point at which all that nastiness commences. But they're really just reading tea leaves, projecting what is famously difficult to project. For inflation to take off, Japan and the rest of Asia will have to wake from...