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...installing software become harder? It used to be that setting up a new program simply meant sticking a disc in my computer and clicking yes when asked if I agreed to an unfair and unintelligible licensing agreement. My computer would then crunch away for a while, restart, and--voila!--the application was ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Upgrade from Hell | 2/14/2000 | See Source »

...Voila! One to seven days later, yet another of Amazon's 13 million customers has been served...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Your Mouse To Your House | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Layton's friends, accustomed to seeing him in running shorts, would hardly recognize him in his grown-up attire. Each morning, he dons a tie and dress coat, walks briskly to the high school and, voila!, quickly transforms from Luke to Mr. Arribas with super-man celerity. It's not just the clothes--his whole attitude seems to change...

Author: By Dafna V. Hochman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Active Voice: Students at the Head of the Class | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...other product category is so sweetly seductive and yet so baffling as home theater. Not too long ago, all you had to do was buy the largest TV you could afford, connect stereo speakers, plug in a VCR and voila--you had bragging rights to state-of-the-art home entertainment. Now there's DVD, Dolby Digital, high-definition TV, personal TV, rewritable CD--all dazzling technologies, to be sure, but disorienting too. HDTV, a digital format so luscious it can make an enthusiast weep, was the year's biggest tease, delayed by technical complications and industry infighting. Yet some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1999 Technology Buyer's Guide: Bigger, Better, More Beautiful--But at a Price | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

...Simon, batting out one Broadway show after another." Then he joined the Chicago Tribune as a reviewer-columnist. One night he met the young Midler and said, "You're very funny. You should talk more onstage." He began honing Midler's concert banter. One gig led to another, and voila, a playwright was lost, a quick-draw comic artist born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Roastmaster General | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

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